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19 May 2011 13:41

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World: Bin Laden: Technology replaces the need for cash rewards

  • $25 million reward for Bin Laden’s capture; no one’s getting it source
  • ยป Not unless they pay it out to a computer, anyway. U.S. officials are saying that no one directly gave the U.S. information that lead to Osama bin Laden’s capture, but instead attribute it to technology. They tracked Bin Laden’s most trusted courier through his cell phone, they found his compound by using stealth drones, and they’ll be keeping their money, thank you very much. If computers had feelings, they’d be devastated.

24 Jul 2009 11:40

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U.S.: Whoa. Most-wanted fugitive Edward Eugene Harper, then and now

Before: What looks to be a reasonably normal human being. After: Charged with child molestation, he lived the life of a nomad for 15 years. Yikes. source