22 AUGUST

MI6 ARRANGES THE ASSASSINATION OF CONGO’S FIRST PRIME MINISTER. On 17 January 1961, Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first democratically elected prime minister, was abducted, tortured and then shot dead in a coup masterminded by MI6.  Please feel welcome to post comments below.  If you have any questions please email alisdare@gmail.com © 2020 Alisdare Hickson All rights reserved

MI6 HEAD EXPLAINS THE NEED TO DECEIVE THE PUBLIC OVER IRAQ WMD INTELLIGENCE. 23 July 2002 – On returning from the Washington, the MI6 head Richard Dearlove is summoned by Blair to join a hastily arranged meeting in the Prime Minister’s office with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon,  Attorney General Peter Goldsmith,…

RAF BOMBING RAIDS AGAINST FLOCKS OF GRAZING SHEEP [ 8 January 1925 ] On 8 January 1925, RAF headquarters in Baghdad, ordered No 30 Squadron RAF to bomb and machine gun the grazing sheep flocks of the nomadic Jaff who inhabited the Kurdish areas of Iraq and Iran. Please feel welcome to post comments below. …

INDIAN SOLDIERS REFUSE ORDERS TO USE CARTRIDGES GREASED WITH PIG AND COW FAT [ 24 April 1857 ] On 24 April 1857, eighty five Indian soldiers of the Third Bengal Light Cavalry stationed at Meerut, a town 40 miles north east of Delhi, refused orders to use cartridges covered by paper greased with pig and…

BRITISH SOLDIERS OPEN FIRE ON DUBLIN CROWD AFTER CHILDREN THROW ORANGE PEEL On the evening of Sunday 26 July 1914 three Dubliners were shot dead by British troops on Bachelor Street. They were Mary Duffy, a 50 year old widow, Patrick Quinn, a coal labourer and father of six, and James Brennan, an eighteen year…

WALL STREET’S WORRIES AND THE WEATHER CITED AS REASONS FOR THE IRAQ WAR. [ 24 November 2006 ] On this day in 2006, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who had been British ambassador to the United Nations in the run up to the Iraq war, explained to a conference at Churchill College Cambridge, that Britain had no…