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Terrorists across the world still believe in the DIY ideal of jihad, refusing, after years of entreaties, to sell out to monied interests, and still making bombs the old-fashioned way. MORE »

Four years after everyone already knew it (besides Hillary Clinton), the Defense Department has declassified documents that show, once again, that al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein had no relationship. So naturally Dick Cheney went on the radio yesterday to remind us all that al-Qaeda was already in Iraq before we got there, plotting to blow up our county fairs or something. MORE »

Kalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by the US in 2003, tortured by the CIA in a secret prison for a while, then shipped to Guantamo to stand lawyerless before a military tribunal that would determine if he was fit to stand before another military tribunal.

So we’re not entirely sure if we buy that he’s responsible for all 31 plots he mentioned (helpfully listed here by the New York Times).

Our expurgated list, after the jump.

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Those of you who actually had Monday off work likely missed our blockbuster exclusive coverage of the Republican bigshot contributor indicted for sending $152,000 to Al Qaeda terrorist camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. It’s here; go read it. MORE »

Republican campaigns have relied on Al Qaeda terrorism for five long and miserable years, so it’s no real surprise to learn top White House contributors are also top Al Qaeda contributors. MORE »

Internet video star Ayman al Zawahiri has appeared in many popular Al Qaeda messages that are only released in the middle of the night on unknown “websites” and then provided to U.S. TV news producers in the morning by “American terror analysts.” It happened again while you slept, and this time Zawahiri’s just reading old Air America transcripts. Bush is “an alcoholic, liar and gambler with an addictive personality,” says the terror bogeyman turned self-help guru. MORE »

Just an hour from Manhattan, this charming lumber yard offers a conciliatory “You done good” to Al Qaeda — and, apparently, incoming House Dem John Hall, who has a lot to answer for already. MORE »

Michael Chertoff rented this tux, because the terrorists wanted him to buy. (Photo by Liz Gorman)

Congress and the American public must accept that the government cannot protect every possible target against attack if it wants to avoid fulfilling Al Qaeda’s goal of bankrupting the nation, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate committee Tuesday.

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The Bush PR push continues! The Long, Long, Long, Long War (That We Didn’t Start^TM) is getting the Madison Ave treatment yet again in a series of identical, pointless speeches, in which our President says shit like this: MORE »

• Reading about al Qaeda for pleasure. [Hullabaloo]

• Bloggers have body image issues. [La Shawn Barber]
• Wizbang is Explosively Unique: “…this country needs both parties, like it or not.” [Wizbang]
• “Russ Feingold, not Hillary Clinton, is the favorite to win the Democrats’ 2008 Presidential nomination. He’s ‘Howard Dean without the delicate psyche,’” [Powerline]
• Uncomfortable fallout from Condoleezza Rice’s WP column, commenter: “Lipstick on a pig doesn’t change the fundamental essence of the pig. I don’t care what color it is, or how thickly it’s applied.” [Captain's Quarters]
• Louisiana is least business-friendly state. [Hit & Run]

Short statement. Gist: Terror, Islamists, Tony Blair. One of those things: good. The rest, not so much. President: kind of cranky. America: safer than before 9/11, still not totally safe. Clearly safer than England, if protected by less competent people.