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SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2005 A reminder from al-Qaida Friday's unsuccessful rocket attack on a U.S. Navy amphibious warfare ship, the USS Ashland, at Aqaba, Jordan, came with terrorism's equivalent of a calling card, an Internet statement claiming responsibility in the name of al-Qaida. The attack, reminiscent of the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, is a reminder that al-Qaida has been trying for more than a decade to drive the United States out of the Middle East. And the statement of responsibility is a reminder of al-Qaida's motives. Referring to a simultaneous rocket attack on the nearby Israeli port of...

3/8/2005 Clip No. 594 Hizbullah Leader Hassan Nasrallah threatens the US and Supports Syria in a Beirut Rally The following are excerpts from an address by Hizbullah Leader Hassan Nasrallah to a pro-Syrian rally in Beirut. Al-Manar TV aired this address on March 8, 2005 Hassan Nasrallah: We say to Syria, as your president, Bashar Al-Assad has said: "In Lebanon, your presence in not material or military. You are present in the souls, the hearts, the minds, the present, the past, and the future…" I say to you, no one can get Syria out of Lebanon, or out of...