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Woman, 19, is sentenced to death by stoning for adultery after she was 'raped at gunpoint by her cousin' in Pakistan o Woman, 19, claims she was raped in her family home at gunpoint by her cousin o She reported crime to tribal court, but it ruled she had intentionally seduced him o Court, which included alleged rapist's father, then sentenced her to death A 19-year-old woman has been sentenced to death in Pakistan after she accused her cousin of raping her at gunpoint. The woman said she was asleep at her family home in Rajanpur, in the country's central...

POSTED: 5:43 p.m. EDT, September 20, 2006 NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Bush said Wednesday he would order U.S. forces to go after Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan if he received good intelligence on the fugitive al Qaeda leader's location. "Absolutely," Bush told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview scheduled for air Wednesday afternoon. Although Pakistan has said it won't allow U.S. troops to operate within its territory, "we would take the action necessary to bring him to justice." But Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, told reporters Wednesday at the United Nations that his government would oppose any U.S. action...

The mood in Dearborn, home to America's largest mosque, could not be further from that on the grimy streets of English cities where disaffected Muslim youths hang around street corners. Islam may be thriving in America - it is the fastest growing religion - but it is a religion of a very different tone to the harsh message preached by some fundamentalist imams in the UK. No one in Dearborn, the unofficial capital of American Arabs, justifies the London bombings.