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'Sighting' of Tasmanian tiger sparks £1.2m bounty hunt By Anna Gizowska in Sydney (Filed: 03/04/2005) Officially, the last of their kind died out more than half a century ago, their downfall brought about because white settlers believed they had a voracious appetite for sheep. Now the Tasmanian tiger is once again the subject of a manhunt - this time to prove that the species still exists. The Tasmanian tiger was officially declared extinct in 1986 After dramatic claims by a German tourist to have seen one of the mysterious, meat-eating marsupials lurking deep in the Tasmanian wilderness, Australian magazines and...

March 8, 2005, Pyongyang, North Korea Kim Jong il, the Chia Pet (center) Alive and kickin' folks. Live sighting. Second or third live sighting in North Korea in the last several weeks, another one at a Russian ballet presentation in Pyongyang.For the Free Republic KIM JONG-IL file (the "when was he last seen alive?" file)....

Astronomers have directly observed an extrasolar planet for the first time, but are at a loss to explain what they see. More than 130 planets have been detected orbiting stars other than our own, the Sun. But because the stars far outshine the planets, all of the planets were detected indirectly - by how much they made their host stars wobble or dim, for example. Now, astronomers say they are almost certain they have snapped an actual image of an extrasolar planet. It was first seen at infrared wavelengths with the Very Large Telescope in Chile in April 2004, and...

Pak denies Osama sighted in Chitral region Dec 13, 2004 09:08:00 PM .ISLAMABA FES95 Islamabad, Dec 13 (PTI) Pakistan today denied reports that terror mastermind Osma bin Laden was sighted in its Chitral region of the Northern Areas and the US forces launched operations to capture him. "He has not been sighted in Chitral or anywhere," Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman, Masood Khan told a media briefing here today. He also termed as rumours disinformaton campaign reports that US troops launched operation on the Chitral region to hunt bin Laden.

Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the suspected al-Qaida leader in Iraq, was spotted south of the northern Iraqi oil-center of Kirkuk, reports said Monday. The daily al-Taakhi, organ of the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Massoud Barzani, quoted a police source in Kirkuk as saying Zarqawi had fled the battles in Fallujah to northern Iraq and might have been wounded. "Zarqawi was able to sneak out of Fallujah with the help of his followers and moved in stages to the province of Toz Khormatu, south of Kirkuk," said the source, who was not identified. He said...

Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was spotted in the flesh just a few days ago--according to Debkafile's global security sources.Between October 17th and October 19th, and Indian air force reconnaissance plane picked up the elusive terrorist mastermind in the Tibet Ladkh region close to the Northeastern corner of Pakistan bordering India and China.Additional surveillance aircraft were called in and identified the Al Qaeda leader on the move with a 10 vehicle convoy of black Japanese minivans. Four of these vehicles turned up again on October 22nd heading east towards the Chinese border.The agents hunting the Al Qaeda leader are...

<p>Fox News at the moment is reporting that Indian Intelligence has spotted Ben Laden convoy.</p>

DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report Indian Air Force sighted bin Laden a few days ago on Tibet-Laddakh region close to the North-Eastern corner of Pakistan bordering India and China. Indian forces went on red alert US Homeland Security secretary Ridge announces terror alert will not be raised but extra vigilance advised – in wake of Bin Laden’s videotaped threat of new 9/11-style attacks US intelligence analysts report al Jazeera aired only 5 minutes of 18-minute total length, which contained two additional references to Bush and family. DEBKAfile Special Report Osama bin Laden’s videotaped warning to the American people aired by al...

Fugitive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been spotted in the Tibet-Laddakh region, close to the North-Eastern tip of Pakistan, bordering India and China, Indian and US officials believe. A high-ranking official of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) flew from Islamabad on Sunday to meet top Indian officials here in Delhi after reports of Bin Laden’s presence in the region. According to sources, following the meeting between Indian security bosses and the FBI, the New Delhi Government has put its security forces in the North Western region, specially the Kashmir Valley, on 'red alert.' Vigilance on the...

