Al Qaeda chief, Osama bin Laden, and ousted Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, have been nominated for the title of the 'Greatest Arab' of all time in a Middle Eastern variant of the BBC's Great Britons series.
The 30-minute videotape, aired by Al Jazeera on Friday, appeared to have been recently made, since bin Laden refers to the Democratic victory in Congress and to French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was elected in May.
The video will be the first new images of bin Laden in almost three years. He has not appeared in new video footage since October 2004, and he has not put out a new audiotape in more than a year, his longest period without a message.
Wanted in connection with the two attempts on the life of President Pervez Musharraf, Abu Faraj al-Libbi is said to be number three in Al Qaeda heiarchy after Osama Bin Laden and Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahri.
Nine out of 10 educated Americans identified Sikhs with Muslims, says a survey.
In fact, Omar's first wife Rasha is enraged by the publicity over her husband's second marriage to the five-time British divorcee.
'Some of the reports that crossed my desk in the last few months alone made my hair stand on end,' said Sir John Stevens, 62, who retired as London Metropolitan Police Commissioner February 1.
'There has been communication between bin Laden and Zarqawi within the past two months, during which bin Laden suggested to Zarqawi to involve himself in attacks in the United States,' a US counter-terrorism official said.
In the normal course, the marriage between a 51-year-old, four-times-married grandmother with a 27-year-old man would have passed off as another April-meets-September story.
However, missing from the list for the first time in four years is United States President George W Bush.
Most voters have already made up their minds, though the few undecided ones could be critical, feel analysts.
The tape comes four days before Americans vote to elect a new president. The contenders are incumbent George W Bush and Democrat John Kerry.
Bhutto says she is the only alternative in the country between the Musharraf dictatorship and the religious fundamentalists.
Mohammad and a few of his cohorts are under closed door military proceedings at the Guantanamo Bay Naval station in which no access to the media has been permitted.
A leading US expert on terrorism claims Osama bin Laden is either in a pakistani city or in the mountains of Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
Two students had sent an e-mail praising the terrorist mastermind.
During the interrogation, the students said they sent the message "only to play mischief" and had nothing to do with the December 16 incident, police said.
Some of America's largest corporations contributed to a charity that the US government claims deceived donors by funneling money to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and other militant groups, according to court documents.
The commission, however, said that Pakistan should be given long-term aid to modernise itself.
The Washington Post quoting from the draft of the independent commission probing the attacks said the Al Qaeda leaders delayed the attacks after the lead hijacker was not ready.
They are also being helped to procure arms from Pakistan, Iran and Iraq, a Newsweek report said.
A US airbase near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan sparks protests.
'We have set up a special suicide squad that consists of 2,000 Taliban. This squad will make life a hell for the US, says Mullah Omar in an exclusive interview.
The warning came in a secret briefing that Bush received at his ranch in Crawford, Texas on August 6, 2001, an unnamed government official was quoted as saying by The New York Times on Friday.
Among the possible routes that the terror chief can take is the long way round through Pakistani and Iranian Baluchistan borders and across the border into Iraq, it said.
No let up in crackdown on terror, says Musharraf
'Declaring Pakistan a non-NATO ally has no link with military operations in Pakistan. We give that status to countries that have special relations with us,'says US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Asserting that Pakistan was capable of capturing Osama bin Laden, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said he would not allow other countries into Pakistani territory to capture the al-Qaeda chief.
Powell has spoken with Pakistan president General Musharraf at least 81 times since September 11, 2001.
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