[…] 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 […]
[…] August 1990, and in the run-up to the war itself, which commenced on 16 January 1991, there was considerable concern over possible use of chemical weapons by Iraq against coalition forces. A number of western political sources hinted at a nuclear response to any substantial Iraqi CW use, and it was widely assumed that […]
[PDF file]: Books Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq John W. Dower New York: W.W. Norton, 2010, $29.95 (US), around £20 (UK), h/b Simon Matthews John Dower is a retired Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an expert on USJapanese relations. His book compares Al Qaeda’s surprise […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] to patriotism is thought to be a no-go area in parts of public service. The Army – the broken knitting needle of an illegal government policy in Iraq – in desperate need of recruits for the Afghan campaign, is stripped of its core entreaty. The irony is that while it is running adverts depicting […]
[…] of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the advance of Hamas and Hezboll-ah, the wreckage of Iraq, with more than two million external refugees and the ethnic cleansing of its Christian population, the rise of Iran as a major regional power, and now […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
