[…] for the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee, who was sacked for his comment about the collective raspberry blown through Whitehall at Tony Blair’s talk of Iraq being a threat (see ‘Iraq’, above), made some further comments on BBC Radio 4. ‘There was a culture of news management which came in after 1997 […]
[…] wacky alternative health stuff and the conspiracy theories, that such purists would rather not ponder: where in the left is the condemnation for Clinton’s multiple bombings of Iraq — one under the pretext of a conspiracy theory plot against George Bush — and the subsequent strangling of its oil sales and starvation of its […]
[…] Chair of the House Committee on International Relations, and a Bush-Rumsfeld ally. In his speech, says Diamond, Hyde claimed that the critics of the Bush assault on Iraq had missed the point when they announced that there were no WMDs. Hyde said: ‘The fact that we went into Iraq virtually alone…….is far from the […]
[…] what the Palestinians’ problem was….’ p. 603 The world’s largest owner of media doesn’t know what the Palestinians’ problem is…… 2002 In a Cabinet discussion on attacking Iraq, ‘TB said he believed it would be folly to go against the US on a fundamental policy.’ p. 640 Campbell thinks the same but neither of […]
[…] a domestic person, mother and wife. Indeed, the book is actually described as being about ‘a family on a journey.’ This is how she deals with the Iraq War, for example. Supporting Blair’s stand was, she writes, ‘my job as his wife’, a strange position for someone who still claims to be a feminist. […]
[…] Unfortunately it doesn’t look as if 2002-3 was a great period for underreported news. There are a few truly scandalous stories here (‘US illegally removes pages from Iraq UN report’; ‘US implicated in Taliban massacre’; ‘Rums-feld’s plan to provoke terrorists’; the so-called P2OG) but many of the 25 are neither surprising nor particularly new […]
[…] The problem of oil is, however, central to the Iranian situation. Iran has the second largest reserves of oil of any nation. The supply of oil from Iraq, which presumably the 2003 invasion was meant to secure, has been reduced by the continual sabotage by those resisting the US-led occupation, and all the while […]
[…] hence the government preference for dealing with them. This committee actually produced a report ‘The Handling of Detainees by UK Intelligence Personnel in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq’ in 2005. This was pretty anodyne: they failed to see anything significantly wrong. After mentioning that they had taken evidence from Amnesty International, who had made […]
[…] but there was no way of tracing this. The money was paid so that pro-Libyan articles etc. would be published. Healy also provided information to Libya and Iraq in exchange for funding about the activities and connections of various dissidents who had been expelled from those nations. In particular Healy would, typically, organise a […]
[…] without UN backing.’ Berlins speculated: ‘Even more shocking, if true, is the allegation that, many months before March 2003. Bush and Blair had already agreed to invade Iraq, no matter what anyone else, or the UN, said. There is some, though to me inconclusive, evidence of that.’ Berlins wrote, ‘For what it’s worth, my […]
