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The FBI has found evidence that former Iraqi soldiers were involved in the 1995 Oklahoma bombing that killed 185 people. A group of Arab men with links to Iraqi intelligence, Palestinian extremists and possibly al-Qaeda may have used Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols as front men to blow up the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. TV reporter Jayna Davis, who covered the blast, has spent 7 years gathering evidence about a wider conspiracy. After hearing her evidence, several senior members of Congress have called for a new probe into the idea “that the Oklahoma bombing might not simply be the work of two angry white men.”
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A mysterious underwater stone platform has been discovered in the Bahamas. Researchers Greg and Lora Little found the huge, three-layered platform lying under just 10 feet of water off northern Andros Island while searching for answers to other underwater mysteries.
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Twenty of North Korea’s best scientists, including nuclear specialists, have defected to the U.S. in a secret smuggling operation through the Pacific island of Nauru. The defections began in October when the scientists first traveled to China and then were able to hide inside the consulates of 11 countries for as long as a month. The head of North Korea’s nuclear program, Kyong Won-ha, was helped by the Spanish consulate and is now in a safe house, where he’s giving information on Korean nukes to the West.
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Subtropical Storm Ana has hit the north Atlantic Ocean off Bermuda, making this the earliest Atlantic hurricane season in memory. Ana is the first storm of 2003 and one of only two tropical or subtropical storms to form in April since record keeping began. The official six-month Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. U.S. National Hurricane Center forecaster James Franklin says, “April is the least common month for tropical or subtropical storms.”

Tropical Storm Ana is upon us two months in advance of the usual hurricane seasons. Normally, the hurricane season begins in June, but now in April we are seeing the formation of storms that can lead to hurricanes.
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