As for Ward Churchill, perhaps he really is as marginal as many of you are making out. Pantanal posted something very similar to Churchill's analysis a few days ago, and I know I've struck a nerve there by his or her spastic responses, but focus on the facts I just posted. Or not... they are very uncomfortable for you, after all.

In order, then:

(1) Yes.

(2) Maybe, you'd have to read pantanal & deal with his degree or not of spastitude. You've struck no 'nerve' with me, just sort of amusing. I regularly hear arguments from all sides that 'we' deserved 9/11, including from various & sundry irritated persons of non-U.S. origin, unhinged small businessmen, the far right or Christian or militia loonies.

(3) Well, it's hard to know exactly what to make of the status of "unindicted co-conspirator" to CAIR (which itself doesn't seem to be a central factor in this blog) beyond the latest news in the trial, which apparently is this (though I gather this whole trial is a big, big thing for the FrontPageMag stinkoes and the Sean Hannity brigades):

From "Closing arguments in Holy Land trial set for next week", By JASON TRAHAN in The Dallas Morning News

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/crime/stories/DN-holyland_12met.ART0.State.Edition1.4225465.html

Judge Fish is still expected to rule at some point on a request by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. On Aug. 16, it filed a request to have its name and hundreds of others purged from the government's unindicted co-conspirator list.

CAIR, which says it is a prominent Muslim civil rights organization, says its reputation was sullied by inclusion on the list. The list carries no criminal charge but enabled the government to introduce statements and documents involving co-conspirators at trial without their being considered hearsay.

In response, Holy Land prosecutor Jim Jacks pointed out that CAIR's request was filed nearly a month into testimony. By that time, evidence linking CAIR to Holy Land was already made public.

Among the revelations during the trial was that CAIR's founder, Omar Ahmad, and current executive director, Nihad Awad, participated in a 1993 Philadelphia meeting with Holy Land leaders and Hamas activists.

"The Philadelphia meeting took place before CAIR was established and before Hamas was designated as a terrorist organization by the State Department," CAIR chairman Parvez Ahmed said.

"Also, the views expressed by some participants in the meeting, if accurately reported or translated, are not necessarily those of Omar or Nihad. To associate Omar or Nihad or CAIR with the views of participants of an open-to-the-public meeting in Philadelphia, which took place a decade ago, is an un-American guilt by association."

So, maybe the "unindicted co-conspirator" label is serious, and maybe it's not.

(4) No, none of the 'facts' are uncomfortable for anyone here. Note that none of the allegations, whatever their criminal or reasonable seriousness or truthfulness, have anything to do with terrorist operations in the US regarding flying imams, Ward Churchill, and planes, unless someone introduces evidence that Hamas was planning to channel the aid they or related organizations received in Occupied Palestine back for terrorist operations in the U.S.A., which certainly is a potential thing to keep monitoring, but doesn't seem too directly relevant to alleging that flying imams were a threat to U.S. airline passengers.

In any case, you were funnier when you were stamping your feet about Ward Churchill. Good luck with that on some other blog.