Web Of Deceit: Britain's Real Foreign Policy by Curtis Mark

Web Of Deceit: Britain's Real Foreign Policy by Curtis Mark

Author:Curtis, Mark [Curtis, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781407071640
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-09-04T04:00:00+00:00


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OUR ALLIES, THE GULF ELITES

Why do we support reactionary, selfish and corrupt governments in the Middle East instead of leaders who have the interest of their people at heart?

Stafford Cripps, Chancellor in the Attlee government, 1945–511

FORMER SAS OFFICER, Peter de la Billiere, the commander of British forces in the 1991 Gulf War to eject Iraq from Kuwait, makes an extraordinary comment in his personal account of the war. He notes Saudi Prince Khalid telling him of his need to ensure that the Saudi ruling family remained in power after the war, to which de la Billiere replied:



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