Sword of Islam: John Laffin's Tour of New Zealand, Part 2
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Susan Minot (Fry)
July 28th, 2016:
Alex Fry was my father, and a very intelligent man (he was Chief Reporter
then Assistant Editor of the Listener). I find his editorial prescient of cur-
rent events, rather than prejudiced or phobic.
Alan Ireland
August 9th, 2016:
Your father was duped. Laffin was an imposter. He was not a Fellow of the
Royal Historical Society. (See the list of Fellows in 1986.) He did not hold
a doctorate — or any university degree, for that matter. (See Wikipedia.)
Furthermore, he was regarded with contempt by the academic community.
(See the Bulletin of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, 1986.)
His "testable prediction" that Assad senior would try to seize Jerusalem in
1987 was absurd. The SAA has never had the ability to mount an opera-
tion of that scale. Even with the help of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, it is
struggling to make headway against America's jihadists.
