Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] by Prime Minister May, his assumption was that it was for his Middle East expertise. As far as the Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) and the Israeli Embassy were concerned, however, his support for a Palestinian state made him completely unacceptable and it soon became clear that he was to have no involvement with […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] terrorist organisation called the Mujehadin-e Khalq (MEK). Previously financed by Saddam Hussein (and previously described as a terrorist group in Washington) these architects of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London are now financed and backed by the US and Gulf Arab States.15 It is also likely that the MEK are getting logistical support […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] central leadership never publicly supported Usama bin Ladin’s vision of global jihad. Furthermore, the LIFG never congratulated al-Qa`ida on attacks they conducted such as the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings, the USS Cole bombings, or even the 9/11 attacks. Rather, the LIFG only commented on the U.S. retaliation in Sudan and Afghanistan for the 1998 […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] of Trade and Industry. The US government was also paying attention: in 1985 – only two years after Blair became an MP – an official in US embassy in London described him as ‘one of the brightest and most ambitious of recent Labor intake’;6 0 and the next year 59 See Eric Shaw The […]