Qaeda Cult: Their 2 Cents on Davos (5#) -

Dedicated troglodyte and Qaeda cult leader Osama bin Laden has been issuing more audio tapes lately, which has triggered a guessing game on Twitter as to which topic he'll lecture the world on in his next tape. AFP investigates.

# The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum
in Davos is believed to be what set off OBL's latest rant.

# OBL quotes Noam Chomsky to validate his position!

# What do jihadists chatter about in the course of their daily life? Can their everyday chatter illuminate what makes them tick?

Flagg Miller, a professor at the University of California at Davis has been studying hundreds of audio tapes from Osama bin Laden's personal collection.

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Fla: The $11Million Patio (3#) -

Remains of missing millionaire . . .

Lotto winner Abraham Shakespeare may
have been found in a concrete grave in Plant City.

But there's a lot more to this story:

:: tampabay :: - - - :: orlandosentinel ::

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Bookish: Weekend Links (7#) -

Nick Meo reviews former Taliban Minister Abdul Salam Zaeef's memoirs, which have been edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, My Life with the Taliban, at the Telegraph.

# Science Fiction author Philip K Dick spent his last decade in Orange County, California. Scott Timberg writes about that period in Dick's life at the LATimes.

# Olivia Cole describes the
Jaipur Literature Festival in India at TDB.

# A defector from
Scientology publishes her memoirs.

# Some new crime novels
are briefly reviewed by Laura Wilson.

# Steven Poole's non-fiction
round-up includes Jean Baudrillard.

# Jessica Holland reviews a book
of contents culled from The Believer.

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