Kathryn Raaker – Host and Executive Producer of two television shows: The Chef You and I, Born B 4 64, on the Telos Digital TV Network. Host of the Syndicated “Let’s Just Talk Show” every Saturday Morning on Real Talk WQRT 1160 AM and KFNX 1100. Member of the Women in Film and Video, Washington, DC Chapter. CEO of Tri-State Connection, LLC, a global multi-media and Public Relations Company Consultant for Product Placement and Brand Management Founder of the Professional Referral Organization Date Recorded: 01/05/2012
My name is Andreas Kluth and I am three things in life: husband/dad, correspondent for The Economist, and aspiring book author. On this blog, I’ll be writing mostly about the book (to be published on January 5th, 2012) and the process of writing it, as well as writing and language in general. For the next couple of months, I probably won’t give away too much from the plot itself, but nearer to publication, you can expect me to open up a lot more. I’ll also take occasional detours into stuff related to The Economist and the world of ideas generally. Occasionally, I may get just plain wacky. Hopefully I’ll hear in the comments from anybody who’s interested, in the book or in other things that come up.
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Sam Sommers – Sam Sommers is an award-winning teacher and researcher of social psychology at Tufts University outside Boston.
His research specialties include how people think, communicate, and behave in diverse settings, as well as psychological perspectives on the U.S. legal system.
At Tufts, Sam is known for his engaging lecture style and has won multiple teaching awards, including being selected by the Student Senate as the Professor of the Year in 2009.
(His wife would also insist on mentioning that he was voted by the student newspaper the “hottest” male professor on campus. However, being well-versed in the power of situations, he’d note that the honor had less to do with him than with the anything-but-fierce state of the competition.)
In his free time, Sam enjoys hanging out with his wife and two daughters, batting lead-off for the vaunted Tufts Psychology summer softball team, and exerting far more effort than he probably should looking for Seinfeld and Daily Show clips to use in the classroom. Date Recorded: 01/05/2012
VERDICT: IRAN BEHIND 9/11: Federal Judge finds Iran and Hezbollah Culpable in Attacks There are two names that are at the center of a case that helped lead U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels to sign documents that identify the state of Iran, Hezbollah, the Ayatollah, and others as being very involved in the September 11th attacks. Janice Kephart, Director of National Security Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, and former counsel for the 9/11 Commission provided a written affidavit for the case.
Abolghasem Mesbahi, an Iranian who fled that country when he was tipped off by a colleague that he was on the regime’s kill list, provided what Daniels deemed credible testimony. According to court documents, after Mesbahi left Iran, he received coded messages three times within two months prior to the 9/11 attacks; those messages demonstrate Iran’s foreknowledge of an operation known as “Satan in Fire,” a term used to describe an attack on the United States that ultimately succeeded.
The other individual who was instrumental in connecting Iran to the 9/11 attacks was a man named Imad Mughniyah, who essentially served as the Hezbollah leader that worked with al-Qaeda while receiving direction from Iranian officials. Mughniyah was assassinated in Syria in February of 2008.
The case, known as Havlish v. Iran, may provide the clearest evidence yet of Iran’s involvement in the worst attack on American soil. Documents show that Mughniyah and 9/11 attackers traveled on flights together and that individuals involved were repeatedly allowed to pass through Iran without having their passports stamped.
Kephart, an immigration expert, warns that with Hezbollah’s increased presence to America’s south, the facts about Iran’s involvement in 9/11 are now more important than ever.
Ms. Kephart is an internationally recognized border and ID security expert, who served as counsel to the 9/11 Commission and was a key author of the Staff Monograph, 9/11 and Terrorist Travel, as well as the immigration-related facts and recommendations in the 9/11 Commission Report.
Prior to 9/11, she was responsible for conducting factual investigations into counterterrorism issues and conducting oversight of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (before the creation of the Department of Homeland Security) as a counsel to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology and Terrorism.
Her focus is on assuring implementation of 9/11 Commission border recommendations, as her extensive work on the REAL ID Act demonstrates.
Her website, 911securitysolutions.com, is a one-stop shop for border issues relating to 9/11, and Ms. Kephartʼs personal library on the subject. Ms. Kephart speaks regularly at conferences, to international media, publishes articles and op-eds around the world, and has testified before Congress ten times on issues of border and ID security. She attended Duke University and Villanova Law School.
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There are two names that are at the center of a case that helped lead U.S. District Court Judge George Daniels to sign documents that identify the state of Iran, Hezbollah, the Ayatollah, and others as being very involved in the September 11th attacks. Janice Kephart, Director of National Security Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, and former counsel for the 9/11 Commission provided a written affidavit for the case.
