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Israeli intelligence has discovered that Osama Bin Laden is dead but his heir has been chosen and the terrorist campaign against the U.S. will continue. The new head of al-Qaeda hasn?t been identified, but it’s probably not Bin Laden’s son Saad, who is in his 20s and works within the terror organization. The Israelis think Bin Laden probably died during the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan in December and that the recent messages from him on video and audio are fakes or earlier recordings. “In this case, it doesn’t matter whether Bin Laden is alive or not,” says a senior Israeli intelligence source. “The organization goes on with help from key people.”
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Whitley Strieber is in California right now, touring for his new novel “Lilith’s Dream.” If you’re in California, Whitley would love to meet you, so show up at one of his destinations and get your book signed. He?ll also be in Austin, Texas on October 24. You can hear Whitley reading an excerpt from his book by clicking “Listen Now” at the top right of our homepage. To learn more about “Lilith’s Dream,”click here.

Friday, Oct. 18, Whitley will be in San Diego, CA at the Mysterious Galaxy bookstore, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. at 7 pm for a reading and book signing.

On Saturday, Oct. 19, he?ll be at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA, on 4213 W. Burbank Blvd. starting at 2 pm.
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Nearly 40% of weight-loss advertisements make at least one statement that is totally false, and about 55% of them include at least one statement that can’t be backed up by research, according to an FTC report, which says that consumer testimonials and before-and-after photos “rarely portrayed realistic weight loss.” The FTC evaluated 300 advertisements from broadcast and cable television, infomercials, radio, magazines, newspapers, supermarket tabloids, direct mail, commercial e-mail and Internet Web sites.
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Does an injection hurt less if we don?t look while we’re getting it? New research from the U.K. says it does.

Marisa Taylor-Clarke poked volunteers’ forearms with a two-pronged device and asked them if they could tell whether they had been touched in one place or two. They were not able to see the device touching their skin. The first time, they could look at their arms immediately before and afterwards. Other times, they looked at another object or were in total darkness.
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