Since Unknowncountry.com began its coverage of 911 and I began reading my ‘What I Love About America’ statement on the radio, hundreds of people have voted with their feet, quitting my newsletter and abandoning the website.

It has been a hard, hard few weeks in our world, beginning with 911 and ending now with the latest FBI warning that Sunday could bring another terror attack. Anne and I have spent a great deal more time on Unknowncountry.com than ever before. The number of stories published by the site has quadrupled.
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Whitley at his most controversial.

In a chilling new journal entry, Whitley Strieber explores why he is not a follower of the garden-variety conspiracy theorists, and why you shouldn’t be, either. But he also discusses disturbing evidence that there is good reason to believe that serious abuses have taken place, and that urgent reform of some of our troubled federal institutions, most notably the Central Intelligence Agency, is essential.

He talks about the reason why Unknowncountry.com has experienced so many defections from its newsletter during this period, and what our e-mail reveals about what many Americans really think about President Bush and our new war.
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In her new Diary, Anne Strieber addresses a question that is fundamental to the national debate over how to conduct our new war: should we feel guilty about the poverty of the third world, which is where all of the hatred of America that feeds people like Osama bin Laden originates?

Her approach to the question is as unique and creative as it is fascinating. Here’s one approach that really would change the world. To read it, click here.

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The FBI has said that there is a threat of a terrorist attack against an American target in the US or abroad tomorrow, according to a New York Times report. Government officials told the Times that the alert was an attempt to be careful, and that it was “an accumulation of tidbits.”

On Saturday, a Delta Airlines flight from New York to Amsterdam was cancelled when two middle-eastern men bought one-way tickets at the last minute. The men were detained.

Letters containing powder have been transmitted to many civilian and military targets, including American Media, NBC, the New York Times, Microsoft, Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, the San Antonio city government, and numerous others.
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