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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday.

‘I truly am not that concerned about him’, said President George W Bush on 13 March 2002, after being asked the million-dollar question ‘where is bin Laden?’ once too often

And in news of local interest:
The Homeland Security Department said Wednesday that the cities of New York and Washington will get less money in this year’s allocation of grants 

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