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Another Campaign of Misinformation? Leaked 9/11 Report Cites
New Evidence That Iran Cooperated with al-Qaeda Before Attacks
Fmr. Rep. Cynthia McKinney Seeking to Win Back Georgia Seat
Broadcast Exclusive: Georgetown Professor Accuses Bill O’Reilly
of Lying About 9/11 Commission’s Findings
A Passel of Pomp and a Circus of Circumstance: Historic Conventions
Coverage from the Pacifica Radio Archives
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Another Campaign of Misinformation? Leaked 9/11
Report Cites New Evidence That Iran Cooperated with al-Qaeda
Before Attacks
INTRO: Leaked accounts of the final 9/11 Commission report
due out this Thursday says the Commission has uncovered evidence
suggesting that between eight and ten of the 9/11 hijackers
passed through Iran in the year prior to the attacks. We speak
with Middle East and Iran Expert at Baruch College Ervand
Abrahamian.
The final report of the bipartisan commission investigating
the Sept. 11th attacks is due out this Thursday and leaked
accounts of the report have already appeared in the press.
According to one leaked account in Time
Magazine’s Online Edition, the Commission has uncovered
evidence suggesting that between eight and ten of the 14 so-called
"muscle" hijackers passed through Iran in the period
from October 2000 to February 2001.
Commission investigators also found that Iran had a history
of allowing al-Qaeda members to enter and exit Iran across
the Afghan border. Accoring to Time, this practice dated back
to October 2000, with Iranian officials issuing specific instructions
to their border guards to facilitate their travel across the
frontier. The report does not, however, offer evidence that
Iran was aware of the plans for the 9/11 attacks.
Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin said yesterday that the
United States has known for "some time" about the
al Qaeda passage through Iran. In response, Iran acknowledged
that suspected al-Qaeda members involved in 9/11 may have
passed through its territory, but insisted they would have
done so "illegally."
The 9/11 report will also note that Iranian officials approached
the al-Qaeda leadership after the bombing of the USS Cole
and proposed a collaborative relationship in future attacks
on the U.S., but the offer was turned down by bin Laden because
he did not want to alienate his supporters in Saudi Arabia.
Time Magazine says much of the new information about Iran
came from al-Qaeda detainees interrogated by the U.S. government,
including captured Yemeni al-Qaeda operative Waleed Mohammed
bin Attash, who organized the October 2000 attack on the USS
Cole, and from as many as 100 separate electronic intelligence
intercepts culled by analysts at the NSA.
- Ervand Abrahamian, Middle East and Iran Expert at Baruch
College, City University of New York. He is the author of
several books on Iran including Khomeinism: Essays on the
Islamic Republic (University of California Press, 1993)
and The Iranian Mojahedin (Yale University Press, 1984).
His latest book is Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth
About North Korea, Iran, and Syria (New Press, June 2004).
Fmr. Rep. Cynthia McKinney Seeking to Win Back Georgia
Seat
INTRO: We speak with former Congressmember Cynthia McKinney
is seeking to win back her congressional seat in Georgia.
She lost her re-election bid two years ago after coming under
fierce attack for her support for Palestinian rights, and
her early call for a 9/11 investigation of the Bush Administration.
Former Congressmember Cynthia McKinney is seeking to win
back her congressional seat in Georgia. She lost her re-election
bid two years ago after coming under fierce attack for her
support for Palestinian rights, and her early call for a 9/11
investigation of the Bush Administration.
As Georgia’s first African-American Congresswoman,
McKinney became an internationally renowned advocate for voting
rights, human rights and Africa in her nine years in Congress.
In April 2002, McKinney issued a statement pointing out that
"President Bush’s father, through the Carlyle Group
had -- at the time of the attacks -- joint business interests
with the bin Laden construction company and many defense industry
holdings, the stocks of which have soared since September
11." In May, McKinney was among only 21 House members
who voted against a pro-Israel resolution that passed with
352 votes.
In October, McKinney wrote to Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal,
thanking him for offering $10 million to New York after September
11th. City officials rejected the money because bin Talal
used the occasion to say: "Our Palestinian brethren continue
to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world
turns the other cheek."
The attacks on McKinney crossed over to help her opponent,
Rep. Denise Majette, defeat her in the 2002 Democratic primary.
Two years later she is seeking to win back her seat. She faces
five challengers in this year’s primary that is being
held tomorrow. The winner is considered a shoo-in for November.
- Cynthia McKinney, former Congress member from Georgia
who is running in her district’s primary in an effort
to regain her seat.
Broadcast Exclusive: Georgetown Professor Accuses
Bill O’Reilly of Lying About 9/11 Commission’s
Findings
INTRO: Georgetown Law School professor David Cole describes
how Bill O’Reilly deliberately cut out a recorded statement
from the head of the 9/11 Commission to mislead his audience
about links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.
A new documentary which premiered in New York last week titled
"Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism,"
accused the Fox News Channel of tailoring its coverage to
back President Bush.
We aired excerpts of the documentary on Democracy Now! and
spoke with its director Robert Greenwald. The film features
memos written by Fox executives and interviews with former
Fox correspondents and producers who talk about how upper
management pressured reporters to cover news with a conservative
bias.
On-air host Bill O’Reilly comes under heavy criticism
in the documentary. In one clip he declares that he has told
only one guest in the past six years to shut up. The comment
is followed with several examples of O’Reilly interrupting
guests on his show “The O’Reilly Factor”,
and telling them to shut up.
One person that Greenwald could have interviewed for “Outfoxed”
is Washington-based constitutional attorney and Georgetown
Law School professor David Cole. He was recently invited to
be a guest on “The O’Reilly Factor.” This
is his story.
- David Cole, Washington-based constitutional attorney,
professor at Georgetown Law School and author of the book,
Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedom
in the War on Terrorism.
A Passel of Pomp and a Circus of Circumstance: Historic
Conventions Coverage from the Pacifica Radio Archives
INTRO: We bring you the first in our week-long series looking
at political party conventions throughout history with a new
documentary “A Passel of Pomp and a Circus of Circumstance:
Historic Conventions Coverage” produced by the Pacifica
Radio Archives in collaboration with Democracy Now!
Only days before the opening of the 2004 major political
party convention season we bring you the new documentary “A
Passel of Pomp and a Circus of Circumstance: Historic Conventions
Coverage” from the Pacifica Radio Archives.
The radio/TV documentary spans the formal speeches of Franklin
D. Roosevelt in 1936 to the radical sounds of Rage Against
the Machine in the streets of Los Angeles, 2000. We will broadcast
excerpts of the 2-hour documentary in a five-part series throughout
this week.
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Jenny Filipazzo
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