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“You could be very cynical and say he didn’t want to get him because once they got him the war was over and that left all the political advantage gone,”

25 injured when taxi plows into crowd leaving Gaslamp club By Susan Shroder Originally published February 12, 2011 at 5:22 a.m., updated February 12, 2011 at 6:27 a.m. An injured woman on the street. An injured woman on the street. If you witnessed this incident, give our breaking news team a call at 619-293-1010. An injured woman on the street. Photos courtesy Maurice Luque, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department The taxi outside Stingaree nightclub. SAN DIEGO — Twenty-five people were injured early Saturday, six critically, when a taxi driver veered off a busy street onto a sidewalk and plowed into patrons...

EXCLUSIVE Surrogate mother for Osama Bin Laden's grandchild  By GARY O’SHEA Published: Today THIS is the British mum set to give birth to Osama Bin Laden's grandchild. Trips to Dubai ... Louise is due for pregnancy test ALISTAIR HEAP Louise Pollard, 24, is acting as a surrogate mother for the al-Qaeda warlord's son Omar Bin Laden, The Sun can reveal. She is undergoing fertility treatment, thought to be IVF, in an attempt to conceive using Omar's sperm and eggs from his British wife Jane Felix Browne. Grandad ... Osama Bin Laden    The Qatar-based pair - who are desperate to have...

Osama bin Laden has condemned Barack Obama's policies towards Muslim countries in a new audio recording, it was reported today. The al-Qaida leader said the US president had planted seeds of "revenge and hatred" towards the US in the Muslim world, al-Jazeera television reported. It reported Bin Laden as saying that Obama was continuing in the steps of his predecessor, George Bush. He also told Americans to be prepared for the consequences of the White House's policies...

The following is PURE speculation! Feel free to beat it to a pulp if you want (I'm a big guy, I can take it!). French intelligence released a report that Ossama is dead, based on unnamed Saudi Police sources. This has since been rebuked by the Saudi government, but the danage has already been done. Is this a French "October Surprise?" A bogus story getting a big play in the US media, designed (in French eyes) to remove the main focus of the War on Terror. With Ossama dead, the Americans will no longer support continued war and abandon the...

If the devil is in the details then the truth of George Bush's successes elude John Kerry by inflection and context. Take for instance Kerry's attack on Bush for not doing enough to get Osama in tonight's 3rd debate: "KERRY: Yes. When the president had an opportunity to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, he took his focus off of them, outsourced the job to Afghan warlords, and Osama bin Laden escaped.... Six months after he said Osama bin Laden must be caught dead or alive, this president was asked, "Where is Osama bin Laden?" He said, "I don't know....

<p>Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion.</p> <p>A former Canadian resident is a key commander and ideologue with Ansar al-Islam, a group the United States considers to be the terrorist link between Al Qaeda and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, says a captured Ansar member.</p> <p>Ali and another Ansar prisoner interviewed by the Star, 20-year-old Didar Khaled Khedr, said two former Iraqi intelligence agents are among Ansar's leaders - Abu Zurbeh and Abu Wahil.</p>

NEW "War On Terror" action dolls have provoked a storm of protest. The 12in toys include figures representing Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush and even Tony Blair. As an extra satirical touch they are sold with an optional pink dress or kinky bondage outfit. But the dolls, called The Butcher of Baghdad, The Dirty Terrorist and The British Ally, among others, have sparked a wave of criticism. Threats against the makers are being taken so seriously that staff are going to work armed while CCTV cameras are trained on their HQ in the US state of Connecticut....