Wednesday, December 15, 2004

All Intifada, All the Time



Click here for AmazonAriel Cohen has a good piece about the flagship propaganda channels of the global jihad, Al Jazeera and Al Manar: All Intifada, All the Time.

Since 9/11, the U.S. Government has expressed its concerns about al Jazeera’s biased coverage to the Emir of Qatar. A State Department official told CNN that Secretary of State Colin Powell and the emir "had a frank exchange" on the issue and "there should have been no mistake of where we are coming from." Condoleezza Rice has also criticized the channel. No wonder: typical coverage would include the following pictures shown in quick succession: tiny bodies of Iraqi children supposedly killed by American bombs, woman in a chador sobbing, a giant American B-52 bomber, and fireballs lighting up the Baghdad night sky. One American observer in the Middle East calls al Jazeera "All Intifada, all the time."

Al Manar, however, makes al Jazeera look like PBS. A new study by Avi Jorisch, a former Pentagon Arab media and terrorism expert, published by the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, exposes this deadly media weapon wielded by Hizballah. "The United States is one of al-Manar’s main targets. Hizballah views America as a terrorist state... Al Manar is used to further that perception, attempting to win the hearts and minds of Arab and Muslim viewers by waging a powerful public relations campaign against the 'Great Satan.'" writes Jorisch.

He quotes Sheikh Nasrallah, Hizbollah’s Secretary General in a March 2002 speech:

"Today the main source of evil in this world, the main source of terrorism... the central threat to international peace and to the economic development... the main threat to the environment, the main source of ... killing and turmoil, and civil wars, and regional wars is the United States of America. The American political discourse is to terrorize the countries of the world. American is a beast in all meanings of the world. A beast that is hungry for power and blood."

Al Manar focuses much of its broadcasts on alleged American atrocities towards Native Americans, blacks, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, while stating that U.S. "oppression" continues unabated. Al Manar brainwashes its audience, including its viewers in the U.S., that America’s foreign policy is designed to "enslave the governments and people of the Middle East and their resources."



LGF: All Intifada All the Time

Try not to Cry



Click here for AmazonTry not to sob as you watch this (hat tip: LGF). Heh.

Serious about Syria



Click here for AmazonIn the fall of 1998, the Turkish army mobilized for war against Syria. For years, the Kurdish PKK had trained in Syria and used it as a base from which to wage a terrorist campaign in neighboring Turkey, at a cost of some 35,000 lives. PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan lived more or less openly in Damascus. Years of Turkish diplomatic pressure on Syria to close the camps and expel Ocalan had been unavailing. Finally, the Turks made it plain to then Syrian dictator Hafez Assad that he faced a choice between expelling the PKK for good and having his country invaded. Assad capitulated. Within a year, Ocalan was in jail and the PKK had ceased its attacks...

...It helps to understand the full scope of Syrian malfeasance [in Iraq]. So far, the U.S. has accused Syria only of allowing foreign fighters to transit to Iraq. But a report in the Washington Post notes that a global positioning signal receiver found in a Fallujah bomb factory "contained waypoints originating in Western Syria."

Fedayeen interviewed by Western media say they received training in light weapons, explosives and hit-and-run operations at camps in Syria. These camps are likely financed by the $2.5 billion Saddam Hussein is believed to have stashed in Syrian banks before the war. In April, Jordanian intelligence captured an al Qaeda cell as it planned a chemical-weapons attack in Amman. That cell, too, was apparently trained in Syria.

...In an interview in the Lebanese paper Al-Safir, Syrian President Bashar Assad was no less explicit when he offered Lebanon circa 1983 as an example of how the U.S. was to be fought in Iraq: "Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear there are ways to resist. The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it. . . . [In Iraq] the solution is resistance."

...Mr. Assad's calculation is that the U.S. is too tied down in Iraq to entertain any action against Syria.

Maybe. But the fact remains that Syria is providing material support to terrorist groups killing American soldiers in Iraq while openly calling on Iraqis to join the "resistance." So far, the Bush Administration has responded with mixed political signals and weak gestures. That's not something that impresses the Assad family, as the Turks found out. But as the Turks found out as well, there are ways to get the message across to this regime.


