Al Qaida issues new message - targets Arab leaders

Cairo, Egypt (Indiatimes.com): Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has lashed out at Arab leaders for “sacrificing” the Palestinians in a new message and called on Muslim militants in Egypt to help break the blockade of Gaza.
Bin Laden called Arab leaders “agents of the crusaders” and “wolves” in the audio message posted on an Islamic militant [...]

Politico: Bush - Obama misinterpreted remarks

Washington, D.C. (Politico.com): President Bush is disputing coverage of his “appeasement” remark as an attack on Barack Obama, telling NBC News with a smile that the widespread interpretation is not “exactly right.”
White House officials say they were taken aback by the ferocious political reaction back home to that passage in the president’s remarks on Thursday [...]

GTMO Detainee gone Insane - can’t appear before the US Tribunals

London, UK (International Herald Tribune: William Glaberson, April 27, 2008) Next month, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who was once a driver for Osama bin Laden, could become the first detainee to be tried for war crimes in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. By now, he should be busily working on his defense.

But his lawyers say he [...]