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Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards
South of the border
[PDF file]: […] Secondly, it was Steve House, as Assistant Commissioner of Central Operations, whom the Met chose to attempt a soft soap on the use of Operation Kratos ‘shoot-to- kill’ tactics in a 2006 Panorama documentary on the police shooting of Jean-Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station.32 Additionally, I think what can be safely deduced […]
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock
[PDF file]: […] from popular hatred of the corrupt oppressive regime that America and her allies sustained in power, killing many Afghan civilians in the process – indeed continuing to kill them even while the evacuation of Kabul was underway. This pretence of concern for women’s rights is a propaganda distraction intended to cover up both the […]
Some thoughts on The Russia Report
Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn
The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into The Octopus and the Promis Software Scandal by Cheri Seymour
[…] people who had never been near real criminal investigations, nor tried to deal with people from the covert world who were blowing smoke (let alone who might kill you if you found something interesting). The author of this book has been on the case, off and on, for twenty years and is still unable […]
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] avoid or 24 See also Cara MariAnna, ‘Israel Lobby’s Disastrous Domination’ at . 25 26 27 9 uncomfortable information. If the idea that Hamas are willing to kill Israeli civilians is discomfiting, the false flag notion can save you having to deal with the complexity of Islamists and the Middle East. The new Cold […]
Blood Year: Islamic State and the Failures of the War on Terror by David Kilcullen
[PDF file]: […] 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 kill us’; but then he goes on to acknowledge ‘….that Tehran’s motivation to acquire nuclear weapons, sponsor terrorists, launch covert operations and expand its influence across the […]
View from Bridge 87
[…] on Terrorism. The problem with the concept is that it offers too ready a way to avoid uncomfortable information. If the idea that Hamas are willing to kill Israeli civilians is discomfiting, the false flag notion can save you having to deal with the complexity of Islamists and the Middle East. *new* The new […]