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While many analysts are crediting the U.S.'s capture of Saddam Hussein for the decision by Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi to change his ways, it was actually the discovery by U.S. intelligence of a cache of Libya's WMDs that convinced the duplicitous dictator that the jig was up. According to Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, "One thing that pushed Gadhafi over the top in making this deal was that we intercepted a ship on the high seas sometime in the summer or early fall that had weapons of mass destruction components being shipped to Libya." Kristol told Fox News Sunday that...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 29 - A prominent Islamic leader who has met with President Bush and been an aggressive defender of militant Middle East causes was charged today in connection with possible terrorist financing. The leader, Abdurahman Alamoudi of Falls Church, Va., was detained on Sunday at Dulles International Airport in Virginia after a flight from London. Federal prosecutors said Mr. Alamoudi had been arrested for making illegal trips to Libya and for accepting money from the Libyan government. Mr. Alamoudi, a naturalized American citizen, was born in Eritrea and moved to the United States from Yemen in 1979. He...

Al Qaida members arrested for killing of US diplomat Police have arrested a Libyan and a Jordanian with links to top al Qaida operative for the killing of an American diplomat in October, confirms the Jordanian government. Laurence Foley was shot at close range on October 28 in front of his home in Amman. Information Minister Mohammed Affash Adwan says the two men, Salem Saad bin Suweid, a Libyan, and Yasser Fatih Ibrahim, a Jordanian, both acknowledged belonging to al Qaida. He says the Libyan trained in al Qaida camps in Afghanistan and entered Jordan on a fake Tunisian passport....