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MEXICO CITY - The Cuban government has provided no details on Fidel Castro's health and released no pictures of the leader since it announced Monday night that he was having surgery and handing power to his brother. Cubans were told in a statement attributed to Castro that most details of his health would be kept "a state secret" to prevent the island's enemies from taking advantage of his condition. Most Cubans have insisted that they are sure Castro will recover and that the government will function fine until then. But others have privately expressed worries that their leader may be...

Cuba's communist government provided no new information on Fidel Castro's condition Thursday but sought to reassure Cubans that nothing would change. "The revolution will continue" was the mantra chanted on state-run television and displayed in government newspapers three days after Fidel Castro temporarily ceded power to his younger brother Raul while recovering from surgery.

UNANIMOUSLY and firmly workers from the National Assembly of People’s Power backed the President Fidel Castro’s Proclamation to the Cuban people. “We are rising up to meet the stature of this young man of 80 years who, convalescing from a complicated operation, still made the effort to adopt measures to assure that we are capable of confronting any aggression,” affirmed Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada, president of the Assembly. Alarcón commented that on July 31 he was with Fidel, who transmitted “his confidence and certainty that all of us united will be capable of fulfilling the tasks of today and those...

Reported in the minute-by-minute sidebar on El nacional (Venezualan Newspaper) Internacionales Agencia internacional desmintió información de supuesta muerte de Fidel Castro La agencia internacional de noticias EFE desmintió haber divulgado información relacionada con la supuesta muerte del presidente de Cuba Fidel Castro. En horas de la mañana una emisora de noticias venezolana dijo citando a la agencia que el mandatario había fallecido. Es por ello, que EFE informó que en ningún momento ha difundido ese hecho. La agencia dijo haber presentado su reclamo a la emisora que reconoció publicamente su error. **** google translate. International agency denied information of supposed...

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An Iraqi soldier flashes a victory sign as he celebrates the death of Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Kerbala, June 8, 2006. (Mushtaq Mohammed/Reuters) Iraqi soldiers hold up their weapons as they celebrate the death of al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in Najaf, June 8, 2006. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz # Iraqi children chant "No to Zarqawi" and "No to Terrorism" during a small demonstration in Baghdad's poor neighborhood of Sadr City. Iraqi and US authorities have vowed to hunt down insurgency leaders after capturing a "treasure trove" of intelligence in the attack that...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is warning Americans not to get too excited over the death of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, saying in a statement issued by her office Thursday that it really won't do much to improve the situation in Iraq. After briefly noting that she was "proud of our troops for their tireless work," the top House Democrat wasted no time in throwing cold water on the good news. "[Zarqawi's] death does not alter the fact that our brave men and women in uniform are fighting a war of choice in which the President sent our troops into...

If you are looking for the legacy of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, do not look in the concrete rubble of so-called safe house in Baqubah that became his final resting place. Instead, look less than 10 miles to the west, on the side of the road in the desert town of Hadid, for a pile of cardboard banana boxes. Inside those boxes were nine human heads. Some of the heads still had their blindfolds on. Iraqi police are still attempting to identify the murdered men. Days earlier, in Baquba, Iraqi police found another eight severed heads. One of those heads...

BAGHDAD, June 8 (KUNA) -- Iraqi citizens took to the streets celebrating Abu Musaab Zarqawi's death on Thursday. Joy filled Baghdad's hot streets, as gun shots sounded through the air, and cars packed with overjoyed Iraqi's roamed the streets. Iraqis were sharing sweets with people outside their homes. Civil organizations paraded as they condemned violence chanting "death to Zarqawi and Saddamites." Thursday's celebrations could be compared to the jubilation in Baghdad's streets the day Saddam Hussein was captured. Iraqis hope Zarqawi's death would bring an end to the series of terrorist operations on Iraqi streets. Iraqi MP, Mahmoud Othman, said...

