[…] keep picking on The United States?” It includes a long list of hostile US military and political actions against the Islamic world during the previous 20 years.’ Lockerbie: a new thesis? Occasional contributor to these columns, Dr. Roger Cottrell, recently sent me the text of his new book on Lockerbie, Ashes in the Fall: […]
[PDF file]: […] keep picking on The United States?” It includes a long list of hostile US military and political actions against the Islamic world during the previous 20 years.’ Lockerbie: a new thesis? Occasional contributor to these columns, Dr. Roger Cottrell, recently sent me the text of his new book on Lockerbie, Ashes in the Fall: […]
[…] Fellow . . . at the University of Turin . . . deals mainly with food and cultural semiotics’.79 The semiotics of food? I’m not even curious. Lockerbie I am not a Lockerbie expert. I’ve read (and forgotten) a couple of the books. If asked about it, the best I could manage would be […]
[PDF file]: […] age of 40 plus, after 20 years working for HMG’s foreign service, and had not realised what would happen if he tried to oppose American foreign policy. Lockerbie T he recent events over Lockerbie illustrate the taboo status of anything which might point out the gulf between the fantasy and real American foreign policy. […]
[PDF file]: […] at the or 77 25 78 University of Turin . . . deals mainly with food and cultural semiotics’.79 The semiotics of food? I’m not even curious. Lockerbie I am not a Lockerbie expert. I’ve read (and forgotten) a couple of the books. If asked about it, the best I could manage would be […]
[PDF file]: […] He picked up work again with the ABCC and those experiences gave him some useful insight into Middle East affairs. One big omission in Sillars’ memoir is Lockerbie. This is particularly striking as the 1988 destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 is, after devolution and the Dunblane massacre, probably the biggest Scottish story of […]
[PDF file]: […] The extent of the business relationship between Meister, Bollier, their company Mebo Electronics and the government of Libya became clear – and publicly known – at the Lockerbie bombing trial in 2000. Bollier was called as a key witness in the trial, it having been determined that a timer manufactured by Mebo Electronics had […]
[PDF file]: […] an interesting overview but whose conclusions don’t entirely convince. It also fails to pursue other avenues of enquiry that the ‘Swedish connection’ opens up, not least the Lockerbie bombing. 9 * Turning from an assassination that did succeed, to one that didn’t, on 16 July 1936, an Irishman, George McMahon (real name Jerome Bannigan), […]
[PDF file]: […] targeting marginal seats, run by Ronan O’Rahilly, from an offshore radio station owned by a Swiss-based electronics company later shown to have had a connection to the Lockerbie bombing.6 Following the Suez parallel, if Clinton had won the US Presidency in November 2016, is it possible the UK might have dumped Brexit by now? […]
[PDF file]: […] CIA and elsewhere who had defended it for over half a century would be revealed as fools or knaves. Similarly, having concocted the Libya-dunnit explanation of the Lockerbie bombing, this has to be maintained. The unfortunate Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, the former Libyan intelligence officer arrested two days before the CIA files […]
