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Obama in NYC: We never forget

May 6, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) ― President Barack Obama solemnly honored victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and declared that the killing of Osama bin Laden was an American message to the world: “When we say we will never forget, we mean what we say.”Standing at the gritty construction site of ground zero Thursday, where the World Trade Center towers fell and a memorial now rises, the president laid a w
Profiles of new ministers

May 6, 2011

Bahk Jae-wanStrategy and finance Bahk began his career as a government official at the Prime Minister’s Office after he passed the civil service examination in 1980.He then moved on to the Board of Audit and Inspection, the nation’s top inspection body, before he became a public management professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul.The holder of a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University
‘Only one bin Laden guard shot at SEALs’

May 6, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The Americans who raided Osama bin Laden’s lair met far less resistance than the Obama administration described in the aftermath. The commandos encountered gunshots from only one man, whom they quickly killed, before sweeping the house and shooting others, who were unarmed, a senior defense official said in the latest account.In Thursday’s revised telling, the Navy SEALs mounted
Hey, look everyone, it's rubberman!

May 6, 2011

A 66-year-old man in Jiaozuo, Henan province, has created his own style of kungfu which can allow him to curl up his body into a suitcase.The man claimed to have been practicing his own brand of kungfu since 2000 for half an hour every two days in the open air, whether it is hot or cold.The practice has made his body so plastic he can put on a coat that only a 3-year-old child could wear.He said h
Frozen infant found in small French town

May 6, 2011

A Belgian mother, suspected of having frozen her newborn baby after giving birth in her apartment in a small town of Limoux, Aude region, France, was indicted for murder and detained Tuesday, officials said. This photo taken on May 2, 2011 shows the taped up door to the home of Nathalie De May, a woman suspected of killing her newborn baby, in Limoux. (AFP-Yonhap News)28-year old mother of two gi
Info from Osama raid shows interest in US trains

May 6, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of the first information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates al-Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains on the coming anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Counterterrorism officials say they believe the planning never got beyond the initial phase and have no recent intelligence pointing to an active plot for such an attack.As of Febru
Obama won’t release bin Laden photos

May 5, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama said Wednesday he has decided not to release death photos of terrorist Osama bin Laden because their graphic nature could incite violence and create national security risks for the United States. Separately, officials told the Associated Press that the Navy SEALs who stormed bin Laden’s compound shot him dead after they saw him appear to lunge for a weapon.
Customers remain despite data breaches

May 5, 2011

More people are turning over personal information to online retailers, social networksSAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Week after week, thieves break into corporate computer systems to steal customer lists, email addresses and credit card numbers. Large data breaches get overshadowed by even larger ones.Yet people are turning over personal information to online retailers, social networks and other services in
Inside bin Laden’s lair with SEAL Team 6

May 5, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) ― So much could have gone wrong as SEAL Team Six swept over Pakistan’s dark landscape, dropped down ropes into a compound lined by wall after wall, exchanged gunfire and confronted face to face the most dangerous terrorist in the world. The vital things went right.Just about every contingency the 25 commandos trained for came at them, rapidly, chaotically and dangerously, in their
3 bodies found in Mexico mass graves identified

May 5, 2011

A policeman stands next to skulls during the removal of bodies from a mass grave found at a car repair shop in the city of Durango, Mexico. Security forces searching mass graves in northwestern Mexico have exhumed eight more bodies, bringing the total from a month-long excavation to 104. (AP-Yonhap News)The number of bodies found in mass graves in northern Mexico over the month has risen to 293. M
White House says bin Laden was unarmed when killed

May 4, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Osama bin Laden was unarmed when Navy SEALs burst into his room and shot him to death, the White House said Tuesday, a change in the official account that raised questions about whether the U.S. ever planned to capture the terrorist leader alive.The Obama administration, meanwhile, was still debating whether to release gruesome images of bin Laden’s corpse, balancing efforts to d
Osama bin Laden’s neighbors noticed unusual goings-on

May 4, 2011

ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (AP) ― When a woman involved in a polio vaccine drive turned up at Osama bin Laden’s hideaway, she remarked to the men behind the high walls about the expensive SUVs parked inside. The men took the vaccine, apparently to administer to the 23 children at the compound, and told her to go away.The terror chief and his family kept well hidden behind thick walls in this northwester
Bin Laden’s last wishes reported

May 4, 2011

Osama Bin Laden wished his wives not to remarry and his children not to join Al-Qaeda in a document, which is thought to be his will, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Aabaa reported Tuesday.The four-page document, dated Dec. 14, 2001, three months after 9/11, was written on a computer and signed by Osama bin Laden himself as “your brother Abu Abdullah Osama Muhammad Bin Laden.”He feared he might be killed by
Myths and truths about Osama bin Laden

May 4, 2011

Osama bin Laden’s mysterious life gave rise to a number of myths about him. The following are 10 myths about the notorious terrorist as summarized by the Guardian. Myth 1: Bin Laden was created by the CIA.Some say the U.S. funded bin Laden during the 1980s to fight the USSR,BUT bin Laden did not receive any funding or training from the U.S.Myth 2: Bin Laden is rich.Bin Laden is known to be from a
Bin Laden gone, but threat lives on

May 3, 2011

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Osama bin Laden’s death may temporarily decapitate al-Qaida, but the threat of terror attacks remains, and it could spike in coming days from individuals or small extremist groups inspired to take revenge for the killing, terror experts said Monday.Would-be successors to the terror leader pose a threat as they jostle for power and attention. And other jihadists inspired by the ex