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| Pinning Down Hollande |
 IT was one of those rare political
moments when the campaign-
screech and repetitive
mumbling stopped. Last week,
a French television interviewer
asked Francois Hollande, the
favourite to win France's presidential
election on Sunday, if he thought
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| FAREWELL
TO ARMS |
 AND so it came to pass
that in 2012 - a year
after the Arab awakening
erupted - the US
made two financial commitments
to the Arab world that
each began with the Nos. 1 and 3.
It gave Egypt's military $1.3 billion
worth of tanks and fighter jets,
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Bin Laden’s last words go online
AP
WASHINGTON
IN letters from his last hideout, Osama bin Laden fretted about dysfunction in his terrorist network and the loss of trust from Muslims he wished to incite against their government and the West.
A selection of documents seized in last year’s raid on bin Laden’s Pakistan house was posted online Thursday by the US Army’s Combating Terrorism Centre. While bin Laden saw al-Qaeda’s standing with Muslim populations at risk of crumbling, the documents show he remained focused on attacking Americans and coming up with plots, however improbable, to kill US leaders. He wished especially to target airplanes carrying General David Petraeus and even President Barack Obama, reasoning that an assassination would elevate an ‘utterly unprepared’ Vice President Joe Biden into the presidency and plunge the US into crisis.
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