[…] the most to expose wrongdoing. Its published reports are heavily censored. The report into ‘The Handling of Detainees by UK Intelligence Personnel in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq’ was a model in understatement although it showed more nerve than usual. Evidence was taken from NGOs such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch and in […]
[…] exclusively to the Libyan intelligence service, led to charges against two Libyans and sanctions against Libya. Syria and the oil war in the Gulf In August 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. James Baker’s feet didn’t touch the ground for weeks as he flew round the world making alliance deals — either provide men and armour […]
[…] security institutions during nation-building missions’ and analyses ‘…the activities of the United States and other countries in building viable police, internal security forces, and justice structures.’ As Iraq is one of the case studies a revised edition may be necessary. ‘Chemical tests carried out in West…’, Western Daily Press, 16 September 2002; Anon, ‘Demands […]
[…] one of Mark Thatcher’s friends – while Cardoen was doing a big helicopter deal with the Iraqis. This was in the run-up to the American attack on Iraq. Moyle ended up dead in a wardrobe in Chile and what does the local FCO guy do? Tells the media that Moyle was the victim of […]
[…] missing. It’s not that the author is afraid of making political comments. He is properly scathing about the events surrounding the Australian support for the invasion of Iraq and the persecution of the lone Australian intelligence analyst willing to say that the emperor had no clothes on; and he writes this for example on […]
[…] direct-connect terminal or a remote terminal through the phone lines, in order to utilize a back door. Ari Ben-Menashe wants us to believe that foreigners (Britain, Australia, Iraq, South Korea, Canada, and ‘many others’) allow technicians from another country to install new computer systems in the heart of their intelligence establishments, and don’t even […]
[…] London Dome fiasco. However, its fall was also due to its exclusivity: ‘old’ people were banned. A snapshot of the country emerged following the sad death in Iraq of hostage Ken Bigley. A ‘modern’ Briton turned out to be a grandfather working overseas because he did not have an adequate pension. Another example was […]
[…] more public profile as the Chairman of Westland. 3i (a name difficult to find in indexes) was involved with many of the companies later embroiled in Arms-to- Iraq, particularly with Astra, where they were the main institutional shareholder. (6) Larry Tindale, as a non-executive director, often chaired board meetings in Nadir’s absence, and became […]
[…] and the election of Barack Obama seem to have punctured the efforts of Netanyahu to use the ‘war on terror’ mindset and network that took us into Iraq into launching a war upon Iran. But if he succeeds in that effort, we will see whether the Community Security Trust and the Board of Deputies […]
[…] School of Oriental Studies at Durham University (the poor man’s equivalent of St. Antony’s). Intelligence officer in early part of the war in Syria later political officer Iraq and post-war senior diplomat. (Independent 11 July 1990) Col. Terence Maxwell: died 1991 Cyril Mills (Daily Telegraph 22 July 1991) Charles Stuart (Daily Telegraph 1 August […]
