[…] the armed services in these situations of ‘urgent national importance’ as ‘providing either support to the management and sustainability of civil power operations, or the use of MOD facilities in connection with a civil power’s operation’. One of the main ‘civil power operations’ discussed is ‘Support to Police Public Order Operations’. The document admits […]
[PDF file]: […] international figure not only in that field but also in weapons inspection.2 At the time of his death he was working for the Ministry of Defence ( MoD) and was about to set off on his 38th visit to Iraq, following many similar missions to Russia. Dr Kelly had become the subject of heated […]
[PDF file]: Malevolent incompetence Chaos and Caliphate Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East Patrick Cockburn London and New York: O/R Books, 2016, £19/$28, p/b The first striking thing about this book is that the author survived long enough to write it. Cockburn has spent nearly 20 years years, mostly in the Middle […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been the collapse of […]
[PDF file]: […] when it comes to doing hatchet jobs on people who are a threat to the powers-that-be. He spent years distorting what Colin Wallace was saying, rehashing the MOD line on him, and ignoring all the evidence – lots of it from me – which showed that what the MOD had been saying was disinformation.81 […]
[PDF file]: […] As often happens, Craig Murray whacked the nail on the head. ‘A mainstream media source has finally plucked up the courage to publish the widespread concern among MOD, Cabinet Office and FCO officials and military that the Werritty operation was linked to, and perhaps controlled by, Mossad – something which agitated officials have been […]
[…] and notional, in exchange for contracts. Occasional attempts by MPs to interfere with this particular gravy train are brushed off. At the end of last year, the MoD simply refused to release – even to MPs – a report from the Audit Office on its spending.43 And there’s the money being poured – literally […]
[…] notional, in exchange for contracts. Occasional attempts by MPs to interfere with this particular gravy train are simply brushed off. At the end of last year, the MoD simply refused to release – even to MPs – a report from the Audit Office on its spending.24 And there’s the money being poured – literally […]
[PDF file]: […] counter-subversion preventative measures. I heard Hart speak on a number of occasions, first at the National Defence College, Latimer House, Buckinghamshire, in 1978, and later at various MOD establishments where courses and seminars were held. It was on one of those weekends that I heard Hart advocate “propaganda by outrage” as an extreme policy.’ […]
[…] notional, in exchange for contracts. Occasional attempts by MPs to interfere with this particular gravy train are simply brushed off. At the end of last year, the MoD simply refused to or 2 Unison haș done of survey of the field at . 3 2 release – even to MPs – a report from […]
