Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] did that get lost in the dust clouds of the next day’s events!) And there is a very good analysis of the run-up to the invasion of Iraq which he shows was ‘driven by an alliance of….the military-industrial complex and the hard-line Zionists proponents of “greater Israel” in the “promised land”.’ This is a […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] were warmly welcomed by her fellow neo-conservatives in the White House and Pentagon. As Mylroie herself put it: ‘I take satisfaction that we went to war with Iraq and got rid of Saddam Hussein. The rest is details.’ (17) Notes 1 A typical broadcast would include extracts from ‘…Winston Churchill speeches, a rendition of […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] ‘Another Casualty In the Octopus Case’ (Washington Post, August 28, 1991). In fact, arms merchant Ari Ben-Menasche identified Cardoen as the person who brokered the deal between Iraq and Earl Brian, corrupt functionary of the Reagan administration, for an illegal sale of the PROMIS software. Moyle no doubt imagined himself to be a super […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] replicate is the manner in which the fabricated evidence of weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi al-Qaida connections were ‘sexed-up’ in preparation for the illegal invasion of Iraq (and subsequent war crimes) in 2003.9 By November 2011, Britain’s Tory government had repeated the history of its predecessor by announcing that the MoD would participate […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] that are being spent on PMCs that provide services related to the ‘Global War on Terror’ and the effective civil war that followed the second invasion of Iraq in 2003. This is the focus of what follows. In 2006 American author Charlie Cray stated that ‘Industry analysts expect it will be a $200 billion-a-year […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] Death: How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair Miles Goslett London, Head of Zeus, 2018, £16.99 ISBN-13: 978-1788543095 Did you know that the body of Iraq weapons inspector Dr David Kelly, who died mysteriously in 2003 after being named by 10 Downing Street for criticising its war-promoting dossier, had been exhumed and […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] his memoir is ‘about counterinsurgency and its journey from the far periphery of US military doctrine to its center’. The reality is that after the failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States is not about to commit large ground forces to a protracted military occupation again any time soon. Even the rise of […]