05-09-2009, 08:17 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-09-2009, 08:19 AM by Peter Presland.)
Helen Reyes Wrote:I think Blum's wrong. It wasn't Iran. It was CIA vs CIA.I'm inclined to agree with Helen on this too.
Of the three broad scenarios in circulation the Libya/Megrahi one is the least likely. In fact a fairy transparent stitch-up would be more accurate.
I'm torn between Blum's widely held 'Iran financed the PFLP-GC' theory and the CIA Drugs related internal feud one, with the latter having the edge IMHO.
Charle's point about our tendency to see institutions as monolithic structures is important because, as often as not, it's result is to hide the obvious 'in plane sight'
There's a fairly comprehensive summary of that case here.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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