WSJ: Serious about Syria

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Something Monumental



Click here for AmazonReader Harold Stones works for Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas. Mr. Stones writes:

I have become friends with Chris Phelps, a young Marine officer. Chris emailed me that he was about to be deployed for his second tour of duty in Iraq. He is married, has four sons, all younger than 7. I responded that I doubted his wife, Lisa, was overjoyed and, allthough her parents live nearby, I asked Chris to give her my office, home and cellphone numbers in the event they need anything. I think his message is well worth sharing.


Of course, we agree. Here is the response from Major Phelps that Mr. Stones forwarded to us:

No Lisa isn't happy, and I was just talking to my two oldest sons last night about sacrifice. (Sort of prepping the battlefield, but we've talked about the subject for two years.) I want them to understand the topic and what it means to be an American....really more what it means to stay an American and what citizens of this great country must do to secure that concept. It's amazing how a 6.5 and a 5 year old can really understand it, and actually converse back with an adult on the topic. It's going to be hard on them.

I hope I'm not too naive but this is what's in my head. I continually tell myself and I wholeheartedly believe that if we as a country can confront terrorism and rogue nation-states that support terrorist acts and if we can bring peace, hope, freedoms, and democracy to a country in the heart of the Middle East while at the same time solidifying the security, freedom, and liberties of this great nation then my sacrifice is inconsequential. If I am asked to partake in some small way to accomplish this goal then I say take me before my four sons are confronted with this problem in 20 years and they are forced to clean up a problem that has only festered, become increasingly worse and a problem that we should have confronted twenty years earlier. We are doing the right thing, and America needs to stand united and reaffirm to themselves every now and then that we are in fact doing the right thing. I think I'm a free minded thinker, and I'm not "brainwashed" by the President, Mr. Rumsfield, or some "right wing propaganda conspiracy theory." I really think we're attempting to accomplish something monumental. I guess we'll see.

Mr. Stones, you've been good to my family and so has Senator Roberts. Thank you for that. I look forward to seeing you again.

Best regards,
Chris Phelps
Major, United States Marine Corps



PowerLine: A word from Major Phelps, USMC

Rebuilding Iraq



Click here for AmazonAs its conclusion approaches, there’s still not a single representative from the left side of the blogosphere in the Spirit of America Blogger Challenge. How sad. How typical.

Sarah at trying to grok makes an excellent point:

My old roommate writes poetry to speak out against the war. Atrios’ readers use their filthy mouths to denigrate right-leaning bloggers. But what have they done of substance? If you oppose the war, shouldn’t you support helping Iraqis put their country back together? Regardless of whether Bush looks like a chimp or not, shouldn’t the idea that someone is raising money to help the common people of Iraq be a good thing? If you believe the war was wrong, shouldn’t you believe the people of Iraq were right and thus want to help them?

It’s warmongers and chickenhawks who have raised $62865.72 so far for the people of Iraq. As far as I understand, there’s not a lefty blog among the participants. I find that very sad.

My old roommate writes anti-war poems. I donated to Spirit of America. Which one of us has done more to help the people of Iraq?



Of Money and Mouths

The Cultural Ignorance of the Left



Click here for Amazon...Despite the homage the urban liberals pay to the idea of diversity, you have to live in rural, red state America to experience intellectual diversity.

We hear both sides of the story. On abortion, the environment, gay marriage, war, and taxes, we hear the liberal side from the national media, and we hear both sides in the local media and radio. Sure, we hear the liberal side twice, but at least we hear the conservative side once.

Another reason liberals never hear the other side is that they're such bullies. Intellectual bullies, that is. I'm sure Manhattan has conservatives, but they live in such an intolerant environment, they probably keep quiet.

Things like this are hard to quantify, but you can detect it in how liberals argue their political positions. Consider hate crimes laws. They criminalize thought. We can all agree that things like assault, murder, and theft should be illegal, but only an intellectual bully is interested in whether you had the correct thoughts about those you were murdering or assaulting.

Or consider sex education. Liberals oppose laws requiring abstinence education. These laws don't forbid schools from continuing on with the traditional "we know you're going to have sex, so here's a condom" philosophy, they merely require that schools also inform kids of the benefits of abstinence. Only intellectual bullies would feel so threatened by the idea of students hearing both points of view.

