Thanks to p7tms and ://trinity for pointing me at cursor.org… Wild zero told me about this story a few days ago, but it reminded me about the terrorist misidentification… I know it got virtually zero press in the US, but quite a few of the people that they named as terrorists — and showed pictures of — had nothing to do with the attacks. They just happened to have similar names. It would be sort of like charging every “John Smith” in the United States just because a “John Smith” committed a crime.
"What sort of intelligence agency doesn't know that there are thousands of Saeed Alghamdis in Saudi Arabia?" Alghamdi said. "It is like accusing Tom from New York."
Anyway, cursor.org was jam-packed with excellent links… Here are some that I thought were particularly worth checking out:
- An article on the misidentifications that I mentioned above
- An archive of the back and forth between Chomsky and Hitchens
- An article on where to find enough unguarded anthrax to kill the planet many times over
- An article suggesting that Bin Laden is the wrong suspect, that it was actually Al-Zawahiri
Note: All of the above links are mainstream media, not fringe or indie media.
On a much more pleasant note, we adopted a cat. I can't believe the neighbors would leave it outside for weeks at a time and then yell at us for feeding it. They actually threatened to call the humane society on us for taking care of it! Of course, after doing so, they made no effort to feed or house it themselves… They just didn't want anyone else to do it either:
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