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Last week, John Walker Lindh  petitioned the president to commute his 20-year sentence for fighting with the Taliban, imposed in 2002.  It’s a shame that this pampered child of Marin County is sitting in a cell for something as trivial as treason. Under a plea bargain, Walker Lindh (AKA: Abdul Hamid, AKA: Sulayman Al-Lindh) pleaded guilty to supplying services to the Taliban regime and carrying explosives for  Afghanistan’s former rulers.Which is like to saying that Benedict Arnold supplied services to George III. Johnny Jihad trained in an al-Qaeda camp – where he learned to fire an AK-47 and rubbed elbows...

2 Middle Eastern men detained FBI: Duo bought plane tickets, but gave false phone numbers BY LENNY SAVINO Herald Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Two Middle Eastern men who paid cash for one-way airline tickets from New York to Amsterdam and apparently gave false phone numbers to a New York City travel agency were being questioned Monday by the FBI, the agency said. The men bought tickets for Friday night's Delta Air Lines Flight 80, scheduled to leave John F. Kennedy International Airport at 8:15 p.m. They were detained before boarding the flight, which was canceled. The FBI would not ...

MANGALORE: ‘‘Culture is nothing but a way of life and Bunts’ culture which is thousands of years old is losing hold owing to various reasons,’’ said Bangalore-based industrialist and litterateur D.K. Chouta in his welcome address at a seminar on ‘Role of Bunts in the changing universe’ held at A.B.Shettynagar as part of the World Bunts Convention on Saturday. Chouta cited the example of the Roman empire which was destroyed owing to the excesses committed by its citizens over a course of time. ‘‘Pursuit of wealth is the main cause for the downfall of the Bunt culture,’’ he said.New York-based...

Hope this works, first time poster. You are all probably aware that US carriers are going to zero commission for travel agents. I ask you to consider the following: This is nothing more than and increase to the traveling public as travel agents have no choice but to charge $35-$50 to passengers for issuing airline tickets. Could it be that the airlines want to kill a business that has successfully served the traveling public for many years and supports the communities in which they work and live? Or could it be that the airlines want to take out the only...