[…] 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 Boggs comments, was merely a reflection of a deep-seated national exceptionalism and shared political consensus. Congress even passed a law in […]
[PDF file]: […] policies got steadily deeper. The lame duck had, so to speak, cooked his own goose. But it was during this critical handover period that someone tried to kill Roosevelt. Who remembers Giuseppe Zangara today? He is an unknown to the general public, and even aficionados of assassinations would be hard-pressed to say much about […]
[PDF file]: […] 70 or 71 2 Correction This should be “note 4”. ‘We have found no new evidence that the police officer who fired the gun 3 intended to kill Paul. In my view, the firing of the baton gun on that Suggestion occasion was wrong and unjustifiable.’72 I can see why you have moved this […]
[PDF file]: […] visiting the hotel more regularly to keep an eye on its running. He believed that they put something in his glass of sherry to…to what? Incapacitate him? Kill him? What? His wife had a sip of the sherry while Dr Johnson consumed the whole glass and this would explain their differing reactions. It’s a […]
[PDF file]: […] offered a 500,000 USD bounty for his capture. In a bugged phone conversation that was later leaked to Ukrainian media, Kolomoisky also made a veiled threat to kill Tsaryov, couching it as a warning that Jewish business leaders had offered a million USD for Tsaryov’s assassination. Wall Street Journal, 27 June 2014 (see note […]
[PDF file]: […] CIA from 1993-1995. As a quick google shows, Pacepa – who died in February 202160 – first offered this ridiculous nonsense in 2007 in his Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination. This is a summary of that book’s thesis.61 ‘Pacepa contends that the Soviet PGU (the first […]
[PDF file]: […] working for (and then campaigning against) MI53 has it that, in the early spring of 1996, intelligence reports stated that there had been a failed attempt to kill Gaddafi: ‘ . . . reports indicated that the attackers had tried to assassinate Gaddafi when he was part of a motorcade but failed as they […]
