[…] an expansion and updating of Blum’s The CIA: A Forgotten History, published by Zed Press in London in 1986. There are six new chapters, for example, on Libya, Panama, Bulgaria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti. As the author notes, ‘The American government keeps people like me very busy.’ This is 383 pages of text, and […]
[…] between Fred Holroyd and the MOD who came with an offer of money if Fred gave up on Colin Wallace. Then he was a deniable intermediary between Libya and the Foreign Office. More recently he offered Fred Holroyd £100,000 to break the British mercenary Peter Bleach out of an Indian jail. Taylor was taped […]
[…] ‘The Maltese Double-Cross’ about the Lockerbie bombing incident, thereby going up against the combined forces of the US and UK states bent on pinning the deed on Libya. Dying of a heart attack at 56 is not that unusual but in Francovich’s case his death must go into the ‘convenient deaths’ category. Arthur Gavshon […]
[…] sensitive area just to stir up a row.’ (p. 57) His own involvement with Watchguard International was with David Stirling’s celebrated conspiracy to overthrow Muammar al-Gadaffi in Libya. He blames the operation’s failure on American interference, and comments that ‘I cannot remember being so thoroughly fed up before in my life.’ Terrorism in Zambia […]
[…] its then editor, Roy Greenslade, made a public apology: ‘I am now convinced that Scargill didn’t misuse strike funds and that the union didn’t get money from Libya…. we were all taken in.’ (‘Sorry, Arthur….’, The Guardian, 27 May 2002), The authors of the original articles, however, remained adamantly unapologetic. (Terry Pattinson, Frank Thorne […]
[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 […]
[…] picture of American (and British) intervention in the Middle East and North Africa. Blumenthal referred to the MI5 officer David Shayler, who had been on that agency’s Libya desk, and who spoke of the use by MI6 of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) in an assassination attempt on Libya’s Prime Minister Muammar Gaddafi. […]
