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Alleged spy for Iraq gave Lockerbie depositionFormer Democrat congressional aide was at center of CIA controversy Posted: March 12, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Sherrie Gossett© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Former journalist and congressional press secretary Susan Lindauer, who was arrested yesterday on charges she acted as an Iraqi spy before and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, came to the forefront of politics in 1994 over a controversial meeting she had with an alleged CIA operative based in Syria. That meeting resulted in her giving a deposition in the Lockerbie bombing trial that suggested Libya was innocent of the bombing. The 1994 deposition received...

Thatcher's great ally would have been able to implement her revolution here, says Peter Clarke What-ifs are tiresome. History is only what the victors did. Yet Scotland’s future altered when in 1979 the voters of Glasgow Cathcart rejected Sir Teddy Taylor at a time when Britain was beginning to warm to the dawn of Thatcherism. Taylor, who last week announced he would stand down from parliament, would have been a shoo-in as Margaret Thatcher’s secretary of state for Scotland. In his absence, the Conservative cause became muted and was all but obliterated as successively Younger, Rifkind, Lang and Forsyth were...