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 …

Hizbollah says it will abide by ceasefire  —  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hizbollah said on Saturday it would abide by any U.N.-backed ceasefire in Lebanon, but would resist Israeli troops expanding their offensive in the south.  —  Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Shi'ite Muslim guerrillas …

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.

Toronto's Pro-Hezbollah, Anti-Israel Rally  —  Today in Toronto, in front of the Israeli consulate, there was an Anti-Israel rally, with a distinct pro-Hezbollah theme.  The pictures below tell the story.  Disclosure: a couple are photoshopped, only to blur the faces of children in the crowd.

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 …

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 …

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.

Psalm 9-11: I will fear no evil  —  Do you know anyone whose Sept. 11 fears have returned Someone with a sick feeling and a tightening of the chest, bordering on panic Someone distraught or perhaps just withdrawn and distracted in the past few days 

The Plot Thickens  —  So here's how the plot was going to work. 20 men of South Asian descent, traveling in pairs, buy tickets for flights the US on-line.  They pack their carry-ons carefully, with their bottles of contact solution with dissolved nitroglycerin inside.

Berlin Demonstration: The Islamofascist Far-Left Nexus  —  (Article and photos by Ray D.)  —  It was just another summer day in Berlin.  A perfect day for a carefree stroll.  But these are hardly carefree times.  And the rows of police vehicles and officers blocking a section …

Syria still transferring supply of rockets, missiles to Hezbollah  —  Syria continues its efforts to transfer large quantities of war materiel, including rockets, to Lebanon, in an effort to assist Hezbollah in its war against Israel, a senior Israel Defense Forces source told Haaretz on Saturday.