David
Irving replies:

I HAVE long had an uneasy feeling that Idi Amin is being dealt a bum rap by
History. Make no mistake, I have no sympathy for the person whose brutality was responsible for propelling a tidal wave of Ugandan Asians onto Britain’s unwelcoming shores, — an ethnic sunami from which English culture will not easily recover.

May be Idi deserves his reptuation, but some of the stories about him are laid on so thick and rotten that they seem to have been generated by the same sources that have churned out the stuff about
Saddam Hussein‘s sons, now in no position to defend their own names.

As for Entebbe: Yes, I have (stored in Illinois, in safety!) the entire transcript of the Republic of Uganda governmental court of inquiry into the Entebbe Raid. I published extracts in my 1980s newsletter Focal Point. The file was taken off
Idi’s desk by a German journalist friend of mine (Gerd
Heidemann, no less).

It is an often hilarious document, as the army officers are questioned as to how the Israelis managed to land three giant C-130 transport planes on their local airfield, hold them intact there for several hours during the gun battle, and take off with their liberated prisoners.

[IDI AMIN’s fridge (allegedly)]I offered a copy as a gift to the Israeli Government once (the brother of the unlovely Benjamin Netanyahu
was killed in the operation, I recall). But that was many years ago — I probably would not be so generous now. The blue government file holds about 500 pages of flimsies, transcripts of cross examinations of witnesses, etc.
Perhaps I will post it on this website later this year.
History has after all moved on from World War
II.

Picture
shows: Idi Amin allegedly kept the severed heads of
his opponents in his fridge. Right next to a handily
placed package of frozen peas (handy, as it identifies
it as a domestic fridge).

Picture
shows: Idi Amin allegedly kept the severed heads of
his opponents in his fridge. Right next to a handily
placed package of frozen peas (handy, as it identifies
it as a domestic fridge).