9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant

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[…] to the Kahane shooting,” an F.B.I. agent said.”(20) In thus limiting the case, the police and FBI were in effect protecting Nosair’s two Arab co-conspirators in the murder of a U.S. citizen. Both of them were ultimately convicted in connection with the first WTC bombing, along with another Mohamed trainee, Nidal Ayyad. The 9/11 […]

The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] Brown was too sympathetic to the plaintiffs in the case and was removed during the pre-trial proceedings. Pepper wanted permission to run forensic tests on the alleged murder weapon. (Pepper and Brown were pretty sure the gun wasn’t the one which killed King.) Because James Earl Ray had pleaded guilty, such tests had not […]

Rinkagate: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] the higher management at the BBC to shut them up; the Peter Bessell version of events, the perambulations of Norman Scott – and the actual conspiracy to murder him. But in ignoring the psy-ops operations Freeman has served up an interesting snack rather than a main course. There is one absolutely wonderful comment from […]

Dean Andrews’ testimony to the Warren Commission

Lobster Issue 20 (1990)

[…] after the war by J. Edgar Hoover into a covert FBI assassination squad. Just after the assassination ‘Milan’ claims he was sent by Hoover to Dallas to murder a taxi driver. Before dying the taxi driver confessed that he had been part of a (failed) Jack Ruby-sponsored assassination attempt aimed, not at Kennedy, but […]

The fiction of the state: The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] it? I had been active in the anti-war movement. In the days of Richard Nixon, that could spell trouble. There was the coup in Chile and the murder of Allende. After Nixon’s fall, the national security state perpetuated itself under Henry Kissinger, who stayed on under Gerald Ford as secretary of state. William Colby […]

The KGB Lawsuits

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

Brian Crozier Foreword by Sir James Goldsmith The Claridge Press, London, 1995, £12.95   One of the odd things about the James Goldsmith Referendum Party gambit in the recent election is the way the mass media collectively chose not to refer back to the last great Goldsmith campaign – his hunt for the Red Menace … Read more

The View From the Bridge: Gerry Gable. Melita Norwood. Kosovo. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

Weird Web Professor Peter Dale Scott reported the following in March. ‘Four times today I have tried to go to www.counterpunch.org. And four times Netscape was unable to find it. This happens frequently on my computer to websites which share my opinions, or to which I am hotlinked. And when I searched for ‘Alex Cockburn’ … Read more

‘A Most Extraordinary Case’

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] by the police, and that he was framed for the killing. In September 1991, Malcolm Kennedy was sentenced at the Old Bailey to life imprisonment for Quinn’s murder, despite evidence that crucial police logs had gone missing, and conflicting accounts from police officers of events on the night. A Police Complaints Authority investigation in […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more

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