Imam Feisal on State Dept. Payroll

The State Department is paying ground zero mosque imam Feisal Abdul Rauf a $200 a day honorarium and a per-diem of between $400 and $500 a day for a "15-day tour to Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates" that begins today, the Associated Press reports. It's the fourth such U.S.-government-sponsored trip he has been on; two of them were during the Bush administration.