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Catholic Health Association Applauds Pro-Abortion Cabinet Picks Lamented by Pro-Lifers By Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, D.C., December 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Catholic Health Association (CHA) has praised President-elect Obama's health administration picks, including Tom Daschle for Secretary of Health and Human Services, despite simultaneous dismay from the pro-life corner, which has pointed out his documented and indefatigable support for abortion on Capitol Hill. The former Democratic Senate majority leader, an early and avid Obama supporter, gained notoriety for his liberal views on abortion when he opposed the partial-birth abortion ban, endorsed taxpayer-funded military abortions, and supported taxpayer funding to provide...

West infiltrates al-Qa'eda message boards in the war on terror By Aqeel Hussein in Ramadi, Saleh Al Jibouri and Colin Freeman (Filed: 29/05/2005) Before Abu Dajeneh drove out of the world to martyrdom in an Iraqi car bomb, he prayed, read the Koran and even sent a final email. On an internet message board for al-Qa'eda affiliates, he said farewell to his comrades and that he looked forward to their next meeting, not in cyberspace, but Paradise. The al-Qa'eda message board "We will ask each other: 'Are you such-and-such who used to write Allah the Almighty! in such-and-such a message...