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In the terrorism case of two young Egyptian nationals and University of South Florida students arrested August 4 in South Carolina, fascinating twists and turns abound. There’s a secret recording of the defendants discussing strategy ... http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9A5B0F95-A270-45D1-9447-F96E5023AE56

The Enemy Within Two cases suggest the next terror strike on U.S. soil will be carried out not by foreigners but by Americans By Joel Mowbray Lodi, Calif., is nestled in a sleepy agricultural area 35 miles outside of Sacramento. The Pakistani population in the city of about 60,000 has grown exponentially over the past several decades and now numbers several thousand. Local non-Muslims, when interviewed by media, have given little indication they suspected virulently anti-American Islam was practiced there. Yet prior to coming to the United States, the imam of a local mosque encouraged his flock to travel from...

While most of Washington was preoccupied with playing the blame game late last month, the Bush Administration took an apparent turn toward appeasement—or as its advocates would call it, “nuance” and “realism”—in Iraq and Afghanistan with the appointment of a high-level National Security Council official whose worldview more resembles that of the former President Bush than the current one. As Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was winding down the investigation that resulted in the indictment of former Cheney Chief of Staff Scooter Libby on Oct. 28, Meghan O’Sullivan was elevated to the lofty position of Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq...