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  • Was It Suicide? Reconsidering 7/7 - (were London "suiciders" duped? great point!)

    07/18/2005 3:17:01 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 57 replies · 1,682+ views
    NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE.COM ^ | JULY 18, 2005 | MICHAEL LEDEEN
    "So maybe it wasn't a suicide attack after all?" I had finally gotten a decent connection through the ouija board with the late James Jesus Angleton, once our leading counterspy, and I didn't want to waste time with the usual chitchat about fly fishing-whose fascination, frankly, I have never understood — and Renaissance furniture. JJA: "Why would anybody think it was a suicide operation?" ML: "Well, officially they seemed pretty confident. I think the main thing was that the three bombs in the subways went off more or less at the same instant, and that suggested there were timers. And...
  • U.S. Filmmaker Among 5 Arrested in Iraq

    07/07/2005 9:50:58 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 11 replies · 806+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/7/05 | Jeremiah Marquis - AP
    LOS ANGELES - Cyrus Kar's family says his passion for the documentary film he was working on about an ancient Persian ruler led to his being locked up in a military jail outside Baghdad in May. Kar was arrested after Iraqi security forces allegedly seized several dozen washing machine timers — components frequently used in terrorist bombs — in the taxi in which he was traveling. Kar says the timers were owned by the driver. Now, relatives of the 44-year-old Iranian-American and U.S. Navy veteran have sued the government to gain his freedom. They contend Kar's detention tramples on his...