Lockerbie appeal. Lack of media interest.

[Peter Presland]

..... and the use of the so called "pseudo gangs" tactics drawn from the British Army tactics of the 1950's (the "Mau Mau's et al) and transported wholesale to Ulster a decade or so later.

.... by one Brigadier General Sir Frank Kitson - or simple Brigadier as he then was - in 1971. His book 'Low Intensity Operations' based on his service in Kenya dealing with (inciting, provoking, false-flagging etc etc) the Mau Mau has become a sort of standard 'counter-insurgency' handbook - though it seems to have become a bit long in the tooth so-to-speak during the British Army campaign in Basra. Still, Webster Tarpley likes referring to it as the precursor of our manipulations of the present rash of terrorist ultra-baddies - and I think he has a point.