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01 May 2006

The European union Developing an Intelligence Capacity, Joao Vaz Antunes, Studies in intelligence (CIA) Vol. 49 no. 4, 2005 pp. 65-702

Beating for Britain, Naima Bouteldja. Red Pepper February 2006, p. 17. Article on British intelligence involvement in the kidnapping of 28 Pakistanis in Greece after the 7 July London bombings. The Greek newspaper, Proto Thema, named MI6 station chief Nicholas Langman as being involved in the illegal detentions along with 15 Greek agents. Several of the Pakistani migrants have said that they were beaten and were told that they would be killed if they dared to report their ordeal. The Greek government has blamed the British authorities whose response was initially to plead total ignorance before rejecting the allegations. Frangiskos Ragoussis, the lawyer for the 28 Pakistanis, has filed a petition with the Greek parliament to get the answers that both governments are unwilling to supply voluntarily; he is also suing the Greek government for kidnap and torture.

They had to die: assassination against liberation, Victoria Brittain. Race and Class Vol. 48 no 1 (July-September) 2006, pp. 60-74. This article surveys the use of political assassinations by western states and their agents from the 1960s onwards, observing that "Not only have some of the greatest of Third World leaders been killed but so, too, has the hope for political change that they embodied." Examining the "bloody legacy of killings of leaders from Algeria, Cameroon, Congo, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Morocco, Mozambique, Palestine, South Africa, Togo and Zimbabwbe" Brittain suggests that "today's daily diet of suicide bombings and the targeting of civilians by both western governments and jihadis" is one consequence of the brutality effected by the policy of political assassination in support of western imperialism.