[PDF file]: […] Muhammad Hussan (Akhari) for initial expenses. The remainder of the money was to be paid after successful completion of the mission.”’ 4 After al-Megrahi had departed for Libya, Tam Dalyell made this comment : ‘The Iranian Minister of the interior at the time , was Ali Akbar Mostashemi, who made a public statement that […]
[PDF file]: […] Tunworth Media interviews with Shayler in the initial period after he first went public do Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Lebovich, ‘Assessing Al-Qa`ida’s Presence in the New Libya’, CTC Sentinel (Vol. 5, Issue 3), March 2012 . 11 See the profile of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the Mapping Militant Organizations section of […]
[PDF file]: […] Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment Thomas Hippler London: Verso, 2017, £11.99, p/b The first use of aerial bombardment took place on 1 November 1911 in Libya. An Italian airman, Giulio Gavotti, dropped a hand-held bomb onto an Arab encampment and supposedly ‘revolutionized warfare’. This was an inevitable revolution, but Gavotti has the […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
The deep politics of a hybrid regime1 Garrick Alder 1: A Psyop on the People One recurring phrase in commentary about the 2019 election of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is: ‘It was a case of life imitating art.’ After all, runs the boilerplate patter, Zelensky starred in a TV series about an obscure nobody who […]
The deep politics of a hybrid regime1 Garrick Alder 1: A Psyop on the People One recurring phrase in commentary about the 2019 election of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is: ‘It was a case of life imitating art.’ After all, runs the boilerplate patter, Zelensky starred in a TV series about an obscure nobody who […]
[PDF file]: […] can be confident that the peace that will follow the conflict will be an improvement over the pre-war situation’. Using these criteria, he considers military intervention in Libya and Syria as not being in US interests. Instead, the US should follow ‘a light-footprint policy of sending advisers and equipment in support of people fighting […]
The deep politics of a hybrid regime1 Garrick Alder 1: A Psyop on the People One recurring phrase in commentary about the 2019 election of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is: ‘It was a case of life imitating art.’ After all, runs the boilerplate patter, Zelensky starred in a TV series about an obscure nobody who […]
[…] the Manchester arena bombing but even I knew that the father of the youth who planted the bomb had links to the British state’s covert role in Libya. This was bound to be dodged by the inquiry into the event, if only to avoid embarrassing the Americans with whom the British state (as usual) […]
[PDF file]: […] had replaced the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East after World War One. The British sold weapons to the governments of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Libya and trained their armed forces. At the end of World War Two all these countries apart from Saudi Arabia were members of the Sterling Area, a […]
