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December 9, 2001
John Chuckman
High-Tech
Puritanism
December 8, 2001
Laurence Tribe
Military Tribunals
Undermine the Constitution
Patrick
Cockburn
The
End of a Strange War
December 7, 2001
John Troyer
Blacklist Me!
Sen. Edwards
v. Ashcroft
Military
Tribunals
George Naggiar
Occupation
as Terrorism
Hugo von
Sponek
and Denis Halliday
Iraq
the Hostage Nation
David Vest
The Coen
Brothers'
Minstrel Show
Alexander
Cockburn
Sharon
or Arafat:
Who's the Terrorist?
December 6, 2001
CounterPunch Wire
Hampshire
College the First
to Condemn the War
Robert
Jensen
University
Teaching After
September 11
Jack McCarthy
Does
Tom Friedman Read
the New York Times?
Sam and
Leila Bahour
The
Psychology of a Suicide Attacker
December 5, 2001
Edward Hammond
The Only
Real Way to
Prevent Biowarfare
Harvey
Wasserman
Atomic
Treason in the House
Carl Estabrook
America's
Israel
Don Williams
Questions
Barbara Walters Didn't Ask George Bush
Cockburn/St. Clair
Liberals
Hail War as
Return of Big Government
Robert
Fisk
The
Last Colonial War?
Bahour/Dahan
It's About
the Occupation
December 4, 2001
Dave Marsh
A
Plea for Byron Parker
Rep. Ron Paul
Keep Your
Eye on the Target
Susan
Herman
Ashcroft
and the Patriot Act
Tariq Ali
The Afghan
King and the Nazis
November 30, 2001
Jordan
Green
Disappeared
in the Southland
Willliam Blum
Rebuilding
Afghanistan?
November 29, 2001
Phillip
Cryan
Defining
Terrorism
Robert Fisk
We Are the
War Criminals Now
November 28, 2001
Tom Turnipseed
A
Continuum of Terror
Patrick Cockburn
Tribal
Council:
Don't Blame It All on Taliban
Robert
Fisk
At
Last, The Truth about the Sabra and Chatila Massacres
Harry Browne
The Bill of
Rights:
They Threw It All Away
Sunil
Sharma
Suffer
Palestine's Children
November 27, 2001
Paul Coggins
Kafka and
the Patriot Act
Tariq
Ali
Tigris
and Euprhates
November 26, 2001
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Blood and
Tears in Kandahar
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St. Clair
Boeing's
Sweet Deal
CounterPunch Wire
Human
Rights Abuses and
Nuke Waste Shipments
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Cockburn
Harry
Potter and Terrorism
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in an Afghan Refugee Camp
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December 9,
2001
The CIA Wanted Me Killed
Journalist
Yvonne Ridley Says Intelligence Agencys Wanted Her Killed to
Build Support
for War on Afghanistan
By Jo Dillon
The Independent
Yvonne Ridley, the British journalist captured
by the Taliban, this week makes the extraordinary claim that
Western intelligence agencies tried to get her killed to bolster
public support for the air strikes on Afghanistan.
In her new book, In The Hands of the
Taliban, published tomorrow, Express journalist Ms Ridley,
43, says despite her release from captivity she still has "unfinished
business" surrounding her time in Afghanistan.
She claims that on her return to Pakistan
she found her hotel room had been searched. In London, the locks
on her Soho flat had apparently been tampered with. A journalist
on the Arab TV station Al Jazeera then showed her a collection
of as yet unverified documents. They purported to be copies of
a dossier of personal and financial papers and pictures.
When told they had been handed to the
Taliban, Ms Ridley asked: "Who the hell was trying to get
me shot?"
With the help of prominent QC Michael
Mansfield, the Al Jazeera journalist, Nacer Bedri, and contacts
in the security and intelligence services, Ms Ridley is now trying
to piece together what happened.
She says the documents were photocopies
of genuine-looking Inland Revenue tax returns and the title deeds
to a previous London home owned by her. There was also a copy
of an Israeli passport belonging to her third husband, Hermosh,
along with a Mossad code number and ID card also said to belong
to him. The figures in the financial documents were exaggerated,
Ms Ridley said. Also in the bundle was a photograph of Ms Ridley,
Hermosh and her daughter Daisy, now aged nine, "taken on
a river in Iran when you entered the country illegally".
Ms Ridley's book says: "I looked
at the picture again and initially laughed, when I realised it
had been taken in October 1998 in Stratford-upon-Avon. Then an
awful feeling came to my stomach and I wanted to vomit. I remembered
where I had last seen that picture--in my top drawer at my new
flat in Soho. I had kicked out Husband No 3 a couple of weeks
after those pictures were taken; they weren't developed until
later--after he had gone. So who had been in my flat?"
Ms Ridley is convinced the intelligence
services must have somehow been involved--and has vowed to prove
it. "Without giving too much away, I can say the matter
isn't going to rest," she said yesterday.
The publication of her book and the claims
it makes are certain to throw Ms Ridley back into the spotlight--a
place that has not been particularly comfortable for her since
she was captured by the Taliban on 28 September and after her
release on 8 October.
Ms Ridley was lambasted for making a
"foolhardy" decision to go into Afghanistan with a
number of commentators accusing her of being "selfish"
for taking such a risk as a single mother.
Others raised questions about Ms Ridley's
time in Afghanistan, one report claiming that rather than being
captured in the country where she was carrying out a newspaper
investigation; she was picked up over the border in Pakistan
and had never entered Afghanistan.
On her return, Ms Ridley was criticised
for failing to pay enough attention in her account of her ordeal
to the two guides--then still in prison--captured helping her
or the aid workers held alongside her. Early reviews of her book
were far from flattering. But Ms Ridley is determined to get
to the bottom of her own story.
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