[…] mid-1970s involve cooperation between Nazi veterans and/or neo fascists and particular Arab nationalist regimes, most notably those of Jamal ‘Abd al-Nasir in Egypt and Mu’ammar al-Qadhadafi in Libya, or factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). However in these cases, particularly those of the aforementioned regimes, it is quite debatable whether the ideology of […]
[…] MI6 building in the wake of the IRA attack on it; and there was the latest in the long line of anti-Gaddafi pieces, this one claiming that Libya now has some North Korean ballistic missiles. The only stated source for the allegation was a ‘Western intelligence official’. But four months before, on 28 May […]
[…] a hotel with machine gunfire in JFK days in an attack very similar to another in Cuba last April)?; and the most heinous question of all, might Libya be more the progressive-Islamic-republic-among- fundamentalists that it would like the world to believe? These are not questions the left should avoid, but Open Eye flashes the […]
[…] ‘The Maltese Double-Cross’ about the Lockerbie bombing incident, thereby going up against the combined forces of the US and UK states bent on pinning the deed on Libya. Dying of a heart attack at 56 is not that unusual but in Francovich’s case his death must go into the ‘convenient deaths’ category. Arthur Gavshon […]
[…] sensitive area just to stir up a row.’ (p. 57) His own involvement with Watchguard International was with David Stirling’s celebrated conspiracy to overthrow Muammar al-Gadaffi in Libya. He blames the operation’s failure on American interference, and comments that ‘I cannot remember being so thoroughly fed up before in my life.’ Terrorism in Zambia […]
[…] its then editor, Roy Greenslade, made a public apology: ‘I am now convinced that Scargill didn’t misuse strike funds and that the union didn’t get money from Libya…. we were all taken in.’ (‘Sorry, Arthur….’, The Guardian, 27 May 2002), The authors of the original articles, however, remained adamantly unapologetic. (Terry Pattinson, Frank Thorne […]
[…] (23 June). It was a long piece and we had few complaints. Larry O’Hara’s name was cut from at least one piece of research, the National Front’s Libya connection, though an attributed quote of his did remain in our conclusion. Enter Searchlight In its July issue, which appeared days after the New Statesman, Searchlight […]
[…] which is acutely discomfited by the fact that genuinely stupid people can get to be president in the land of the brave and home of the free. Libya and Lockerbie In ‘Lockerbie trial was a CIA fix, US intelligence insider claims’, The Glasgow Herald reported some comments by Michael Scharf, who was the counsel […]
[…] street. (Vialls does not name Hughes in the piece, but that is the outfit he means.) Vialls believes that the shooting was part of the demonization of Libya prior to the bombing of that country by the USA, with British assistance. Vialls’ attempt to prove that he committed a murder everyone else thinks done […]
[…] The core of the book is the investigation of the various operations to smear the National Union of Mineworkers and Arthur Scargill. There is much about MI5, Libya and Roger Windsor. There is everything short of a smoking gun. However, Milne is also running a thesis about the strike which says: (a) the miners […]
