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Unfortunately I believe that we are limited in what we can focus on. I think that if we proceed with the partisan sideshow of prosecuting Bush admin. officials, healthcare will get lost in the brouhaha.
The Washington Post's permanent investigative unit was set up in 1982 under Bob Woodward.
Questions About a Mosque Leader
In the months after the 2001 terrorist attacks, federal agents became interested in a Muslim spiritual leader who oversaw a Northern Virginia mosque that is one of the nation's largest. Anwar al-Aulaqi was nevertheless allowed to leave the country in 2002. Over time, the government grew even more interested in him. Susan Schmidt reports today that U.S. counterintelligence officials are saying publicly for the first time that they believe that Aulaqi worked with al-Qaeda networks in the Persian Gulf after leaving the United States in 2002.
Aulaqi, 36, was the spiritual leader in 2001 and 2002 of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church. In mid-2006 he was detained in Yemen at the request of the United States. To the dismay of U.S. authorities, Aulaqi was released in December. Officials say the U.S. government was limited in how far it could push Yemen to hold Aulaqi, because the U.S. has no pending legal case against him.
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Sounds to me like the US government is looking for another scapegoat and to create more fearmongering.