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Bill O'Reilly corners an Egyptian American apologist over the subject of Anti American Egyptian state controlled media and the lack of democracy in Egypt. Excerpt: O'Reilly: When was the last democratic government in Egypt? Ramses II? Guest: Mr. O'Reilly you have really made some friends in Egypt.

Thursday November 15, 5:30 AM Al-Jazeera says correspondent in US detained Qatar's Al-Jazeera satellite channel said one of its correspondents in the United States was detained by police while covering the US-Russian summit in Texas. "American police detained Al-Jazeera's Washington correspondent Mohammad al-Alami while he was covering the US-Russian summit in Texas," it said in an on-screen announcement. Alami, whom Al-Jazeera contacted by telephone, said he was detained at Waco airport from where he was to travel to Crawford for the summit between US President George W. Bush and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. "Policemen armed with M-16 automatic rifles followed ...

Terrorists Don't Deserve Constitutional Safeguards, Cheney Asserts WASHINGTON The terrorists who launched the Sept. 11 attacks, and the people who helped them, are war criminals who do not deserve the protections of the U.S. Constitution, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Vice President Dick Cheney argue in defense of a plan to prosecute foreign terrorism suspects in American military tribunals. "They don't deserve the same guarantees and safeguards that would be used for an American citizen going through the normal judicial process," Mr. Cheney said Wednesday. Mr. Ashcroft told a separate audience that "it's important to understand that we are at ...

THE Taliban were sent a chilling message by a massive US leaflet drop yesterday: “We Are Watching!” The point was driven home by a picture of warlord Mullah Mohammed Omar’s NUMBER PLATE — taken from an unmanned Predator spy plane thousands of feet up. The photo of the plate on Omar’s sports utility vehicle appeared on a leaflet beside his bearded profile, both caught in the crosshairs of a gunsight. The pamphlet also carried the “Watching” warning under the menacing stare of a pair of fierce eyes. The Americans have bombarded Afghanistan with thousands of printed pamphlets aimed at ...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday night that Mideast terrorists are determined to obtain nuclear weapons and when they do, they will use them on New York City. "They're going to attack American again and again," Netanyahu told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." And the great danger that we face is..... if they acquire nuclear weapons - if any part of this terror network acquires nuclear weapons, they will use it. And history as we know it will come to a pass." In an exchange with Sean Hannity, the one-time Israeli chief said there is no doubt ...

I've been collating a lot of information over the last few weeks and have a suspicion about a highly probable next major attack. First off, attacking bridges just aint their style. not enough financial impact in that. At least not at the Stock market level. Now if you want to know what they like, they like to short stock and destroy S&P businesses. We still don't have an answer to stock manipulation on the short side. It's not really that manageable. Too many outlets to cash out. The Al Queda are sophisticated in their theory of how to destroy America ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have detained more than 100 people in the southern city of Kandahar and threatened to execute anyone helping the United States, a private news agency reported Wednesday. "As per Mullah (Mohammed) Omar's decree, anyone found working for enemies will be executed after a summary trial," the South Asian Dispatch Agency quoted Mullah Abdul Razzak, an official of the Taliban interior ministry, as saying. On Wednesday, Taliban soldiers armed with rocket launchers and Kalashnikov rifles drove pickup trucks through the deserted and bomb-battered streets of Kandahar - headquarters of their religious movement. The soldiers ...

An Open Letter to Arab Readers Let me apologize from the outset for the presumption of this missive. What standing have I to write a letter to an Arab readership? If you are citizens of Egypt or Jordan, Syria or Iraq, or the Palestine struggling to be born, I have not visited your lands or studied your language, and you are unlikely to know my writing. Some of you who are Arab-Americans might recognize me; I spoke before several of your groups during last year's presidential campaign, and have occasionally sought assistance from the ever-helpful press officers of Arab-American organizations. ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Shortly after Sept. 11, the leader of New York City's largest mosque, long known for his moderate views, suddenly moved back to Cairo and was quoted on a Web site as blaming Jews for the terrorist attacks. Many were taken aback by the reports about Imam Mohammad Gemeaha, who three days after airliners were crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, delivered a sermon calling for peace among people of all religions. He was head of the prominent Islamic Cultural Center of New York City, which regularly draws at least 4,000 people for Friday ...