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On March 23, 2004, Richard Clarke told BBC News "I am going to make sure the American people have the facts that I don't think they fully had before and they can make the appropriate decision." The question is: what facts does Richard Clarke provide us with, if any? On August 5 2002 Dan Rather on CBS Evening News declared: "Veterans of the Clinton administration say the Bush team didn't take their al-Qaeda warnings and plans seriously enough." Stone Phillips on NBC Nightly News revealed: "There is a new published report tonight that the outgoing Clinton administration gave the Bush...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 4 — A coordinated Shiite militia uprising against the American-led occupation rippled across Iraq on Sunday, reaching into Baghdad and the sprawling Shiite slum of Sadr City on the capital's outskirts and roiling the holy city of Najaf and at least two other cities in southern Iraq. Seven American soldiers were killed in Sadr City, one of the worst single losses for the American forces in any firefight since Baghdad was captured a year ago. An Iraqi health official in Najaf said 24 people had been killed and about 200 wounded in clashes that ensued when armed...

NPR Interviews Sulaiman Al-Hattlan, columnist for the Saudi daily paper Al Watan in Ryadd. He is also a Harvard Professor of Middle East Studies. Saudi Arabia to Hold First-Ever Elections The last question asked of Sulaiman Al-Hattlan: Q: “One last question- when the US began this war against Iraq in the spring a lot of writers and analysts were saying this might help generate a kind of wave of democratic freedom throughout the region. Is there any connection between the US war against Iraq and Saddam and this kind of nascent democratic flowering in and Saudi Arabia?” Answer: ”The discourse...