WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Osama Bin Laden “is a man on the run, from a cave, who’s virtually impotent other than the tapes” he releases from time to time. That was the mid-September assessment of Frances Fragos Townsend, top adviser to President Bush on homeland security, terrorism and counter-terrorism. A former assistant commandant of the Coast Guard for intelligence, Townsend was also a counsel to the attorney general for intelligence policy. The best and the brightest in the Bush White House, she served as deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism before her elevation to czar (or czarina) for transnational terrorism.

EUGENE, Ore., Dec. 3 (UPI) -- An Oregon educator has settled a lawsuit against a prominent U.S. critic of Islam who labeled him an anti-Semite and an extremist in a newspaper column.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- Senators opposing President Bush's nomination of Daniel Pipes' nomination to the U.S. Institute of Peace have cited a quote that, taken out of context, does not

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WASHINGTON, April 22 (UPI) -- The normally low-profile and somewhat staid United States Institute of Peace, a federally funded think tank, was thrust into the public spotlight recently when the White House came under fire from a Muslim advocacy group for nominating a controversial and

LOS ANGELES, April 21 (UPI) -- The old saying "There are no atheists in foxholes" turns out to be virtually correct, at least for the U.S. armed forces. About 0.1 percent of all American mili

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