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[…] the arrest of Daniella Klette in Germany might be more interesting to you than you first think. There are two parts of a seven part series on LOCKERBIE based on the documentary I first tried to make with STV and then, post the debacle with John Banks, with Sean Stone, who I have sort […]

ATTACK WARNING RED! How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall

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[PDF file]: […] website records the transition thus: Around the end of the Cold War, following a number of serious major incidents such as the Bradford Football Stadium fire, the Lockerbie air disaster and the Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster, the role of the College was again changed from preparing for the aftermath of nuclear attack to preparation […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] continued doing what Lobster used to do: surveying published material on the intelligence and security services and producing synopses of it. There is a long essay about Lockerbie; and, while I am no expert on this subject, I didn’t see anything that surprised me. The best piece is a 15-page account by O’Hara of […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Russian-backed Ukrainians did it, despite an almost complete lack of evidence, are stuck with their initial decision. And great powers do not admit their errors: think of Lockerbie, or the downing of the 25 26 27 11 happened was the outcome of a diabolical Moscow plot to create a pretext for war, meaning Russian […]

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[…] continued doing what Lobster used to do: surveying published material on the intelligence and security services and producing synopses of it. There is a long essay about Lockerbie; and, while I am no expert on this subject, I didn’t see anything that surprised me. The best piece is a 15-page account by O’Hara of […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] sexual assault made against former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond have surfaced three months after Mr Salmond publicly cast doubt on the official verdict on the Lockerbie bombing.’ 65 The official line on Libya is not the only one from which Salmond has strayed. He has become a loose cannon in British politics66 […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] in 1988 when the USS Vincennes, a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing, 290 people. Which led to the Lockerbie bombing . . . . Not a million miles from which is the case of Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian lecturer in Islamic Studies, being held by […]

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