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Ordinary Americans think Bin Laden and Saddam are the same man... By Paul Lashmar and Raymond Whitaker 02 February 2003 When did the "war against terror" become a campaign against Saddam Hussein rather than Osama bin Laden? Less than a month after the September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, some hawkish members of the US administration were stressing a connection with Iraq, but the shift did not become clear until George Bush's State of the Union address in January last year, when the "axis of evil" was unveiled. Suddenly Baghdad was in the frame, and...

The rhetoric remains the same but Iran is trying to change (Filed: 02/11/2002) The revolutionary dynamo that stoked the zeal of the Muslim world would appear to have run down, reports Patrick Bishop in Teheran In the time of Ayatollah Khomeini Friday prayers at Teheran University were like a religious rock show where thousands flocked to hear the mullah's sermons. Fifteen years on the rhetoric remains the same but the congregation is greatly diminished. Last week the huge, open-sided shed on the campus was only half full as Ayatollah Mohammed Yazdi, a veteran preacher, denounced Zionists and Americans. Most of...

***MEDIA ALERT*** Thomas More Law Center to appear TONIGHT on The O'Reilly Factor on the FOX News Channel! Thomas More Law Center attorney Robert Muise and Ann Arbor public school student Betsy Hansen will appear TONIGHT on The O'Reilly Factor on the FOX News Channel, the #1 primetime program on cable news. They will discuss the recent lawsuit brought by the TMLC on behalf of the Christian student, challenging the Ann Arbor high school's pro-homosexual "Diversity Week". School officials prevented Betsy from expressing her traditional Christian belief regarding homosexual activity claiming that this was a "negative" message and would "water...