[…] (Partido Revoluncionario Internacional), was assassinated in Tijuana. The TV coverage of the event was every bit as obscure and unhelpful as the TV reporting after the JFK murder and worse than the coverage of the attempt on Ronald Regan’s life. The news video of the assassination didn’t play once; instead heads talked and voxes […]
Before he went on the run, in the wake of Ernie Elliot’s murder in 1972, former British soldier and UDA member David Fogel gave an interview to the London Times.(1) In it he denounced sectarianism and said that he hoped that one day ‘the Official IRA and the UDA would work together, because both […]
[…] up by some of his RUC Special Branch colleagues for trying to arrest a UVF man in the 1970s. He also links the UVF specifically to the murder of 23 year-old Sharon McKenna, in 1993 and implicates Mark Haddock, a UVF Commander who was also a Special Branch agent, in this killing. Haddock is […]
[…] from which Sukarno had been excluded, allowed Suharto in turn to masquerade as Sukarno’s defender while in fact preventing him from resuming control. More importantly, Gestapu’s gratuitous murder of the generals near the Air Force base where PKI youth had been trained allowed Suharto, in a Goebbels-like manoeuvre, to transfer the blame for the […]
Introduction Clear cut examples of political murder, or state assassination in the mainland UK have been virtually non-existent. It is that fact which has helped focus so much attention on the deaths of Hilda Murrell and, in Scotland, of Willie McRae. Lobster got into this area relatively early, printing in issue 16 a long […]
[…] is it really believable that a police officer could spend two hours in the Murrell house without checking whether she was at home or not? Investigation first, murder second! Why was a professional counsellor of people with sexual problems visited by Shrewsbury Police at 6.30 p.m. on Friday, 23 March 1984, and asked if […]
[…] everywhere in the last few years. This is Chamish’s account of himself: ‘Israeli journalist Barry Chamish is the most outspoken and document-laden of the dozens of Rabin murder “conspiracy theorists”. The Canadian-born Chamish moved to Israel in 1975, got an MA at Hebrew University and in ’82 fought in the Lebanese War. Following the […]
[…] to a temporary halt the ceasefire on January 16th 1975.(20) The two Loyalists, members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), may also have taken part in the murder of the Miami Showband on 21st July 1975. The two murders have been linked by forensic evidence – ignored by Ambush – which proves the same […]
[…] Turkish extreme right was Agca affiliated with? (2) And secondly, could this affiliation in and of itself have provided him with a strong motive to try and murder the Pope? Although these particular questions are not terribly difficult to answer if one is familiar with the historical background of various Turkish political groupings and […]
[…] such a secret deal could only have been brokered at a price, and perhaps that price involved the treatment of embassy staff. The demonisation of Gaddafi This murder, and the later much publicised embrace of a senior NUM officer, Roger Windsor, by the ‘mad dog of Tripoli’ at a most critical stage (28 October) […]
