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Latest read: The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright has written an amazing book that helps us understand al-Qaeda. His book The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 is very well written and as a result very upsetting.  This deservedly won the Pulitzer Prize.
The Looming TowerWould you be surprised to learn foundations of al-Qaeda began from an Egyptian enrolled in grad school at the University of Northern Colorado in 1949? His name was Sayyid Qutb. He began the modern Islamist movement that today is al-Qaeda.

Wright documents the wealth of the bin Laden’s family which provided Osama bin Laden the financial ability to forward his own view of the world through terrorism. Osama bin Laden promoted great myths of Islam defeating massive Soviet troops in Afghanistan to sell his vision…including the dreams of airplanes hitting buildings and his relationship with Ayman al-Zawahiri.

The Looming Tower uncovers frustrating examples of how the US government failed to stop the attacks on 9/11 even when small teams within our intelligence agencies had evidence of the coming attacks. But they were fighting each other. The CIA purposefully withheld evidence from the FBI. This shows how broken our intelligence systems were organized and how they failed America.

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Last day of school year

The semester and academic year wrapped up last night for MIAD. There is nothing better than walking the halls of an Art school and seeing the achievements of such a creative group of students.

They are really inspiring…and our Foundations students (freshman) have really excelled in their first group show in MIAD’s East Gallery. There were great works in our senior exhibition which is still available for you to see in the MIAD building until May 12th.

MIAD is also losing two faculty members at the end of this school year with the retirements of Deane Nesbitt and Ron Bitticks. They will really be missed by our students.

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