[…] 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 […]
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, […]
[…] van was interfered with in a manner which could have caused the steering to fail and a serious accident; and that a mechanic said ‘someone’s trying to kill you mate.’ Recent developments: attempts to obtain personal data from GCHQ, MI5 and the Metropolitan Police. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 an individual (or ‘data […]
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
[…] Daily Express, 31 July. My problem with the Kelly murder theory is that it has never been clear to me why anyone would think it necessary to kill him. With a senior British civil servant like Kelly there are more subtle threats status, pension that are effective. The two are similar but […]
Books The Secret War: an account of the sinister activities along the border involving Gardai, RUC, British Army and SAS Patsy McArdle (Mercier Press, Dublin 1984) McArdle is a journalist with Downtown Radio in Northern Ireland. Journalists sometimes write really good books, but McArdle’s is a stinker, little more than a jumbled collection of recycled … Read more
[…] Harvey Oswald. The underground lab is ‘known Mafia asset’ David Ferrie’s mouse research where, says Baker, they were trying to develop a rapid-acting cancer with which to kill Fidel Castro (which is – just – within the extant parameters of the known attempts to kill him, not much crazier than some of the CIA’s […]
[…] blame for the failure to foresee what would happen in post-war Iraq.’(3) Steele quotes Douglas Hurd, former Foreign Secretary: ‘Blair and his colleagues sent British troops to kill and be killed in Iraq without proper planning … An inquiry is certainly needed to make sure this cannot happen again.’ But immediately under this Steele […]
[…] with their lawyers and political muscle, are devoted to maintaining the ‘wisdom’ of this finding. One common example of this faulty wisdom is the frequent demand to kill badgers because they are believed to be the source of TB in cattle. Not so. The almost endless resources of government and the pharmaceutical industries were […]
