Australian Leader: Al-Qaida Wants Obama

Australia's conservative prime minister slammed Barack Obama on Sunday over his opposition to the Iraq war, a day after the first-term U.S. senator announced his intention to run for the White House in 2008.

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The Evidence Is In: Smirking Chimps Outsmart Sneering Intellectuals

Mid-November and President Obama has passed a milestone that virtually all presidents reach at some point – a below 50% approval rating.

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Both President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday defended their bizarre decision to try five Islamic terrorists tied to the 9/11 attacks in a federal court in New York City.

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Some Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee were taken aback Wednesday by Attorney General Eric Holder's refusal to reveal conflicts of interest involving Justice Department lawyers who, before joining the Obama administration, worked on behalf of Guantanamo detainees.

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RIYADH: Thirty years ago, as tens of thousands of hajj pilgrims were completing dawn prayers inside Mecca, gunshots pierced the sanctity of the Grand Mosque.

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Mr. Awlaki, 38, the son of a former agriculture minister and university president in Yemen, has never been accused of planting explosives himself.

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WASHINGTON - Suicides in the U.S. Army will hit a new high this year, a top general said on Tuesday in a disclosure likely to increase concerns about stress on U.S. forces ahead of an expected buildup in Afghanistan.

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Go to Washington any time in the past eight years and ask what influence Britain has over America's Afghan policy. The answer is a thumb and forefinger joined in a simple zero. The same was true in Iraq.

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Whoever suggested that Barack Obama is not a Christian? Obama's decision to try those Gitmo prisoners in New York is the perfect gift for Osama bin Laden and just in time for Christmas.

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Are we at war -- or not? For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a US citizen? Is it possible we have  …

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New York City experienced Muslim Day in 2008. Then there was the pro-Hamas demonstration in Florida.

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Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine revealed in October edition, that the number of US predator drone strikes on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by the CIA, has risen dramatically under President Obama.

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When waging war "by way of deception," the motto of Israel's Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe.

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Finally, it seems, the penny has dropped. America's 'good war' cannot be won militarily. Signs indicate that the US president, who was so gung ho on Afghanistan before taking office, has got the message. More troops just won't cut it.

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Andrew McCarthy an assistant U.S. attorney who in 1993 successfully prosecuted Omar Abdel Rahman (the "blind sheikh") for the first bombing of the World Trade Center said, "Mr.

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When it comes to terrorists, you would think that an al Qaeda operative who targets an American mom sitting in her office or a child on a flight back home is many degrees worse than a Taliban soldier picked up after a firefight with U.S. Army troops.

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Are we at war — or not? For if we are at war, why is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed headed for trial in federal court in the Southern District of New York? Why is he entitled to a presumption of innocence and all of the constitutional protections of a U.S. citizen?

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If you are upset about the Obama Administration's decision to bring al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed to New York for a federal civilian trial, and you are looking to blame someone, go straight to your bathroom and look into the mirror.

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I earned and wore a Green Beret and have sons doing the same now against a different enemy. There still remains a similar Beltway mindset where strategy is planned by military leaders, then discarded by an Administration seemingly bent on the destruction of what we hold dear.

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Barack Obama is in danger of giving deliberation a bad name. The decision about whether to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan was never going to be easy, but events -- and a collision of egos in Kabul -- have conspired to make it even harder.

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Candidate Barack Obama urged a return to pre-9/11 counterterrorism-by-courts. President Obama's Justice Department overflows with lawyers who spent the last eight years representing America's enemies.

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Reality check: India

India is the biggest democracy in the world, a secular society aspiring to lead South Asia as it flaunts its societal and economic success upon its smaller neighbors.

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On November 5, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, while shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great), opened fire on his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, in a US military base , killing 13 and injuring more than 24 persons.

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Sarah Palin objected to the forthcoming KSM trial thusly:The trial will afford Mohammed the opportunity to grandstand and make use of his time in front of the world media to rally his disgusting terrorist cohorts.

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PARIS: Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere said that Japan was among Al Qaeda's prime targets for attack, while promoting a book about his 25 years of efforts against terrorism.

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KARACHI: Recently, when the top official of Sindh who also belongs to a leading political party was asked whether it was due to government and police 'efficiency' that terrorists had not been able to strike Karachi, he admitted, on condition of anonymity, that 'although we  …

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