[PDF file]: […] 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 Anthony Frewin spotted […]
[…] 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. […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] considerable contact with the Libyan regime’s international politics and she tells us that in 20 years with Gaddafi she never heard him waver from the stance that Libya was entirely blameless. Sharab is a Palestinian born in Jordan. University educated, she went into banking – an unusual woman among the Arab patriarchies. She was […]
[PDF file]: […] the US-British military relationship.1 7 Using the Freedom of Information Act, Hughes got some British documents about the American use of British bases from which to bomb Libya in 1986. ‘A “top secret” draft press release written by a senior official in the Defence Department on April 11 1986 makes clear that the raid […]
[PDF file]: […] by its owners, Erwin Meister and Edwin Bollier, and eventually sold in February 1977 to the Libyan government. Renamed Radio Jamharia, it anchored off Tobruk and broadcast ‘Libya International in English’, supporting and endorsing the Gaddafi regime, much of it aimed at neighbouring Egypt. This continued until 1984 when the ship was decommissioned, stripped […]
[PDF file]: […] opening paragraphs go, the one which begins the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report on the UK’s role in the overthrow of the Gaddafi regime in Libya is a belter (the emphasis is mine): ‘In March 2011, the United Kingdom and France, with the 9 For example: the claims that no plane hit […]
[PDF file]: Her Majesty’s secret servants Robin Ramsay SIS and Libya H enry Kissinger is widely quoted as having once said that ‘America has no friends, only interests’; and when push comes to shove this is true for all states. This island has been called something like ‘perfidious Albion’ for almost a thousand years.1 Neither proposition […]
[PDF file]: […] Borenius and Ramsay missions took place after the UK had apparently seen off a German invasion threat (August-October 1940) and won a considerable victory against Italy in Libya (December 1940-January 1941), the latter resulting in the capture of 133,000 prisoners. Thus the UK opposition to Churchill may have considered this an opportune moment to […]
[PDF file]: […] district attorney and Philip Corbett, ex Metropolitan Police, has found that the Palestinians who organised the bombing met in Malta and planned to ‘divert the blame’ to Libya. According to their source, ‘Ivan’: ‘they would place in a suitcase that could be identified 14 Haldane is talking about GVA, gross value added, not GDP, […]
