[…] secret intelligence report in the FCO just around the time of the first Iraq war – that a Syrian terrorist group was responsible acting on behalf of Iran. It was decided that this would be kept under wraps because the West needed Iran and Syria’s quiescence in the attack on Iraq. I was at […]
[PDF file]: Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud London: Macmillan, 2023, 317 pages Colin Challen This is the first book about Pegasus, the cyber surveillance software developed by the Israeli company the NSO Group. It lays out the threat posed by the world’s leading cyber surveillance outfit. It is […]
[PDF file]: […] to report the coverage. ‘Our one access to daylight was the US media and its knock on to the Filipino media…It was a huge, huge stitch-up.’1 6 Iran 2009 H arding’s description of the events of Manila 1986 may shed some light on the still under-explored Iranian elections of 2009 and on the uncertainty […]
[PDF file]: […] word ‘allegedly’ from this quotation; but otherwise Kilcullen’s remarks are not what one expects from a counterinsurgency expert working for the United States. Similarly, his discussion of Iran notes that ‘those of us who served in Iraq always saw Iranian actions as aggressive – understandably, I guess, since they were doing their best to […]
[PDF file]: […] facts – were not divulged to the jury at the trial of three Scarland senior execs, who were acquitted of any wrongdoing. The (potential) coming war with Iran: where the money is going Much has already been said in the news about the potential for a wide–ranging war with Iran following the assassination by […]
[PDF file]: […] of the organisation, with four US Senators and the Israeli Ambassador present, Hagee called for the United States to join with Israel in a pre-emptive attack on Iran. He told his audience that this would ‘fulfil God’s plan for both Israel and the West . . . a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, […]
[PDF file]: […] him that the US bases in that country were vital for American interests in the region and not some sort of rip-off. And even though Mattis regarded Iran as a threat to the US position in the Middle East, nevertheless he still thought that the nuclear deal with Iran had been an American success, […]
Misc reviews These reviews of mine were written for other publications. Robin Ramsay Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011, £20.00, h/b. After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and reexamining the previous inquiries, […]
[PDF file]: […] foreign invader, usurping the presidency from the American people’. Indeed he might well be ‘a crypto-Muslim terrorist’, someone in league with ‘Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, and Iran’. (p. 21) This was all part of the conspiracy culture that became ‘central to the politics of the Christian Right’. Leading the way were the ‘birthers’. […]
[…] he shows that the Werrity affair wasn’t, as some suspected, part of an Israeli operation, but was a piece of the Anglo-British–Israeli preparation for an attack on Iran. Murray doesn’t comment on the operational incompetence of using the Defence Secretary’s bagman, or the possibility that the exposure of the Werrity connection has been done […]
