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He's baaaaaaack! And what a nuisance he is. Osama bin Laden appeared out of the ethereal reaches of his less than cave-like digs last week to opine on how Americans could avoid another attack at his behest, and which candidate he thought would make a less-threatening president — for him and his terrorist legions, that is. Was he crazy to do so? More likely, he's crazy like a fox is crazy. With an appearance timed as deftly as a Terry McAuliffe "gotcha" ad for the Democrats, bin Laden wins no matter who wins on Tuesday. In appearing as he did,...

These days his alarm rings at 4:30 a.m. The wakeup call gives Mushtaque Alikhan Mirza, a practicing Muslim fasting for the celebration of Ramadan, just enough time for breakfast before sunrise. Then he settles in to work for the next 15 hours -- for free. Within minutes he's installed in front of the computer in his Cambridge home. There he will remain until 9 or 10 p.m., volunteering his time by sending countless e-mails and making call upon call to Muslims around the country. "I have been calling the Somalian communities in Minneapolis and the Arab communities in Michigan," said...