Another trademark of intellectual bullies is that they can't resist calling people names. They honestly think their opponents are evil or stupid. We're homophobes. Patriarchs. Greedy. Fundamentalist. Bigots. Gun-toters. White trash. Bible-thumpers. It's hard to listen to new ideas with these thoughts in your head...

...These city folk are victims of a new cultural hegemony in America. Whenever we turn on the TV or watch a movie, we learn all about life in their little corners of the world. They seldom get a glimpse at us.

I tried to think of current TV sitcoms or recent movies which tell our story. There aren't many. The closest I came was "Northern Exposure," a '90s show about a New York medical school graduate forced to practice in a small town in Alaska. But I ruled that one out. It was about a New Yorker. And towards the end, the story line was hijacked by two gay men who moved to town to operate a bed-and-breakfast and an environmental wacko who lived in an air-tight dome and claimed he could sense releases of toxic gasses thousands of miles away.

Those plots are really about Hollywood life, not ours...

...I think the TV series "Roseanne" was set in a red state, hence the blue staters' belief that we're mostly fat, poor, and stupid. It's very hard to think of a recent movie or TV show which sympathetically portrays our lives. "The Waltons," "The Andy Griffith Show," and "Petticoat Junction" were set in red states, but they're all set in the past. A few movies, like "A Walk to Remember," are sympathetic portrayals of contemporary rural American life, but they're the exceptions that prove the rule. If you want to see a small-town southern preacher who is wise and compassionate, watch this movie. You won't see it again soon.

But every election day, our stories and our values count just as much as those in blue states. And for just a little while, they notice us.


Alan Aker: The Cultural Ignorance of the Left

Monday, December 13, 2004

No More Tyrants, Please



Click here for AmazonAn excellent piece by former Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky: Palestinians Do Not Need Another Tyrant.

Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian “fear society” would always pose a grave threat to Israel and would never prove a reliable peace partner. It was Andrei Sakharov, the foremost dissident in the Soviet Union, who taught me that regimes that do not respect the rights of their own people will not respect the rights of their neighbors.

The link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior is not always understood. Democratic leaders, whose power is ultimately dependent on popular support, are held accountable for failing to improve the lives of their citizens. Therefore, they have a powerful incentive to keep their societies peaceful and prosperous.

On the other hand, the power of dictators is not dependent upon popular will. For them, staying in power is a function not of bettering the lives of their subjects but rather of controlling those lives. To justify the degree of repression necessary to sustain their illegitimate rule, dictators need to constantly mobilize their people against external enemies.



LGF: No more tyrants, please

Dowd-eriffic



Click here for AmazonI really didn't think Maureen Dowd could sink any lower into the fever swamp. And, remarkably, she has. Her latest is not only a laughably feeble attempt at a partisan hack-job and intellectually dishonest to boot -- nothing new for her -- but is also of such patently inferior quality that it likely was authored by Maureen's pet monkey, Shrub.

Someone, please, save Maureen and the Times before it's too late. I hear the Tehran Times needs a new op-ed columnist.

Maureen Dowd is drowning in the fever swamp

Sunday, December 12, 2004

The Motivation of the Enemy



Click here for AmazonThe Washington Times' Sam Harris details the nearly unspeakable implications of the Iraqi insurgency. Read the whole thing (hat tip: JihadWatch).

However mixed or misguided our intentions were in launching this war, we are attempting, at considerable cost to ourselves, to improve life for the Iraqi people.

Despite the numbers of Iraqi dead and the travesty of Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi insurgents know that we did not come to their country to rape their women or to kill innocent civilians. Every thinking person in the Muslim world understands that if our goal had been to kill Iraqis and steal their oil, millions of Iraqis would now be dead and their oil would be flowing. The terrible truth about our predicament in Iraq is that even if we had invaded with no other purpose than to remove Saddam Hussein from power and make Iraq a paradise on Earth, we should still expect tomorrow's paper to reveal that another jihadi has blown himself to bits for the sake of killing scores of innocent men, women and children.

