WASHINGTON – The White House revealed today that several elite War Dogs were responsible for taking out Osama Bin Laden.

The explosive-sniffing, gun-toting dogs were strapped to assault team members as  took on one of their greatest challenges ever to face War Dogs.

The elite dog team was part of the operation in which elite US Navy Seals lowered themselves down ropes from three Black Hawk helicopters into the Bin Laden’s  hideout in the town of Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Sunday.

The world’s most wanted man, 54, was shot dead by a Special Forces marksman during the raid – but not before he was mauled by the War Dogs.

Insiders say that Bin Laden was fighting back against the Navy Seals, but when he saw the War Dogs – he cowered in fear.   That’s what caused him his life.

Heavily armored hounds — equipped with infrared night-sight cameras, a machine guns — have been used in the past by the top-secret Navy Seals unit.

The war dogs wear ballistic body armor that is said to withstand damage from single and double-edged knives, as well as protective gear which shields them from shrapnel and gunfire.

German Shepherds have been leading the way in covert op raids in Iraq and Afghanistan for years.

Wearing oxygen masks, the pooches have been trained to jump from aircraft at 25,000 ft, before seeking out insurgents in hostile environments.

The dogs will attack anyone carrying a weapon and have become a pivotal part of special operations as they crawl unnoticed into tunnels or rooms to hunt for enemy combatants.

The cameras on their heads beam live TV pictures back to the troops, providing them with critical information and warning of ambushes.

Dogs were also responsible for the capture of Saddam Hussein and in the killing of the Iraqi dictator’s two sons.

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LONDON – Just five days into her marriage with Prince William – Kate Middleton announced that she is pregnant!

Kate Middleton is pregnant with Prince William’s first child.   The announcement was made by Kate with her friend Victoria Beckham standing at her side.

Beckham reportedly encouraged Kate to have a baby as soon as possible because “it is   one of the best things in the world.”

Royal insiders believed that Kate would get pregnant within the first year of her marriage to Prince William, but everyone was surprised at how fast it happened.

“Prince William and Princess Kate spent over fifteen hours in the Royal Wedding Suite,” said Royal butler, Thomas Hillstrom.  “They spent quite a lot of time ‘enjoying’ each other’s company.”

Many in England are now speculating that Kate was pregnant at the time of the wedding, but Royal gynecologist, Dr. Fritz Barnwell, said “Kate was not pregnant last Friday, the Queen had us test her to ensure that she was without child.  But today, at Prince William’s request, we performed advanced pregnancy tests on Kate and we can confirm, decidedly, that she is five days pregnant.”

Queen Elizabeth is thrilled to learn that she will have her first great-grandchild.  Prince Charles, however, is not so happy.  “What’s the point of having a baby, when the world is about to burn up.  We must all stop using fossil fuels, we must kill all the cows, and we must plant as many trees as possible,” Prince Charles said before getting onto his private jet in Los Angeles with twenty-five members of his staff.

Princess Kate said that she and Prince William will continue to enjoy each other’s “company” in the Royal Wedding Suite, even though she has already made Her Majesty happy with her pregnancy.  “Prince William is a Royal stud. That’s all I can say.”

The happy couple has not been seen for the last ten hours – but there’s been a lot of moaning coming from the Royal Suite.

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LOS ANGELES  -  Harry Potter and Osama Bin Laden have an eerie link.

Osama Bin Laden has been killed and the final Harry Potter movie, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” comes out on July 15.

While distributor Warner Bros has never pushed the comparison, the entire Potter saga — both the books and the movies — have an inevitable subtext, colored by the events of 9/11.

While the first volume in J.K. Rowling’s seven-book series was originally published in England in 1997, the first movie, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” was released in November 2001, just months after 9/11.

It set up the ongoing conflict between Harry, the young, orphaned wizard, who gradually discovers his powers, and the malignant force of evil, Lord Voldemort, who is bent on destroying him. First referred to only as “He Who Must Not Be Named,” Voldemort is introduced as something of a formless boogie-man — not unlike the mysterious Osama — but then, over the course of the series, takes on more and more of a physical presence until in the last volume he and Harry go head-to-head in a final, cataclysmic battle.

For a generation of kids who grew up reading Rowling’s books and watching Hollywood’s big-screen adaptations in the shadows of 9/11, there have been inevitable echoes of the real world in Harry’s sometimes reluctant quest to defeat Voldemort.

Back in 2004, a poster on mugglenet.com made some of it explicit, comparing the Death Eaters to Al Queda and noting of that “just as Voldemort was shaped by his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment, Osama was shaped by his personal struggle between Western pleasures and Islamic discipline.”

And just as Harry is known in the books as “the anointed one,” a number of President Obama’s critics like Rush Limbaugh have frequently dismissed the president by disparagingly referring to him as “the anointed one” as well — though on Monday, even Limbaugh had praise for how Obama orchestrated Osama’s demise.

