BILL SICS LEGAL EAGLES ON ABC  —  * LETTER: YANK 'DESPICABLE' FILM * CAST'S  —  ON-SET TURMOIL REVEALED  —  Bill Clinton's camp yesterday demanded that ABC can its controversial film "The Path to 9/11," due to air tonight - and in a scathing new letter accused the network of exploiting the tragedy for ratings.

Rockefeller: Bush Duped Public On Iraq  —  Senator Says World Would Be Better Without Iraq Invasion  —  (CBS News) WASHINGTON When the Senate Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of its findings this past week, the Republican chairman of the committee, Pat Roberts …

Transcript for Sept. 10  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Good morning.  This is a special edition of MEET THE PRESS, marking the fifth anniversary of September 11.  And joining us for the first time in three years is the vice president of the United States, Dick Cheney.  —  Welcome back.  —  VICE PRES.

Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib  —  The notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad is at the centre of fresh abuse allegations just a week after it was handed over to Iraqi authorities, with claims that inmates are being tortured by their new captors.

Senate race a close one, poll suggests  —  Negative publicity has reduced George Allen's once-sizable lead to just 4 percentage points.  —  The controversy surrounding U.S. Sen. George Allen's campaign trail remarks in August has helped turn his re-election race into a close contest …

In a Pivotal Year, GOP Plans to Get Personal  —  Millions to Go to Digging Up Dirt on Democrats  —  Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues …

The age of horrorism (part one)  —  On the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, one of Britain's most celebrated and original writers analyses - and abhors - the rise of extreme Islamism.  In a penetrating and wide-ranging essay he offers a trenchant critique of the grotesque creed and questions …

Clinton questions GOP's sincerity on security issues  —  Former President Bill Clinton asserted here Saturday that if Republicans were serious about national security, they'd carry out the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission instead of regularly using the issue to pound political opponents.

FIVE YEARS AFTER 9/11: TINFOIL HATS ATTACK  —  September 10, 2006 — DEBUNKING 9/11 MYTHS: WHY CONSPIRACY THEORIES CAN'T STAND UP TO THE FACTS BY THE EDITORS OF POPULAR MECHANICS, FOREWORD BY SEN. JOHN MCCAIN HEARST, 192 PAGES, $14.95  —  I GET several e-mails from 9/11 conspiracy theorists every week …

ABC Blames Bush, 'Ignorant' Americans for 'Islamophobia'  —  America, you ignorant Islamophobes!  Alright, maybe it's not all your fault.  Your anti-Muslim attitudes have been "stoked" by "inflammatory rhetoric" from . . . President Bush.  That was the basic message of a segment narrated …