[PDF file]: […] Information request. WhatDoTheyKnow also publishes and archives requests and responses, building a massive archive of information.’ 1 For those not familiar with the crime that was the murder of Hilda Murrell, a decent briefing can be obtained from an article, ‘Who really killed Hilda Murrell’, that Michael Mansfield QC wrote for the Guardian: […]
[PDF file]: […] have depressed someone whose life was in good shape, never mind someone like Casolaro whose life was falling apart, it is nonetheless pretty clear his death was murder and not suicide. And presumably because someone thought he was getting too close to something. But who? And what? remain almost as opaque at the end […]
[PDF file]: […] bringing police investigations to a halt.8 Denton’s summation of the noninvestigation of Zangara’s intriguing background, and of the diverted rush to Zangara was originally tried for attempted murder and sentenced to 80 years hard labour. Soon after that, he was tried for murder, because one of the bystanders hit by his bullets – Chicago […]
[PDF file]: […] not Dennis Lehane the American crime writer of that name. This is Denis (one ‘n’) Lehane, the co-author with Martin Dillon of the 1973 Penguin Special Political Murder in Northern Ireland. Lehane was a journalist and this book is his account of what befell him when he declined to be recruited by the CIA. […]
[PDF file]: […] one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought Chelsea FC ‘to protect himself against assassination’, although quite […]
[PDF file]: […] he argues. When it comes to describing military offensives, the government give us ‘remotely piloted air systems’, ‘precision weapons’ and ‘collateral damage’ rather than bombdropping drones that murder civilians. Conversely, alongside these euphemisms for hiding state violence, there are also euphemisms for stripping away the rights of individuals. Since 9/11 a world has been […]
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[PDF file]: […] has been known for a couple of years. Much the same information was included in chapter 10 of Patrick Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland.35 Daily Mail blogging: it’s a lonely place In the latest instalment of his ‘View from the Bridge’, Robin Ramsay mentions Peter […]
[PDF file]: […] politicians accounted for the dreadful state of Israeli politics. The political right wing continued to deny the Palestinians a homeland and of course, the zealots did eventually murder their own prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. My mentor knew his stuff and told me that he was working directly with Al, a word that […]
