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Osama bin Laden, the founder, and leader of terrorism conglomerate al-Qaeda, who was responsible for the deadly and devastating Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. soil, never was hiding in Afghanistan or its damp caves, according to explosive revelations in a new book from intelligence insiders and highly secret government documents. Thousands of Americans died that day and many more in the wretched aftermath. Instead, incredibly, bin Laden was whisked to a safe house in Iran following the deadly attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York, the Pentagon and the downing of a commercial jet in western Pennsylvania...

GOP's Control of South Is No Sure Bet by Robert Novak Posted Dec 26, 2005 Text Size: S M L printer-friendly email to a friend respond to this article Ex-FISA Judge Is Liberal, Partisan Hack Dems: We're Losing the War and Our Economy Stinks Live and Let Spy Rumsfeld Sends Signals He'll Stay at Defense Trent Lott within the next week plans to decide between seeking a fourth term in the U.S. Senate from Mississippi or retiring from public life. That could determine whether Republicans keep control of the Senate in next year's elections. For the longer range, Lott's retirement...

Fahrenheit 9/11 has now invaded the Persian Gulf; reaction to this propaganda masquerading as a documentary has been no less strong there than in America. Mamoun Fandy, a Saudi expert, appearing in the Arabic paper Asharq Al Awsat, saw the movie as racist and filled with wild-eyed stereotypes and generalizations. This should come as no surprise: Moore's unsubtle cinematic method tries to make Bush look sinister merely by showing him on the screen — repeatedly — with men in Arab dress. This, of course, is not Fahrenheit's only — or most serious — transgression. The bigger problem is that Moore's...

Legend: E-mail features response to Michael Moore's open letter from Bill Timmins, president of the Aladdin casino. Examples:

Urgent Open Letter To My Fellow Americans Just in late last night from former SF'er, Don Bendell: As a former green beret, who is still involved in that tight-knit community, I was “shocked and awed” when I saw Michael Moore during an interview at the DNC actually say that “Bush did not have Special Forces on the ground in Afghanistan for more than two months after 9-11.” That was laughable; it was such a stupid, bold-faced lie. Many, many green berets and ex-green berets know that two A-detachments were on the ground in Afghanistan within forty-eight hours of the 9-11...

Queensland's Tom Knox, in a letter to The Australian, points out yet another Mike Moore misrepresentation: The movie Fahrenheit 9/11 asserts the children of US congressmen are under-represented in US forces in Iraq. There are 300 million Americans; 130,000 US troops in Iraq; 535 congressmen and women; and at least five children of congressmen serving in Iraq. Thirty seconds of intellectual effort shows that children of US congressmen are very over-represented in Iraq; but 30 seconds is way over the capacity of admirers of Fahrenheit 9/11.

WARSAW, Poland - "Fahrenheit 9/11" opened Friday in Poland - a U.S. ally in Iraq - with some critics comparing director Michael Moore's style to totalitarian propaganda. But politicians who opposed Poland's decision to send troops to Iraq urged the public to see the film. Moore's movie portrays President Bush as inept and the war in Iraq as an illegitimate campaign waged to further business interests. A critic for Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest daily newspaper, condemned the movie as a "foul pamphlet" too biased to be considered a documentary and said it reminded him of methods used by Nazi propaganda...

Poles Say 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Is Propaganda Fri Jul 23, 3:44 PM ET By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland - "Fahrenheit 9/11" opened Friday in Poland — a U.S. ally in Iraq (news - web sites) — with some critics comparing director Michael Moore's style to totalitarian propaganda. But politicians who opposed Poland's decision to send troops to Iraq urged the public to see the film. Moore's movie portrays President Bush (news - web sites) as inept and the war in Iraq as an illegitimate campaign waged to further business interests. A critic for Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest daily...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A recent broadcast on Cuban television of Michael Moore's film "Fahrenheit 9/11" has raised questions about the Oscar eligibility of one of America's most talked-about and critically acclaimed movies of the year. Under Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (news - web sites) rules, films are disqualified from competing in the Oscar race for best documentary if shown on television or on the Internet within nine months of their theatrical release. However, an unauthorized or pirated display of a film would not render the movie ineligible, academy spokesman John Pavlik said on Tuesday. "If somebody...

July 30, 2004 (Bloomington, Ill.) — Filmmaker Michael Moore's Bush-basing documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" apparently has upset more than Republicans. The (Bloomington) Pantagraph in central Illinois has sent a letter to Moore asking him to apologize for using what the newspaper says was a doctored front page in the film. A scene early in the movie shows newspaper headlines related to the legally contested presidential election of 2000. It includes a shot of The Pantagraph's front page with the prominent headline: "Latest Florida recount shows Gore won election." But the Pantagraph says that headline was never on the front page. It...

