butchersapron said:
"So, Larry, if Shayler is not "credible", how come he got thrown into prison by the British government for blowing the whistle on British intels links with Al-Qaeda,"
Where did he do that then? I thought you were of the opinion that AQ never actually existed anyway?
Perhaps I should clarify.
1) I should perhaps have said credible on some things, & not on others--one thing he is credible on is the MI6 plot to kill Qadhafi (as too the fact the two imprisoned for the 1994 Israeli Embassy bomb are innocent).
2) As it happens, he was thrown in prison for breaching the OSA by half-inching 187 documents & giving them to the Mail on Sunday. He was not allowed to discuss the content of those documents in court.
3) The two documents that mysteriously appeared on the internet re Libya Shayler denies was him. While the Qadhafi plot one does back him up, there seems to me to be a dissonance between the other Libyan document (concerning Libyan UK Charge D'Affaires) & the claims Machon/Shayler make about same in the book.
4) Re Al Qaeda, I have merely stated the view (developed by for example Jason Burke in some detail) that the term 'Al Qaeda' is shorthand for an ideology and loose-knit confederation of militants, not a coherent pyramidal structure as such.
5) Back to point one, he is not credible on numerouis matters such as the Diana plot, Class War, himself being a civil libertarian, certain anti-IRA operations, the Wilson plot, his own motives for blowing the whistle (3 versions so far) etc etc. Other matters await detailed further review by myself, when assimilating what he claimed/stated in the 21/6 debate & elsewhere. Disinformation is not the same as simple lying of course, and having been a spook it is perhaps not surprising Shayler does not know the difference between fact fiction & spin. One thing he does not deny is ongoing contact with spooks.
6) As regards 9/11, what he says should be looked at on its intrinsic merits.