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KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - An Islamic militant said Wednesday that he bought and prepared the car used in a suicide bombing that killed 11 French engineers in southern Pakistan. Bashir Ahmed, speaking one day after police raided his hide-out and arrested him, told reporters he was in the car until shortly before it crashed into a bus carrying the French engineers in Karachi in May. He also said he had fought in Afghanistan and that his greatest regret was that he never met Osama bin Laden. Sitting in a Karachi police office, Ahmed said he had met a man in...