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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Sources: ABC News report, 1 May 2001; National Security Archive summary, with link to 15-page declassified document

God Wills It? No, God Doesn't: God does not take sides in wartime (James Carroll, Boston Globe).
September 11th Source Books: Source documents unearthed by the (private) National Security Archive.
White House Drops Claim of Threat to Bush: Remember how Air Force One was a target of the hijackers? Never mind. (Mike Allen, Washington Post).
Anti-Terrorism: In the war on terrorism, what are we fighting for? (William Saletan, Slate.com).
Afghan Chaos Explodes Around Region: Refugees from ther Taliban are plunging into chaos a huge swath of Central Asia (many authors, London Observer).
How the Plotters Slipped US Net: Technology failed to detect the plans of the hijackers, but a technological approach was doomed (Duncan Campbell, The Guardian).
White House Whitewashers: The White House and the media are getting along more poorly than ever (Jake Tapper, Salon.com).
Get Out of Jail Free Cards: It is a good time to be a police officer on trial in America (Geov Parrish, WorkingForChange.com).

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