The Iraqi people have been traumatized by this war and by decades of repression. But this does not explain the type of violence they wage against us on a daily basis. War and repression do not account for suicidal violence directed against the Red Cross, the United Nations, foreign workers and Iraqi innocents. War and repression would not have attracted an influx of foreign fighters willing to sacrifice their lives merely to sow chaos.

We are now mired in a religious war in Iraq, and elsewhere. Our enemies, as witnessed by their astonishing willingness to slaughter themselves, are not principally motivated by political or economic grievances...

...Anyone who imagines that terrestrial concerns account for terrorism by Muslims must explain why there are no Palestinian Christian suicide bombers. They, too, suffer the ordeal of the Israeli occupation. Where are the Tibetan Buddhist suicide bombers for that matter? The Tibetans have suffered an occupation far more brutal than any we or the Israelis have imposed on the Muslim world. The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific doctrines about martyrdom and jihad that directly inspire Muslim terrorism.


Washington Times: Sam Harris on the War

Let... it... go.



Click here for AmazonThe always insightful Polipundit web site points us to this unintentionally hilarious story of a few lonely Democrats that can't seem to get over the... well, I guess we can call it as we see it... mandate. This effort has all the compelling drama of a gridiron contest between the Cedarville Junior High School Cylones and the New England Patriots, only with more certainty of the outcome.

Clifford Arnebeck won’t let it go. He can’t let it go. Not, he says, while America refuses to recognize that John F. Kerry was elected president Nov. 2.

Arnebeck, a Democratic lawyer here and co-chairman of a self-styled national populist alliance, is petitioning the state’s highest court to throw out official results that favor President Bush and instead hand Ohio’s 20 electoral votes — and thus the White House — to Kerry. Or, at least, order a revote.

The bid appears quixotic, to put it politely, as Bush has been officially declared the winner by 119,000 votes and Arnebeck is arguing before a Republican-dominated Supreme Court in Ohio. Nor is the Massachusetts senator helping him out, said Arnebeck.

"I can’t for the life of me understand why Kerry isn’t fighting harder for this. Maybe it’s some secret Skull and Bones tradition, where you’re not supposed to show up the other guy," Arnebeck said, referring to the Yale secret society of which Bush and Kerry were both members...


Stubborn and stupid is no way to go through life, son

LA Times... in deep weeds



Click here for AmazonThere's nothing better than seeing the egregiously biased LA Times disintegrating faster than a dime-store suit at a moth festival. Did you pay cold, hard cash for your subscription to the Times? Mickey Kaus has one word for you...

If you paid real money for the L.A. Times, we have a word for you: "Sucker"! Kf readers email with more evidence of the LAT's near-desperate near-free distribution policy: ...

I just subscribed for LA Times for 2$ a week for A YEAR. This was after I
had tried to cancel my subscrtiption ..." --reader S.

"I subscribed to a full 52 weeks of Saturday and Sunday delivery to the LA Times for a $5 add-on to my Wired magazine renewal---and I didn't have to give my phone number ... " --reader C.


KausFiles on the LA Times

Weekend at Yasser's



Click here for AmazonIt's a laff-a-minute funfest when PLO underlings Abdullah (Andrew McCarthy) and Faisal (Jonathan Silverman) visit their leader's compound in Ramallah. Unbeknownst to them, a rival faction has "terminated the Arafat problem" and left them holding the body. It's high-larious hijinx aplenty as the dimwitted pair try to prove to the world that Yasser is still alive... ("Five thumbs up", Gene Shalit).

Picture credit: AP (no, not the Associated Press).

Friday, December 10, 2004

"Baghdad is Booming"



Click here for Amazon"Baghdad is booming," says Mohammed Fadhil Ali, one of three remarkable Ali brothers who oversee the Web log, Iraqthemodel.com. Mohammed and his younger brother Omar came this week to the Journal's offices, their first trip to the States, to discuss Iraq's future.

