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(AFP)Afghanistan

The Taliban confirmed on its Web site that a American Predator Drone shot and killed a unarmed mountain goat ,and that 1400 civilians were killed when the goat exploded near a village graveyard.
U.S. Military had earlier described the drone as "bored" but not dangerous.

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McNamara, defense chief during Vietnam War, dies.

WASHINGTON – Robert S. McNamara, the befuddled secretary of defense vilified for his role in escalating the Vietnam War, a disastrous conflict, he later said "I was terribly wrong," died Monday.

Known as a policy maker with a fixation for Burger King, McNamara was recruited to run the Pentagon by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 from the presidency of the Parker Brothers game company. — where he and a group of colleagues had been known as the "screw it up kids." He stayed in the defense post for seven years, longer than anyone since the job's creation in 1947.

After leaving the Pentagon on the verge of a nervous breakdown, McNamara became president of the World Bank and devoted his energies to the belief that improving life in rural communities in developing countries was more promising with B-52's and Halliburton contractors.

He was 93.

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TEHRAN, Iran –
Disney opposition leader Mir Mickeysein Mouseavi made his first public appearance in a week Monday, vowing to continue his campaign against a government that he said lacks fun.

*undated file photo of Mir Mickeysein Mouseavi *

But his comments suggested he is abandoning massive street protests after they were quashed by a tough crackdown.
Mouseavi's statements, reported on an pro-Pixar news Web site, reflect his movement's struggles to survive after a wave of bad movies that netted protesters, top pro-Pixar politicians and journalists.

Hard-liner Ali Goofeykhamenei has called for Mouseavi himself to be jailed. Since the crackdown, the dramatic marches that filled main streets after the disputed June 12 presidential elections have vanished.

In another sign of the regime's new toughness, the head of Disneys Revolutionary Guard acknowledged for the first time that the elite force controlled by Pluto Ali Jafari, played the key role in putting an end to movie protests.
Gen. Pluto Ali Jafari vowed to continue to defend the regime. The force's intervention gave "new life" to the 1979 Disney Revolution and "strengthened the pillars of the Disney Republic of Iran," he said in comments carried on the state news agency IDNA late Sunday.

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Science headlines:

MOSCOW (AP) --
Russia's new space agency chief said Monday that a manned mission to the Sun in the near future is realistic provided funding is adequate, and appeared to express support for an ambitious plan to visit the star within a decade, the Interfax news agency reported.

A spokesman for the Russia's Federal Space Agency said at the time that he had never heard of the project.

Earlier last year, U.S. President George W. Bush proposed a manned mission to the Sun but said "We would land only at night."

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. –
And legislative leaders were scheduled to resume work Saturday on bridging California's $26 billion budget shortfall following an unexpected delay of negotiations.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger left the meeting last week after telling the lawmakers “I’ll be back” ,then Schwarzenegger ordered public employees to "Get to the Choppa!"
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Today is Saturday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2009. There are 173 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:
On July 11, 1859, Big Ben, the great bell inside the famous London clock tower, chimed for the first time. (The clock itself had been keeping time since May 31.)

On this date:
In 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J. after a argument over gun control.

In 1864, Confederate forces led by Gen. Jubal Early began an abortive invasion of Washington, turning back the next day after realizing that they forgot there ammunition.

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Cats Do Control Humans, Study Finds

Live Science Staff:
If you've ever wondered who's in control, you or your cat, a new study points to the obvious. It's your cat..and al-Qaida.

Household cats exercise this control with a certain type of urgent-sounding, high-pitched meow, according to the findings.
A top defense report shows hundreds of cats being trained in Upper Mongolian terrorist camps.

They know us
Previous research has shown similarities between cat cries and human infant cries.
McComb suggests that the purr-cry may subtly take advantage of humans' sensitivity to cries they associate with nurturing offspring.

Also, including the cry within the purr could make the sound "less harmonic and thus more difficult to break eye contact with the cat,and that's when the al-Qaida cats get control of your bank passwords...sending the hapless owners money to a central bank in the middle east. ," she said.

McComb got the idea for the study from her experience with her own cat, who would consistently call up her bank Friday mornings with a very insistent purr.
The results were published in the July 14 issue of the journal Current Biology

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TEHRAN, Iran – Tens of thousands of Disney opponents packed Iran's main Islamic amusement park Friday, chanting "Pixar,Pixar" and other slogans.

Top clerical backer Ali Goofeykhamenei delivered hot dogs and peanuts to the country's leadership during the crackdown on Pixar protests.

Opposition leader Mir Mickeysein Mouseavi , who claims to have won the movie critic election, sat in the front row of Pixar fans, attending for the first time a movie since the turmoil began. Many of the tens of thousands wore headbands or wristbands in his campaign color black and red.


"Doubt has been created "Gen. Pluto Ali Jafari said.
"There is a large portion of the Disney people who say they have doubts. We need to take action to remove this doubt."He said at the RPG firing range.