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# RAD PREACHER OUT: Radical Muslim preacher "Abu Qatada" has lost his deportation appeal not to be sent back to his native Jordan. Described as Osama Bin Laden's "right-hand-man in Europe," his real name is Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman.

# THE BALD MOUSQTEER: *When Britney Spears gave herself a buzz cut, it looked more like desperate self-mutilation... By the time she'd finished, America's former sweetheart looked like the cod-eyed inmate of a Russian mental institution.* Allison Pearson writes, "I fear for our little Britneys."

# WHEN COPS BLOG: [DM]
From the ever-lively Richard Littlejohn.

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