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Pakistan's army and military spy agency trained al-Qaeda and then maintained links with the militants afterwards, Imran Khan has said. Pakistan's prime minister said his country had then made a major mistake siding with America during the war on terror after the 9/11 attacks. The decision had cost 60,000 Pakistani lives as the country battled Islamist militancy and Pakistan would have been better staying neutral.

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who took a leading role in the Terry Schiavo case, said Sunday it taught him that Americans do not want the government involved in such end-of-life decisions. Frist, considered a presidential hopeful for 2008, defended his call for further examinations of the brain-damaged Florida woman during the last days of a bitter family feud over her treatment. Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state. The case became a rallying point for right-to-life advocates, an important segment of the Republican Party. It also drew interest from those supporting the right to refuse life-sustaining medical...

BAGHDAD - Iraq's most wanted man Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has fled Fallujah with one of his top aides, the country's national security advisor said on Saturday after declaring an end to a six-day US-led offensive on the city. "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Abdullah Junabi have fled... leaving their supporters to taste death," Qassem Daoud told a news conference in Baghdad. Jordanian-born Zarqawi, whose group of militants have claimed some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq and a string of beheadings of hostages, has a 25-million dollar bounty on his head. He is regarded as the frontman in Iraq for Osama...