World leaders, including Prime Minister John Howard, are hailing the killing of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as a significant breakthrough for Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has announced that Zarqawi "has been eliminated" in an airstrike on a safe house in Baquba, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad. "What happened ... is the result of collaboration from people who facilitated the operation conducted by Iraqi police and multinational forces," Mr Maliki said. "This is a message to those who choose the path of violence to change their direction before it is too late. "I thank our forces, our police...

DUBLIN, N.C. Authorities said a Bladen County man whose body was found at a racetrack here apparently died of a rattlesnake bite. Lloyd Hood, 44, had been missing since Tuesday, when he spotted the 4-foot snake while walking with a friend through a wooded ravine next to Dublin Motor Speedway. Investigators said the friend - who hates snakes - went back to the car and waited while Hood tried to catch it. Hood - an avid hunter and outdoorsman - never returned, and the friend tried unsuccessfully to find him before leaving and filing a missing person report Wednesday. Chief...

In these last days, the Bible says it will be a time of mass hybridization and the mixture and corruption of human DNA by fallen angels, also known as "Aliens." The government is and has been, conditioning the existence of aliens through Hollywood, science fiction, cartoons, and other sources. However, they are not telling you the whole truth. These Aliens are not ascended masters, or enlightened ones, or beings from galaxies millions of miles away, nor are they our forefathers or original creators. They are fallen angels who were kicked out of heaven for their rebellion against the headship...

When the White House press corps first starts asking questions of new White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, the first question should be, "Sir, exactly what are you trying to hide?". There are a plethora of glib answers one could give to such a question, but the fact remains, Mr. Snow was a regular poster over at Free Republic ( http://www.freerepublic.com ), and as one can see from the link and quote below, overnight when it was announced he would be the new press secretary, the mountain of information Mr. Snow had submitted and had posted on the site disappeared....

<p>Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav leader who orchestrated the Balkan wars of the 1990s and was on trial for war crimes, was found dead in his prison cell at the U.N. detention center near The Hague, the U.N. tribunal said Saturday. He was 65.</p>

Jan. 13, 2006 — Today, according to Pakistani military sources, U.S. aircraft attacked a compound known to be frequented by high level al Qaeda operatives. Pakistani officials tell ABC News that al Qaeda leader Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant, may have been among them. U.S. intelligence for the last few days indicated that Zawahiri might be in the location or about to arrive, although there is still no confirmation from U.S. officials that he was among the victims.

Bush "Recession" Has Lower Unemployment Rate, Higher Stock Prices than Clinton's "Economic Boom" The stock market closed Friday, December 29, 2001 up 5.68%, at 10136.99. The last week of December 1995, in the midst of the so-called Clinton economic boom, the stock market closed at 5098. The unemployment rate, which was 4.9% when the World Trade Center was destroyed September 11th, had risen by the end of October 2001, to 5.0%, rising .3% from the time George W. Bush was sworn into office in January 2001. During the economic boom we heard so much about from the media during the...

PARIS: He has not issued any public statements all year. Speculation has grown over his influence, health and even possible death. Where is the Western world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden? The Al-Qaeda leader's period of silence has been the longest since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, offering no clues to the whereabouts or fate of a man who this year appears to have quietly slipped off the radar. Bin Laden has not been heard of since a December 27, 2004, audiotape in which he anointed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq's most wanted man, as Al-Qaeda's...

Stanley Tookie Williams executed Crips gang co-founder put to death for 4 murders Tuesday, December 13, 2005; Posted: 3:38 a.m. EST (08:38 GMT) SAN QUENTIN, California (CNN) -- Convicted killer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams was executed early Tuesday at the California state prison at San Quentin. The execution went ahead as scheduled after the U.S. Supreme Court late Monday rejected a last-ditch appeal. The high court's ruling followed California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's decision to deny clemency for Williams, 51, who received a lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday (3:01 a.m. ET).

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in Iraq said reports that U.S. forces had killed its leader Abu Musab Al Zarqawi were a lie, according to an Internet statement posted on Wednesday. The group was reacting to remarks by a U.S. official who said on Sunday that U.S. authorities were looking into whether Zarqawi had been killed during fighting in northern Iraq. A White House spokesman later said Zarqawi's death was "highly unlikely." "The media has lately circulated this news that was announced by the Crusaders (U.S. military) about the death of the leader of the group in an armed confrontation...

