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Send to a Friend Date: November 1, 2005 Time: 1:00 pm Speaker: Richard Miniter Author Host: John Edward Hilboldt Director, Lectures & Seminars, The Heritage Foundation Details: Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium In Disinformation, veteran investigative reporter and bestselling author Richard Miniter debunks the myths of the left (and the right) with hard evidence, high-level interviews and on-the-ground reporting in more than a dozen countries. If truth is the first casualty of war, urban legends are the first product of Americas War on Terror. In his new book, Mini ter punctures twenty-two myths about terrorism, al Qaeda, and the war in Iraq. He has sifted the written record, met with countless high-level s ources, and traveled the globe, from Sudan to the Philippines, Egypt to Iraq, to track down and refute some of the most widely believed and of ten pernicious legends of the War on Terror. Miniter provides evidence to shoot down disinformation and refute those who mindlessly repeat it. Richard Miniter is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Losing bi n Laden: How Bill Clintons Failures Unleashed Global Terror and Shadow War: The Untold Story of How America Is Winning the War on Terror. A vet eran investigative journalist, he was a member of the award-winning Sund ay Times (of London) investigative team.
com, he appears regularly on television and radio to d iscuss al Qaeda and global terrorism. An award-winning journalist, whose articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, the Atlantic Monthly , the New Republic, National Review, and Readers Digest, Miniter divide s his time between Brussels, Belgium, and Washington, DC 1995 - 2005 The Heritage Foundation All Rights Reserved.
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