On that awful evening of September 11, 2001, my gaze alternating between my television screen and my computer screen, I wrote a column called "Now We Know How Israel Feels." In that piece, I retold the true story of Ken Rex McElroy of Skidmore, Mo., a local bully who terrorized an entire rural county until, after years of abuse, theft, rape and attempted murder, a handful of Skidmore citizens shot him to death on Main Street in broad daylight. Recently, like those citizens in Skidmore, the nation of Israel had had enough. ...more

January 7, 2009

The key question in how to end Israel's attacks in Gaza cannot be answered by the Israelis. What must it do to convince the terrorist group, Hamas, which runs Gaza, to stop firing missiles into Israeli neighborhoods? ...more

January 3, 2009

By the time Mohamed Abdi Ibrahim decided to leave Somalia, life in the southern city of Kismaayo had become, as he put it with consummate understatement, "complicated." ...more

December 29, 2008

Sami Al-Arian has lost a bid to have the U.S. Supreme Court consider his case. ...more

October 6, 2008

Local supporters of a former University of South Florida professor once accused of being a leading Palestinian terrorist hailed his release from a federal lockup in Virginia on Tuesday as long overdue. ...more

September 3, 2008

1986: The University of South Florida hires Sami Al-Arian to teach computer science. ...more

September 3, 2008

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former Florida professor once accused of being a leading Palestinian terrorist has been released for the first time in more than five years. ...more

September 2, 2008

A former Tampa professor who pleaded guilty to conspiring to aid a Palestinian terrorist group was charged Thursday with refusing to testify before a grand jury in a related investigation. ...more

June 27, 2008

Pelosi Is Correct Regarding "Political Games Freeze Trade Deal With Good Partner Colombia" (Our Opinion, May 13): ...more

May 21, 2008

David Hicks, the only person sentenced by the military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try terrorism suspects, walked out of prison in Australia this morning after serving nine months for providing support to a terrorist organization. ...more

December 29, 2007