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Libya Newslinks 13 September 2011
13 September 2011 — williambowles.info Key figures in post-Gaddafi Libya BBC News Col Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya for 42 years, and allowed no opposition to his rule. After the collapse of his regime, several organisations and individuals have come to the fore, jockeying for position to fill the power vacuum. … http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14896059 Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 7-8 September 2011
8 September 2011 — williambowles.info 8 September 2011 Russia’s Middle East dilemma Eric Walberg William Bowles.info Today at 10:30 Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s demise is all but a done thing, carried out with a UN blessing, however dubious, and only belatedly opposed by Russia and China. Russian policy makers are now wondering if their quasi-principled condemnation of Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 6-7 September 2011
7 September 2011 — williambowles.info 7 September 2011Lauren Ploch, “Africa Command: U.S. Strategic Interests and the Role of the U.S. Military in Africa” MRZine.org Today at 08:17 As envisioned by the Department of Defense (DOD), AFRICOM aims to promote U.S. strategic objectives and protect U.S. interests in the region by working with African states and Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 6 September 2011
6 September 2011 — williambowles.info THE ROVING EYE: Libya: The real war starts now: Asia Times Online Today at NoonAs the Libyan Transitional National Council already behaves like a lame duck and as the militias will simply not vanish, it’s not hard to picture Libya as a new Lebanon, with regions carved up between numerous Continue reading
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Photo gallery: NATO bombs bring democracy to Europe, Asia and Africa
Pictured are the new millennium’s preeminent representatives of the West’s commitment to democracy, freedom, human rights, transparency and Euro-Atlantic values, brought to power by cluster, thermobaric, bunker buster, “daisy cutter” and graphite bombs and Tomahawk and other cruise, Hellfire and Brimstone missiles. Continue reading
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What is going on in Libya? By William Bowles
The BBC is reporting the ‘fall of Tripoli/Gaddafi’ except for ‘mopping up’ “pockets” of resistance. On the other hand, here is a report, including audio that says the opposite Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 17, 2011
17 August 2011 — Stop NATO Lockheed, MEADS Unveil European Interceptor Missile Battle Manager South Korea Builds Supersonic Cruise Missiles To Strike Aircraft Carriers South Korea To Deploy Powerful Anti-Submarine Missiles On Aegis Class Destroyers Warfighting Capabilities: U.S. Applies Afghan, Iraqi Combat Experience In Massive South Korean War Games Raytheon, Rafael Market U.S.-Compatible Israeli Missile Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: NUCLEAR DECEIT – THE TIMES AND IRAN
On December 14, The Times announced that it had obtained documents about Iran’s nuclear programme that revealed “a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator. This is the component of a nuclear weapon that triggers the explosion”. Continue reading
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It’s the spies wot gets the blame By William Bowles
“I saw evidence that was categoric on Saddam possessing chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Now I saw the evidence, so did the Prime Minister, so did other cabinet ministers. That informed our decision to go topple him. I think we were right in doing so, but let’s wait and see what the jury… Continue reading
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The Death of Dr David Kelly: Opening a can of worms By William Bowles
It is being suggested that he went through some kind of ‘sea change’ last year during his frequent visits to Iraq as part of the Unmovic inspection team and that he was convinced that Iraq had indeed, destroyed its CBW weapons. According to an unnamed analyst quoted by the Independent, he became disillusioned with the… Continue reading
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Opening a can of worms By William Bowles
And at last, we have official confirmation that the claims by the government that Iraq got uranium from Niger at any time, is completely untrue. According to the report in the Independent, The French Ambassador, Denis Vène told the Sunday Telegraph that it was “impossible for uranium to leave the country without French officials knowing… Continue reading
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Blair into Blah doesn’t go: anatomy of a con By William Bowles
The fake Niger documents reached both British and US intelligence agencies, who no doubt verified that they were fakes but apparently neglected to tell anyone. The documents sat around, probably until sometime in early-mid 2002 when, at least according to high-ranking US intelligence officials, they came under intense pressure from the Bush administration to include… Continue reading
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Iraq: Desperate measures for desperate times
Is there no end to the government’s duplicity? Apparently not. On this morning’s (30/06/03) BBC Today programme, the Foreign Minister Jack Straw rolled out yet another ‘reason’, stating that the agreement between the Palestinians and the Israelis (the ‘road map’) would almost certainly have not gone ahead, indeed it would have been ‘sabotaged’ by Saddam… Continue reading
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The never-ending story: 45 minutes from Niger By William Bowles
The dossiers of September 2002 and February 2003 are revealing for a number of reasons. Firstly, they illustrate just how unsure the government was about its ability to convince an extremely skeptical public and the lengths it was prepared to go to in order win us over. Continue reading
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Red Herring Day By William Bowles
Straw’s statement is indeed a clever (but not clever enough) sleight of hand, because if challenged, as the letter says, he can say, ‘Yes, what I said was true because at the time of writing, there was no imminent (immediate, current, impending) threat.’ Continue reading
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Incredible! By William Bowles
Surely, the entire point of lying to us and using fabricated evidence is because the government had already made up its mind that it was going to invade Iraq. It lied because it knew it didn’t have the support of the British public because it didn’t have the evidence to convince us with, so it… Continue reading
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Spinning out of control By William Bowles
Wonderful! Alistair Campbell accuses the BBC of ‘lying’ because, he asserts, the BBC accused the government of lying over the ’45 minute’ scenario. Is this a desert storm in a teacup? Whilst the two monopolies go at each other, the essential issues simply don’t enter into the discussion at all, from either side. Whilst they… Continue reading
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We know what they knew and we know when they knew it By William Bowles
What will it take for the media and the politicos to face the fact, that invading Iraq was always on the cards, regardless of ‘evidence’, resolutions, facts or fiction. It was a done deal and probably decided on years ago regardless of Saddam’s compliance with this or that demand or otherwise. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 