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A Huffington Post writer appeared to criticize the baseball shooter for poor planning Wednesday, saying “violent resistance” has to be more organized to “work.” “For violent resistance to work it’d need to be organized,” writer Jesse Benn tweeted. “Individual acts can be understandable, but likely counterproductive/ineffective.” {..snip..}

Riyad (AsiaNews) – Recent terrorist attacks against foreign people make experts reconsider their analysis about Al Qaeda’s modus operandi in Saudi Arabia. In the video that shows Paul Johnson, the American citizen held captive by the terrorists, Abdel Aziz al-Muqrin introduces himself as the leader of the terrorist organisation in Saudi Arabia. Al Muqrin succeeds to the Yemenite terrorist Khaled Ali al Haj, who died in March killed by the Saudi police. According to Peter Zehian, an analyst from Stratford, Zeihan is the author of the new strategy Al Qaeda has adopted in Saudi Arabia. This change follows many suicide...

Dem presidential candidate John Kerry lashed out at President Bush over self-deprecating jokes made at this year's Radio and Television Correspondents' Dinner. But Kerry himself has had trouble with pushing the humor envelope. "Somebody told me the other day that the Secret Service has orders that if George Bush is shot, they're to shoot Quayle," Kerry joked in 1988. The Massachusetts Democrat then said, "There isn't any press here, is there?" END

<p>Al Qaeda has been associated with high-profile, explosive terror -- September 11, bombings in Pakistan, Kenya, Indonesia and the Philippines -- but appears to be turning from mass killings to the assassination of political figures.</p> <p>Coalition intelligence sources tell CNN that al Qaeda plans to target Western diplomats and other public officials wherever it can.</p>

In the old James Bond films, Sean Connery played Agent 007. The double-0 meant Bond was one of but a handful of British agents who were licensed to kill. So it would appear is George W. Bush. According to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, President Bush has directed the CIA to conduct a covert operation to oust Saddam Hussein from power, and to use all available means, including the Special Forces. Adds Woodward, "Such forces would be authorized to kill Hussein if they were acting in self-defense." Now this may not be a presidential assassination order, but few could...