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[474] www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aht_04M3ecPY&refer=us

[475] www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/dwest.htm

[476] www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/21/iran/print.html

[477] www.nytimes.com/2005/08/06/politics/06bomb.html

[478] www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/13/AR2005091301837_pf.html

[479] "U.S. Presses Case for Action Against Iran" by Andrea Dudikova, AP, 9/21/05.

[480] "Intelligence Sees Terrorists in Iran" by Katherine Shrader and John Solomon, 6/3/05, AP.

[481] www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=0614

[482] www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030709-transcript.htm

[483] www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030709-transcript.htm

[484] www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/01/AR2005080101453.html

[485] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080405K.shtml

[486] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305E.shtml

[487] www.theinsider.org/mailing/article.asp?id=0614

[488] www.truthout.org, 3/18/05, by Ray McGovern; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080405K.shtml

[489] www.washtimes.com/world/20050929-114709-2065r.htm

[490] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/083105D.shtml

[491] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080105A.shtml

[492] www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1566848,00.html?gusrc=rss; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091105I.shtml; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091405E.shtml; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091405H.shtml

[493] Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, 1/24/05.

[494] The American Conservative, August 1, 2005, p.27; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080405K.shtml; www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/020805nukeiran.htm

[495] www.ufppc.org/content/view2295

[496] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7896BBD4-28AB-48BA-A949-2096A02F864D.htm; www.hillnews.com/news/040203/terrorist.aspx

[497] Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker, 1/24/05.

[498] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7896BBD4-28AB-48BA-A949-2096A02F864D.htm

[499] http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7896BBD4-28AB-48BA-A949-2096A02F864D.htm; www.hillnews.com/news/040203/terrorist.aspx; www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=32476&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs; www.commondreams.org/views05/0620-31.htm

[500] www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=29133

[501] "The Iran War Buildup" by Michael T. Klare, The Nation, 7/21/05.

[502] www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=70217&d=17&m=9&y=2005

[503] New York Times, 10/3/04, "The Draft Card".

[504] www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul-arch.html

[505] www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/18/world/main554415.shtml

[506] www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=1687; www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/030709-transcript.htm

[507] www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1632576,00.html

[508] www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=1687

[509] "Attackers Fire Missiles as U.S. Navy Ship" by Jamal Halaby, AP, 6/19/05.

[510] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.35.

[511] "9/11 and Manipulation of the USA" by Norman Solomon, truthout.org, 9/11/05.

[512] 9/11 Commission Report, Executive Summary.

[513] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.163.

[514] www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092305Y.shtml; www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092505Z.shtml

[515] http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1146056

[516] Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism by Robert A. Pape.

[517] http:/observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,845725,00.html

[518] New York Times, 9/24/03; Reuters, 2/3/03; Inter Press Service, 1/26/03, 7/6/04; Asia Times, 1/10/03; Newsday, 10/17/04; www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/2003/0406war.htm

[519] www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp

[520] www.cbpp.org/3-14-02foreignaid.htm

[521] "Battling World Poverty", The Charlie Rose Show, 12/21/04.

[522] International Herald Tribune, 2/25/03.

[523] Christian Science Monitor, 6/26/03.

[524] Guardian, 7/9/03.

[525] www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp

[526] www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty.asp; "Battling World Poverty", The Charlie Rose Show, 12/21/04.

[527] www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0908762.html

[528] www.worldwatch.org/press/news/2004/01/07

[529] Reuters, 9/19/04.

[530] www.worldwatch.org/press/news/2004/01/07

[531] www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0908762.html

[532] www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp

[533] www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty.asp

[534] "Vehicle of Change: How Fuel-Cell Cars Could Revolutionize the World", Scientific American, October 2002; "Are We Almost Tapped Out?: Safeguarding Every Drop of Clean Water", Scientific American, February 2001; "What Science Will Know in 2050", Scientific American, December 1999.

[535] Time Magazine, 1/17/05.

[536] CBS Evening News, 6/20/05.

[537] www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45634

[538] The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p. 184, 655-658.

[539] 9/11 Commission Report, Executive Summary.

[540] www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=452; The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse by Paul L. Williams (a former FBI consultant), 2005.

[541] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.147.

[542] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.68.

[543] Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison, former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans, 2004, p.177, 190, 213.

[544] AP, 3/30/04; White House Spokesman Ari Fleischer, 3/19/02.

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