Well, I haven't read the book, but I have to say that if I wanted an expert opinion with much experience on getting the wrong names on the no-fly list, I would absolutely talk to the US govenment.

GalapagosPete is surely correct. And, further, if I wanted a list of the terrorists who actually were on the planes of 9/11, I would ask the goverment....Not.

Isn't Suskind the "wacko" who also predicted we would invade Iraq 6 months before we did?

I wonder if you can add your enemies to the list. Maybe call DHS and find out.

All these 'terrorists' at one time or another worked with, or for, the CIA. Does it really matter which 'made-up' terrorist name Suskind got wrong?
Instead, support indy media and a real book called "America Deceived" by E.A. Blayre III. The gov't got it pulled from Amazon. That's reason alone to buy it.

Now I'm really confused.

I thought it was Cat Stevens.

"U.S. and British officials say Suskind is wrong about that Khan.

They say he may, in fact, be referring to another Khan, Mohammed Amjad Khan, who pleaded guilty to ist-related activities earlier this year in Great Britain and did have contacts in the United States."

Do they present evidence to back their assertions? Or are they really just blowing a broad, cover story smokescreen like they usually do. They use the word "may" quite a bit. And how come that is the only point in the book which they choose to pick apart?

I'm sick of all this official "intelligence," which is never backed up by the actual evidence supporting the intelligence.

YB: "Isn't Suskind the "wacko" who also predicted we would invade Iraq 6 months before we did?"

Umm, that really wasn't that difficult. I live in NYC, have friends who are diplomats at the UN, and they were telling me 8-10 months beforehand that we were definitely invading Iraq and any comments from the administration to the contrary was just disinformation.

I was skeptical at the time because there didn't seem to be any reason to attack Iraq, who obviously had nothing to do with 9/11. Go figure.

Apparently news travels from the Euro intelligence corps to the diplomatic corps, and from there sometimes to the US news corps, who then usually fail to report it.

Unfortunately, I'm hearing from the same friends that we'll *probably* be attacking Iran. On the plus side, there's some uncertainty about it, mostly because no one knows how we're going to pay for it, or where we'll get allies to join us after the fiasco in Iraq.

I *saw* Khan in the original Star Trek series as well as the 2nd movie and feel he could've done it. What I don't understand is why, since everyone knew he was around, he wasn't stopped!

I watched PBS Frontline, The Dark Side last night. Very insightful information about the lead up to the Iraqi war. Rumsfeld and Cheney pushed the intelligence big time - no surprise to anyone who is paying attention, I am sure. It needs to be presented on other networks for a wider public to see what really happened. Even Bob Woodward participated in the commentary. If you have not seen it, I believe you can download it on their website. Well worth the time to watch.

Hmm, PBS and Bob Woodward... I'll wait for the movie

I'm sick of hearing people say we are at war. The US is 'at war' only when congress issues a declaration of war and we are 'at war' with only one nation and I'll bet not one member of the current administration or of either house of congress knows which nation it is. We may be in a war but certainly we're not 'at war' in Iraq.

Anytime you "really" want the truth, just follow the money.
Who has big money invested in Iraqi oil? When you find that answer you will know why we are in Iraq. Desert Strom was all about protecting Bush money. Who's money are we protecting now?

Well, Lydia, do you really think that the Bush family against the will of a democratic populace with a free press in Iraq can siphon off their oil revenues against their will? Dream on. The French held most of the oil contracts with Saddam if you care to follow the money trail. They kept him in business for decades.

Oil is a global commodity. No one place or person can control it without transparency.

Sorry to demolish your it's-all-about-oil rant.

Haliburton French Subsidiary. Uh, Ms know-it-all...this is old news. Keep your facts straight.

Halliburton Iraq ties more than Cheney said
NewsMax Wires
Monday, June 25, 2001
UNITED NATIONS, June 23 (UPI) -- Halliburton Co., the oil company that was headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, signed contracts with Iraq worth $73 million through two subsidiaries while he was at its helm, the Washington Post reported.

During last year's presidential campaign, Cheney said Halliburton did business with Libya and Iran through foreign subsidiaries, but maintained he had imposed a "firm policy" against trading with Iraq.

"Iraq's different," the Post quoted him as saying.

Oil industry executives and confidential U.N. records showed, however, that Halliburton held stakes in two companies that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney was chairman and chief executive officer, the Post reported.

Two former senior executives of the Halliburton subsidiaries said they knew of no policy against dealing with Iraq. One of them said he was certain Cheney knew about the deals, though he had never spoken about them to the vice president directly.

If he "was ever in a conversation or meeting where there was a question of pursuing a project with someone in Iraq, he said, 'No,' " Mary Matalin, Cheney's counselor, said.

"In a joint venture, he would not have reviewed all their existing contracts," Matalin told the Post. "The nature of those joint ventures was that they had a separate governing structure, so he had no control over them."

The deal was legal, the Post said, and they showed how U.S. firms use foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures to avoid doing business with Baghdad. The practice is not a violation of U.S. law and falls within the U.N.-run oil-for-food program.

The Post said U.N. records showed that the dealings were more extensive than originally reported and than Cheney had acknowledged, however.

According to the report, the Halliburton subsidiaries, Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co., sold material to Baghdad through French affiliates. The sales lasted from the first half of 1997 to the summer of 2000. Cheney resigned from Halliburton in August.