Blood & guts: At the front with the poor bloody infantry

This is the war they do not want you to see: but while the media are kept from the action, emails and videophone images from the troops tell a terrifyng story. By Raymond Whitaker

Published: 01 October 2006

"We headed off to what can only be described as the Wild West." Those are the words, not of a beleaguered British squaddie, but of a Canadian officer in a unit sent to help rescue our troops in the lawless Afghan province of Helmand. His account, emailed to family and friends back in Canada, is the most detailed to emerge from what commanders have called the most desperate fighting British troops have seen since the Korean War.
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The laughing 9/11 bombers: Video: Osama Bin Laden's HQ Chilling message of the 9/11 pilots

Film of the hijack ringleader reading his 'martyrdom' will at Osama Bin Laden’s headquarters in Afghanistan has emerged, five years after the outrage
Chilling message of the 9/11 pilots

A video shows two of the world’s most infamous terrorists joking and laughing while filming their ‘death wills’ at Osama Bin Laden’s lair in Afghanistan. The journalist and author Yosri Fouda explains the terrible significance of the new find

Two bearded young men laugh and joke for the camera. They appear relaxed, well groomed, intelligent; they might be high-achieving students quietly celebrating an exam success. They look at a piece of paper and laugh some more.

What is so funny? Certainly not the piece of paper. There is Arabic script on it. Easily decipherable is the word “al wasiyyah”. This means “the will”.

It is the handwritten last testament of Ziad Jarrah, the lighter-haired and better-looking of the two young men. A well educated, middle-class Lebanese, he has been studying in Germany. So has his dark-haired companion, Mohammed Atta, also middle class and university educated, but born in Egypt. Atta has his will, too. Unsmiling, both men read them to camera.
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OP-ED COLUMNIST
So You Call This Breaking News?
By FRANK RICH
Published: October 1, 2006 A MUST READ


IF your head hurts from listening to the Washington furor over the latest National Intelligence Estimate, by all means tune it out. The entire debate is meaningless except as a damning election-year indicator of just how madly our leaders are fiddling while Iraq burns.

The supposedly shocking key finding in the N.I.E. — that the Iraq war is a boon to terrorism — isn’t remotely news. It first turned up in a classified C.I.A. report leaked to the press in June 2005. It’s also long been visible to the naked eye. The latest New York Times/CBS News poll, conducted before any revelations from the N.I.E., found that nearly half the country believes that the Iraq war is increasing the terrorist threat against America and only 12 percent thinks the war is decreasing that threat. Americans don’t have to pore over leaked intelligence documents to learn this. They just have to turn on the television.

Tonight on “60 Minutes,” Bob Woodward will spill another supposedly shocking intelligence finding revealed in his new book: a secret government prediction that the insurgency will grow worse next year.
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'State of Denial' Lands Early And Hits Harder ( New book by Bob Woodward of watergate Fame)
 http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12949251.html



Jagshemash, Premier Bush : MAUREEN DOWD - Borat and Bush
 http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12946191.html



Iraq War Strategy Backed by 19% of Americans
 http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12949062.html



Bush fired Colin Powell
 http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12948529.html



9/11 Commission Counsel: Bush Admin. May Have Covered Up Imp. Meeting Between Tenet And Rice
 http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12948135.html



COVERUP: GOP leaders knew of Foley e-mail in '05 (A Huge Sex Scandal in the U.S. Republican Party Involving Paedophilia)
 http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12946725.html



White House in crisis over 'Iraq lies' claims
 http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/12947750.html



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