A Hidden Face in a Hidden War
Al Jazeera will air the English-language version of its documentary on
Mohammed Jamal Khalifa during the coming week with the title "A Hidden Face in a Hidden War."
The Arabic version of the program featured myself, Peter Bergen, Lawrence Wright and others discussing the Khalifa case. The English version is half an hour (compared to an hour for the original).
The program features documents from the
Mohammed Jamal Khalifa Sourcebook, Vol. 1 and other exclusive documents obtained by INTELWIRE. I expect Volume 2 to publish later this year, and Volume 3 will hopefully appear in 2009 in conjunction with other projects.
Here are the air times (EDT) (times below are most current, but have changed since the first posting).
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Title: A Hidden Face in a Hidden War
Channel: Al Jazeera English
Times:
Tuesday 9:30 a.m.
Weds 7:30 a.m.
Thurs 1:30 a.m.
Thurs 11:00 p.m.
Fri 6:30 a.m.
Fri 12:30 p.m.
Sat 2:30 a.m.
Below are some images from the Arabic version. That's me at the top left and bottom left.
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New OKC Document Claims Prior Knowledge of Bombing
Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue filed a new document last week in his ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI seeking documents related to the Oklahoma City bombing.
The filing submits an FBI FD-302 record relating to
Mark Thomas, a former Christian Identity minister and Aryan Nations member, pleaded guilty in 1997 to conspiring with the
Aryan Republican Army (ARA) bank robbery gang, which was led by white supremacists Richard Lee Guthrie and Peter Langan. The source of the document is not specified in the filing.
According to the document, Thomas' former girlfriend approached the FBI in early 1997 and told agents that Mark Thomas made the following statement to her in February 1995:
"We are going to get them. We are going to hit one of their buildings during the middle of the day. It's going to be a federal building. We will get sympathy if we bomb the building. ... [T]he people who will lose their loved ones, will realize how bad it feels."
The new filing reinforces a scenario described in documents obtained by Trentadue and
posted here in March. An informant quoted in those documents claimed to have heard from a third party that Thomas indicated having prior knowledge of the Oklahoma City bombing.
The contents of the document have been previously reported by the
Associated Press and others. According to the AP story, Thomas said he did not recall making the comments described herein.
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Playing Catch-Up On Yahya Al-Libbi
In September, the
Washington Post noted the rise of Al Qaeda's charismatic Yahya Al-Libbi. Today it's the
New York Times' turn (they're spelling it Libi). You read it here
11 months ago.
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Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam:
