In 1999, before Al Gore taught the world about climate change, an ex-horror fiction writer named Whitley Streiber and a supernatural radio show host named Art Bell joined forces to write The Coming Global Superstorm.

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Al-Maliki asked for the handover of some of those ex-officials during a visit to Damascus last week, Iraqi officials said.

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki asked for the handover of some of those ex-officials during a visit to Damascus last week, Iraqi officials said.

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Khairat al-Shater, a Muslim Brotherhood strongman, could be barred under a provision that bans ex-convicts from running for political office, even if they received pardons and were jailed for political crimes.

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President George W. Bush's national security team devised "a strategy to eliminate al Qaeda" well before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 - contrary to claims of an ex-NSC official, whom Bush had demoted and passed over for a subsequent important post.

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