[…] 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 to Malta through its contents in the event that the bomb […]
[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]: 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]: […] anti-communist campaign in Finland a few months later; the disastrous failure in Norway that this produced (which, ironically, propelled Churchill to power); the diversion of forces from Libya to Greece in early 1941 when the success of the British offensive seemed secure – and the subsequent routing of those forces in, and their evacuation […]
[PDF file]: […] officer also seems to have signed–off on the abduction and rendition of opponents of Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi to help secure an oil deal between the UK and Libya. Norton-Taylor argues that the intelligence services are besotted with the emirates and sultanates of the Gulf. Romanticism has displaced any sense of unease about the crucifixions […]
[PDF file]: […] Muhammad Hussan (Akhari) for initial expenses. The remainder of the money was to be paid after successful completion of the mission.”’ 4 After al-Megrahi had departed for Libya, Tam Dalyell made this comment : ‘The Iranian Minister of the interior at the time , was Ali Akbar Mostashemi, who made a public statement that […]
[PDF file]: […] Tunworth Media interviews with Shayler in the initial period after he first went public do Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Lebovich, ‘Assessing Al-Qa`ida’s Presence in the New Libya’, CTC Sentinel (Vol. 5, Issue 3), March 2012 . 11 See the profile of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the Mapping Militant Organizations section of […]
[PDF file]: […] Skies: a Global History of Aerial Bombardment Thomas Hippler London: Verso, 2017, £11.99, p/b The first use of aerial bombardment took place on 1 November 1911 in Libya. An Italian airman, Giulio Gavotti, dropped a hand-held bomb onto an Arab encampment and supposedly ‘revolutionized warfare’. This was an inevitable revolution, but Gavotti has the […]
[PDF file]: […] chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 Dispatches documentary […]
[PDF file]: Blood Year Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror David Kilcullen London: Hurst and Co., 2016, £9.99, p/b D avid Kilcullen has established a reputation for himself as the ‘thinking person’s counterrevolutionary’. An Australian national, formerly a professional soldier with counterinsurgency expertise. According to his own testimony he served ‘the Bush administration […]
