AL QAEDA LOSING THE WAR OF IDEAS: “A prominent Saudi cleric once praised by Osama bin Laden has published an open letter condemning Al Qaeda’s violence. In the long letter published on an Arabic Web site, Cleric Salman al-Awdah calls on Mr. bin Laden to end the killing of innocent Muslims and others in terrorist acts in Iraq and elsewhere around the world.”

When terrorist violence was a problem for America nobody minded. Now that it’s a problem for Arabs . . . .