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14. Friendly (sic) Fire
The plight of the ‘friendly fire’ parents was first identified by Denis MacShane MP, Friendly Fire Whitewash (Epic Books, 1992). And see Friendly Fire by C D B Brian (Bantam, 1991).
15. UK Ltd: The Matrix Churchill Trial
The best account of the Matrix Churchill trial is the one David Leigh wrote from the transcripts, with actualité supplied by Richard Norton-Taylor: Betrayed (Bloomsbury, 1993). Paul Henderson’s autobiography, The Unlikely Spy (Bloomsbury, 1993), tells the victim’s story. The Scott Report weighs over a stone and comprises 1,806 pages plus an index and a CD-ROM: Inquiry into the Export of Defence Equipment and Dual-Use Goods to Iraq and Related Prosecutions 1995, HC115. For a cheaper read of the purple passages from the Scott Report, see Knee Deep in Dishonour by Richard Norton-Taylor, Mark Lloyd and Stephen Cook (Gollancz, 1996). Scott’s work is now being digested by academics – see ‘The Scott Report’ (Public Law, Autumn 1996) and Under the Scott-Light: British Government seen through the Scott Report, eds Brian Thompson and F F Ridley (OUP, 1997). The books on which I relied in preparing for the trial were The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq by Kenneth Timmerman (Fourth Estate, 1992); Unholy Babylon by Adel Darwish and Gregory Alexander (Gollancz, 1991); and, of course, Republic of Fear by Samir al-Khalil – the book MI6 gave to Paul Henderson as a way of telling him his life was in danger.
16. Diana in the Dock: Does Privacy Matter?
Part of this chapter was first published in the New Yorker, September 1997, as ‘Privacy Matters’. For a critique of media self-regulation, see the author’s People Against the Press (Quartet, 1983).
17. Cash for Questions?
David Leigh and Ed Vulliamy tell the Guardian’s story in Sleaze – The Corruption of Parliament (Fourth Estate, 1997). Sir Gordon Downey’s Report, published by the Committee of Standards and Privileges is entitled ‘Complaints from Mr Mohammed Al Fayed, the Guardian and Others against 25 members and former members’ (House of Commons, Session 1997–98, Vol I, 2 July 1997). Hamilton’s case is set out in Volume II of the appendices pp. 172–333. Ian Greer’s version is One Man’s Word – The Untold Story of the Cash-For-Questions Affair (André Deutsch, 1997). The final verdict of the Committee on Standards and Privileges, Second Further Report: Mr Neil Hamilton, was published on 5 November 1997.