President Barack Obama has announced that the world's most wanted terrorist, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, was killed by U.S. forces on Sunday at a compound deep inside Pakistan.

Title: "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11"

This letter is in regards to Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.

Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Gold River

(District includes Galt)

“The horrific tragedy of Sept. 11 was the main reason I felt the need to return to public service. In a region of Pakistan, the mastermind of that crime and the leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist network, Osama bin Laden, has been killed. I am pleased to hear this news.

Now that the Democrats will be controlling America's destiny, celebrations are going on within countries which hate America and Americans.

An hour after we settled down, after a long trip from the United States in the village of my ancestors in the northem part of Pakistan on Sept. 11, the phone rang and a relative asked us to turn the TV on.

An hour after we settled down, after a long trip from the United States in the village of my ancestors in the northem part of Pakistan on Sept. 11, the phone rang and a relative asked us to turn the TV on.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of a Lodi man who was sentenced to 24 years in prison for attending an al-Qaida terrorist training camp and plotting against targets in the United States.

Patriotism is not monolithic. It does not require the unthinking loyalty to or unquestioning certainty of the president’s decision to make war.

Taj Khan's column ("Bush must seek out the root causes of terrorism," News-Sentinel, 0ct. 22), invites response.

Patriotism is not monolithic. It does not require the unthinking loyalty to or unquestioning certainty of the president's decision to make war.

Editor's note: Instead of our regular weekend editorial, the Lodi News-Sentinel would ask readers to reflect on The Iraq Study Group Report published Wednesday. We reprint here the Executive Summary. The staff and production support for the report came from the U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank funded by Congress. The Group's chairmen are former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, a Republican, and Congressman Lee Hamilton, Democrat from Indiana.

As two separate juries decide the fate of a Lodi father and son charged with lying to federal agents about alleged terrorist connections, many local Muslims say they feel the federal government failed to prove its case.

The News-Sentinel pulled comments from selected readers’ Facebook pages, with their permission, and from our own website on Osama bin Laden’s death. Check back on www.lodinews.com today and Tuesday for more local reaction.

The media circus came to town Wednesday as dozens of reporters from near and far flocked to Lodi following the arrests of two local men for their alleged links to the al-Qaida terrorist network. Reporters from USA Today, New York Times, San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle newspapers prowled the Lodi on Wednesday looking for sources, and news vans from various stations including FOX, CBS and ABC were parked on both sides of Acacia Street and Poplar Street.

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An open letter to News-Sentinel columnist Taj Khan:

An open letter to News-Sentinel columnist Taj Khan:

To honored graduates gathered here today, waiting for me to shut up, I offer you these simple words: Boy, do you look silly. Who came up with that outfit?

President Bush on Thursday night delivered before a joint session of Congress and the American people a speech for the ages in a rare moment of national unity.

SACRAMENTO - The federal government has barred two relatives of a Lodi man convicted of supporting terrorists from returning to the country after a lengthy stay in Pakistan, placing the U.S. citizens in an extraordinary legal limbo.

SACRAMENTO - The federal government has barred two relatives of a Lodi man convicted of supporting terrorists from returning to the country after a lengthy stay in Pakistan, placing the U.S. citizens in an extraordinary legal limbo.