Britain's Al-Qaeda leader seized  —  SECURITY sources believe that a man arrested in last week's anti- terror raids in Britain is Al-Qaeda's leader in this country.  —  Home Office officials say that one of those arrested is suspected not only of masterminding the foiled plot to bring …

Comment: An unmitigated disaster  —  There is a good reason that Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah has accepted UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which sets the terms for a cease-fire between his jihad army and the State of Israel.  —  The resolution represents a near-total victory …

Young Muslim Rage Takes Root in Britain  —  Unemployment, Foreign Policy Fuel Extremism  —  Naweed Hussain sat in his little real estate office Friday, trying to focus on spreadsheets instead of the angry clatter outside.  —  Furious young Muslim men crowded around the local mosque on his street, surrounded by television cameras.

Eavesdropping and the Election: An Answer on the Question of Timing  —  THE NEW YORK TIMES'S Dec. 16 article that disclosed the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping has led to an important public debate about the once-secret program.  And the decision to write about the program …

Inside Hezbollah's Free Fire Zone  —  NORTHERN ISRAEL - I teamed up with Noah Pollak, Assistant Editor at Azure Magazine in Jerusalem, and took a rental car through Hezbollah's shooting gallery to the front line on the Lebanese/Israeli border.  Famed military historian Michael Oren …

Paper prints Castro's birthday message  —  HAVANA - On his 80th birthday, Fidel Castro cautioned Cubans on Sunday that he faced a long recovery from surgery and advised them to prepare for "adverse news," but he urged them to stay optimistic.  As the Communist Youth newspaper published …

Connecticut May Be a 2008 Preview  —  Polarization Over War, Bush, Parties Confronts Voters  —  American politics this year has been running on two divergent tracks.  The first is intensified partisan combat in advance of a critical midterm election.  The second is growing disaffection among …

Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials  —  An influential federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen regulations that severely limit the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates, a practice that was all but stopped three decades ago after revelations of abuse.

Hezbollywood: Photog accuses stringers of digging up bodies?  (Update: Photos added)  —  I'm adding the question mark because we don't know yet if the guy who said it is who he says he is.  But if it's true — if — then Ace is right: it's "a serious, meltdown level scandal for the media."

Stop the US-Israeli War Rally, San Francisco, August 12, 2006  —  Zombie documents the insanity in San Francisco.  —  There's no other way to describe this.  But you won't see any of these images in the mainstream media.  —  Stop the U.S.-Israeli War rally, San Francisco, August 12, 2006.

Sunday Talking Head Thread  —  Here's the Sunday Talking Head Show line-up.  Read it and weep:  —  ABC's "This Week": Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and John McCain, R-Ariz.; Cuban-American singer Jon Secada.  —  CBS' "Face the Nation" …

Davis urges Rumsfeld's ouster  —  HAMPTON — U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Davis has joined the growing chorus of those who believe Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should be out of a job.  —  "I told my husband that when (Sen.) Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) came out and said he should resign …