Iraqi documents Iraq on the Record () is a searchable collection of over 200 specific misleading statements made by Bush administration officials about the threat allegedly posed by Iraq. The collection would be even larger if it also included statements that appear mistaken only in hindsight. However, if a statement was ‘…an accurate […]
[…] war crimes, where such crimes are committed by a national or on a territory of a govt that has ratified the court’s treaty (neither the US not Iraq are among the 81 govts that have ratified the treaty so far) and will only act when national courts are unable or unwilling to investigate or […]
[…] often portrayed as a post 9/11 development, the Agency’s involvement in torture dates back to its foundation. Given this history, the CIA’s involvement in torture in Afghanistan, Iraq and in the ‘war on terror’ more generally should not come as a surprise to anyone. It would have been astonishing were it not involved in […]
Tell me lies: Propaganda and Media Distortion in the Attack on Iraq ed. David Millar London: Pluto, 2003, £12.99, p/back One of the downsides of appearing every six months is that occasionally books arrive just too late for the issue in which they should appear and by the time the next issue appears […]
Iraq – fallout continues ‘Five years on from Hutton and we still haven’t been told the truth about the war based on lies’, fulminated Peter Oborne earlier this year. (1) Also less than happy was barrister Michael Shrimpton who unsuccessfully complained to Ofcom about an interview he gave for David Kelly: the conspiracy […]
[…] terminally ill. (8) He had been a dual career civilian businessman/spy, who served SIS for nearly twenty years. At one time, he was SIS’s leading authority on Iraq. Perhaps Colonel Hughes-Wilson could also inform Telegraph readers of my request, following my father’s death, to liaise with a retired senior military civil servant, known to […]
[…] Chris Tame, Tom Easton (and probably other people I have forgotten), for information. Once again there is a lot in this issue about the Anglo-American assault on Iraq. For what it is worth it seems to me that it is much more important for the world that America (and its British flunkies) get their […]
[…] a career intelligence officer who was the ISC’s researcher for five years until fired for having the temerity to express minor dissent from the government line on Iraq, and he is now at the Brunel Centre. Between them they have much academic and practical knowledge. The authors are essentially conservative defenders of the British […]
[…] take a dim view of matters.()Similarly, the scale of the threat still remains an assertion rather than a fact although I do not minimise this. In Iraq, we have estimates of deaths in the region of 300,000600,000 since 2003 ()and, in Afghanistan, bombing raids still kill civilians.()If we are at war with insurgents, […]
[…] I bet they haven’t told you.”’ And, of course, they hadn’t, any more than they bothered to tell the British in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq that the State Department’s plans for the post-invasion period were ditched two months before the event and control of the post-invasion events had been given to, […]
