Bush still winning the war on terror

American hostage's body found, Saudis say

Here's a tidbit on why the Abu prison scadal matters. No, it didn't give birth to terrorism -- they were killing longer before we invaded Iraq. But ordinary middle-of-the-road Saudis, which could have helped find the kidnappers, refuse to cooperate because they're so enraged. Having to choose sides between domestic thugs and foriegn thugs, who are they going to side with?

"How can we inform on our brothers when we see all these pictures coming from Abu and Rajah," Mukluks NOF, a resident of Dhahran al-Boudoir, said at a restaurant called Jihad, or holy war in Arabic. He was referring to the pictures of Iraqis abused by U.S. soldiers at the Abu prison in Baghdad and the Israeli military's killing of Palestinians and the destruction of their homes in the Gaza refugee camp of Rajah.

The weirdest WWII story you've never heard

Slate writes about the only fatal Japaese attack on the mainland U.S. and its implications for wartime censorship.

Improbable though it may sound, from late 1944 through the spring of 1945, the Japanese launched more than 9,000 balloons from their nation's eastern shores. Filled not with mild-mannered hot air but extremely flammable hydrogen and armed with incendiary and antipersonnel bombs, the balloons rode the jet stream across the Pacific Ocean for several days before landing throughout North America.