{"id":4103,"date":"2007-12-06T23:06:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T06:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/wayne-barrett\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T23:06:38","modified_gmt":"2007-12-07T06:06:38","slug":"wayne-barrett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/wayne-barrett\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Barrett"},"content":{"rendered":"[audio:http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/scott\/07_12_06_barrett.mp3]\n<p><em>Village Voice<\/em> senior editor Wayne Barrett discusses Rudolph Guliani&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/news\/0748,barrett,78478,6.html\">business dealings<\/a> with the Interior Ministry of Qatar, whose chief, Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani, helped 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohamed escape the clutches of the FBI in 1996, Rudy&#8217;s company&#8217;s helping to provide security for the leaders of Iran, Syria and Hamas while they were in Qatar during the Asian Games last year and the role of al Qaeda and al-Thani in the Khobar Towers attack of 1996.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/scott\/07_12_06_barrett.mp3\"><strong>MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>. (27:18)<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Barrett, senior editor at the <em>Village Voice and teacher at the Journalism School at<\/em> Columbia University. In addition to covering city and state government and politics at the <em>Voice<\/em> for 28 years, Barrett has written three books: <em>City for Sale<\/em>; <em>Trump: the Deals and the Downfall<\/em>; and <em>Rudy! An Investigative Biography<\/em> and <em>Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9\/11<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giuliani&#8217;s Ties to KSM and Osama&#8217;s Friend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}