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Does anyone know of any proof that backs up Mansoor's claims that he was in contact with Berger and others regarding Sudan and their offer to hand over bin Laden? If so, could you point me in the right direction? Thanks!!

<p>To the dismay of aging punk fans, a British television company announced Monday that the former Sex Pistols singer and angry punk icon -- now known by his real name, John Lydon -- has agreed to appear in the reality show "I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!"</p>

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel will hunt and kill the founder of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, in retaliation for a deadly attack on Israeli border guards, Israel's deputy defense minister said in the bluntest warning yet against leaders of the Islamic militant group. Yassin, a quadriplegic, did not try to hide Friday, making his way to a Gaza City mosque near his home in a wheelchair pushed by an assistant. "We do not fear the threat of death," Yassin, wrapped in a brown blanket, told reporters outside the mosque. "We will not bow to pressure and resistance will continue until the...

<p>TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Your hands don't even need to be touching the steering wheel for it to start spinning back and forth aggressively, all by itself -- slowly guiding the car into the parking spot.</p> <p>Parallel parking is designed to be a breeze with the Intelligent Parking Assist system, part of a new $2,200 option package for Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius gas-electric hybrid in Japan.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- On the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, investigators found "persistent and severe" security deficiencies throughout the National Mall, a report concludes.</p> <p>Security was supposed to have been at a heightened level in the nation's capital at the time when undercover inspections from the inspector general's office of the Department of the Interior occurred September 10 and 11.</p>

<p>Anyone else getting an Anti-Bush audio ad on this page?</p>

and families of American officials to leave Saudi Arabia...

Please help! I'm getting rather obsessive about finding this article!!

<p>Eyewitness Bill Bulebush near the scene of the Kecksburg incident.</p> <p>NEW YORK(Reuters) -- The truth is out there, and the Sci-Fi Channel is determined to find it, even if that means suing NASA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. Army and Air Force for documents related to unidentified flying objects.</p>

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- The Army activated a brigade Thursday charged with command and control of a $22 billion system intended to protect the nation from a ballistic missile attack. Some of the soldiers assigned to the Midcourse Defense Brigade, which will have at least 60 Colorado National Guard and active-duty soldiers, will work inside Cheyenne Mountain, home to the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD. If a missile attack was launched, NORAD would notify the brigade, which in turn would provide information on the missiles' location to operators of "kill vehicles" based in Alaska and California....

<p>VATICAN CITY -- Marking 25 years as pontiff, Pope John Paul II told followers that God was asking him to continue leading the Roman Catholic Church despite his frail health.</p> <p>"He (God), while knowing my human fragility, encourages me to respond with faith ... and he invites me to assume the responsibilities that he himself has entrusted to me," the 83-year-old pope said in a homily before tens of thousands of pilgrims in St. Peter's Square Thursday night.</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Military intelligence has reported recent, "credible" sightings of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in a large area north of Baghdad, a U.S. Army spokeswoman said Monday. If "there is credible information on Saddam, obviously we're going to take action," said Maj. Josslyn Aberle of the Army's 4th Infantry Division. Intelligence on the toppled Iraqi dictator comes from various sources, Aberle said, including the kind of "human intelligence" that led U.S. forces to Saddam's missing sons, Uday and Qusay Hussein, in July. The sons were killed in the northern town of Mosul during a July 22 firefight...

<p>WASHINGTON — Pentagon officials said Thursday they worry that terrorists are trying to infiltrate the U.S. military and may have done so at the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay (search), Cuba.</p> <p>Three workers at the prison, including two members of the military, have been arrested on suspicion of espionage at the high-security base. It is unclear whether the men were connected to or part of any terrorist plot, the commander in charge of homeland security said.</p>

Head Of U.S. Northern Command: Sufficient Safeguards In Place WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military practices at least twice each week for the nightmare scenario of having to shoot down a civilian airliner hijacked by terrorists, the commander of forces in North America said Thursday. Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart, head of U.S. Northern Command, said a strong set of safeguards are in place to prevent an accidental or unwarranted shootdown of a commercial airplane. Commanders, pilots and air defense crews are drilled on those procedures as many as four times each week, Eberhart said. The rules allow for an order to...

Noise Source Traced To Buckley Jets On Patrol DENVER -- Two F-16 jet aircraft from the 120th Fighter Squadron of the Colorado Air National Guard broke the sound barrier over the metro area Wednesday afternoon, creating a sonic boom that prompted dozens of worried phone calls to 911 operators from area residents. Buckley Air Force Base said that the two jets were flying an "irregular air patrol" for North American Aerospace Defense Command in support of Operation Noble Eagle when they both exceeded the speed of sound, causing the sonic boom. It was loudest over Westminster and Broomfield, according to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On the first day of operation for the national do-not-call antitelemarketing registry, the Hartford (Conn.) Courant reports that 11 executives with a telemarketing industry group that has been fighting the registry have already signed up for the list. The Federal Communications Commission says complaints are coming in about telemarketer violations as it tries to enforce the list. The FCC agreed to handle complaints after federal courts blocked the Federal Trade Commission from running the program. Consumers are being directed to complain to the FCC at (888) 225-5322 or at FCC.gov. However, outdated instructions that remained on government...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronauts stranded for two extra months aboard the International Space Station (news - web sites) after the shuttle Columbia accident showed that humans are strong enough to make the long trip to Mars, one of the expedition's members said on Monday. Donald Pettit, one of three members of the station's Expedition Six, said he and his two crew-mates who spent 161 days on the space station inadvertently demonstrated humans' fitness for interplanetary travel. "The whole experience had an uncanny resemblance to a trip to and landing on Mars," Pettit said at a briefing at NASA (news -...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Man's best friend, in this case a male poodle, is genetically more similar to humans than is the mouse, a more commonly used laboratory animal, according to researchers who have completed the first rough draft sequence of the genes of a dog.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A military and intelligence investigation into possible security breaches at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is under way following the arrest of a U.S. Army Islamic chaplain, Bush administration sources said.</p> <p>Capt. James Yee, who has not been charged, is being held in the brig in Charleston, South Carolina, on suspicion of espionage and treason.</p>