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Truthout s Jeffrey Kaye and Jason Leopold report on new documents they exclusively obtained from a top counterterrorism official that, for the first time, reveals the existence of a secret Defense Department intelligence unit charged with tracking Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda prior to 9/11, which knew that the terrorist group wanted to strike the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But, the documents show, this information was 'intentionally' withheld from Congressional investigators probing the 9/11 attacks.

http://www.truth-out.org/new-documents-claim-intelligence-bin-laden-al-qaeda-targets-withheld-congress-911-probe/1307986777

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On 'The Issue of Character' and Empire
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/13-0

Why the Pentagon Papers Matter Now
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/13-6

How the Institute for Policy Studies Helped Release the Pentagon Papers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/13-7

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What Really Happened in the Bin Laden Raid?

By Mark Follman

Details of the story don t add up. Footage of the raid either exists or doesn t. The tale of that night in Abbottabad keeps getting more muddled.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28953.htm



New York Becomes the Occupied Territories

By Mark LeVine

As the US security state grows and civil rights and liberties erode, Osama bin Laden gets the last laugh.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28960.htm



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=security+state
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Osama+Bin+Laden
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=al-Qaeda
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=counterterror
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civil+rights
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Institute+for+Policy+Studies
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeffrey+Kaye
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jason+Leopold
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Daniel+Ellsberg
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Lacy+MacAuley
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Phil+Rockstroh
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mark+Follman
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Mark+LeVine

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