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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The new Hamas leader in Gaza on Sunday called President Bush (news - web sites) an enemy of Islam and said that "God declared war" against the United States and Israel — but stopped short of saying the group would strike U.S. targets. The Hamas chief, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, renewed threats to attack Israel in retaliation for the assassination of the group's founder, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, last week. He was addressing a Hamas rally at Gaza City's Islamic University. Last week, immediately after the killing of Yassin, the Hamas military wing made veiled threats against...

U.S. sees North Korean leader's fear as asset Thom Shanker/NYT NYT Monday, May 12, 2003 WASHINGTON In the face of new evidence that Kim Jong Il, the leader of North Korea, has lived recently in fear of an American attack, Defense Department officials say they are contemplating ways to hold him and his inner circle at risk as a way of bolstering deterrence on the peninsula. According to intelligence reports, Kim vanished from public view for 50 days beginning just before the war to depose Saddam Hussein, a time when the Pentagon also moved bombers into the Korean area of...

<p>Tuesday, November 19, was truly [1] a black, black day for this nation and one I never dreamed would happen here.</p> <p>I remember vividly as a child watching Nikita Khrushchev standing at the UN beating his shoe against the podium and shouting that they (the then Soviet Union) would take us over without firing a shot. Little did we know or ever dream then that the Soviet Union would fall but that a truly [2] evil man from Texas and his equally evil regime from Cheney on down would take us over from within and that the Democrats would completely collapse before our eyes and help him do it. This truly [3] began with the stolen election of 2000.</p>