[…] all this is the fact that the Carlyle Group’s representative on the QinetiQ board is George Tenet, the Director of the CIA at the time of the Iraq invasion. The Carlyle Group was established in 1987 to exploit tax loopholes in Alaska, but really only took off in 1989 when Ronald Reagan’s Secretary for […]
[…] Home Office, listed the countries whose police personnel had been trained in the UK during the previous four years. They included such ‘democratic’ countries as Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iraq, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Uganda. In all, police officers from 72 countries have received training in Britain over the past […]
[…] On ‘9/11’ it even hints at a conspiracy. (The administration may have known it was coming but let it happen to give them the excuse to attack Iraq. It was all part of the Great Tribulation, after all.) So you can skip the theology, and still learn a lot. The influence of this kind […]
[…] manipulation of intelligence and the creation of weapons ‘gaps’; Cuba, Vietnam; the second Cold War, ‘star wars’ and the collapse of the Soviet empire; the Clinton years, Iraq and ‘shock and awe’ – a history of the Pentagon’s role in post-war America. En route there are portraits of the leading figures, both military and […]
[…] alleviating Brazil’s problems.” (Daily Telegraph 16 October 1983) The business world was extremely displeased with this. “Companies are astounded that having given £250 million export credit to Iraq last month, the Treasury continues to refuse half that amount to Brazil” (Times 12 November 1983) As the Observer said: “Brazil appears to have been singled […]
[…] San Jose Mercury News, detailing links between cocaine traffickers and the Nicaraguan contra network, plus links, including Covert Operations (Iran/contra; INSLAW affair; BNL affair – arming of Iraq by western nations including US, Britain, Germany, Italy; COINTELPRO lives – evidence suggests aspects of the program continue). Cold War Legacy http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/coldwar/index.html Extract from Interim Report […]
[…] (Paris) 260 3780 IAL – ????? Kemp 5742411 Matt Heaton Tlx 24114 Intel – Joe Dougherty 4985040 Loun Isa (Diamonds) 212 391 2419 IAL 8901455 Iraq – Baghdad Lenzar Talal Suliman 96719 PO Box 14050 Tlx 2674 Iceirix Bill Johnson 334 9222 Jay Ko (H) 716 385 3894 (O) […]
[…] these guys are fighting its class war.’ (p. 43) Palast believes that you should always follow the money. His account of the moves behind the invasion of Iraq is unlike any other I have seen. He sees the role of what he calls ‘big oil’ as much more prominent than most commentators; and offers […]
[…] and Steel Institute. Another AMAX director, J.D. Bonney, was born in Blackpool in 1930 and joined AMAX in the sixties. Between 1959 and 1960 he worked for Iraq Petroleum Co, owned by Shell, B.P. and other oil companies. More significantly for us he has been vice president of SOCAL since 1972 (SOCAL Europe, that […]
[…] manufacturers. What they don’t probe, in any great depth, are Aitken’s unorthodox political connections. He was co-director, with Gerald James, of BMARC (the shippers of ‘arms to Iraq’). Readers of James’ memoir will remember him, back in 1973/74 in UNISON with G. K. Young. Similarly we are told that one of Aitken’s close advisers […]
