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Fort Dix five guilty of conspiracy to kill soldiers by John P. Martin/The Star-Ledger Monday December 22, 2008, 1:30 PM Five Muslim immigrants from South Jersey were convicted today of plotting to kill American soldiers, a crime that prosecutors said demonstrated how Al Qaeda was using the Internet to recruit, train and incite supporters for attacks in the United States and around the world. The jurors, however, acquitted the men of an additional charge of attempted murder. The verdicts represented a victory for prosecutors and validation of tactics the FBI has increasingly used nationwide to detect and disrupt suspected terror...

Muslims believed behind bombing of Gaza Christian bookstore --------------------------------------------------------- April 15, 2007 A bookstore run by the Bible Society in the Arab-controlled Gaza Strip was bombed early Sunday, in an attack by a suspected Muslim 'vice-squad.' Two Internet cafes were also badly damaged, although no-one was hurt in the early morning attack. Gaza's small Christian Arab community lies at the mercy of the increasingly Islamicised overwelming Muslim majority. As is the case in Islamic societies everywhere, Christians in the "Palestinian Authority" are deemed enemies who need to be brought, through persuasion, terrorism or violence, into submission to Allah.

This morning a great many of the talking heads are saying the Republican defeat could actually be a blessing in disguise, if it will motivate the GOP to return to its conservative principles. However, I believe it will turn out to be not just a political debacle, but a strategic defeat of monumental proportions. I doubt if OBL and his lieutenants are sitting around in their cave today telling each other, "Gosh! This Republican defeat might cause the GOP to return to its conservative core. We better be careful. Such a renewed party could regain power in '08 and we'll...