First up, Osama gets his groove on ... or does he...? Terrorism expert Peter Bergen is raising doubts about wacky author Kola Boof's new book, in which she makes fantastic claims about the terror master's sexual practices, TV choices, and Whitney Houston adoration. TPM Muckraker puts Kola on blast:
"The worst book of the year, is surely Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof," Bergen writes on his personal Web site. "The book is rife with howlers large and small," he says:
...there is one vividly recounted scene in which Boof performs sex acts on a group that included bin Laden; Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s number two; Abdullah Azzam, bin Laden’s mentor, and Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian jihadist theoretician. Boof says this happened in Morocco in 1996. However, in 1996 bin Laden was living in Sudan, Ayman al Zawahiri was imprisoned in Dagestan, Azzam had been assassinated in Pakistan thirteen years earlier, and Qutb had been lying in his grave for three decades.
Will Bunch has the update on Kyra Phillips' "wonderful" Rockey Vaccarella propaganda, and how CNN and the rest of the MSM fell for Karl Rove's latest trick.
RawStory has the latest Katherine Harris quotes. Apparently, the separation of church and state in America is a lie.
A former aide to would-be presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani was found nude and strangled to death in his Manhattan apartment this week. According to New York's 1010 WINS:
The death of Martin Barreto, 49, has been ruled a homicide.
Police found Barreto's body Tuesday in a bedroom at his home after a friend reported he wasn't responding to phone calls or knocks on his door.
Barreto was alledly expecting a visitor, who will now become the chief suspect.
Police discovered Barreto's body Monday night on a bed at his home on East 10th Street after a friend reported he wasn't responding to phone calls or knocks on his door.
A doorman told investigators Barreto had told him he was expecting a visitor and instructed him to let him in. Police were searching for the visitor as a possible suspect.
There were no signs of a struggle or a robbery inside the home, where Barreto lived alone, police said.
Relatives and friends said that about three years ago, Barreto had sought restraining orders against a man with whom he had ended a relationship.
Barreto, who worked at City Hall in the late 1990s, was a partner in a Manhattan public relations firm. He also was a former radio journalist who served on the board of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists from 1993 to 1996, according to the NAHJ's Web site.
And 7Online takes it tabloid, with one detective calling the crime a "romance situation gone bad." The Asia Times reports that the U.S. and its oil companies have fallen out of favor with the world's oil producing countries.
And the NY Times reports that there could be more to the Duke rape case than meets the defense-jaundiced eye.
And the WaPo has the skinny on just how complicated the demotion of wee, poor Pluto from planet to planetoid (or whatever the new name for rump galaxial excommunicant is these days) will be for America's students.
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%>
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