Police may be on the brink of finally finding the remains of Judge Joseph Crater - and possibly solving the most enduring mystery in New York City history, investigators said yesterday. A letter probably penned more than half a century ago has pinpointed a spot under the Coney Island boardwalk where Crater - last seen leaving a Times Square watering hole 75 years ago - is buried, they said. The letter was written by an elderly woman who died of natural causes in June, they said. Upon her death, family members opened a safe-deposit box, where they found a letter...

As I'm foolish, I can't for the life of me figure out how to post this elsewhere. I do think that no content on F.R.(other than that which is extremely obscene) should be censored. The most feckless among the numerous Conservatives here should be able to easily refute the most intellectualy argued Liberal pap. And by allowing Liberal views it only trains us to strengthen our position.I have almost reached my F.R. 5th anniversary and to date the fact that all information is not allowed troubles me.Expose the stupidity at it's base is my philosophy. God Bless Texas(LOL) and I'm...

A convicted murderer awaiting execution at San Quentin State Prison has died of an apparent heroin overdose -- making him California's first inmate to OD on Death Row. Nicholas Rodriguez, a 27-year-old Los Angeles gang member, was sentenced to die in 2001 for shooting two teenagers to death while fleeing a robbery and for strangling a fellow gang member and gouging out his eyes before dumping the body in a canyon. While the clock ticked on his date with a lethal injection of potassium chloride, Rodriguez somehow managed to score enough drugs and the paraphernalia to get high. Corrections Department...

A top Taleban commander has said in a television interview that Osama Bin Laden and Afghanistan's former Taleban leader Mullah Omar are alive and well. "I am in contact with Mullah Omar and take directions from him," Mullah Akhtar Usmani told Pakistan's privately-run Geo television. There is no way of independently verifying Mullah Usmani's claims. The BBC's Rahimullah Yusufzai says that Mullah Usmani was a senior commander in the Taleban before its fall in 2001. QUICK GUIDE What is al-Qaeda? Our correspondent says he is since considered to be the operational head of the Taleban resistance. The United States has...

International terrorist Osama bin Laden and his Taliban associate Mullah Omar are alive, and a new cassette from the Al Qaeda leader is expected soon to prove his presence, according to a distinguished Pakistani journalist. "Both Osama and Mullah Omar are alive. There is no evidence to suggest that Osama bin Laden is dead, and there is no doubt about the presence of Mullah Omar as he regularly sends audio cassettes and letters," journalist Rahimullah Yuzufsai was quoted as saying Monday. Yusufzai said both Osama and Mullah Omar are in the Afghan region but that Osama was finding the going...

Man Dead On Futon For Nearly 10 Years Before Family Notices Father Found Lying Dead On Futon March 9, 2005 TOKYO -- A Japanese man and his two sisters were worried something might be wrong with dad. And they were right. The old man had been dead for nearly a decade. Police questioned the three elderly siblings Tuesday, after the decomposing body of their father was found lying on a futon bed in the family's home. Police said the man's children thought he was still alive, but became worried lately and consulted a relative. Police said judging by the condition...

MIDI - IN MY ROOM We were cheering, Yasser finally reached the temperature In his room... in his room There's an awful stench emitting from him, that's for sure In his room...in his room Ninety eight point six was too warm...he's now seventy Long ago he should have been there...everyone should see He cannot kill any more Jews, that sounds good to me In his room...in his room...in his room, in his room, in his room, etc, etc

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has liver failure and his condition is not improving at the French military hospital where he is being treated, a Palestinian official said on Sunday. The official, who declined to be named, said Palestinian officials were considering moving Arafat to hospital in Cairo, from where he could be flown home more quickly if he died. But he added that any decision to move him could be taken only by the Palestinian leadership. "He has liver failure. His condition is not improving," said the official. He said a low count of platelets,...

