[PDF file]: […] need for Dr. Wahl to find and forward it. In 2002, the Hess family declined to participate. The project was dead and urgent work came with the Iraq War. Only in 2012, after the cremation of Hess’s remains, did I receive an e-mail reversing the family position. I did not meet Dr. Cemper-Kiesslich until […]
[PDF file]: […] at Page 85 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 editor wrote a long piece suggesting that Saddam did have WMD after all, but they were mostly spirited out of Iraq into Syria in a convoy of lorries driven by Russian Spetsnatz commandos just before the American invasion. Did Prospect’s security contacts steer the magazine towards Hassan […]
[PDF file]: […] to be so. Here is journalist and future Labour MP Sion Simon writing in The Daily Telegraph on December 21 1998 after joint US-British bombing raids on Iraq. In the course of this action (the little-remembered engagement was called Operation Desert Fox), more cruise missiles were fired in four days than in the entire […]
[PDF file]: […] a minister in Labour governments led by Harold Wilson, James Callaghan and Tony Blair, died in 2015. He was an early critic of Blair’s decision to invade Iraq 8 and his 2003 Guardian article on 9/11 and the ‘war on terror’ foreshadowed much of what we are hearing from Carlson and his Republican interviewees […]
[PDF file]: […] rather than reciprocating steam engines. Encouraged by the government in London, oil corporations established themselves in Persia and Mesopotamia (then part of the Ottoman Empire and now Iraq). The largest of these (with 51 per cent of the shares purchased by the British State), was the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP). The defeat of […]
[PDF file]: […] insuperable difficulties.28 Determination that Britain had not only to remain ‘Great’ but have the capacity to show this to the world also explains the catastrophic intervention in Iraq, done in the teeth of massive public opposition, and the willingness to join Washington in a new Cold War aimed largely against what is seen as […]
[PDF file]: […] of them despising and eschewing politics to this day. Meantime, and in accordance with the British government’s new policy of courting Saddam Hussein, the SIS’s interest in Iraq was scaled down. Holistic knowledge of the country, at one time second to none, plummeted: what is taught in a dictator’s secondary schools defines the capabilities […]
[PDF file]: […] for them? Lord Levy’s levy I was a member of the Labour Party for about 20 years, finally quitting when the UK joined the US assault on Iraq. Hence my interest in the ‘anti-semitism– in–Labour’ issue. What is happening would be comic were its consequences not so serious. Though I’m not sure what the […]
[PDF file]: […] for them? Lord Levy’s levy I was a member of the Labour Party for about 20 years, finally quitting when the UK joined the US assault on Iraq. Hence my interest in the ‘anti-semitism– in–Labour’ issue. What is happening would be comic were its consequences not so serious. Though I’m not sure what the […]
[PDF file]: […] with him really strongly. He achieved a certain notoriety when he recommended that the United States embrace its Imperial destiny and send out enlightened administrators to run Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the same way that the British Empire had been run (p. 49). He had obviously been reading too much Niall Ferguson! For […]
[PDF file]: […] gave an “assignment” to transmit $300,000 for the killing of his friend Abu al-Walid when the CIA was concerned al-Walid on leaving Chechnya would go on to Iraq to join up with al-Zarqawi. Why would Dunlop a reputable scholar present the meeting in Khashoggi’s villa as a mere plan for a Russian 9/11 at […]
