Monday, August 28, 2006
This show from National Geographic sounds interesting:
Mohamed infiltrated the U.S. despite being on the State Department Terrorist Watch List, married an American, and became a U.S. citizen while training al Qaeda terrorists, including bin Laden himself. He then joined the U.S. Army and trained U.S. soldiers about Middle East politics and culture, while training members of the terror cell that bombed the WTC in 1993.
It's a real life epic that plays like a thriller as it takes you through twists and turns from Brooklyn to Khartoum, Afghanistan to Fort Bragg. "Triple Cross: Bin Laden's Spy In America" is the untold story of an ex-Egyptian Special Forces Major who slipped through every crevice of the U.S. intelligence community while working for bin Laden.
Video preview here. From which I notice something. Focus on the "fingerless" manner in which Bin Laden holds a microphone...almost as though he's levitating the device...too cool, or limp, to actually grasp such an instrument:
The cognocenti will instantly recognize this mic-holding methodology as mirroring to the extent of fully six decimal places the stylings of The Match Game's own, Gene Rayburn, the man who perfected the open-hand mic-hold:
Coincidence? I think not.
[h/t: Joe N]
Very good show, although I got ticked off watching it. The cluelessness of the FBI and the Clintonistas was really something. And it covers a lot of ground, connecting the dots in the many attacks against the U.S. since the bombing of the U.S. emabssy in Beirut in 1983. The show is being aired a few times this week, it's a must-see.