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A former bodyguard for pop star Britney Spears has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against her. Fernando Flores has accused the singer of repeatedly parading around in the nude and having sex in front of him. Mr Flores also claims Ms Spears caused him emotional distress by having violent quarrels with her boyfriend in front of her two children. The singer's lawyer did not comment. A lawyer for her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, called the case "baseless". According to papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Mr Flores alleges that Spears made repeated, unwanted sexual advances and summoned him to her...

BOUNTIFUL -- Visitors to a fundraising open house at the Bountiful Heritage Museum last weekend became part of a growing group who have seen the Nauvoo Legion sword once owned by Joseph Smith Jr... Until last year, the sword and an oak casket stick taken from one of Smith's caskets were hidden away from the public for 165 years. SNIP ...he said of key interest to many are several chapters on the casket stick owned by his family and several others. "This is all new information," he said. "Somehow the historians have missed this part." He said the casket stick...

Lehi resident John Rockwell has a last name that's either famous or infamous. It depends on who you ask. Rockwell is the great-great-grandson of Old West icon Orrin Porter Rockwell, who died at age 65 132 years ago this month. Porter Rockwell is known for being the lifelong friend and, as an adult, the personal bodyguard, of LDS Church founder Joseph Smith. Or his detractors might tell you that he's known for being a dissolute, murderous, lawless gunslinger. Because Porter Rockwell never learned to read or write, his story was being told in other people's words even before he'd died....

SANAA, YEMEN -- When he served in the Afghan mountains as Osama bin Laden's personal bodyguard, Nasser al-Bahri said, he was known as "The Killer." Today, Bahri is a business consultant in Yemen who favors Western-style pinstriped shirts, crisp slacks and black loafers. But his ideas are still radical: Ask him whether jihadists should kill Americans on U.S. soil and he replies without hesitation, "America is a legitimate target."

IMAGE: Anna Loginova posed to prove she was a woman as well as a weaponRussia's most famous female bodyguard Anna Loginova has been killed after failing to prevent her own Porsche being carjacked. The glamorous 29-year-old died from head injuries after clinging on to the door handle and being dragged along the street at high speed as the car screeched away. "She suffered serious injuries and died at the scene," said a police spokesman. Police believe that she was killed in a random carjacking and was not the victim of an attack based on her work for wealthy high-profile Russian...

'Kim Jong-il' Aphrodisiac Gang Busted Police have busted a gang that sold fake aphrodisiacs trading on the name of North Korean leader and serial polygamist Kim Jong-il. Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency booked four people including a North Korean defector identified as Lee (44) without detention on Thursday on charges of producing and selling illegal pharmaceuticals concocted by mixing erectile dysfunction drugs and medicinal herbs. Police said the scammers built a food factory in February last year in Songpa-gu, Seoul where they made three kinds of unlicensed health products by mixing herbs with Tadalafil, the active ingredient in impotence drug Cialis,...

The arrest of a man identified by Fox News as a bodyguard for anti-gun film director Michael Moore by New York Port Authority Police Wednesday evening proves that Moore is an elitist who thinks it is fine for him to have armed security, while he has endeavored to disarm other law-abiding Americans, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) said today. Adding to the irony, said SAF Founder Alan M. Gottlieb, is the fact that bodyguard Patrick Burke was arrested for violating the kind of Draconian gun law that Moore and his extremist gun control contemporaries would support. Burke was reportedly arrested...

DUESSELDORF, Germany -- A Jordanian man who claims he was Osama bin Laden's bodyguard was questioned by U.S. officials who are considering having him testify at the Virginia trial of terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, the man's attorney said Thursday. Shadi Abdellah, 28, sentenced last November to four years in prison for helping plan terror attacks in Germany, was granted early release last month after serving more than half the time, including in pretrial custody. While in prison, he served as a government witness in several trials, including that of his alleged co-plotters in the German cell of the Tawhid and...

Dr. Jack Wheeler, creator of a unique intelligence website dubbed "the oasis for rational conservatives," features a column describing what could have turned into a deadly scenario in Chile for President Bush. On his website, To the Point, Wheeler tells a little-known story about a conflict between Bush's security detail and Chile's security over the latter's refusal to have a metal-detector at a state dinner for the president. There is speculation, Wheeler points out, that Bush-loathing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a chum of Fidel Castro, is somehow connected to the incident. Wheeler explains that Chilean officials attempted to block Secret...

