[PDF file]: Her Majesty’s secret servants Robin Ramsay SIS and Libya H enry Kissinger is widely quoted as having once said that ‘America has no friends, only interests’; and when push comes to shove this is true for all states. This island has been called something like ‘perfidious Albion’ for almost a thousand years.1 Neither proposition […]
[PDF file]: […] Borenius and Ramsay missions took place after the UK had apparently seen off a German invasion threat (August-October 1940) and won a considerable victory against Italy in Libya (December 1940-January 1941), the latter resulting in the capture of 133,000 prisoners. Thus the UK opposition to Churchill may have considered this an opportune moment to […]
[PDF file]: […] district attorney and Philip Corbett, ex Metropolitan Police, has found that the Palestinians who organised the bombing met in Malta and planned to ‘divert the blame’ to Libya. According to their source, ‘Ivan’: ‘they would place in a suitcase that could be identified 14 Haldane is talking about GVA, gross value added, not GDP, […]
[PDF file]: Blood Year Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror David Kilcullen London: Hurst and Co., 2016, £9.99, p/b D avid Kilcullen has established a reputation for himself as the ‘thinking person’s counterrevolutionary’. An Australian national, formerly a professional soldier with counterinsurgency expertise. According to his own testimony he served ‘the Bush administration […]
[PDF file]: […] over a massive nuclear build-up which came close to accidental thermonuclear war during the misinterpreted Able Archer alert. President Clinton discussed using B61-11 tactical nuclear weapons against Libya. The second Bush administration threatened the use of the same nuclear weapons during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq; the Obama administration contemplated their use during […]
[PDF file]: […] though their deaths did not matter. The author visited Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi and spent time with the imprisoned al-Magrahi before he was released to die in Libya in 2012. He also closely observed his Zeist trial and is properly shocked by its verdict and the subsequent failure of his appeals against it. Along […]
[PDF file]: […] regrettably it is no longer British – who provided the gift were scrupulous to ensure that by building-in the necessary checks there could be no philatelic profiteering.1 Libya: agent protection issues The top-end end of the SIS lifestyle management service today was exposed earlier this year when Moussa Koussa landed in Britain by private […]
[…] chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 Dispatches documentary […]
[PDF file]: […] anti-communist campaign in Finland a few months later; the disastrous failure in Norway that this produced (which, ironically, propelled Churchill to power); the diversion of forces from Libya to Greece in early 1941 when the success of the British offensive seemed secure – and the subsequent routing of those forces in, and their evacuation […]
[PDF file]: […] officer also seems to have signed–off on the abduction and rendition of opponents of Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi to help secure an oil deal between the UK and Libya. Norton-Taylor argues that the intelligence services are besotted with the emirates and sultanates of the Gulf. Romanticism has displaced any sense of unease about the crucifixions […]
