This week we have part two of our interview with Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Cucullu, former US Special Forces Green Beret. This week he talks more about Guantanamo and especially Australia's own celebrity inmate: David Hicks. Gordon Cucullu is the author of Separated at Birth: How North Korea became the Evil Twin.

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If you want to read Rageh Omaar make a complete fool of himself in the Guardian, go ahead.

You can see men digging (if you're lucky) live on the Israeli Antiquities Authority website.

Damian's comments on Fox News comedy can be found on his blog, Damianpenny.com.

Meryl Yourish has managed to score an exclusive interview with Ayman Al Zawahiri to ask him why Arabs will believe any nonsense about Jews.

Damian Penny is talking about the UK print media suddenly finding out about Loose Change.

Laurence Simon is back and talking about Mall shootings.

You might also want to check out the following:

I and a Vietnam vet friend of mine have launched a new site, AppealForCourage.org which allows active duty military to (legally) tell Congress and the media that they should support our mission, and that their criticism does hurt our morale while emboldening our enemies.

This site is partly in response to the far left site AppealForRedress. You may have heard of it, it was created by a big money group and presented by the media as a grass-roots anti-military uprising. We don't have any money for advertising, and I don't expect the media to help. 

LT Jason Nichols, USN
MNF-I, Baghdad 
jason.nichols@iraq.centcom.mil

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