Walking September 11’s Other Crime Scenes

It was late in the afternoon when my mother told me that “they would come for us.” I was not yet 10 at the time. Climbing the stairs for a tea-time cheese sandwich, I left my brother and cousins to their football skirmish in the garden of my family’s villa in western Baghdad. Or so I remember. I saw two skyscrapers spewing smoke over New York, and my mother stone-faced before the TV. She was right.
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Bush, With Legacy of Torture, Unveils Portrait Book of “Political Prisoners”

Former President George W. Bush, the father of the global war on terror that has suppressed and killed millions of people across the world, has announced that he is releasing a book of paintings called The Call of Freedom: Portraits of Political Prisoners and Dissidents. The book is being published by Penguin Random House imprint Crown, and includes paintings and biographical information on…
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