CLAMART, France Nov 6, 2004 — Yasser Arafat is not in a coma but remained in intensive care after undergoing more medical tests, a senior aide to the ailing Palestinian leader said Saturday. Test results were expected within days. Nabil Abu Rdeneh, Arafat's spokesman, would not say whether his announcement meant Arafat had emerged from a coma or had not been in a coma at all. He also refused to say whether he had seen Arafat personally and did not specify the nature of the new medical tests. "He is not in a coma," Abu Rdeneh told reporters after coming...

CNN breaking news red banner Arafat refusing to go to Paris.

Some reporters think he's already in U.S. custody Some reporters say U.S. troops already have bin Laden, but Bush is waiting for right time to play his ace in the hole  CAROL HARRINGTONSPECIAL TO THE STAR KABUL—These days, rumours are flying among foreign journalists here that Osama bin Laden — the world's most wanted man — is about to be snared. Some journalists are even wagering on the exact day the Al Qaeda leader will be pulled from his hole, mountain, cave or bunker. Few scribes affirm their assumptions are fuelled by concrete intelligence. But most admit to basing...

ignore what he is saying, look at what he does. Noone likes being conned, will insist the con was real, even in the face of evidence. If you care about the lives of your family-to-be, you'll want to get rid of the bush administration now.

(Newsmax.com)Yesterday it was publicly revealed for the first time that the CIA has fewer people manning the Osama team -that special group began in the 1990's to track and eliminate Osama Bin Laden-than we did before the 9/11 attacks.

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) - Three years after the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings, the military does not have a fix on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, but they are believed to still be issuing the orders for al-Qaida attacks, a top American commander told The Associated Press on Saturday.

UPN has reportedly commissioned advertisements touting William Shatner's (James T. Kirk) return to Star Trek. CBS Television City Research Center, located in Las Vegas's MGM grand hotel, is showing a commercial for Enterprise's fourth season announcing a guest appearance by Shatner, according to a post by 'Lt. Barclay' on the TrekWeb message boards. Barclay said in his report that the center previewed an episode of CBS's new comedy series, Centre of the Universe, for visitors. "During the show, a few UPN commercials were shown, including one for Enterprise," he said in his report. The Enterprise ad reportedly contained scenes from...

The most wanted man in the world is living among Edwardes's storied enemies of the world, the hard men of wild beards and wicked daggers with a long history of hobbling armies of faraway empires. Osama bin Laden, senior military and intelligence officials say, has forsaken his Arab bodyguards and, when the need arises, travels with a small number of Pashtun tribesmen in Pakistan's untamed borderlands. Here the fertile floor of the subcontinent pushes relentlessly skyward toward the high wastes of Central Asia, but it is not a trackless land. If anything, there are far too many tracks--narrow goat paths...

JERUSALEM: Israeli military officials on Monday said they believe Mahmoud Zahar, a surgeon and prominent Hamas hard-liner, is the new leader of the Islamic militant group in the Gaza Strip. Hamas has refused to reveal the name of the man chosen to replace Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the Hamas leader killed in an airstrike on April 17. In Gaza violence on Monday, a 14-year-old boy was shot in the back by Israeli army fire and died, Palestinian medical workers said. The boy was in a group of youths who had climbed some sand dunes to watch the soldiers. Military officials said...

MAKHACHKALA - Chechen warlord Ruslan Gelayev has been killed in a clash with two border guards in the mountains of Dagestan, the Federal Security Service confirmed on Monday. The body of the notorious field commander was found in the snow some 100 meters away from the bodies of two soldiers he had killed before the end. One of the most infamous Chechen filed commanders - Ruslan (also known as Khamzat) Gelayev was killed in the mountains of Dagestan on Saturday. On Monday Gelayev’s body was brought to Makhachkala, where two captured rebels from Gelayev’s group positively identified it as...

DUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) will issue the next of his video messages after a massive attack on US territory, Saudi weekly Al-Majallah quotes an official of the terror network as saying. Quoting an e-mail received from a man who goes by the name of Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj, the weekly reports that "an emissary of bin Laden has informed me that the Al-Qaeda chief's (next) appearance (on video cassette) will come after a deadly, far-reaching operation on American territory. "In the video, bin Laden will evoke the success of his backers in once...

