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Contrast the audiotapes of a man quietly repeating "Oh my God, Oh my God" to his father as he watches as the airplane he is on, along with his wife and 2 ½ year old daughter, crash into the World Trade Center, with the shouts of convicted terrorist Zacarious Moussaoui damning the courtroom to hell. We have Moussoui's attorney pleading that his client be spared the death penalty because of his mental illness and begging the court not to allow his client to fulfill his dreams of martyrdom. We have a man sitting in the courtroom, daring the US courts...

The head of the UN administration in the West Bank and Gaza admits Hamas members are on his payroll. Media outlets ignore it. Peter Hansen (pictured at right), Commissioner-General of the UN agency in Gaza and the West Bank, made a startling admission in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday (10/4): I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll and I don't see that as a crime... we do not do political vetting and exclude people from one persuasion as against another. With this statement, Hansen verified what Israel has long contended ¯...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel is holding 25 U.N. employees in the Palestinian West Bank or Gaza but has not charged any with a crime or even told the United Nations (news - web sites) of their detention, U.N. officials said on Wednesday. The officials spoke a day after an Israeli officer in Jerusalem said Israel had arrested 13 employees of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and planned to indict them for "suspected links to terrorism." Israel linked the U.N. employees to "terrorism" shortly after backing away from an accusation that Palestinian militants transported a rocket to be...