This chapter covers the various actors in al-Qaeda before 9/11. Much of the information, the report warns, comes from interrogations of captured terrorists. (page 146) First, the report covers Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the "mastermind" behind the attacks on 9/11....
Amy Mina sends this report from her recent visit to Bethlehem: The Prison of Bethlehem July 2004 This weekend I went to prison. Imposing grey towers stare out of their opaque black roving eyes at the transparent sky above, and the prisoners below. I listened to prison...
George Paine at Warblogging finds a good reason to long for the days of Victory Gardens and Private Ryan:An in-depth study recently released into the public domain shows that in World War II — this nation's "good war" or "best war" — only about 15% of American combat...
Booby-trapped car bombs exploded outside an Armenian church and a Catholic church in Baghdad's Karada neighborhood minutes apart from one another. One American soldier was killed and two others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near Samarra. A car bomb targeting a...
Best blog comment from an anti-war lefty on the deplorable Kerry is at Lenin's Tomb. "Kerry is the neocon dream. Pro-war, pro-Israel, pro-Plan Colombia. And also, not to miss the finer points, loaded." Lenin points out that not only is Kerry a hawk on Iraq, but he may...
Be sure to check out two great exclusives on Antiwar.com this weekend by first-time contributors Scott Sutton and Michael Uhl.
Over the weekend of August 12-13, 2000, as the delegates to the Democratic National Convention gathered in Los Angeles, the US and the UK conducted two airstrikes against the southern Iraq town of Samawa. Two people were killed and 19 injured in the first, in which...
The loudest applause during Wesley Clark's speech last night came at the end of this:Under John Kerry we will attack and destroy the terrorist threats to America. He'll join the pantheon of great wartime Democrats. Great Democrats like Woodrow Wilson, who led us to...
Titled "Responses to Al Qaeda's Initial Assaults," the fourth chapter of the 9/11 report follows the government's slow appreciation of Osama bin Ladin's threat to America. Overall, the chapter demonstrates the internal conflicts within various government...
John Kerry: "I defended this country as a young man and I will defend it as president." You defended this country from what? Those Vietnamese peasants who were pillaging Boston?