Bush Pulls Top Bodyguard From Scuffle   (AP) U.S. President George W. Bush, center left, reaches in to the crowd for his Secret Service Agent...Full Image SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - President Bush stepped into the middle of a confrontation and pulled his lead Secret Service agent away from Chilean security officials who barred his bodyguards from entering an elegant dinner for 21 world leaders Saturday night.Several Chilean and American agents got into a pushing and shoving match outside the cultural center where the dinner was held. The incident happened after Bush and his wife, Laura, had just posed for pictures...

US military officials are holding a bodyguard of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at the naval base prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Washington Post reports. The report cites Defence Department memos and sources familiar with base captives. The Post says the bodyguard is Moroccan Abdallah Tabarak, who enabled bin Laden to escape from the battle of Tora Bora in Afghanistan in late 2001 by making calls on his leader's personal satellite telephone. The information is contained in memos documenting meetings between military personnel and inspectors from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). ICRC officials, who keep...

Bodyguard's gun accidentally fires in audience at college tournament Greensboro, North Carolina-AP -- They're going to start checking for weapons at a college basketball tournament -- after an off-duty police officer's gun accidentally fired at a game. Baltimore police Detective Darren Sanders was wounded in the hip at yesterday's Atlantic Coast Conference game between Maryland and Wake Forest in Greensboro, North Carolina. Greensboro police say Sanders will be charged with carrying a gun into an assembly where admission is charged. And Baltimore police say they will investigate and determine whether Sanders should be disciplined. No one else was hurt when...

James Caviezel, who plays Jesus in Mel Gibson's blockbuster "The Passion of the Christ," has reportedly been assigned a security detail to protect him. "There are some crazy people out there and everything is being done to protect Mel and Jim from physical attack," a source close to executives of Newmarket Films told the London Express. The paper said Caviezel, a devout Catholic, was being guarded by a "protection squad" amid fears of attacks by "religious fanatics." According to the report, a mob of protesters has already screamed "anti-Semite" and hurled a bucket of lamb's blood at Gibson in a...

<p>A New York restaurateur has slammed multimillionaire acting twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen after their bodyguard tried to barge him out of the way in his own eaterie, reports IMDB.com.</p> <p>The "Full House" stars were eating with friends at New York's packed Serafina on Valentine's Day when the incident occurred. According to Serafina co-owner Fabio Granato, the Olsen minder became agitated after Granato refused to move out of the way to accommodate the party.</p>

<p>A soldier from the 4th Infantry Division guards $750,000 seized during the arrest of Saddam outside his hometown of Tikrit.</p> <p>The end for the dictator who fought two wars with the United States and bedeviled three presidents began with interrogations of low-level aides and family members — cousins, drivers, bodyguards, secretaries and other insiders who might know his whereabouts.</p>

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 November 8, 2003Release Number: 03-11-03 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BODYGUARD DETAINED KIRKUK, Iraq – A person believed to be a former bodyguard of Saddam Hussein was detained in an early morning raid on Nov. 8 south of Kirkuk. Iraqi and coalition forces conducted the raid after obtaining information that indicated the target has been involved in anti-coalition attacks in recent weeks. The individual was apprehended without incident. Soldiers located and confiscated one AK-47 assault weapon, one machine pistol, one rifle, one...

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<p>July 30, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's captured chief bodyguard, who was drunk at the time of his arrest, claimed he hasn't seen the on-the-run dictator for "months," officials said yesterday.</p> <p>Adnan Abdullah Abid al-Musslit, Saddam's cousin and longtime shadow who probably knows more about his movements than anyone, was nabbed along with two other high ranking regime henchmen during a raid in Tikrit earlier this week.</p>

<p>TIKRIT, Iraq &#8212; American soldiers overpowered and arrested a bodyguard yesterday who rarely left Saddam Hussein's side, and said they obtained documents and information that could help them close in on the former dictator.</p> <p>An audiotape attributed to the deposed Iraqi leader declared his sons martyrs.</p>

US soldiers captured four loyalists of Saddam Hussein's Baath party in a pre-dawn raid in Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, north of Baghdad. A military spokesman in the capital backed down from a claim that one of the men was a bodyguard for Saddam, but said the quartet were all under investigation to assess their connections to the fugitive strongman. The suspected regime loyalists included a possible brigadier general, Major Troy Smith of the Fourth Infantry Division (4ID) said, which is scouring Saddam's old hunting grounds for holdouts of the defeated Baath party. "There are dozens of former bodyguards and former...