The apparent re-election of George W. Bush as US President seems to have its roots in a mechanical failure. On 12 March 2004, a car went out of control on a busy highway and propelled itself in front of an 18-wheeler. The driver – an African-American clergyman called Athan Gibbs – was killed outright. Gibbs, … Read more
Iraqi documents Iraq on the Record (<http://democrats.reform.house.gov/IraqOnTheRecord>) is a searchable collection of over 200 specific misleading statements made by Bush administration officials about the threat allegedly posed by Iraq. The collection would be even larger if it also included statements that appear mistaken only in hindsight. However, if a statement was ‘…an accurate reflection of … Read more
[…] Murrell was not only under surveillance before her murder but that on the day of the crime she attracted two different hit squads who turned up to kill her and ended up squabbling about who should do the job.’ Except it isn’t Otter’s theory. Laurens Otter comments: ‘Nick Davies’s claim about my “latest theory” […]
[…] was hesitant about the embassy in Saigon because he could not trust his people there. So he called on Torby who … told Diem “They’re going to kill you. You’ve got to get out of there temporarily to seek sanctuary in the American Embassy”. Diem refused. Parmet just drops this into his section on […]
[…] little to the sum of knowledge on the issue, it could well have been left alone until more was known.’ On the other hand in ‘Shoot to Kill’, the author is convinced. Dorril writes: ‘Those who accuse the British government of a shoot to kill policy in Northern Ireland, in the sense of a […]
[…] received wisdom, it seems, you can say pretty much what you like.Richard Metzger, interviewing someone called Howard Bloom, asks why it is that all Arabs want to kill Jews; Bloom explains that it’s not all Arabs – it’s all Moslems.’ Again, Edwards is being startlingly dishonest. Metzger’s question never mentions ‘killing Jews’. It is […]
[…] State Department Watch List. (14) As he had done earlier in Egypt, the sheikh “issued a fatwa in America that permitted his followers to rob banks and kill Jews.”(15) In November 1990, three of Mohamed’s trainees conspired together to kill Meir Kahane, the racist founder of the Jewish Defense League. The actual killer, El […]
[…] slaughter of around a million Indonesians – ‘communists’ of course – in 1965/6. More ‘autocratic misrule’. The Americans supplied the Indonesian military with lists of people to kill. These days there are even official, declassified American documents on this; we don’t even need to rely on the detective work of people like Peter Dale […]
Free Ride Department Meanwhile the Rand Corporation (that liberal think tank in Santa Monica which helps decide which Russian cities should be atom-bombed) has declared that the federal government must continue to support an obscure military satellite system known as Global Positioning Network. Much beloved by high-tech hikers and rental car enthusiasts, the GPS supposedly … Read more
[…] Arise, Sir Gay — Phoenix, 8 May 1987, p. 6. A captain’s tale of horror — Mervyn Pauley, News Letter, 24 November 1989 pp. 8-9. Licence to kill? — Sunday Life 4 February 1990, pp. 8-9. Some addresses that may be useful: Fortnight 7 Lower Crescent, Belfast BT7 1NR Irish News 113 Donegal Street, […]
