Pakistan premier defends country in bin Laden case

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan's prime minister says the army will investigate how al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden hid for years on his country's soil without being detected.Yousuf Raza Gilani made the comments during an address to Parliament on Monday, a week after a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad killed the...

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How to Stop the Fiscal Bleeding

With the budget debate firing up again this week, Michael Tomasky says there’s just one serious way to cut our deficit—by focusing on tax expenditures, the tax loopholes and deductions that are bleeding federal coffers dry.The budget is likely to revert to Topic A in Washington this week, as Vice President Joe Biden’s bipartisan...

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Quake shifted Japan; towns now flood at high tide

ISHINOMAKI, Japan – When water begins to trickle down the streets of her coastal neighborhood, Yoshiko Takahashi knows it is time to hurry home.Twice a day, the flow steadily increases until it is knee-deep, carrying fish and debris by her front door and trapping people in their homes. Those still...

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NATO planes pound Libyan government weapons depot

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – NATO planes pounded Libyan government weapons depots southeast of the town of Zintan on Monday, in a sign of widening conflict in the Western Mountains region as rebels battle to unseat Muammar Gadda...

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Military arrests 190 people in Egypt church attack

CAIRO – Egypt's military rulers have reacted swiftly to attempts to burn down a pair of churches in a Cairo slum during sectarian riots that killed 10 people by referring 190 people to military trial. Mobs of ultraconservative Muslims from the Salafi religious trend converged on a church in the Cairo slum of Imbaba late Saturday following...

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Source: Bin Laden directing al-Qaida figures

WASHINGTON – The wealth of information pulled from Osama bin Laden's compound has reinforced the belief that he played a strong role in planning and directing attacks by al-Qaida and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, senior U.S. officials said Friday.And the data further demonstrates to the U.S. that top al-Qaida commanders and other...

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Bin Laden home videos expected to be released

WASHINGTON – Americans are expected to get a glimpse of Osama bin Laden's daily life with the disclosure of home videos that show him strolling around his secret compound, along with propaganda tapes that have never been made public.The footage shot at the terror leader's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and the propaganda tapes are expected...

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Spanish golf great Seve Ballesteros dies at 54

MADRID – Seve Ballesteros, a five-time major champion whose passion and gift for imaginative shot-making invigorated European golf and the Ryder Cup, has died from complications of a cancerous brain tumor. He was 54.A statement on Ballesteros' website early Saturday said the golf great died peacefully at 2:10 a.m. local time, surrounded...

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US targeted Awlaqi in Yemen drone strike: media

A US drone attack in Yemen targeted but failed to kill US-Yemeni cleric and terror suspect Anwar al-Awlaqi, who is linked to Al-Qaeda and considered a major threat to the United States, US media reported Friday. The drone attack Thursday killed two local members of the militant network, a security source and...

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Morocco Bomber Was Dressed As A Hippie

The chief suspect in the cafe bombing in Morocco that killed 16 people is believed to have disguised himself as a hippie.Adel al Othmani reportedly entered the cafe in Marrakesh - Morocco's top tourist destination - heavily disguised and carrying a guitar."He walked into the cafe wearing a wig and carrying a guitar...

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Who is the world’s most wanted man now?

Technically, Osama bin Laden may not have been the world’s ‘most wanted man’ - there’s no such official list – but he was without doubt the most well-known and notorious criminal on the planet.  After he masterminded the September 11 attacks he became the subject of a ten-year manhunt by American military and intelligence forces that...

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Osama bin Laden: Al-Qaeda leader was unarmed when US special forces shot him dead, White House reveals

Blood on the floor of one of the rooms at Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan OSAMA BIN LADEN was unarmed when commandos burst into his room and shot him dead, the White House has revealed, raising questions about whether the US ever planned to capture the terrorist leader alive. The Obama administration, meanwhile, was still debating...

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