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No details yet. Follows on news of Bin Laden associate from Iran/Afghan border surrenders to Saudi authorities.

'Dear Leader' [KIM JONG IL] Blusters in Saddam's wake By RICHARD HALLORAN FOR THE STRAITS TIMES INTELLIGENCE agencies from Seoul to Singapore would pay dearly for the answer to perhaps the most intriguing question in Asia arising from the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq: What does the 'Dear Leader' of North Korea, Mr Kim Jong Il, like Saddam a charter member of United States President George W. Bush's 'axis of evil', think of this turn of events?The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), through which the hermit kingdom communicates with the rest of the world, was defiant several days...

It was an historic Thansgiving for Americans, especially those courageously defending our security in Iraq. President George W. Bush successfully completed a secret mission. He went into the belly of the beast, where a plane was shot down with a missle just a few days ago, and had dinner with those who are his heroes. From the cesspool of the Bush-hating political left, the screams of "cheap shameless photo-op" were all too predictable. But, as usual, they are wrong. Those who still gain daily sustenance from democRAT Kool-aid, are outraged. Their blind hatred of a genuine and decent man still...

BBC Tonight: "Iraq 'deaths' will have huge effect" By Mike Wooldridge, BBC world affairs correspondent Only the capture or killing of Saddam Hussein himself could be of greater significance. His elder son, Uday, and younger son, Qusay, played such legendary roles in Iraq's iron fist rule that their hold over people continued even while they were at large. There appears to have been a view among ultra-loyal Baathists that, while all three were alive, there was a possibility that things could be made unbearable for the coalition forces and the old regime could return. However distant that prospect, it was...