The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

Churchill’s War Against D-Day by Graeme Bowman

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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 […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[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 […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[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 […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] by the USA, the EU and NATO was accompanied by a hubristic liberal-capitalist triumphalism which poisoned and destabilised the international environment. The recent history of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria provides clear evidence of a dialectical process in which Western intervention has fuelled political instability and led to blowback in the form of Islamic […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] 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 – albeit, like that other loose cannon, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] allies in the region)? They are the last people anyone from the US government would seek to implicate. If you wanted a pretext to attack Iraq, Iran, Libya or Syria, the false flag would be accompanied by links to one (or several) of those countries, not Saudi Arabia.25 This scenario is absurd. As, indeed, […]

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