[PDF file]: […] the legislation is named after – John McCain’. This snub became the story, not the massive increase in military spending that even ‘eclipsed the peak of annual Iraq War spending’. It ‘was picked up by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, ABC, The Hill, CNN, CBS, the AP, and others’. (p. 79) […]
[PDF file]: […] came to the use of force in a dangerous and faraway theatre…. George wobbled. One by one the Gulf states decided it was safer to deal with Iraq than to defy it and at the Treaty of Baghdad in 1992 agreed to raise oil prices to pay for a programme of Islamic industrialisation. Prime […]
[…] Tancock’s ‘Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials’ 35 and Andrew Rosthorn’s ‘Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.36 Labour’s problem Looking through old issues, I noticed that in my column in number 64 I had reproduced Simon Lee’s summary of his 2012 paper […]
[PDF file]: […] the highest in the industrialised west. Palme was active, too, on the international stage into the 1980s, serving at one point as a mediator in the Iran- Iraq war, without success. External admirers of Sweden are usually unaware that, relative to its population, under both Erlander and Palme the country maintained a very large […]
[PDF file]: […] like those of the ‘Cambridge Three’ (then Four, then Five), and Aldrich Ames. The relationship should have reached its nadir during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, which revealed, according to your point of view, either how poor both countries’ intelligence was, or how it was manipulated by politicians for their own ends. […]
[…] by M.I.5. (Port Talbot ; Badger Moon Publishers, 1989). 18 See for example, and or . 19 20 21 or 22 8 another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.23 Strewth . . . Most parapolitical research has been done by the left. But a group on the right, calling itself Marco Polo, has done […]
[…] having to worry so much about the negative PR associated with body-bags: mercenaries don’t arrive back in flag-draped coffins. This disgusting story climaxes with the arrival in Iraq of maybe 100,000 mercenaries, all getting paid many times more than their state-employed equivalents (as usual privatisation means paying a great deal more for a worse […]
[PDF file]: […] specific events in the Thatcher period. Some are familiar – the miners’ strike; nukes civil and military; the deaths of Hilda Murrell and Willie McRae; arms for Iraq. These later chapters are less error-strewn (though no better sourced) than his account of the 1974-79 period, perhaps because the material is less complex. When he […]
[PDF file]: […] Massachusetts Representative Seth Moulton (Dem.), a member of Thornberry’s committee, was a former officer in the US Marine Corps. He had served four tours of duty in Iraq and had then been intimately involved in the botched reconstruction as the US military’s liaison to Iraqi tribal leaders. Moulton buttressed Thornberry’s remarks by adding: ‘Russia […]
[…] Tancock’s ‘Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials’ 12 and Andrew Rosthorn’s ‘Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to- Iraq conspiracy?’.13 8 See for example, and or . 9 10 11 or 12 or 13 5 Strewth . . . Most parapolitical research has been done […]
