The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Washington - About eight of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers had transited Iran before attacking the United States, but there is no sign Iran's government took part in the plot, the CIA's acting director said on Sunday. "We have no evidence that there is some sort of official sanction by the government of Iran for this activity. We have no evidence that there is some sort of official connection between Iran and 9/11," John McLaughlin, acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said on 'Fox News Sunday.' Berlin - Germans will mark the 60th anniversary of a failed bid to assassinate Adolf Hitler tomorrow. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will attend a ceremony in the former Nazi war ministry's courtyard, where the top conspirators were executed. On July 20, 1944, high-ranking Nazi officer Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg carried a bomb in a briefcase into a meeting with Hitler, then left. The explosion only wounded Hitler. Boston - The pilot of the U.S. bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan in the last days of World War II died in a Boston hospital on Friday. Charles W. Sweeney died of natural causes at Massachusetts General Hospital, his son, Joseph, said on Sunday. He was 84. Gaza - Musa Arafat, newly-appointed Palestinian chief of public security services, said on Sunday that there would be no physical confrontations or adversaries in the Gaza Strip in the future.
