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Finally, a link between Iraq and al-Qaida

While a "major CIA effort" to hunt down Osama bin Laden has produced "no significant leads," the Los Angeles Times reports that the searchers have at least found something: Evidence that al-Qaida's operations in Pakistan are "increasingly being funded by cash from Iraq, where the terrorist network's operatives are raising substantial sums from donations to the insurgency as well as kidnappings of wealthy Iraqis and other criminal activity."

Palin, Johnston face off over resignation
Levi Johnston, father to the outgoing governor's grandchild, says he knows why she's quitting
California GOP parties like it's 1999
Two dot-com bubble CEOs eye the Golden State's biggest races
Specter, Sestak fight over their credentials as Democrats
The senator goes after a potential challenger, hinting he's a fake Democrat, and bad citizen to boot
Burris won't run in 2010
The Illinois senator had little hope of being elected to a full term

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