[…] at W. H. Smith’s at Euston Station? Not that often. When I called Private Eye to mail order a copy of Paul Foot’s fascinating report on the Lockerbie trial, I was assured that I could buy a copy at any branch of Smith’s. ‘Oh, go on,’ I said, recalling the Eye’s long battle against […]
[…] British state would not have reestablished diplomatic and economic relations with Libya if they thought there was the slightest chance that the two Libyan suspects in the Lockerbie bombing would be found guilty. Given that the trial is taking place under the Scottish legal system, what are the odds that the outcome will be […]
[…] Martin; plus new books and the Flatland catalogue. $20 for four issues from PO Box 2420, Fort Bragg, CA 95437-2420. Web site www. flatlandbooks.com; e-mail flatland @mcn.org Lockerbie crash On the Lockerbie crash a big piece has appeared in Covert Action Quarterly No 66 by William Blum. That issue also includes Diana Johnstone on […]
CIA set for Pentagon buyout? Lester Coleman, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) man who co-authored Trail of the Octopus (about CIA drug-channel involvement in the Lockerbie bombing) writes in the latest Unclassified (quarterly publication of the Association of Former National Security Alumni, no. 34, Fall 1995), that the CIA feels itself threatened by a […]
[…] calendar. For British readers, there are essays on the murder of junior British spook Jonathan Moyles; Dr Bull and the ‘supergun’ and Bull’s murder; framing Libya for Lockerbie; the Chinook crash which killed a large section of the British intelligence and counter-insurgency people in Northern Ireland; the Bloody Sunday inquiry; the Executive Outcomes and […]
[…] of the other names in the address book. Sir Stephen Runciman 18 Elmtree Road St. John’s Wood London W8 Phone – Cunningham 0010 Sir Steven Runciman Elshieshields, Lockerbie, Dumfriesshire Scotland Tel: Lochmaben 280 66 Whitehall Court London SW1 WHITEHALL 3160 EXT 68 Shaw, as can be seen, spells the first name two ways. The […]
[…] acutely discomfited by the fact that genuinely stupid people can get to be president in the land of the brave and home of the free. Libya and Lockerbie In ‘Lockerbie trial was a CIA fix, US intelligence insider claims’, The Glasgow Herald reported some comments by Michael Scharf, who was the counsel to the […]
[…] death of Abu Nidal in August became the peg for two different pieces of disinformation. The first was in The Sunday Times 25 August 2002, ‘Gaddafi “plotted Lockerbie bombing with Abu Nidal”‘, in which a ‘former aide’ to Nidal who ‘declined to be named’ said that Gaddafi ordered the Lockerbie bombing and gave the […]
[…] including many journalists, still believe Wright was telling the truth.’ This is the David Shayler who has been blithely telling the world that the Libyans did the Lockerbie bombing because while at the Libyan desk he had seen documents from his American colleagues claiming so. I do not propose to rehearse yet again the […]
[…] the chance ‘West’ does bits of editing for his ‘friends’ and his political friends. On page 266 he writes of Libya’s ‘astonishing admission of responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing’ without mentioning that Libya merely accepted formal responsibility, as a condition of restarting normal diplomatic and trade relations with the West, but still denies actually […]