They were not overwhelmed by New York's holiday crush; Baghdad's population is roughly 5.7 million people. Stores there are overflowing with goods and the streets jammed with shoppers. It appears that the number of cars has doubled in a year. "The middle class is growing," says Omar. After the April 9, 2003, "liberation," Mohammed was determined to photograph every new building in Baghdad. "Now there is a new building in Baghdad every day; I can't count them all." Land and real-estate prices are surging. Most of the investment is coming out of the Arab world, not the West.

They made a couple of other interesting points about Iraq's political mood. One, Iraqis won't vote for a government dominated by Islamist religionists. Why? The abhorred next-door example of Iran's mullahs...


Wonder Land

"Trust the People"



Click here for AmazonNearly a quarter-century after the Reagan earthquake first rocked our economy, the aftershocks are still a very real and continuing phenomenon. Every tax cut, every regulatory stranglehold broken, every economic shackle unlocked, and every despot or totalitarian regime toppled increases freedom, creativity and entrepreneurship. And in the ultracompetitive world that has sprung from the ashes, "old line" hegemony and subjugation lose their strength.

As Ronald Reagan said in 1981, "We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success--only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive and free. Trust the people." ...


The "Reagan earthquake" still reverberates through the world economy

Google-based metrics for Journalists



Click here for AmazonThe little blog has been getting a few new viewers lately, thanks to an overly kind Hugh Hewitt, who mentioned it in his latest WorldnetDaily Column ("Do the Math").

Hugh's premise is that web journalists, and especially their patrons, should be interested in the traffic generated by their columns. Is the WaPo, for instance, really getting their money's worth with the likes of E.J. Dionne? And how does that traffic stack up against, say a Bill Bennett?

Even without Nielsen-style ratings, there are some interesting metrics to be gathered on the web. Google made its fortune by using hyperlinks to determine the importance of a page. Why not try a similar approach for Journalists? Here's a quick list I just assembled, which summarizes the number of mentions of each exact phrase in the Google index.

518,000 Rush Limbaugh
469,000 Ann Coulter
368,000 Hugh Hewitt
254,000 Walter Williams
204,000 Sean Hannity
189,000 Thomas Friedman
177,000 Bill Bennett
77,000 E.J. Dionne
40,100 Alan Colmes
32,000 Thomas Oliphant (includes Tom Oliphant)


I think this is useful data, even without vetting the results (which we can do) or using date ranges (an advanced capability of Google). With date ranges, we could plot trend-lines and determine which pundits are quickly rising or falling - in the blogosphere and elsewhere.

Failing accurate Nielsenesque ratings, perhaps the powers-that-be can use a Google-based approach to determine how relevant (or irrelevant) their contributors truly are. And what the trends are...

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All of this was reminiscent of my activities during the recent presidential campaign season, in which I -- without realizing it -- was following the Hewitt playbook.

I had a blog that, at the peak of the electioneering, was attracting a modest number of visitors per day. I wrote a guest editorial for the local newspaper that touted the president's activities in the war on terror and, strangely enough, offered facts to back up its core assertions. I even subbed for Ann Coulter on the Billy Cunningham show, which may have been my personal highlight of the year.

Of course, a few weeks later, I actually read Hewitt's playbook, entitled "If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat (subtitled, "Crushing the Democrats in Every Election and Why Your Life Depends on It")... I then realized I'd been doing most, but not all, of the right things an individual can do to help win an election. My advice? Read it. We only have a couple more years to prepare for Hillary.

Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Target Iran



Click here for AmazonOne potential military option that would be available... includes the use of air strikes on Iranian weapons of mass destruction and missile facilities.

In all, there are perhaps two dozen suspected nuclear facilities in Iran. The 1000-megawatt nuclear plant Bushehr would likely be the target of such strikes. According to the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, the spent fuel from this facility would be capable of producing 50 to 75 bombs. Also, the suspected nuclear facilities at Natanz and Arak will likely be targets of an air attack.

American air strikes on Iran would vastly exceed the scope of the 1981 Israeli attack on the Osiraq nuclear center in Iraq, and would more resemble the opening days of the 2003 air campaign against Iraq. Using the full force of operational B-2 stealth bombers, staging from Diego Garcia or flying direct from the United States, possibly supplemented by F-117 stealth fighters staging from al Udeid in Qatar or some other location in theater, the two-dozen suspect nuclear sites would be targeted.

