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AP: Administration Freed Terror Suspect By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Nabil al-Marabh was No. 27 on the FBI (news - web sites)'s list of terror suspects after Sept. 11. He trained in Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s militant camps, sent money to a roommate convicted in a foiled plot to bomb a hotel and boasted to an informant about plans to blow up a fuel truck inside a New York tunnel, FBI documents allege. The Bush administration set him free — to Syria — even though prosecutors had sought to bring criminal cases against him and judges...

After watching Katherine Harris lately, don’t let her pick any more presidents. Recall the '01 Florida ball, watching Republicans celebrate W’s victory. Katherine was star in black gown; object of whispers and turned heads. "In France, there was Joan of Arc; in Crimea, there was Nightingale; in the Deep South, there was Parks; in India, there was Mother Teresa. In Florida, there was Katherine!" Lesser women would be embarrassed. Riding to Congress in '02, her destiny was the Senate in '04. Nelson could do it; she could. But the Party needed to erase the dangling chads. Rove did his voodoo...

Dear Mike: You are a yellow-bellied, freedom-hating Yankee. I am a Confederate supporter, all the way, and there is not a drop of racism in me. So how can my Southern pride be a front for anything? I'm getting a revolver soon. Apologize or I will challenge you to a duel. Dear Marc: I only duel with swords. Dear Mike: Is it OK to be prejudicial toward Southrons, but wrong to be bigoted toward another group? Why are you allowed to embrace it and practice it against Southrons? Confederately, Michael Warren, Ph.D. Dear Michael: Southrons?