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The man arrested for plotting a car bombing in New York's Times Square appeared in a video on Al Arabiya television Wednesday in which he said he planned to attack the United States. "This attack on the United States will be a revenge for all the mujahedeen (holy warriors) ... and oppressed Muslims, including ... Abu Musab al Zarqawi," the late leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, said Faisal Shahzad. The recording, whose authenticity could not immediately be confirmed, was made in English and had an Arabic voiceover. "I will carry this attack on their behalf, and I hope that...

The movie "300" - based on a "graphic novel" (read comic book), itself loosely based on the battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) - has drawn the usual thoughtful and nuanced response from the turbaned thugs who run Iran. The last stand of King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans denigrates the glorious Persian antecedents of present day Iran, charges Javad Shangari, art advisor to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "Art advisor" to a terrorist state - now there's a non sequitur. Does he critique artists who work in body parts? "Hollywood declares war on Iranians" blared the headline in a Tehran daily....