The British American Project and the war on Iraq The war on Iraq proved a busy time for members of the British American Project (Lobster 33 et seq) on this side of the pond. To cover the American countdown to war, long-time UK advisory board member Jim Naughtie returned to the New York home of […]
[…] but no promises. In the forthcoming issues there will be essays on: ** The as sassination of Airy Neave; ** Flight 007; ** The anti CND groups; ** The SAS in Vietnam; and a variety of bits and pieces on policing/intelligence/the Falklands/Kincoragate etc. Plus reviews of some of the flood of books on these areas.
[…] pp. 62/3 and 101. Martin Dillon, The Dirty War, Hutchinson, London 1988, p. 393; James Adams (and Robin Morgan and Anthony Bambridge), Ambush: The War Between the SAS and the IRA, Pan, London 1988, p. 93. See the Observer 28 September ’86 for details of Burton’s links to the RUC. The Observer 28 September […]
[…] Dofar (Dofar?) and Northern Ireland – nicely illustrates the decline of the British empire. Twenty years after the big wars of the early 1950s, we’re down to SAS skirmishes in minor bits of the Middle East. It’s a difficult trick, producing a synthesis of subjects as large as, say, the war in Kenya, in […]
[…] he is covered by the Vienna Convention (protecting diplomats), or the Geneva Convention (protecting soldiers) or whether he is operating without such protection relying instead on the SAS soldiers whom I understand are guarding him. Non-staff spooks, of course, have always operated without any protection. Declaration of Interests: I am a friend of former […]
[…] not adhered to by any member state. 5 Any inquiry into the military, rather than private security consultancies, would necessitate a similar journey, this time through the SAS and other elite units (‘hired’ or ‘loaned’ to friendly governments,), as well as the SIS. This, in consequence, would place the conduct of British foreign policy […]
[…] communities outside it. It therefore misses the importance of non-corporate issues, such as the long term implications of little boys, separated from their mothers, attending fundamentalist madras sas (schools). In addition, it does not develop or promote links with those overseas who are not (yet) status quo. Sir Richard Dearlove continued: ‘David inherited a […]
[…] the memoir of a female member of the ‘det’, another undercover Army unit in Northern Ireland: Sarah Ford (pseudonym) One Up: A Woman in Action with the SAS (London: HarperCollins, 1997). The top brass in the British armed forces may be debating whether women should be allowed in the front line but they are […]
[…] p. 2; 29 May, 1983, p. 2; 5 June, 1983, p.2; 12 June, 1983, p.2. The South African link — Sunday News, 24 July 1983, p. 9. SAS dirty tricks — Phoenix, 9 December 1983, p. 14. Edgar Graham — was he set up? — Frank Doherty — Sunday News, 18 December 1983, p. […]
[PDF file]: […] line on “subversion” at Bramshill, the police training centre, the National Defence College, the Royal Military College of Science, the Army Staff College, and to the 23 SAS (Territorials). (15). Further indications of ISC’s integration into the British state was shown in the correspondence between ISC’s Peter Janke and a member of the Cabinet […]
