‘Britain, 2005. Saddam Hussein, still the ruler of Iraq and possessor of a long-range nuclear missile, seeks revenge on the west. Warned by intelligence reports of Saddam’s plan, the United States deploys a space-based missile shield, which will catch the Iraqi rocket before it gets to Washington. The key installation is based in Yorkshire […]
[…] they carry out assassinations is to take their own team out….it would be highly unusual for the French to permit anyone involved in the assassination to survive.’ Iraq update Compiled by military historian Kimberly Kagan, The Iraq Report(19) is described as a ‘…periodic analysis of ongoing military operations in Iraq.’ Well researched and dispassionate […]
Despite ‘coalition’ forces now being engaged in a guerilla war (which no-one seems to have foreseen), analysis of the information war which accompanied the invasion of Iraq has begun to appear. Lieutenant-Colonel Steven Collins, head of PSYOPS in the Operations Division at NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium, had a think […]
[…] 45, 47) came up in connection with the forged Niger uranium documents cited by both the US and UK governments in the build-up to the war on Iraq. By coincidence Ledeen was much involved on the first occasion the late Pope came to wide public attention in May 1981. Soon after the election of […]
[…] and so has received perhaps rather less attention than it deserves from the rest of the press. Even if much of the material may seem familiar – Iraq, the Gilligan row, uncertainties around Kelly’s supposed suicide – Baker’s book is an enthralling compendium of what we know. But it is also unexpectedly far more […]
[PDF file]: Excusing the Iraq war? Explaining the Iraq War; Counterfactual Theory, Logic and Evidence Frank P. Harvey Cambridge University Press, 2011, £20.99, p/b At a particularly fractious press call in June 2003, an exasperated George W. Bush declared: ‘This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq….. Now, there are some who like […]
[PDF file]: Iraq and intelligence Robin Ramsay I found this on my computer. It was obviously written around 2004 and, as far as I can see, was never used. M ichael Moore’s film ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ is great propaganda but, like all propaganda, it isn’t about the truth. In a section mocking the so-called ‘coalition of […]
[…] and interesting book but rather hard to describe because it contains so much. At its heart is Souza’s father, an Iraqi Anglophile, who became SIS’s agent in Iraq, and later in London. Using her firsthand knowledge supplemented by her father’s papers, Souza has created a classic of the espionage genre: I know of no […]
[…] beyond their control was facilitated by Gideon Meir, then with the Israeli embassy in London.() The triumph of politicians () On both sides of the Atlantic, Iraq has demonstrated the primacy of politicians. We saw opposition to the attack on Iraq from sections of the Anglo-American military, intelligence agencies and diplomats, accompanied by […]
[…] a whole generation of former lefts, lumping them together as ‘fallen liberals’. (3)Is there really no difference between someone like Nick Cohen (who supported the war in Iraq for what might be called principled reasons) and people like David Aaronovitch and Stuart Hall (who began life as Stalinist reactionaries) and Peter Hitchens (who went […]
