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ABCs of media bias
September 8, 2010, 5:23 am CDT
Talk about media bias. Yes, we all have bias, but the press has a special duty to check facts and report the entire truth. ABC news chastised Glenn Beck for holding the Restoring Honor rally on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s I Have ...
This Week's Junkie On TOTN: Whither Lisa, Rahm & The Sept. 14 Primaries
September 8, 2010, 4:14 am CDT
The Sept. 14 primaries are the focus for this week's Political Junkie segment on NPR's Talk of the Nation. Plus: What will Lisa Murkowski and Rahm Emanuel do?
Hanks, Brooks share visions for governing North Coast
September 6, 2010, 7:37 pm CDT
LAKEPORT, Calif. – Two hopeful “citizen legislators” are challenging the region's incumbent state and federal representatives for a shot at putting to work their vision of how to govern the region.
Trial Venue, Media Coverage Latest Dispute in Fatal Crash
September 5, 2010, 2:03 am CDT
The latest battle in the case of an Evergreen teenager charged with two counts of deliberate homicide is over the location of her pending trial, a matter that is scheduled to be resolved on Sept. 15. Seventeen-year-old Justine Winter’s ...
Letters to the editor Sept. 1
September 4, 2010, 2:05 pm CDT
Last Thursday, Dennis Johnson wrote how founding father James Madison, the father of our Constitution, would be appalled at our current state of affairs. He faults unions, social programs, the bailouts, and the like, as something that would give ...
Phoenix Suns Offseason: A Mind Dump of Questions
September 3, 2010, 8:23 am CDT
Phoenix Suns Offseason: Dudley's Future, Gentry's Contract, and More Questions Than Answers.
Beck scoffs at 'lie' allegations
September 3, 2010, 6:42 am CDT
(CNN) -Glenn Beck is scoffing at recent attacks from MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and others after the Fox News host inaccurately told the crowd at his recent Washington, DC rally that he "held" George Washington's handwritten inaugural address. "I ...
TRENDING: Beck scoffs at 'lie' allegations
September 3, 2010, 6:42 am CDT
Beck is laughing at critics who are making a big deal over his 'lie.' at last weekend's rally. (CNN) -Glenn Beck is scoffing at recent attacks from MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and others after the Fox News host inaccurately told the crowd at his ...


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Posted by: archiveguard on Aug 01, 2005 - 09:44 PM
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But while the effort failed, it shows what Bin Ladin and his associates hoped to do. One of the al Qaeda representatives explained his mission: "it's easy to kill more people with uranium."50

Bin Ladin seemed willing to include in the confederation terrorists from almost every corner of the Muslim world. His vision mirrored that of Sudan's Islamist leader, Turabi, who convened a series of meetings under the label Popular Arab and Islamic Conference around the time of Bin Ladin's arrival in that country. Delegations of violent Islamist extremists came from all the groups represented in Bin Ladin's Islamic Army Shura. Representatives also came from organizations such as the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hamas, and Hezbollah.51

Turabi sought to persuade Shiites and Sunnis to put aside their divisions and join against the common enemy. In late 1991 or 1992, discussions in Sudan between al Qaeda and Iranian operatives led to an informal agreement to cooperate in providing support-even if only training-for actions carried out primarily against Israel and the United States. Not long afterward, senior al Qaeda operatives and trainers traveled to Iran to receive training in explosives. In the fall of 1993, another such delegation went to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon for further training in explosives as well as in intelligence and security. Bin Ladin reportedly showed particular interest in learning how to use truck bombs such as the one that had killed 241 U.S. Marines in Lebanon in 1983.The relationship between al Qaeda and Iran demonstrated that Sunni-Shia divisions did not necessarily pose an insurmountable barrier to cooperation in terrorist operations. As will be described in chapter 7, al Qaeda contacts with Iran continued in ensuing years.52

Bin Ladin was also willing to explore possibilities for cooperation with Iraq, even though Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, had never had an Islamist agenda-save for his opportunistic pose as a defender of the faithful against "Crusaders" during the Gulf War of 1991. Moreover, Bin Ladin had in fact been sponsoring anti-Saddam Islamists in Iraqi Kurdistan, and sought to attract them into his Islamic army.53

To protect his own ties with Iraq, Turabi reportedly brokered an agreement that Bin Ladin would stop supporting activities against Saddam. Bin Ladin apparently honored this pledge, at least for a time, although he continued to aid a group of Islamist extremists operating in part of Iraq (Kurdistan) outside of Baghdad's control. In the late 1990s, these extremist groups suffered major defeats by Kurdish forces. In 2001, with Bin Ladin's help they re-formed into an organization called Ansar al Islam. There are indications that by then the Iraqi regime tolerated and may even have helped Ansar al Islam against the common Kurdish enemy.54

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