In case you missed this a few weeks ago, an Iranian expatriate named Amir Taheri wrote an op-ed peice in the Canadian National Post that said Iran was passing a law requiring religious minorities to wear badges to identify themselves.

Taheri said that Jews would be identified by yellow badges. Jews were required to wear yellow badges in Nazi Germany.

Turns out, the story is false. Experts say report of badges for Jews in Iran is untrue.

Shorty after the story is broadcast and debunked what does Bush have to say about? He invites Taheri to the White House for advice on the administration’s Iran policy.

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“The US, terrified that Islamists allied to al-Qaeda are gaining control in Somalia, has turned to the kind of warlords who once dragged dead American soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, as its new allies in the “war on terror”.”

From the Sunday Herald (independent newspaper in Scotland).

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