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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>