Military planners could tailor their target list to reflect the preferences of the Administration by having limited air strikes that would target only the most crucial facilities in an effort to delay or obstruct the Iranian program or the United States could opt for a far more comprehensive set of strikes against a comprehensive range of WMD related targets, as well as conventional and unconventional forces that might be used to counterattack against US forces in Iraq...


Global Security: Target Iran

Chemical Weapons in Fallujah



Click here for AmazonThe holy warriors in Fallujah were working on some very nasty surprises: Holy Warrior Chemical Laboratory in Fallujah.

How many similar labs exist around the world?


Fallujah Chemical Laboratory Slideshow

Higher education in decline



Click here for Amazon...[The] strong campus leftist bias goes a long way to explain mindless university courses like: "Canine Cultural Studies" (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), "I Like Ike, But I Love Lucy" (Harvard), "History of Electronic Dance Music" (UCLA), "Rock and Roll" (University of Massachusetts) and "Hip-Hop: Beats, Rhyme and Culture" (George Mason University). There are many other examples documented by Accuracy in Academia...

...A 1990 Gallup survey for the National Endowment of the Humanities, given to a representative sample of 700 college seniors, found that 25 percent did not know that Columbus landed in the Western Hemisphere before the year 1500, 42 percent could not place the Civil War in the correct half-century, and 31 percent thought Reconstruction came after World War II...

...Americans as donors and taxpayers have been exceedingly generous to our universities. Given our universities' gross betrayal of trust, Americans should rethink their generosity as well as rethink who serves on boards of trustees that, in dereliction of duty, permit universities to become hotbeds of political activism and academic fraud...


Walter Williams: Higher education in decline

Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Hewitt on Metrics for Journalists



Click here for Amazon...In today's Washington Post, E.J. Dionne has another howler that I suspect will draw far fewer readers than [conservative pundit Bill] Bennett, as consumers of op-ed journalism migrate to serious writers in the blogopshere as opposed to tenured scribblers who can actually toss off a sentence that begins: "In the wake of President Bush's narrow reelection victory..." and a line that reads in part "now the Republicans are moving to weaken Social Security."

Every publisher in America ought to be asking their internet techies for comprehensive stats on viewership of columnists via the web. Does Dionne score 1,00 readers, 10,000, or 10 million? Compared with, say, Charles Krauthammer, do Dionne's tired cliches justify his salary in terms of readers he brings to the Post's web site? This can now be measured --traffic is a very definite thing. Shareholders have a right to demand that the company in which they are invested not subsidize silliness that doesn't bring any readers to the game. There are plenty of fine lefty columnists out there --this isn't a call for purely market driven commentary, though surely shareholders should want to know if their products underrepresent the opinions that draw viewers to their internet editions. But deadwood is deadwood, and traffic statistics can diagnose dead wood in an afternoon. It may be that Dionne draws a crowd, but wouldn't those numbers be interesting to view? Don't hold your breath, though. MSM believes in accountability for other institutions, not its own tenured elites...


Hewitt on Metrics for Journalists

Oil-for-Food May Have Funded 9/11 Attacks



Click here for AmazonIn what may be the most shocking news to emerge from the already stunning Oil-for-Food scandal, investigators say that Saddam Hussein bankrolled key al-Qaida players in the late 1990s - a period of time when the terror group was planning the 9/11 attacks and the Iraqi dictator was ripping off billions from the U.N. program.

"Saddam had given $300,000 in cash to Ayman Al Zawahri, Osama bin Laden's number two man, in the spring of 1998," the Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes told WABC Radio's Monica Crowley on Saturday.

"It's likely that Saddam was giving some of his [Oil-for-Food] money to al-Qaida."

In an eerie coincidence, an October 2001 estimate by the Justice Department put the entire cost of the 9/11 operation at $300,000.

While the inception of Iraq's financial relationship with al-Qaida predated the 1996 Oil-for-Food program, the U.N. jackpot enabled Saddam to become much more generous toward his terrorist allies in the years before 9/11.

Hayes said the total amount of Iraqi cash funneled into al-Qaida reached into the "millions." ...


Oil-for-Food May Have Funded 9/11 Attacks