This July 14, 2008 handout image courtesy of The New Yorker magazine shows the cover of the July 21st issue, entitled 'The Politics of Fear,' in which artist Barry Blitt satirizes the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the Presidential election to derail Barack Obama's campaign. Barack Obama's campaign decried the cover showing Obama wearing Islamic dress while his wife holds a Kalashnikov. Obama sees New Yorker's cover offensive U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's campaign condemned on Monday as "tasteless and offensive" a New Yorker magazine cover

The US Department of Homeland Security is not meeting its goals. If yesterday's explosion in Times Square does not convince you, then maybe this latest news story will. But is it really that much of a stretch? Do you feel safer today America? I don't know about the rest of you but I think nothing has changed since 9/11 except everyone is scared, the government has been spying on us and oil spirals ever higher .More of the same stumbling and bumbling through history, answers right in front of our faces yet we are paralyzed by a corrupt government full of impotent bureaucrats more worried

What more can be said of this brief news story? Israel is not planning for any peace deals with the Palestinians in 2008 and that is a sad, sad admission. How can a statement like this do anything but make things worse? When the biggest bully in the region says flat out "peace? well maybe next year" how is that going to stop the rocket attacks or bombings? Here's how: It won't, And that is just fine with the Israeli Government, who apparently believe that peace in the region does not favor them.After all if there is no more fighting then it's hard to justify the $1billion Israel gets

Benazir Bhutto has transcended the mere role of political leader, she is now a martyr. And just like the famous Jedi in Star Wars striking her down has made her more powerful than any of her enemies could possibly imagine. No longer just a face of political change in Pakistan, the name of Bhutto may just be the rallying cry in the fight to stabalize the nation. Or conversely could ring the death knell for a united Pakistan and my usher in a bloody civil war along the lines of neighboring Afghanistan. Now imagine that horrible scene complicated by Pakistan's nuclear weapons and the tensions with

Pakistan's former Prime Minister, Benezir Bhutto was killed today. A suicide bombing killed 14 Bhutto's supporters and in the aftermath of the bomb attack Bhutto suffered bullet wounds. She was rushed to the Rawalpindi General Hospital less than two miles from the bombing scene, and there doctors pronounced her dead. Former Pakistan government spokesman Tariq Azim Khan said it's still not clear whether she was shot or it was the shrapnel from the bomb.This was not the only incident today in Pakistan.The

In Urdu, Pakistan is supposed to mean "Land of the Pure" but this latest tragedy shows just how far the former British Colony has strayed from the dreams of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Instead of a place where the Muslim contingent of of Punjabi, Afghani, Kashmiri, Indian and Sind peoples can live in peace, Pakistan has become a breeding ground of hate. The Assassination of Benazir Bhutto, whose father and brothers were killed in the past, has shown just how self-destructive the Islamic world has become.Don't doubt for a second that Musharraf had anything to do with this - it is a tailor-made

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Military officials say a U.S. Air Force base in Germany received a bomb threat hours before the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Military police have tightened security and are examining cars and trucks entering the Spangdahlem Air Base. Someone speaking not native German called the base Monday evening and issued the bomb warning, according to Iris Reiff, a spokeswoman with the public affairs office at the base. "We've sort of diverted traffic around the main gate area so each of the security forces can get a complete look at the vehicles from the front and side," said Capt. Kevin

Police in Turkey have defused a potantially lethal bomb hidden under a bus in central Ankara. According to Kemal Onal, the capital's governor a large amount of explosives were found in the bus with a fake plate number which was parked in a garage. All residents very evacuated before the bomb experts began their work. Onal said: "The meticulous work of the police averted a possible catastrophe I do not even want to think about what would have happened if the attack had succeeded." Al Jazeera

A new video from Osama bin Laden was released today (09.11.2007) - the sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. The 47-minute videotape was obtained by terrorism expert Laura Mansfield before it appeared on several Islamist Web sites. In the introduction to the video, bin Laden praises 9/11 hijacker Waleed al-Shehri, from Saudi Arabia, who crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. The voice speaking in Arabic is heard over a still picture of bin Laden and contains English subtitles.CNN