High-level al-Qaida Figure is Captured

Washington revealed today that a high-level al-Qaida member, suspected of close links to Osama Bin Laden, was captured in 2007. The Pentagon stated Mohammad Rahim, instrumental in helping Bin Laden escape Afghanistan in 2001, was detained in the summer of 2007."Authorities...

Pentagon: Top al Qaeda leader taken to Guantanamo, Takes Heat Off Call-Girl Aide

UPDATE: ... Oh. I see. So that's why you'd spoon-feed some non-news to the mainstream media... get them looking one way whilst the real scandal breaks in their blind spot.PREVIOUSLY: The story here isn't the story itself (i.e. the capture of a suspected terrorist), but that...

Affidavit: McVeigh had high-level help

By Pamela Manson The Salt Lake Tribune -Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according...

Bush cancels meeting with Iraq PM; "Unheard of development" says AP

This was supposed to have been a big deal, until the New York Times reported a secret White House memo leaked Nov. 28, just a day before the meeting was to have taken place. Now Pres. Bush has cancelled the "Iraq summit meeting" with Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki....

Top China leader fired for graft

"The most senior Chinese Communist Party official in Shanghai has been sacked for corruption, state media reported. "

High-level al-Qaida leader is captured

"BAGHDAD, Iraq | The man who supervised the bombers of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra last February, an act that set off a wave of brutal sectarian violence, has been captured. Iraq’s national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, said the second-ranking leader of...