{"id":391,"date":"2024-03-09T02:23:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T09:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.110.86.41\/2\/?p=391"},"modified":"2025-01-02T19:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T02:53:28","slug":"dan-rathers-two-part-story-on-1000-years-for-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"From the Archives: On The CBS Evening News, Dan Rather reports from Iraq on &#8220;1000 Years for Revenge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"From%20the%20Archives%3A%20On%20The%20CBS%20Evening%20News%2C%20Dan%20Rather%20reports%20from%20Iraq%20on%20%221000%20Years%20for%20Revenge%22\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dan-Rather-CBS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1680 alignleft\" title=\"Dan Rather CBS\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dan-Rather-CBS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dan-Rather-CBS.png 382w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Dan-Rather-CBS-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sept. 11th, 2024 <\/strong><\/span>Twenty years ago, on the anniversary of the greatest intelligence failure since The Trojan Horse &#8211;\u00a0 the eve of publication of my first investigative book for HarperCollins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1000-Years-Revenge-International-FBI\/dp\/006054354X\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=147S9C7QJPC1P&amp;keywords=1000+Years+For+Revenge&amp;qid=1693200921&amp;sprefix=1000+years+for+revenge%2Caps%2C137&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>1000 Years For Revenge: International Terrorism and The FBI,\u00a0<\/strong><\/a> Dan Rather reported from Iraq on two consecutive nights.<\/p>\n<p>This is the link on <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YtUjoslfTTk\">my YouTube Channel<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>for both pieces. This is a link to my discussion of 1000 Years on<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0gt7YqnC-EI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong> C-Span2&#8217;s BOOK TV program.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In those back-to-back pieces on CBS&#8217;s premier nightly news program, Rather detailed my reporting on how both attacks on The World Trade Center: the 1993 bombing and the &#8220;planes as missiles&#8221; attack on 9\/11 were directly connected and bankrolled by Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>But more importantly, how the FBI and DOJ had gathered enough intelligence to stop the bombing on February 26th, 1993 that killed six and injured 1,000 and first learned of what became known as &#8220;the planes operation&#8221; as early as 1995.<\/p>\n<p>The architect of both plots was Ramzi Yousef, whose uncle, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM), was later identified by the FBI as the &#8220;mastermind&#8221; of 9\/11. But, as reported by Dan Rather, citing the evidence in my book, KSM was merely implementing a plot Yousef conceived in Manila in the late fall of 1994 &#8212; a plot uncovered by Col. Rodolfo B. Mendoza of The Phillippines National Police and communicated to prosecutors in the Southern District of New York after Yousef&#8217;s capture and rendition back to New York City in 1995.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14933\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Dan-Rather-1000-Part-One.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Dan-Rather-1000-Part-One.jpg 638w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Dan-Rather-1000-Part-One-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14934\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Dan-Rather-Part-Two.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Dan-Rather-Part-Two.jpg 632w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Dan-Rather-Part-Two-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"From%20the%20Archives%3A%20On%20The%20CBS%20Evening%20News%2C%20Dan%20Rather%20reports%20from%20Iraq%20on%20%221000%20Years%20for%20Revenge%22\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Sept. 11th, 2024 Twenty years ago, on the anniversary of the greatest intelligence failure since The Trojan Horse &#8211;\u00a0 the eve of publication of my first investigative book for HarperCollins, 1000 Years For Revenge: International Terrorism and The FBI,\u00a0 Dan Rather reported from Iraq on two consecutive nights. This is the link on my YouTube [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,5,7,12],"tags":[125,144,330,123,467,122,1223,400,165,151,391,227,372,224,383,229,114,172,1211,223,388,226,160,454,387,109,380,110,119,401,395,382,113,386,252,106,225,108,393,470,162,375,390,311,472,377,373,392,379,249,228,163,402,111,115,381,116,374,462,397,399,406,118,105,167,161,384,385,107,376,126,230,231,233,291,1219,1220,468,469,158,232,473,121,461,471,398,396,251,250,112,1214,1222,463,389,117,394,371,378,120,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19959,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/19959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}