WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden chided terrorists in his network for not making Palestine a primary issue. "It was necessary to discuss Palestine first," the terrorist leader, assassinated last year in a U.S. operation, said after a December 2009 suicide...

Pro-Israel leaders in the United States, Britainand Australia are warily watching the unfolding of thephone-hacking scandal that is threatening to engulf the mediaempire of Rupert Murdoch, founder of News Corp (see relatededitorial on page 8).Murdoch's...