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What will become of yesterday's red hot story about 6 Islamist terrorists brought to justice ? Will the "Fort Dix Six" become "heroes" ?

The nation's largest Islamic civil rights group plans to launch a public relations campaign on Thursday, to tell Americans that terrorism is incompatible with their religion. At a news conference in Washington, D.C., the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will unveil public service announcements, to be aired nationwide, highlighting the Muslim community's condemnation of terrorism and rejection of those who carry out terror attacks. The campaign is called "Not in the Name of Islam," and it includes an Arabic-subtitled version of the 30-second public service announcement. "We often hear claims Muslims don't condemn terrorism and that Islam condones violence," American...

It looks like Teresa Heinz Kerry is rubbing off on her husband. And on Sen. Hillary Clinton. For the Republican Party, this is a very good thing. You'll recall that last month, Mrs. Heinz Kerry put on her shiniest tinfoil hat and blamed the Democrats' loss in November on rigged voting machines. As reported in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Mrs. Heinz Kerry openly questioned the election results and fixated on areas of the country where optical scanners were used to record votes. "Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Mrs. Heinz Kerry intoned, and it...

For two years Osama bin Laden remained in hiding. No one heard a word from him, to the extent that many thought he could be dead. Suddenly, in the eve of the American presidential elections, this terrorist came out of his hole with an ominous message. Those who analyzed the tape concluded that there was no hint of a specific threat. But they are mistaken. We'll get to that later. For now let us assume they are right. In that case what was the message? Did this terrorist come out to say that he is impartial in this election? Osama...

Walker: Sosa's Explanations Don't Add Up 1 hour, 23 minutes ago By BEN WALKER, AP Baseball Writer Sammy Sosa said all the right things. It was a mistake. It was for the fans. It was an accident that will not happen again. A lot of explanations and excuses. And about as hard to believe as many of those 500-foot monster shots he launches. On Wednesday, X-rays showed that 76 of Sosa's bats confiscated a day earlier were clean. Which would mean he somehow hit a 1-in-77 chance of bad luck. Hmmmm. Sosa insists he was using a lighter, corked bat...

The results of the midterm elections last November greatly saddened Barbra Streisand. But within three days of that awful event she had picked herself up, duster herself off, and sat down to tell us why the Democrats lost. Like the blond who stares at the red arrow on a subway map, "You are here," and asks "How do it know?" we are bound to ask, "How does Yentl know why the Democrats lost?" More, we want to ask her why her analysis is in terms of why the Democrats lost rather than why the Republicans won. Ms. Streisand views elections...