Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

The Gang is all here

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For those who read the recent interview with al-Wahayshi, I would recommend you take a look at Abdulela Sha’a’s blog – it adds a bit more detail. It seems as though all the gang was there. And, in what is surely an embarrassing revelation for the Yemeni government, it turns out that the meeting with all the al-Qaeda leaders took place in San’a.

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Aphantasia limits the ability to visualize a statue of a man in the mind's eye.

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The head of a man and a woman are shown side by side in a research study focused on ketamine and depression.

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