[…] Freda.(23) Though the influence on NF policy of Roberto Fiore and the other Italian exiles is clear, what these other links meant, and how far links with Libya and Iran went in this period is not yet clear. While Martin Webster alluded in July 1984 to a projected (but unrealised) trip by Joe Pearce […]
[…] FRU also provided some of their arms, apparently believing that this was the only way to redress the balance of forces after the IRA received arms from Libya. (p. 191) The behaviour of Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair and his gang goes some of the way to illustrate the claims of those who defend the […]
[…] Thomas was acquitted. Arthur Scargill — smeared all over the media as recepient of a cheap morgage (in some versions a morgage paid for by Moscow and/or Libya) which didn’t exist. (It astonishes me that Terry Pattinson at the Daily Mirror and Roger Cook at Central TV, in particular, have stayed in their jobs […]
[…] Iranian border, to Erzurum‘ – to carry Iranian gas. This ‘brought criticism from the US for political reasons. The deal also initially appeared to violate the Iran- Libya Sanctions act (ILSA). ….However, because Iran will only receive transit fees for moving the gas to Turkey, the United States determined that Turkey was not in […]
[…] quoted in The Guardian, 24 October 2002 exploding the hypocrisy of both governments. The Arab League: The Independent 25 October 2002 said that President Gaddafi had pulled Libya out of the League and was now looking to Africa for some of his strategic alliances. This was interesting for two reasons. Firstly, because it is […]
[PDF file]: […] controlled Angola, Cape Verde, GuineaBissau, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe. Spain controlled Equatorial Guinea, parts of Morocco, and Western Sahara. Fascist Italy controlled Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Libya. Germany controlled Namibia, Togo/Togoland. And the United States controlled Liberia. The Dutch regions of South Africa gradually developed into colonies between the 17th and 20th centuries. […]
[PDF file]: […] have been seen as an ill omen for future efforts to conduct foreign policy through corporate mercenary warfare. Although British military support to the 2011 revolution in Libya was both grudging and minimal it seems that many of the ‘military advisors’ to the Libyan revolutionary forces were, in fact, private contractors employed by Aegis […]
[PDF file]: […] to bear this in mind when reviewing the events of the past weeks. The vicious and obscene snuffmovie broadcast throughout the world in which the conquest of Libya is consummated by Qaddafi’s murder was not accidental. When Ronald Reagan called Qaddafi a ‘mad dog’ he was following a carefully honed script. This ‘mad dog’ […]
[PDF file]: […] early in its flight from London to New York, the Daily Express’s front page identified ‘The Bomb Carrier’ from an FBI source. No mention of al-Megrahi and Libya at that stage. Less than three months later, Conservative Transport Secretary Paul Channon briefed journalists about imminent arrests after brilliant police work by the Dumfries and […]
[PDF file]: […] I reviewed an earlier book of his, Britain’s Secret Wars, at . 2 1 the manufacture of terrorism’, which discusses US and/or UK sponsorship of terrorists in Libya and Syria; and one on blowback – the unintended domestic consequences of imperial adventures. There is also a chapter on simulations, faking an event. He discusses […]
