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...Abubakar: I have never heard of al-Qaeda being here. That rumor was invented because the United States feels threatened by the Muslim potential here. If the U.S. does not change its ways it could be very dangerous...
...emphasised his spur-of-the-moment dancing, he is also entirely deserving of his place in the pantheon of African music. Playing to a highly appreciative audience in the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square, Maal performed selections from his latest, acoustically-flavored disc, Missing You…Mi Yeewnii. Rumor has it that the disc was recorded outside in a small village in Senegal after the sun had gone down, and the slow-burning grooves evoke such an atmosphere...
...where no one was reported killed in the blasts - jeered Vice President Atiku Abubakar, forcing him to abandon an attempt to address them. Early assertions that the explosions were set off by a fire spreading from a nearby market were "premature," said Defense Minister Theophilus Danjuma. As the shaken, rumor-filled city grieved for its dead, the commander of the Ikeja barracks appeared on state television and denied that the blasts were the start of a coup attempt against President Olusegun Obasanjo. As the week ended, the embattled leader?s troubles grew when national police - citing pay and other grievances...
Political mysteries don't get much juicier than the one surrounding Nong Duc Manh, Vietnam's 61-year-old leader: Is the new Communist Party Secretary-General the love child of the country's founding father, Ho Chi Minh? That's been a long standing rumor, and Manh managed to duck the question through his 15-year rise through the ranks to the country's most powerful position. "We are all Uncle Ho's children," was Manh's clever, standard answer...
...future leaders in Bac Can. After first joining the National Assembly at age 49, he climbed the ladder quickly. It was an ascent aided, some say, by the talk that he was the offspring of Ho Chi Minh and a Tay servant. "I don't know why this rumor persisted for so long," Manh told TIME. Diplomats and local analysts say it persisted because he never convincingly denied...