The Gay Terrorist

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Source: The New York Observer

By Aram Roston
March 16, 2010 | 9:14 p.m

It’s been more than eight years since 9/11, but the fallout continues to reverberate throughout today’s New York. The Obama administration’s waffling over how to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the attack’s mastermind, and the continuous, embarrassing delay in rebuilding the towers downtown have kept 9/11 more in the headlines than usual.

Now, as those political battles roll on, a new story about the run-up to 9/11 has emerged—a previously undisclosed, covert C.I.A. effort to recruit a spy to penetrate Al Qaeda a year and a half before the planes crashed into the towers.

The development is intriguing in part because the informant they were after was thought to be secretly gay—a fact that gave intelligence agents leverage in their efforts to turn him against his conservative Islamist circle. But the case may also help answer one of the long-standing mysteries of the 9/11 narrative: why a terrorist known to one part of the U.S. government wasn’t captured by other parts before he boarded a plane and helped carry out the most devastating attacks on the country.

Read more: http://www.observer.com/2010/politics/gay-terrorist

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1. What A Strange World We Live In

Terrorist engaging in a religious war for a religion that would execute them for being gay. Poor people fighting for and voting in politicians who only support the wealthy. People being pro-life, anti-welfare and pro-war. Democrats in Congress acting like Republicans. The religious right opposed to helping the poor and showing outrage against things like food stamps while ignoring TARP excesses Is it me or is this world getting more bizarre every day?

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2. I will never understand why so many people vote against their own interests. n/t