The History Commons has started two new timelines this week, both of which cover overlaps between the site’s main projects. One of them deals with the military analysts story. It has been garnering more attention since the recent New York Times expose, but articles about it have dripped out over the years and there is a wealth of material, which was previously split between the Iran, Iraq Invasion, Iraq Occupation, and Detainee Abuse Timelines.
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The second new timeline is called Neoconservative Think Tank Influence on US Policies, and groups together entries that were previously split up between the various Iran, Iraq, Detainee Abuse, and 9/11 projects.
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Otherwise, the main additions to the History Commons this week were in the 9/11 Timeline and dealt with the 2002 Bali bombings, including some pretty specific warnings, and al-Qaeda in Southeast Asia. In addition, there is more about the time spent by two 9/11 hijackers in Thailand and the CIA’s seeming inability to find them there, as well as extra material about British intelligence asset and al-Qaeda recruiter Abu Hamza al-Masri.
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The Invasion of Iraq Timeline has cross-posted entries from the military analysts timeline that relate to Iraq. One thing about the press coverage that is interesting is that while the major networks and the Washington Post got it wrong, and the New York Times boasted the supreme talents of Judy Miller, Knight Ridder (now McClatchy) actually got the story right, proving that it could be done.
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Material about links between an agent provocateur and the Watergate burglars on the one hand and the White House on the other has been added to the Nixon and Watergate project.
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