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Scientists have discovered the first evidence that a devastating meteor impact in the Middle East might have triggered the mysterious collapse of civilizations there more than 4,000 years ago.

Studies of satellite images of southern Iraq have revealed a two-mile-wide circular depression which scientists say looks like an impact crater. The meteor impact would have been equivalent to hundreds of nuclear bombs, causing devastating fires and flooding.
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CIA officials have rejected an article in the French newspaper Le Figaro reporting that one of their agents met with Osama bin laden in July when he underwent treatment for kidney problems at the American hospital in Dubai. ?Complete and utter nonsense,? says Anya Guilsher, a spokeswoman for the Central Intelligence Agency. ?It?s false, and I told Le Figaro that, too.?

Le Figaro cited a ?professional partner? who is part of the hospital?s management as its source. The head of the Dubai hospital?s Urology Department, Dr. Terry Callaway, has refused to answer questions about bin Laden?s stay. Radio France has reported that the hospital denies bin Laden was treated there.
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William Milton Cooper, author of “Behold a Pale Horse,” was killed in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies in Eagar, Arizona today. Cooper was host of a talk show broadcast by Worldwide Christian Radio out of Nashville. He was well known in the UFO community for his radical view that there were a number of alien species present on earth, and that they were unspeakably evil.

He led a drive to identify Whitley Strieber as a CIA agent, and considered most conventional UFO researchers, including Stanton Friedman, Linda Moulton Howe and many others, to be agents of a conspiracy devoted to concealing the evil alien presence so that it could do its bidding on earth untroubled by human resistance.
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FLI Newswire) Eager Arizona – On Nov 5, 2001 at11:40pm, Apache County Sheriff’s deputies attempted toserve an arrest warrant on a known felon, WilliamMilton Cooper, (58 years of age) at his residencelocated at 96 North Clearview Circle in Eagar AZ.Cooper was considered armed and dangerous. During theexecution of this warrant, Cooper was fatally shot bydeputies after he shot and struck a sheriffs deputy.
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