Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] he is covered by the Vienna Convention (protecting diplomats), or the Geneva Convention (protecting soldiers) or whether he is operating without such protection relying instead on the SAS soldiers whom I understand are guarding him. Non-staff spooks, of course, have always operated without any protection. Declaration of Interests: I am a friend of former […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] not adhered to by any member state. 5 Any inquiry into the military, rather than private security consultancies, would necessitate a similar journey, this time through the SAS and other elite units (‘hired’ or ‘loaned’ to friendly governments,), as well as the SIS. This, in consequence, would place the conduct of British foreign policy […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)
[…] communities outside it. It therefore misses the importance of non-corporate issues, such as the long term implications of little boys, separated from their mothers, attending fundamentalist madras sas (schools). In addition, it does not develop or promote links with those overseas who are not (yet) status quo. Sir Richard Dearlove continued: ‘David inherited a […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] the memoir of a female member of the ‘det’, another undercover Army unit in Northern Ireland: Sarah Ford (pseudonym) One Up: A Woman in Action with the SAS (London: HarperCollins, 1997). The top brass in the British armed forces may be debating whether women should be allowed in the front line but they are […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] anybody about what she had witnessed. See Lobster 38. Posting by Liberius to the alt.conspiracy.princess-diana discussion forum – 2 November 1999. The two documentaries were ‘Inside Russia’s SAS’ (broadcast on BBC2 13 and 20 June 1999) and ‘Spetsnaz, a Maverick Commando Unit’ (broadcast on the Franco-German TV channel La Sept Arte, 28 September 1999). […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] section) August 23, 1998, and several conversations with Mr. Dowling Telephone conversation with Dr. Eric Olsen, October 20, 1998; plus exchanged e-mails. In his memoir the former SAS member Peter Stiff discusses forms of assassination and describes ‘an old trick popular with the various government security services throughout the world. I would knock on […]