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Cynthia McKinney Prevented From Leaving U.S.

“Today, November 23rd, I was slated to give remarks in Damascus, Syria at a Conference being held to commemorate the... more

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2001 anthrax recipient appointed Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services

Irony of Ironies? Just when you thought that the ongoing saga of the President-elect Obama puppet show couldn’t get any... more

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An intimate look at one 9/11 hijacker

A videotape obtained by NBC News shows one of the hijackers, Ziad Jarrah, being carefully coached by his al-Qaida handlers, more... more

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Obama pledges to capture or kill Osama "been dead for years" bin Laden

In his first televised interview since the 2008 Elections, President-elect Obama told 60 Minutes that fighting Al Qaeda once and... more

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Women's Rights In Afhanistan: in the face of Politics, Progress, and Western Presence Pt 3/6

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Women's Rights In Afhanistan: in the face of Politics, Progress, and Western Presence Pt 3/6

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Leaving Ground Zero

After having almost died on 9/11 when the second tower collapsed, photojournalist Thomas Monaster suffered from post-traumatic... more

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Unseen 9/11 Footage Finally Being Released By FBI, DOJ

The FBI and the Department of Justice have released ten new videos relating to the events of 9/11, three years after a freedom of... more

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Barack Obama and the 9/11 Generation

Did 9/11 aid the rise of our future president?

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Now That Obama Has Won . . . There is No Excuse

Now that a Democrat has been elected president, the Democrats in Congress have no excuse. They can no longer pretend that they... more

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Outrage over Muslim Massacre online game

The Australian Muslim community has accused the Federal Government and police of double standards over their treatment of a free... more

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Judge orders White House to prove wire-tapping program was legal

A judge has ordered the Justice Department to produce White House memos that provide the legal basis for the Bush... more

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On the Bus With Willie: ‘Hell yeah there’s a reason to investigate 9/11'

Willie Nelson invites Alex Jones and Jesse Ventura onto his world famous tour bus, where they discuss a number of topics including... more

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Sarah Palin Supports New 9/11 Investigation

Sarah Palin was confronted at a rally by WeAreChange Ohio. "Do you support the family members and first responders who are... more

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Principal Censors 9/11 Truth Yearbook Photo

A victim of censorship comments on the principal who had his 9/11 truth t-shirt edited out of a yearbook photo– airbrushing... more

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Generation War

5 years in Iraq. 7 in Afghanistan. Over 600 billion dollars spent. Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have debated over battle... more

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CIA’s Robert Baer knows guy who ‘cashed out’ day before 9/11

On 9/11 prior knowledge, and perhaps a clue towards the put options on the day of 9/11: “I know the guy that went into his... more

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Freedom Tower Structural Core Takes Shape (photos)

Photographs of construction of the Freedom Tower - the centerpiece of the new World Trade Center - in Lower Manhattan taken on... more

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Wakes: September Was a Very Bad Month

September was already a dark month for New Yorkers. It started out with observances for the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Then... more

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Response to 9/11 was 'huge overreaction' - ex-MI5 chief

A former head of MI5 today describes the response to the September 11 2001 attacks on the US as a "huge overreaction" and says the invasion of Iraq influenced young men in Britain who turned to terrorism.

In an interview with the Guardian, Stella Rimington calls al-Qaida's attack on the US "another terrorist incident" but not qualitatively different from any others.

"That's not how it struck me. I suppose I'd lived with terrorist events for a good part of my working life and this was as far as I was concerned another one," she says.

In common with Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, who retired as MI5's director general last year, Rimington, who left 12 years ago, has already made it clear she abhorred "war on terror" rhetoric and the government's abandoned plans to hold terrorism suspects for 42 days without charge.

Today, she goes further by criticising politicians including Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, for trying to outbid each other in their opposition to terrorism and making national security a partisan issue.

It all began, she suggests, with September 11. "National security has become much more of a political issue than it ever was in my day," she says. "Parties are tending to use it as a way of trying to get at the other side. You know, 'We're more tough on terrorism than you are.' I think that's a bad move, quite frankly."

Rimington mentions Guantánamo Bay, the practice of extraordinary rendition, and the invasion of Iraq - three issues which the majority in Britain's security and intelligence establishment opposed privately at the time.

She challenges claims, notably made by Tony Blair, that the war in Iraq was not related to the radicalisation of Muslim youth in Britain.

Asked what impact the war had on the terrorist threat, she replies: "Well, I think all one can do is look at what those people who've been arrested or have left suicide videos say about their motivation. And most of them, as far as I'm aware, say that the war in Iraq played a significant part in persuading them that this is the right course of action to take."

She adds: "So I think you can't write the war in Iraq out of history. If what we're looking at is groups of disaffected young men born in this country who turn to terrorism, then I think to ignore the effect of the war in Iraq is misleading."A former head of MI5 today describes the response to the September 11 2001 attacks on the US as a "huge overreaction"... more