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SANLIURFA, Turkey — When Abu Hamza, a former Syrian rebel, agreed to join the Islamic State, he did so assuming he would become a part of the group’s promised Islamist utopia, which has lured foreign jihadists from around the globe. Instead, he found himself being supervised by an Iraqi emir and receiving orders from shadowy Iraqis who moved in and out of the battlefield in Syria. When Abu Hamza disagreed with fellow commanders at an Islamic State meeting last year, he said, he was placed under arrest on the orders of a masked Iraqi man who had sat silently through...

Senator: At Least One Foreign Country Assisted the 9/11 Terrorists Senator Graham knows where the bodies are buried>>> On 11 December 2002, the Senate and House Intelligence Committees released portions of their joint report on intelligence failures regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks. The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on PBS, reported on the release that day. After asking her guests a bunch of predictable questions, and receiving predictable answers, guest host Gwen Ifill asked Senator Bob Graham, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, a good question and got an amazing answer. GWEN IFILL: Senator Graham, are there elements...

From the "Human Shields" website today (16 April 2003):( Human Shield') "Uzma Bashir Threatened by U.S. Marines in Baghdad Uzma Bashir, a Human Shield volunteer in Baghdad, confronted imperial troops as they entered Baghdad last week. She wanted to know, from U.S. Marines, what it felt like to murder Iraqi children. Uzma has subsequently been physically threatened by U.S. Marines and we have received thinly veiled threats via our website from people saying they belong to the U.S. military:" (goes on to list 'threats')