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Major Iraqi City Falls to Advancing al Qaeda Wannabes

Adam Weinstein · 06/10/14 10:12AM

Mosul—Iraq's third-largest city, urbane center of the nation's northern regions, built on the remains of the once-great Assyrian empire, made free through the sacrifices of thousands of Iraqis, Kurds, and Americans—fell to a gang of Islamist insurgents Monday.

The Gay Terrorist Who Could Have Stopped 9/11

Maureen O'Connor · 03/17/10 02:36AM

An Iraqi airline employee worked closely with the 9/11 hijackers. Neocons used him to justify the war in Iraq—not realizing that the CIA had attempted to recruit him as a turncoat, perhaps because they knew he was gay.