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FUGITIVE al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has "ceased to be important," with the movement he created posing a far greater threat, respected British Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk has said. "To look for bin Laden now is as useful as detaining nuclear scientists after the creation of the atomic bomb," Fisk, who has interviewed the Saudi-born terror mastermind three times, said. "Bin Laden has ceased to be important." "Yet we are still following the Hollywoodesque vision of the existence of Bin Laden. Is he alive? When will they catch him?" "Bin Laden created Al-Qaeda. His work is done. Would it...

car crashed into the front of the Waldo post office after an aerosol can rolled under the car's brake pedal, leaving the driver unable to stop. The driver, Dorothy Faye Porchia, 48, of Magnolia, was unhurt but the front of the post office caved in, Waldo police chief Tom Mockbee said. The car jumped a sidewalk before running into the building Wednesday. "My can of deoderant I keep to make the car smell good fell off the seat and rolled under the brake," Porchia said. "I mashed the brake but it wouldn't go down." Porchia said she used to live...