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Dick Cheney

New book records harrowing stories of witnesses, officials in 9/11 attacks

The vice president gave permission to shoot down an identified hijacked commercial aircraft. "Having seen what had happened in NY and the Pentagon, you really didn’t have any choice," he explained.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Vice President Cheney with Condoleezza Rice, Karen Hughes and Mary Matalin in the President's Emergency Operations Center on September 11, 2001
Sacha Baron Cohen.

Sacha Baron Cohen: Ex-IDF officer helped me trick Dick Cheney

Actor says vice president quizzed him about his fake military history ahead of interview for 'Who Is America?'

|ByAMY SPIRO
Sacha Baron Cohen in his new Showtime series Who is America

Sacha Baron Cohen exploits Americans' fetishization of Israel

'Who is America' shows how little some of Israel's biggest supporters know about the Jewish state

|ByAMY SPIRO
Sacha Baron Cohen.

Sacha Baron Cohen teasing new show, Dick Cheney signing a ‘waterboard kit’

“Dick Cheney, is it possible to sign my waterboard kit?” Cohen asks in an Eastern European tone that recalls Borat, his ostensibly Kazakhstani character.

|ByGABE FRIEDMAN/JTA

Revealed: How close did Israel come to counterattacking Iraq in 1991?

Moshe Arens: I approved attacking Iraq in 1991, Cheney played for time.

JANUARY 18, 2018
Yitzhak Shamir, prime minister during the 1991 Gulf War, is flanked by then-defense minister Moshe Arens (left) and an unidentified officer