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Moussaoui Says He Was to Hijack 5th Plane

Staff / Truthdig Mar 28, 2006 The 9/11 conspirator tells a Virginia court that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to fly a plane into the White House on Sept. 11. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraq Headed Squarely Toward Civil War

Staff / Truthdig Mar 1, 2006 A bomb in a vegetable market killed 36 people in Baghdad, prompting the government to announce a one-day ban on all vehicles in the city This comes on the heels of similarly deadly bombings Wednesday and the day before The Washington Post put the death toll of this recent spate of violence at over 1,300 What's worse, America's spy chief tells Congress that the violence could destabilize the entire region--which would completely upend one of Bush's main reasons for invasion in the first place. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Iraqi Death Tally Triples Official Reports

Staff / Truthdig Feb 28, 2006 The violence unleashed after last week's bombing of a Shiite Muslim shrine claimed 1,300 Iraqi lives, triple the number reported by the US military Outside of major U offensives, these have been the deadliest few days in the last three years in Iraq UPDATE: The violence continues with multiple attacks claiming 68 lives on Tuesday. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Threatens to Cut Off Iraqi Aid

Staff / Truthdig Feb 22, 2006 America's ambassador to Iraq says the United States might cut funding to the Iraqi government if it puts sectarian politicians in two key posts. Iraq's prime minister angrily rejects the call, saying, "We do not need anybody to remind us, thank you." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Andrew Sullivan on the Cartoon Furor

Staff / Truthdig Feb 8, 2006 Sullivan, whose NY Times Magazine essay on the connection between Islam and 9/11 was perhaps the best ever mainstream treatment on the subject, now takes on the Islamic cartoon controversy | essayAlso, a German journalist talks about his mixed feelings about running the cartoons in his paperwashingtonpostcom/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/06/AR2006020601258html?referrer=emailarticle" title="Op-ed">Op-Ed . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Struggling Back From the Wounds of War

Staff / Truthdig Jan 22, 2006 Finally, an in-depth report on Iraq's forgotten wounded. | story and slideshowAlso, read Truthdig's Ron Kovic on his personal journey as a wounded veteran. | report Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Two Parliament Members Leaked Bush’s Proposal to Bomb Al Jazeera

Staff / Truthdig Jan 10, 2006 It was not staffers but actual Labour MPs who leaked the memo to the U.S. | story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )