Christina Asquith
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/ 8 September 2006

Was 9/11 an inside job?

Shards of glass and dust from the World Trade Centre towers sit on Professor Steven Jones’s desk at Brigham Young University in Utah. Evidence, he says, of the biggest cover-up in history — one too evil for most to believe, but one he has staked his ­academic career on exposing. The attacks of September 11, Jones asserts, were an ”inside job”, puppeteered by the neoconservatives in the White House

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/ 21 April 2005

The tricky business of rewriting history

Sitting in the teachers’ lounge in Al Huda High School in the wealthy Al Jadriya district of Baghdad, history teacher Abstam Jassom says she will tell her students: ‘Americans are occupiers. They only want our oil.” Then, a few minutes later, she changes her mind. ‘We have seen what the old regime did – the […]