Egyptian-born chemical engineer Midhat Mursi al Sayyid Umar — known as Osama bin Laden’s “sorcerer” — is working in secret laboratories in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal area. To make chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. This terrorist was reported killed in January 2006 but the US refused to pay a the $5 million bounty.

■ There have been tens of thousands of cyber attacks on such targets as: Homeland Security; Sandia National Laboratores; NASA, and various Defense contractors. Business Week reports one mysterious master is at the Internet address cybersyndrome.3322.org, which is registered through an obscure company headquartered on the banks of China’s Yangtze River. Some of these targets have hundreds and even thousands of internet access points, and the Preisdent has ordered those pruned to not more than 100 and all of those will be monitored.

■ According to a Department of Homeland Security memo Muslim terrorists are not “jihadists.” And there is no such thing as “Islamo-fascism.” At least that’s the non-binding political correct word from Washington. The official lexicon is said to have been tamped down based on suggestions from “a wide variety of American Muslim leaders,” you can no use the word “moderate” or “ordinary” because those convey meanings Muslim activists object to. The New York Post scoffed at the directive that sound to me to be something from the southern end of a northbound horse.

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