Mild spoiler ahead, so stop reading if you don’t know the outcome of the final book…

Meanwhile, in the wake of bin Laden’s death in a mansion near Islamabad, a meme has already popped up on the web, noting the weird coincidence that Osama and Voldemort both died on the same day, May 1. But true Potter fans have been quick to point out that’s not quite true: When Harry and Voldemort actually finally come face-to-face in the Battle of Hogwarts, in the books’ chronology the date is really May 2, 1998.

Of course, even without an end to bin Laden, the final Potter movie is already on track to be one of the biggest movies of the summer. The franchise has already grossed more than $6.3 billion at the worldwide box office.

But bin Laden’s death is now likely to give the movie an extra emotional resonance for the Potter generation, and that could translate into an even bigger box office bonanza.

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NEW YORK  – Minutes after President Obama’s speech, Donald Trump has demanded to see Osama Bin Laden’s Death Certificate!

The mastermind of the worst terrorist attack on American soil is dead, U.S. President Barack Obama announced late Sunday night, almost 10 years after the attacks that killed more than 3,000 people.

Osama bin Laden — the longtime leader of al Qaeda — was killed by U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members, a senior U.S. official told WNN.

Soon after, WWN received a call from Donald Trump.  “I will not believe that Osama Bin Laden is dead until I see the long-form death certificate!”

When WWN told Trump that the U.S. has Osama’s body, Trump wasn’t convinced.  “Until I see the body in my boardroom, along with the long-form death certificate, I will NOT believe he is dead.  Obama lies about everything, we can’t believe it, until we see the death certificate.”

Trump was told that U.S. officials have taken custody of bin Laden’s body, Obama said. No Americans were harmed in the operation, he added..

Trump said that Obama purposely broke into the last few minutes of Celebrity Apprentice to make the announcement. “Obama has had it out for me all weekend.  He waited until the last fifteen minutes of my show and then he cuts in to make his fake announcement about Osama.  I want to see the death certificate!!”

WWN repeatedly told Trump that Osama Bin Laden was dead.   This reporter got into a fight with Donald, who said if I was your boss at WWN I’d tell you – “you’re fired!”

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Here’s a collection of photos from Kate William’s big day!!

A collection of Royal Wedding photos snapped by WWN photographer Fritz Barnkopf.

The Bride arrives:

Prince William arriving with Prince Harry:

Prince Harry – on the way:

Prince Charles and Camilla arriving:

A bridesmaid, Fiona Wilkinson, takes a dip before the ceremony:

Princess Victoria of Sweden:

The unusual top of the Royal Wedding cake:

Kate to her carriage:

The Happy Couple with the Queen wave:

The Bride’s Royal Wedding panties:

The Queen arrives:

Back in the carriage:

The Beckhams are there:

And so is Elton:

Kate lets loose at the reception:

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Here’s some Royal Wedding swag – for purchase!

Royal Couple Condoms:

Now there’s a way to commemorate the royal wedding and keep your crownjewels safe at the same time. British manufacturer Crown Jewels Condoms of Distinction launched their royal wedding collector’s edition condoms to celebrate the April 29 marriage of Kate Middleton and Prince William. Along with the special condoms, the box comes with a pastel souvenir portrait of what the couple might look like on their wedding day.

“Combining the strength of a prince with the yielding sensitivity of a princess-to-be, Crown Jewels Condoms of Distinction promises a royal union of pleasure and style,” the release said.

Royal Wedding Fridge:

Looking for a new fridge? Your search is over as we’ve found the most perfect fridge ever manufactured by man. Behold, the Royal Wedding Fridge and freezer, which is sold by GDHA, a U.K. distributor of GE appliances, features the more casual of the two official engagement pictures taken by photographer Mario Testino. The refrigerator is 5′9″, which means you’d almost be looking at life-size versions of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Yes. Nothing says “coldâ€� and “sterileâ€� like Will and Kate’s unyielding love for each other.

Royal Wedding Beer:

Nottingham’s Castle Rock Brewery originally planned to issue a limited stock of its royal wedding inspired Kiss Me Kate real ale. But worldwide press interest spurred soaring demand and supermarket chain Morrisons has ordered 70,000 bottles. We’ll drink to that!

Royal Couple Teabags:

It’s supposed to be us Brits who are the great tea drinkers, but a German company has really cornered the market with these Kate and Wills tea bags which hang on to the rim of your cuppa. The bags, affectionately named ‘KaTea’, contain German-grown black tea and are available as a pair within a greeting card.

Royal Couple Toilet Seat:

Let’s discuss the many ways in which this is a bad idea. While the word “throneâ€� is often used as a term for toilets, there is something distinctly unroyal about them. It’s probably that you sh*t in them. That’s probably the unroyal thing about them — the sh*t. So, that’s issue #1.

Now, issue #2. Is it that hard to draw Prince William and Kate Middleton? Why does the artistic likeness of them look anything like them? What is that? Just trace a magazine cover, for God’s sake.

Royal Wedding Lego Recreation:

While we’ve been busy wondering what the royal wedding will look like down to the last detail, the fine folks at Legoland built the entire thing — from Buckingham Palace to Kate Middleton’s gown (and gloves) to guests including pregnant Victoria Beckham, Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney. The exhibition opened at Legoland’s Windsor outpost on April 1.

