Ewww: Long confined to the mountains, Japanese leeches are invading residential areas, causing swelling, itching and general discomfort with their blood-thirsty ways. […] The little suckers are riding into towns and villages, hitching lifts on deer and boar whose numbers have grown due to re-forestation and dwindling rural populations. […] “Yamabiru will climb into people’s…

According to a doctor who treated the wounded at Tora Bora: A doctor who treated wounded al-Qaida fighters at Tora Bora in Afghanistan has confirmed Osama bin Laden was at the mountain stronghold as U.S. and Afghan forces attacked – and said the al-Qaida chieftain seemed concerned about only his own welfare. Ayman Saeed Abdullah…

In the bizarre news of the day Israeli police have arrested Israeli neo-Nazis who were targeting religious Jews, foreign workers, drug addicts and gays: Eight immigrants from the former Soviet Union have been arrested in recent days in connection with at least 15 attacks, and a ninth fled the country, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said,…

Most of them are coming from Pakistan. More than half of suicide bombers used by the Taleban for attacks in Afghanistan are not Afghans, the UN has quoted a Taleban commander as saying. In a report on Afghan suicide attacks, it quotes the same man as saying more than 80% of the bombers are recruited,…

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