Home | Friday 13th May 2011 | Issue 771
SCHNEWS IN BRIEF
To remind the newly-swept into power Scottish National Party (SNP) of it’s anti-Trident posturing, the Trident submarine base in Faslane was blockaded for two hours on Tuesday (10th), in a joint action by activists from Trident Ploughshares and Faslane Peace Camp.
** In what seems to have come as a surprise to the mainstream news, a former senior intelligence official has said that the famous ‘45 minutes’ dossier which outlined the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and made the case for war, was designed to er, “make the case for war”.
In a letter to the (absolutely-not-a-whitewash -this-time, honest guv’) Chilcot Enquiry, Michael Laurie said he had been given the directions to do so, despite Alastair Campbell having said the complete opposite to Chilcot last year. So, in a double shocker it turns out a New Labour spin doctor is a liar - who’d of thunk it?
