[…] Commonwealth History, 33 (2), May 2005, pp. 245-265. Hilda Murrell case closed? Twenty-one years after Hilda Murrell’s death, Andrew George was convicted of her kidnap and murder and sentenced to life imprisonment following a four week trial at Stafford Crown Court. () George, who was 16 at the time, living in a children’s […]
[…] part of a decade. Others have arisen from them, including an accusation that was examined by the magistrates for two years, that Berlusconi was complicit in the murder of magistrates investigating the Mafia in an attempt to cover up his own Mafia associations. He is currently on trial for the alleged bribing of a […]
[…] the sort which in 1965 preceded a more general massacre. The Pentagon certainly know the implications of dealing with Prabowo and Kopassus, a unit notorious for terror, murder, rape, and torture. Yet, when Congress banned training under the usual Pentagon program of International Military Education and Training (IMET), the Pentagon quietly kept on training […]
[…] Rees-Jones’ book; James Hewitt’s impromptu recreation of the fatal car journey; Mohamed Al Fayed accusing the Duke of Edinburgh of being the mastermind behind a plot to murder Diana and Dodi; and the possibility of inquests on Diana and Dodi taking place. A correction A significant correction to the article needs to be made. […]
[…] ‘Mac’ Wallace and LBJ thread which has been slowly insinuating itself into the JFK assassination research community. On p.40 Armstrong gives half a page to the 1951 murder by ‘Mac’ Wallace of a former boyfriend of LBJ’s sister. On p.656 Armstrong cites the Sample-Collum book, The Men on the 6th Floor, which includes Loy […]
Major Farran’s Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945-1948 David Cesarani London: William Heinemann, 2009, h/b, £20 On 6 May 1947 a British undercover squad, under the command of Major Roy Farran, picked up sixteen-year-old Alexander Rubowitz, a young Zionist activist. He was taken away for ‘interrogation’. After an hour […]
[…] taken of the event. Pepper was a friend of Martin Luther King’s in the 1960s and worked closely with him in some of his campaigns. After King’s murder he drifted away and took little interest in the case. A decade later he was asked to interview James Earl Ray and became fascinated by the […]
[…] Jews again report a rise in antisemitism. I read these books after hearing Sir Gerald Kaufman in the Commons denounce Israeli attacks on Gaza. He described the murder of his Polish grandmother by a German soldier and then said: ‘My grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in […]
[…] Office press release, 7 December 2005) () Murrell update Andrew George had another day in court on 9 June when his appeal against his conviction of the murder of Hilda Murrell was rejected by the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division.() However a number of interesting points did find their way into Lord Justice Moses’ […]
The Trial of Saddam Hussein Abdul Haq Al-Ani, Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA., 2008 Abdul-Haq Al-Ani’s troubling manifesto on behalf of the murdered Iraqi leader exposes bloody doings of empire from a lucid political-juridical perspective. ‘Imperialism is a universal historical phenomenon, but it remains, nevertheless, evil’, he writes (p. 23). ‘I use the term European [imperialism] … Read more
