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Thursday, March 15, 2007
I did it! I did it! I masterminded it!
By VictorM: Holy mother of James Cameron, the Washington Post thought this was so important that it's the headline on their website as I type this:Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, confessed at a Guantanamo Bay military hearing that he planned and funded that al-Qaeda operation...So, the guy we tortured for months to tell us that he was the mastermind of 9/11 told us what we wanted to hear. This is breaking news?!?! Headline news to boot!?
Hell, all they had to do is threaten me with having to listen to Mariah Carey singing nonstop for a few hours and even I would have confessed to having masterminded 9/11.
Labels: al-qaeda, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of 9/11, terrorism
Friday, March 09, 2007
Terrorism and Fear: Great Business in Bush's America
By Glenn Greenwald: Whatever else you might think of him, John Stossel has an excellent article in Real Clear Politics this morning, entitled Fear of Terrorism Overblown?, in which he notes that various political movements, the "terrorism industry," and the media all work in confederation, with some shared motives and some disparate ones, to greatly exaggerate Americans' fears of terrorism beyond what is remotely justified by reason. That is not news to many people, but it is always encouraging when the exploitation of the terrorist threat -- one of the principal weapons used by those who have sought to radically alter our country -- is discussed in mainstream venues.Labels: fear, glenn greenwald, john stossel, terrorism
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
A more terrifying place
By Kim Sengupta and Patrick Cockburn: An authoritative US study of terrorist attacks after the invasion in 2003 contradicts the repeated denials of George Bush and Tony Blair that the war is not to blame for an upsurge in fundamentalist violence worldwide... The new study, by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, argues that, on the contrary, "the Iraq conflict has greatly increased the spread of al-Qa'ida ideological virus, as shown by a rising number of terrorist attacks in the past three years from London to Kabul, and from Madrid to the Red Sea... Even when terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan is excluded, fatal attacks in the rest of the world have increased by more than one third."
Labels: al-qaeda, peter bergen, terrorism
