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| Thursday 15 March 2007 / Webmaster |
| DOLLARS FOR GUINEA |
on 05 Sep 2004 by Paul Lashmar  |
| September 5, 2004, SundayANALYSIS: DOLLARS FOR GUINEA: HOW PALMS WERE GREASED BY OIL; WHAT A SLIPPERY MESS THE BLACK STUFF LEAVES. PAUL LASHMAR FINDS ITby PAUL LASHMAR In January of this year, US energy giant Marathon Oil began expanding its extraction infra- structure in the West African state of Equatorial Guinea. America's fourth-largest oil company, Marathon is a big player [read more] |
| The bank that liked to say yes to the dirty cash of Third World dictators |
| on 22 Aug 2004 by Paul Lashmar |
| Paul Lashmar investigates the downfall of Riggs, the venerable US bank whose obligation to fight money laundering did not deter it from seeking the likes of General Pinochet as customers and helping to hide their wealth Independent on Sunday 22/08/2004 Innovative Solutions", promises the Riggs Bank slogan emblazoned across the home page of its website. "For over 165 years we've [read more] |
| Kings of clubland |
| on 24 Jul 2003 by Paul Lashmar |
| By Adrian Gatton and Paul Lashmar, Evening Standard 24 July 2003As entrepreneurs, the Reilly brothers are the new heavyweight champions of London's clubland. It may have taken 15 rounds but brothers Billy and Keith can now step over the prostrate forms of their old rivals and take all the prizes. The old business kings of the scene - the superclub [read more] |
| Iraq & the WMD fiasco: Saddam `destroyed weapons in 1990s' |
| on 06 Jul 2003 by Paul Lashmar |
| Independent on Sunday A compelling explanation for why substantive evidence of weapons of mass destruction has not yet been discovered in Iraq has been given by intelligence experts who believe that Iraq dismantled its weapons in the mid-1990s. Professor Richard Shultz, one of the United States' top intelligence experts, contends that at some point before 2000 the Iraqis changed their [read more] |
| Revealed: How Blair used discredited WMD `evidence' : UK intelligence chiefs warned claim that Iraq could activate banned weapons in 45 minutes came from unreliable defector |
| on 01 Jun 2003 by Paul Lashmar |
| Independent on Sunday 01/06/2003 By Raymond Whitaker, Paul Lashmar and Andy McSmith Tony Blair's sensational pre-war claim that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction "could be activated within 45 minutes" was based on information from a single Iraqi defector of dubious reliability, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. British intelligence sources said the defector, recruited by Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, [read more] |
| On the brink of war: The spies' revolt MI6 and CIA: the new enemy within |
| on 09 Feb 2003 by Paul Lashmar |
| Independent on Sunday09 February 2003by Paul Lashmar and Raymond WhitakerTony Blair and George Bush are encountering an unexpected obstacle in their campaign for war against Iraq – their own intelligence agencies.Tony Blair and George Bush are encountering an unexpected obstacle in their campaign for war against Iraq – their own intelligence agencies.Britain and America's spies believe that they are being [read more] |
| Bungled MI6 plot led to Cayman trial collapse |
| on 18 Jan 2003 by Paul |
| Paul LashmarSaturday January 18, 2003British intelligence has scored what appears to be an own goal in a remote part of the Caribbean. An MI6 scheme to penetrate organised crime has instead enabled the defendants to walk free in a big money laundering trial in the Cayman Islands. It has also led to the exposure of MI6's own supposedly highly secret [read more] |
| MI6 role in Cayman investigation exposed as Austin Powers farce |
| on 18 Jan 2003 by Paul Lashmar |
| Paul LashmarSaturday January 18, 2003The call from an MI6 controller in London to his top agent on the small island was electrifying: "Destroy everything that connects you to us!" Brian Gibbs unlocked his filing cabinet and reached for the shredder. But events that followed the dramatic phone call last July to Grand Cayman have since proved to be more like [read more] |
| The Who's Who of British Nazis Exposed: the establishment figures who wanted to turn the UK into a fascist dictatorship |
| on 09 Jan 2000 by Paul |
| Report by Paul Lashmar It felt strange, almost eerie, to be the first person to hold and examin[...] |
| In recent years, this heavy tome has been discretely locked up in the Wiener Library a private collection in central London. It was there, among the dusty shelves devoted to the Holocaust and Jewish history, that I was allowed to view it.The Red Book is the membership list of the Right Club, a secret organisation founded in May 1939 by [read more] |
| How well does your local Council do its job? |
| An exclusive Observer survey |
| on 18 Oct 1999 by Paul Lashmar |
| An exclusive Observer surveyby PAUL LASHMAR AND RICHARD OLIVERSOUTH TYNESIDE, an urban sprawl across the River Tyne from Newcastle, provides the best council services in England, according to the first overall comparison of council performance carried out exclusively by The Observer. Our league tables are based on the way councils deliver their full range of services to residents and council [read more] |