Cairo, Egypt-AP) -- The satellite channel Al-Arabiya has now withdrawn a tape it broadcast Saturday containing a voice claiming to be that of Osama bin Laden. Al-Arabiya gave no reason for pulling the tape, but a rival channel claimed it aired the tape two months ago. Al-Jazeera said it broadcast the same material in October. On the tape, a voice claiming to be that of bin Laden praised attacks on U-S forces in Iraq. It also said the Americans were waging a "new crusade against the Islamic world." A journalist reached at Al-Arabiya said the tape has been withdrawn and...

WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - An audio tape purported to be of Osama bin Laden aired on Saturday appears to be an old one that was previously broadcast, a CIA official said. "It appears to be the same audio that was released (previously)," the official told Reuters. In the audio tape, aired on Arabic TV station Al Arabiya, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 strikes called the U.S. war on Iraq part of a new crusade against Islam. Al Arabiya and another Arab satellite station, Al Jazeera, have in the past broadcast similar messages said to be from bin...

OSAMA Bin Laden, the world’s most wanted man, will be next to be captured or killed, senior intelligence sources believe. Security chiefs knew for weeks that they were closing in on Saddam. Now they believe they are hot on the al-Qa’ida leader’s trail. Saudi-born Bin Laden has been tracked to the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is constantly on the move, guarded by hundreds of fanatics willing to die for him. Western agents, even those who speak the language, have little hope of infiltrating his organisation. But some Pakistani intelligence officers have picked up his trail. Bin Laden is...

<p>A man was beating a 16-year-old girl with a pipe Wednesday morning on Detroit's west side.</p> <p>Suddenly, the man was dead, shot several times by a passenger in a passing car.</p> <p>Police are looking for the driver of the car and the gunman, who might not be a criminal suspect, but a much rarer species -- a drive-by vigilante.</p>

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat appears to be in better health Friday, attending Muslim prayers at his West Bank headquarters. Earlier this week, he was pale and haggard and seemed disoriented. This set off speculation that he might be seriously ill. His doctors denied it, however -- saying he suffered from stomach problems but was recovering. Arafat repeatedly kneeled and got to his feet without help at today's prayers. He sat in the first row of worshipers at a makeshift mosque. He was still pale, but looked stronger, and his lower lip did not tremble, as it often does when he...

Guysen Israel News is running an unconfirmed report that Yasser Arafat has kicked the bucket!

WHY I THINK BIN LADEN IS DEAD Sep 12 2003 By Christopher Hitchens I HAVE believed for more than a year that Osama bin Laden is dead and yesterday's pathetic home movie from al Jazeera via al Qaeda (or do I mean the other way around?) has reinforced this conviction. It would be easy enough for his fellow-gangsters to prove me wrong. All they need to do, next time they point a video at their heroic guru, is to put in his hands a recent edition of an Arabic or Pakistani or Afghan newspaper. The date needn't be visible -...

Looks like Saddam is doing scenes from Heidi or The Sound of Music rolicking through the mountian meadows.

Aug. 18 — DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Arabiya television aired on Monday an audio tape allegedly from an al Qaeda spokesman saying Osama bin Laden and Taliban chief Mullah Omar were alive and urging Muslims to fight a holy war against U.S. troops in Iraq. Al Arabiya attributed the recording to Afghan-based al Qaeda official Abdel Rahman al-Najdi, who it said was on a U.S. list of wanted al Qaeda members. "I would like to bring the good tidings to Muslims everywhere that Sheikh Osama bin Laden is well, very well and that Mullah Omar is also alive," the voice...

Nine months after Sen. Paul Wellstone's fatal plane crash, some DFLers are outraged by what they consider disrespectful bumper sticker messages printed in Wellstone's green and white. One spotted on a car parked near the State Capitol reads: "It's time to park the bus," a reference to Wellstone's campaign vehicle. Another spotted around town said, "He's dead, get over it."