"Coping with the gulf between Iranian private and public life is a difficult skill even for adults to manage. So what should we teach our children?
My friend's eight-year-old son brought a DVD home from school the other day, a 10-minute collection of "highlights" from his...
"B-52 bombers made repeated passes over the Tora Bora area throughout the day, and huge plumes of smoke rose from the barren hills and ridges. Hundreds of anti-Taliban fighters watched from several miles away as dust filled mountain valleys."
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December 13, 2001 :: "U.S. bombers sent up huge plumes of smoke along a mountain ridge near the eastern village of Tora Bora. The range of hills and valleys is home to networks of caves harbouring an unknown number of Al-Qaida fighters and possibly Bin Laden, the man...
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Year 2001. Approximately November 25, 26. It is believed Osama Bin Laden left Tora Bora alive. Approximately November 27, 28, 29. A group of about ten Yemeni horsemen were seen riding towards a mountain pass that leads to China. The man in the middle of this group was...
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The Roosevelt administration knew through reading the Japanese naval
traffic, that all Japanese merchant vessels were to return to their
home waters by December 7, 1941. They also knew a lot more than just
this.
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From September 24, 1941, the Japanese Consul General in Hawaii sent
a special series of messages back to Japan. This series of messages
made it obvious that Pearl Harbor was a target. Included were details
of the disposition of warships in the harbor. On October 9, 1941,...
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October 16, 1941 - After meeting FDR, Secretary of War Henry Stimson
wrote: "We face the delicate question of the diplomatic fencing to be
done so as to be sure Japan is put into the wrong and makes the first
bad move -- overt move." On November 25, 1941 - After
meeting...
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"I want you to know that your government has no information which it
has any thought of withholding from you.... You are, I believe, the
most enlightened and best informed people in all the world." President Franklin D. Roosevelt. September 1939.
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June 8, 2001 :: It doesn't matter how many times you prove it. Wait
five years and you have to prove it all over again. Take Pearl Harbor.
The fact that FDR knew the Japanese were going to attack is something
that should now be solid American history.
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June 6, 2001::Robert Ogg had been in Naval Intelligence during the war.
Ogg had detected the presence of a Japanese task force working its way
toward Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. The Japanese force had been
under radio silence. But the silence had been broken on a number...
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A code clerk at the U.S. embassy in London discovered secret dispatches
between Roosevelt and Churchill. These revealed that FDR, despite
contrary campaign promises, was determined to engage America in the
war. He smuggled some of the documents out of the embassy, hoping...
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"When the Japanese attack hit Pearl Harbor, the targets they found were
older relics from a bygone age; the 21 modern ships of the Pacific
fleet, including the two carriers, were safely out of harm's way."
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"Robert Stinnett, who served in the U.S. Navy with distinction during
World War II, examines recently declassified American documents and
concludes that, far more than merely knowing of the Japanese plan to
bomb Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt deliberately steered Japan into war...
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The first nine of the 164 token booths scheduled for closing will be shut down in April. The Daily News says the first retired booths will include ones in Union Square and Penn Station, and then the remaining booths will close weekly until October. Then, 600 of the clerks...
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