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“I hope they Mirandized this Ahmed Hashim Abed guy before they punched him.”—Rush Limbaugh On March 31, 2004, a small convoy guarded by four American civilian contractors was ambushed at Fallujah, Iraq, and the guards were killed. The bodies of the four Blackwater security guards were burnt, hacked, and two of the mutilated bodies were hung for display on a bridge over the Euphrates river. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that in ” a macabre and murderous town fete, locals cheered as one corpse was attached to a car tow rope and pulled triumphantly up and down the main road….”...

I saw Norman Podhoretz plumping his new book, “World War IV,” on CSPAN-2. ...Podhoretz contends World War III to be the Cold War and World War IV to be against what he calls “Islamofascism” — every contention of which is an absurdity. ... “Islamofascism” is a term I have attacked for years. Fascism was a political system located mainly in Europe in the 1920s-1940s. It is secular in nature; both Mussolini and Hitler, the primary fascists, were anti-religious and secular. So it’s silly to attach a religion to it, as in “Islamofascism.” Fascism also requires a first-class, large industrial base,...

MONTREAL (CP) - The head of Canada's spy agency strongly suggested Thursday the U.S.-led war in Iraq is making the world a less secure place. "Diplomacy is not my field, security and intelligence is," CSIS director Jim Judd said at a conference on intelligence studies. "And I think from a security and intelligence perspective, the conflict in Iraq may be creating longer-term problems, not just for Iraq but other jurisdictions as well." The head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said Iraq is becoming a "kind of a testbed for new techniques" for Islamic extremists, such as suicide attacks and...