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U.S. Allows Mahdi army Security Role :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it

U.S. Allows Mahdi army Security Role :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it : "BAGHDAD - The mosque of Imam Kadhim, the most revered Shiite shrine in Baghdad, is a tempting target for Sunni insurgents. To protect it, Iraqi and U.S. troops rely on the Mahdi Army, the same Shiite militia that Washington considers a threat to Iraq's stability."

Barbara Olson’s Alleged Call from AA 77:

Barbara Olson’s Alleged Call from AA 77: evidence indicates that cell phone calls from high-flying airliners would not have been possible in 2001, given the cell phone technology of the time. In any case, Ted Olson, after going back and forth between these two claims, finally settled on the claim that the calls were made on a seat-back phone. If Flight 77, being an AA Boeing 757, had no onboard phones, we would have to conclude that Olson’s claim could not be true. I myself drew that conclusion (while saying that this would leave open the question of whether Olson invented the story or was himself a victim, like the relatives of other passengers, of faked phone calls).