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On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda operatives slaughtered nearly 3,000 Americans in an operation that marked the second major attack by violent jihadists against the World Trade Center. There wasn’t much mystery about who had carried out these atrocities — unless you were Salam al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Marayati warned Americans not to conclude that the suicide hijacking attacks were the work of Muslim terrorists. “If we are going to look at suspects,” he told a Los Angeles radio station, “we should look at groups that benefit the most from these kinds of incidents, and I...

John Gebhardt's wife, Mindy, said that this little girl's entire family was executed. The insurgents intended to execute the little girl also, and shot her in the head, but they failed to kill her. She was cared for in John's hospital and is healing up, but continues to cry and moan. The nurses said John is the only one who seems to calm her down, so John has spent the last four nights holding her while they both slept in that chair. The girl is coming along with her healing. He is a real Star of the war, and represents...

What magnificant men we have in uniform! This little child has lost her whole family by the hands of murderous insurgents (terrorists). She was also shot in the head, but she is being treated at an American hospital in Balad, Iraq. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. John Gebhardt, of the 332nd Expiditionary Medical Group is said to be the only one who is able to calm this precious child. You see them here sleeping as he has done for the past few nights.

Retired U.S. Rep. Richard A. Gephardt is no longer a candidate -- he's a conglomerate. Gephardt outlined in an interview today a broad package of business and public-policy initiatives and relationships that now are taking up his time. Key among them is the creation of a new strategic consulting firm, Gephardt & Associates, that will offer assistance to clients on a variety of issues -- like health care -- where Gephardt made his legislative mark and is deemed somewhat of an expert. One of his first clients is Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. , a firm with long-held ties to Gephardt.

U.S. Newswire 17 May 20:25 To: National Desk Contact: Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman, 425-454-7012 BELLEVUE, Wash., May 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt are practicing "selective outrage" over reports that the White House had been alerted to possible terrorist threats prior to Sept. 11 because they are deliberately ignoring identical situations in 1995 and 1999, in which the Clinton Administration received more detailed warnings, and apparently did nothing, according reports by CNN and the Associated Press. Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman, co-authors of Double Trouble: Daschle & Gephardt -- Capitol...