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Kim Gardner, a former St. Louis prosecutor who was backed by George Soros, is missing. The list of allegations against Gardner is long. Authorities are trying to find her because of the ongoing investigation and also to serve her subpoenas, but she has vanished. Unless something has happened to her, she must be in hiding. How else can her disappearance be explained? From the Associated Press:

With the temperature outside slowly but surely dipping into winter levels, that annoying little tradition otherwise known as hindsight starts to rear its unabashedly annoying head. 2015, though we still have a little less than three months to completely upend this assessment, has given us the rise (or, in the case of these two gentlemen, the rebirth) of many a legend of pop culture, though two titans of headlines snatching reign bafflingly supreme: Donald Trump, that guy you kind of recognize from that one reality show you could never really bring yourself to watch, is still running for president. El...

In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, a family member of George Zimmerman asked the nation’s top law enforcement officer why he has chosen to not arrest members of the New Black Panther Party for their rhetoric — some of which may fit the federal government’s definition of a hate crime — throughout the Trayvon Martin case. The family member believes the reason Holder hasn’t made those arrests is because he, like the members of the New Black Panther Party, is black. “I am writing you to ask you why, when...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's government asked Saudi Arabia on Sunday whether its exiled former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is dead, and demanded his extradition if he is still alive, as thousands of people protested in the capital demanding that the caretaker government resigns. The 74-year-old Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on Jan. 14, following a massive popular uprising that ended his 23-year rule and prompted a wave of protest against other autocratic leaders across the Arab world. Tunisia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement it had asked Saudi Arabia to provide information "as soon as possible"...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Coalition forces have arrested two alleged leaders of the al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist group, the U.S. military said Saturday. The two men were identified as Taha Ibrahim Yasin Becher, whose alias was Abu Fatima, and Hamed Saeed Ismael Mustafa, also known as Abu Shahed. The statement said the two men, who were holding a meeting at the time of their capture, headed al-Qaida's organization in Iraq's third-largest city. The statement said Abu Fatima took over as al-Qaida's top-ranking operative in Mosul 12 days ago, after his predecessor also was captured by coalition forces. "The simultaneous capture of...

US spy chiefs ordered agents to deliver Osama bin Laden's severed head in a box of dry ice and hoist heads of other Al-Qaeda leaders on pikes, a retired field officer has disclosed. As America reeled in shock days after the September 11 attacks in 2001, former CIA officer Gary Schroen was sent to Afghanistan to help the opposition Northern Alliance to topple bin Laden's hosts the Taliban. He told National Public Radio in an interview broadcast on Monday and Tuesday that he stopped by the office of then-CIA counterterrorism director Cofer Black for final instructions. He said he was...

A New Osama Push The U.S. State Department has begun a media blitz to remind Afghans of the $25 million bounty for al-Qaeda's chief By TIM MCGIRK Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005 With the trail of Osama bin Laden gone cold, the U.S. State Department is revving up a new publicity blitz to remind Afghans and Pakistanis of the $25 million bounty for al-Qaeda's chief. Bin Laden is still thought to be hiding somewhere along the 1,640-mile, mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border, but intelligence officials in Kabul and Islamabad say there has been no trace of him for the past 20 months. By...

<p>Remember after Sept. 11 when President Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive"? Some Americans faulted the president for not being, as we say in 2004, more nuanced. To take an example from our archives, left-wing feminist Patricia Ireland complained in October 2001 that since Sept. 11 there had been too much "guy talk" from "rich, white, able-bodied and apparently straight men." She elaborated: "Guy talk is 'Osama bin Laden, wanted dead or alive.' Guy talk may be speaking in black and white of good and evil."</p>

Should we capture Saddam Hussein alive? This question is being tossed around the media these days as if it were some academic exercise. Those who argue most stridently for taking the Frank Buck "bring 'em back alive" approach don't seem to care that we're not talking about a noble beast like a Bengal tiger: We're talking about a murderous dictator, a war criminal who still may dream of a return to power. They also fail to realize that taking Saddam alive is not our principal goal. The purpose of the invasion of Iraq was to remove Saddam's murderous regime from...

London-based Al Hayat newspaper: Saddam Hussein is wearing an explosive belt, for use if he is captured by U.S. forces.

U.S. Would Take Saddam Dead or Alive By PAULINE JELINEK .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - In the end, Saddam Hussein probably will be the one to decide whether he's taken dead or alive, Pentagon officials said Tuesday. They played down talk that his capture might be imminent. On Capitol Hill, Bush administration officials drew angry responses when they refused to give senators rough estimates on the amount of money and troops it will cost to continue to occupy Iraq. At the Pentagon, officials were asked about a flurry of comments this week from commanders on the ground in...

<p>WASHINGTON-Though many members of the intelligence community believe Saddam Hussein was in a compound bombarded by U.S. military forces, they are divided on whether the Iraqi leader was killed in the Wednesday night attack, sources told Fox News.</p> <p>One source said he was "reasonably certain" Saddam and possibly his sons were in the bunker when it was struck by stealth fighters in a pre-dawn raid. That belief was echoed by several U.S. intelligence officials.</p>