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There is another Apology Tour to the Muslim World getting underway. This time, rather than President Obama touring the Middle East and bowing to foreign rulers, NASA Head Charles Bolden and other NASA officials will tour the Middle East, performing their newly-appointed role of “Muslim Outreach”. Why must our NASA officials, whose job it is to oversee America’s Space Program, go to the Middle East for Muslim Outreach? None of the Middle East Countries even has a space program. The trip began on Friday. The delegation is going to Prague, then to Saudi Arabia, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of...

Al-Qaida second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri urged the Pope and Christians to convert to Islam in response to comments Benedict XVI made on Islam, and called U.S. President George W. Bush a failure and a liar in the war on terror, according to a video released Friday. "If Benedict attacked us, we will respond to his insults with good things. We will call upon him, and all of the Christians to become Muslims who do not recognize the Trinity or the crucifixion," al-Zawahri said, according to the Washington-based Search for International Terrorist Entities (SITE) Institute. Al-Zawahri also called a UN resolution to...

Al Qaeda Adopts Al-Zarqawi’s Watchword: Slaughter the Infidels DEBKAfile Special Report October 18, 2004, 9:57 AM (GMT+02:00) Britain has appealed to Iraqis to help recover the body of the British hostage Kenneth Bigley who was beheaded 10 days ago and bring him home for burial. His compatriots cannot comprehend how it was possible for an innocent construction worker to meet so cruel an end. Two American co-workers abducted with him in Baghdad, Jack Hensley and Eugene Armstrong, were murdered first in similar fashion. Their remains were found and repatriated. DEBKAfile’s al Qaeda experts stress that the fundamentalist group's ideologues of...