Boston, Mass — Promoting his movie Fahrenheit 9/11 at the Democratic National Convention, radical filmmaker Michael Moore launched into a shouting, red-faced denunciation of Republicans Tuesday, saying supporters of the GOP are different from "real Americans"; that they are "people who hate"; that they are "up at six in the morning trying to figure out which minority group they're going to screw today"; and that in the upcoming presidential campaign, they "are going to fight...smear...lie...and hate." Moore, who sat in former President Jimmy Carter's box at the convention Monday night, has been welcomed by wildly enthusiastic audiences at his appearances...

Gazeta Wyborcza reviewer Jacek Szczerba called the film a "foul pamphlet". He said it was too biased to be called a documentary and was similar to work by Nazi propaganda director Leni Riefenstahl. But politicians opposed to Poland's involvement in the US-led occupation of Iraq have urged people to see the film. "In criticising Moore, I have to admit that he has certain abilities - Leni Riefenstahl had them too," Mr Szczerba said in his review. "Michael Moore will not convince Poles with his film," the Rzeczpospolita newspaper said in its review. 'A lot of truth' "People are very sensitive...

At least 250 of Michael Moore’s 400+ pounds are in the form of ego and hot air, doctors said Monday. The massive filmmaker’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” should be the most controversial movie of the year. During a routine checkup, a team of six doctors discovered that most of Moore’s prodigious bulk is in the form of his “large, bloated ego” and “huge quantities of hot air.” “The good news for Mr. Moore is that he can lose weight as long as he keeps talking a bunch of hot air,” said Dr. Henry Morrison. “When he gave an acceptance speech at last...

KURTZ: Christopher Hitchens, you write that the movie is "a piece of crap," "a sinister exercise" and "a big lie." I get the impression that you didn't like it. CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, VANITY FAIR: Actually, I didn't say the first thing. It's not my style. But if pressed, I probably would have wanted to say that. KURTZ: Why do you dislike the movie so much? HITCHENS: I made also some of the points that Michael has just made about the -- Moore must have known that Richard Clarke could say this. Maybe he did say it, and Moore didn't think it...

I just saw the cover of Entertainment Weekly in the grocery store and I can't believe it. That's right, Lumpy Riefenstahl wearing an American flag shirt. The man who has gone on about how stupid he thinks Americans are, and is openly rooting for Islamists to kill more of us. Unbelievable.

June 29 (Bloomberg) -- A political activist rang me up and told me I had to see the new documentary about the president. ``It's chilling,'' he said. ``It shows what a slimeball this guy is.'' So I saw the movie, and it was -- how to put this? -- a crock. Watching it I thought: Whoever produced this slanderous mess deserves to be run out of polite society. That was 10 years ago, and the documentary was a slapdash confection of lies and innuendo called ``The Clinton Chronicles.'' It accused Bill Clinton -- slyly and indirectly -- of drug- running...

James Dobson's Focus on the Family has apparently sent out an email giving its members Michael Moore's home address. I think this is a terrible move, simply on principle. There are other addresses to send Moore mail. Why legitimate this sort of thing? But, I should add, Michael Moore has zero-point-zero grounds to complain. After all, he did set up a webcam aimed at my parents' bedroom during the Clinton troubles and promoted it in on television, in an effort to show the whole world where my mom lived and invade her privacy. (My mom turned things around and sold...

"It's a documentary like Deep Throat is a love story." Uncle Pundit, just back from Michael Moore's Fahrenheit movie, was mincing words again. "You mean, it doesn't explore its premises fairly and with equanimity?" (I always play the innocent.) "No, but then, none of them do. A documentary is just a long editorial, designed to reach a destination but with a lot of detours and roadblocks thrown in to confuse the viewer into thinking he wasn't really led to the conclusion." "But I thought good documentaries simply explore a subject and let the viewer reach his own conclusion, like, say...

Michael Moore simultaneously on voter rolls in New York, Michigan JUNE 28--Prior to last week's Washington, D.C. premiere of "Fahrenheit 9/11," Michael Moore denied that the new documentary represents his de facto endorsement of John Kerry. "I am an Independent," the filmmaker told reporters. "I'm not a member of the Democratic party." Which is not exactly correct. New York City Board of Elections records show that Moore, 50, registered to vote in Gotham in 1992, checking off "Democratic" as his party affiliation (below you'll find a copy of his original registration form). He listed his address as the swanky Upper...