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Report: Al-Jazeera Airs Al-Zawahiri Tape

CAIRO, Egypt – Al-Jazeera (search) television aired a videotape Sunday purporting to show Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri (search ) denouncing U.S. calls for reform in the region and urging the West to respect the Islamic world. Al-Zawahiri, who appeared sitting on the ground and in front of a …

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40 Evacuated in Arizona Storm

PHOENIX – More than three dozen people were evacuated from a community northeast of Phoenix on Saturday as a major winter storm prompted flash-flood watches to continue over much of Arizona. Some 40 residents from two mobile home parks in Punkin Center (search), about 80 miles northeast of Phoenix, left …

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Officers Injured Protecting Super Bowl

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Two police officers patrolling the St. Johns River (search) to prevent Super Bowl terrorism were seriously injured when their boat crashed into a bridge support. The officers remained hospitalized Friday. They were identified as James Brunet, 41, who was listed in critical condition with non-life threatening injuries, …

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