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Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Intelligence, Libya and LSE

It was really just a throw-away line but  this Guardian story  makes my original intuition about the Libya, Intelligence, LSE nexus look a whole lot more plausible.
Posted by Colin at 08:14

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