[PDF file]: […] ‘anti-terrorism’ interventions and the reporting of them.15 I helped Andy Beckett with his subsequent Guardian follow-up feature, ‘Friends in High Places’, that appeared the year after the Iraq invasion.16 In Lobster 47, ‘Terrorism, AntiSemitism and Dissent’ set out some of the political background to that part of the ‘war’ that after 2001 took British […]
[PDF file]: […] allowed PIIs to be invoked, thereby making it appear that the defendants were acting unlawfully and profiting from the export of fuses to an embargoed destination – Iraq. The PIIs were issued to prevent an officer of Special Branch, DS Wilkinson, from verifying that Paul Grecian had been acting with official backing in order […]
[PDF file]: […] of Margaret Thatcher’s premiership was that during the 1980s she and her Cabinet authorised a long running and totally illegal operation to supply arms secretly to both Iraq and Iran, in contravention of UN resolutions and British law. Billions of pounds worth of arms were exported illegally. Parliament was lied to and British ministers, […]
[PDF file]: […] was most struck by a document which claims to be pages from a CIA analysis of the so-called Supergun affair – that bizarre project to build for Iraq a ‘gun’ with a 750 kilometre range, which ended with the murder of the ‘gun’s’ designer, Gerald Bull. A declassified but redacted version of this report […]
[PDF file]: […] into action, the only argument was over just how glorious their victory would be. The period in question ended that illusion, chiefly, although not entirely, because of Iraq. ‘Had the UK’s involvement in the War on Terror, as America designated its response to 9/11, been restricted to Afghanistan, it would – despite the lengthy […]
[PDF file]: […] agencies with leading brand status to topple in ignominy like the rest of them was SIS: in its case because of the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, and allegations of complicity in torture, rendition and other issues. The condemnation of spook behaviour, led by activists, some journalists and politicians, and some supporting ‘silent […]
[PDF file]: […] Zeitgeist’ validates Noam Chomsky’s long-standing point that ‘Contempt for the rule of law is deeply rooted in U.S. practice and intellectual culture’. On the eve of the Iraq war Bush could say, ’I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.’ (I kill, therefore I am). This, Professor […]
[…] was most struck by a document which claims to be pages from a CIA analysis of the so-called Supergun affair – that bizarre project to build for Iraq a ‘gun’ with a 750 kilometre range, which ended with the murder of the ‘gun’s’ designer, Gerald Bull. A declassified but redacted version of this report […]
[PDF file]: […] to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values.’ (emphasis added)23 This from the man who helped compile the ‘dodgy dossier’ on Iraq? John Booth writes about Campbell elsewhere in this issue and he pointed me towards a 2012 essay on him, ‘Britain loves a war criminal’.24 In that, […]
[…] to lead. We endure governments that lie, and seek to undermine our democratic values.’ (emphasis added)23 This from the man who helped compile the ‘dodgy dossier’ on Iraq? John Booth writes about Campbell elsewhere in this issue and he pointed me towards a 2012 essay on him, ‘Britain loves a war criminal’.24 In that, […]