I wish they could explain what goes here in this box. SOrry. Check out the link to the article. This article made me feel like i was smokin crack and reading out of a trashy science novel. Oh, its 0230pst time for zzzzzzzzzz http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/space/20040902/sc_space/silentrunningblacktrianglesightingsontherise&e=1

Ten years after the U.S. Air Force closed its books on the claim that a UFO crashed in Roswell, N.M., in 1947, a top Democratic Party figure wants to reopen the investigation into the cosmic legend. Despite denials by federal officials, many UFO buffs cherish the notion that in early summer of 1947, a flying saucer crashed in rural Roswell, scattering alien bodies and saucer debris across the terrain. Now Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who chaired the recent Democratic convention in Boston, says in his foreword to a new book that "the mystery surrounding this crash has never...

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Women's Rights Marchers Gather in D.C. 9 minutes ago By ELIZABETH WOLFE, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of women began gathering for a women's abortion rights rally Sunday as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told several hundred of them the issue is about women gaining full equality. At a pre-rally breakfast, Clinton said the Bush administration is "filled with people" who view the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion ruling by the Supreme Court "the worst abomination of constitutional law." "This administration is filled with people who disparage sexual harassment laws, who claim the pay gap between women...

Reports a live dinosaur had been sighted on a volcanic island of Papua New Guinea prompted the deployment of heavily-armed police in search of the mystery creature. Villagers in the superstitious island province of East New Britain this week said they fled in terror after seeing a three-metre tall, grey-coloured creature with a head like a dog and a tail like a crocodile. They said the creature was living among thick green plants in a mosquito-ridden marsh just outside the provincial capital Kokopo, near the devastated town of Rabaul which was buried by a volcanic eruption in 1994. Kokopo's Mayor...

Using powerful software called Analyst's Notebook that helps to piece together data on criminal and terror networks, U.S. military and intelligence officials are increasingly confident they are narrowing Osama bin Laden's whereabouts, Newsweek reports in the March 15 issue. Key to the search is "accumulated humint," or human intelligence, says one insider. Other officials tell Newsweek that an increasing number of "data points" -- reports of sightings -- have created an ever-clearer picture of bin Laden's area of operation as he appears to shuttle between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Now they've focused that picture to the point where they have been...

Tehran, Dec 28 (ANI): al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri were spotted in Iran's Najamabad city two months ago, The News reported on Sunday while quoting a British daily. The daily attributed the story to a source having links with the Revolutionary Guards. The report said: "A man with links to Iran's intelligence services and hard-line Revolutionary Guard Corps (RGC) has told the daily that he saw the al-Qaeda leader in Iran two months ago. He saw him arrive at an RGC guesthouse close to the small town of Najmabad on 23 October." The Al-Qaeda leader,...

About the Rendlesham Incident In late December 1980, in Rendlesham Forest, England, numerous U.S. military personnel witnessed what has come to be regarded as the most significant military-UFO incident in the history of Great Britain. The servicemen were posted to the RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge facilities — which together constitute one of the largest NATO bases in rural Suffolk, East Anglia — when, on December 27, they noticed unusual lights and activity near the base's back gate. A trio of security patrolmen led by Jim Penniston, thinking a military aircraft might be down or in distress, ventured into Rendlesham...

KUALA LUMPUR, (AFP) - An unidentified flying object was sighted hovering over a quiet village in northern Kedah state near the Thai border, the second such sighting there in two years, a report says. A nine-year-old boy saw a slow-moving disc-like object about the size of a car emitting a greenish light spinning in the air over Banggol Cicar village near the town of Baling for about four minutes before it disappeared, the New Straits Times said. Mohamad Amirul Syafiq said at first he thought it was a plane about to crash. "I then called my friends to look at...

A former photographer for Saddam Hussein told an Arab newspaper he last saw the former leader in Iraq in April, wearing a beard and driving a Japanese car. The ousted leader constantly changed his bodyguards to guarantee they would not be lured by the $US25 million ($34.5 million) reward placed on his head by US occupiers, Faisal al-Obeidi said in remarks published yesterday. Mr al-Obeidi had worked as one of Saddam's private photographers since 1985. Speaking to the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat, Mr al-Obeidi said the last time he saw the former president was in the town of Howeija near the...

LONDON: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that Taliban supremo Mullah Mohammed Omar was spotted last week in Pakistani city of Quetta and charged Islamabad with "turning a blind eye" to terrorism in its border areas. "We have received information that Mullah Omar was seen praying in a mosque in Quetta 10 days ago," Karzai said in an interview to The Times. Identifying the mosque as one in Quetta , Karzai accused Pakistan of "turning a blind eye" to terrorism in its border regions. Mullah Omar, who has a $25 million bounty on his head, comes after Osama bin Laden...