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AUGUST 4--An Osama bin Laden disciple serving life in the United States's only "supermax" federal prison believes that jailers are putting his health in jeopardy by X-raying all his food trays and commissary items in search of contraband items. Convicted terrorist Mohamed Al-Owhali alleges that the Bureau of Prisons security measure unreasonably increases his "daily exposure to potentially carcinogenic radiation," which the al-Qaeda operative claims violates Eighth Amendment prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment. The 31-year-old Al-Owhali, who is being held at the "supermax" lockup in Florence, Colorado, was convicted of conspiring to bomb a U.S. embassy in Africa, an...

Americans seem to have the memory span of the average sand flea. The vicious attack on American soil has been brushed aside by many. The fact that the enemy’s plan of attack was discovered, discussed, and published for all to see, also seems to have been dropped into the dumpster and forgotten. Our soldiers discovered a document in Afghanistan, “The Al Qaeda Manual,” quite some time ago but Americans didn’t learn anything from it. This manual lays out in great detail the plans of the Islamic enemy, and everyday on the news anyone can see that Al Qaeda and other...