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Saturday, December 16th, 2006
London Planes Plot Thickens - Part I
For about five months now, England has been trying to extradite Rashid Rauf from Pakistan. Rauf, a citizen of both countries, is the alleged mastermind of the London Planes Plot — one which involved plans to blow up as many as ten commercial jets bound from London to the United States. The plot was foiled […]
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Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Another Brick in The Wall
What is ‘The Wall?’ In his riveting and necessary book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and The Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright writes about ‘The Wall’ – the bureaucratic barrier that stood between intelligence agencies before 9/11. This barrier ruined any chance to stop the 9/11 attack. ‘The Wall’ kept important information from getting to where […]