Kate Middleton Doll:

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Weddings are fun … especially when they’re of the Royal kind!

Weekly World News and MagCloud by HP are helping you celebrate this glorious days with a glorious E-book. Get a behind the scenes look at the world’s most famous family. Get to know the Royal family – on a real intimate level – and find out how they got to where they are today.

This is a must have for any Weekly World News faithful and a definite must have for any Royal family fanatics out there. Get this wonderful E-book in an expertly crafted print version or – if you’re hip on technology – get the digital version to view on your trendy, high-tech gadget. Don’t delay and get yours today!!!

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LONDON – Kate Middleton will not promise to “obey” her husband Prince William.

Kate will be following in the footsteps of his mother in departing from the ancient church formulations of the wedding service.

Unlike earlier generations, few brides today would use the term, and the word does not appear in the wedding service chosen for Friday. Princess Diana, 30 years ago, also did not promise to obey, and in her case that turned out to be true.

Rumors that Kate wants an “open marriage” with William are also circulating around London.

Details about the service and the music chosen for the occasion were released on Thursday morning, together with a special wedding programme – customary at royal weddings – which will be sold for charity to the crowds in central London in the morning.

Dr Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, who is conducting the service, will ask Middleton of her husband whether she will “love him, comfort him, honour and keep him in sickness and in health and, forsaking all others, keep only unto him so long as ye both shall live”.

This morning, as musicians prepared for their final run-throughs in Westminster Abbey – which has been closed to the public since Monday – one more rehearsal for the service was held for the bridal couple and other participants. There will be technical rehearsals on Thursday too for broadcasters.

The marriage music features works by two living British composers: Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the master of the Queen’s music, and the Welsh composer Paul Mealor, who lives on Anglesey.

Other works by major British 20th-century composers will also include Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Greensleeves and Prelude on Rhosymedre, Elgar’s Serenade for Strings and Britten’s Galliard from his opera Gloriana, together with Delius’s On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and Finzi’s Romance for String Orchestra.

There will also be the famous old hymns Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer – a gesture perhaps to William’s Welsh links – and Charles Wesley’s Love Divine All Loves Excelling, as well as William Blake’s Jerusalem, a song occasionally banned by some Anglican clergy as being insufficiently religious.

Mealor, who is 35, said: “I was thrilled to hear that Prince William had chosen my music for his wedding. How humbling it is for me to know that Prince William and Catherine will celebrate the beginning of their lives together with my music. The ceremony is going to be, without a doubt, the most emotionally intense and exhilarating hour of my life.”

A new trumpet fanfare has also been composed for the start of the couple’s procession at the end of the service. Called Valiant and Brave – the motto of 22 Squadron, with whom William is currently serving as a search and rescue helicopter pilot – the 30-second piece has been composed by Duncan Stubbs, the RAF’s director of music services.

He said: “Basically, I have taken examples of fanfares that we know and recognise and just added my own thoughts and ideas to that.”

In a message in the official wedding programme, the couple say they have been “incredibly moved” by people’s affection towards them. They add: “We are both so delighted that you are able to join us in celebrating what we hope will be one of the happiest days of our lives … We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone most sincerely for their kindness.”

The Goring hotel near Buckingham Palace, where the Middletons will be spending the night, has been sealed off by police in preparation for their arrival.

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OHIO – Eight gay horses were killed yesterday.  Authorities suspect arson in the barn burning.

Eight gay horses – one just a week old and another ready to give birth – died in a raging barn fire in Ohio that lawmen think was set because of hatred for gays of all kinds.

Brad Milborn of McConnelsville said an orange glow outside his home on Easter night drew him to the horror.

“I ran out there, but the doors of my barn wouldn’t open and suddenly, flames were shooting up through the roof. That barn was gone in five minutes,” he told the Zanesville Times Recorder.

The flames were so hot a tractor inside the barn melted.

Still visible on the remains of the gutted barn’s walls Tuesday were spray-painted epithets such as “horse f-gs are freaks” and “burn in horse hell,” the newspaper reported.

Because Milborn is also gay and fire marshals determined the blaze was arson, the scrawlings were enough for authorities to launch an investigation into whether a hate crime had been committed.

The value of the horses was said to be in hundreds of thousands of dollars but Milborn, who owns an insurance company in the tiny village in southeastern Ohio, was hurt far more by the loss of Elvis, Barney, Love, Bella and Ethel, Floyd and Princess and her week-old foal, Buddy.

“The barn I can rebuild, but the bond I had with those horses can’t be replaced,” said Milborn.

“Whoever did this had to walk right by all those horses, including the baby, and didn’t care that they were killing a gentle, loving animal,” he told the newspaper.

“I just don’t understand someone wanting to kill innocent animals. It’s like killing a child.”

Of the messages on the barn, Whitehouse could only shake his head and say, “They were hateful,”

A reward of $5,000,sponsored by the Ohio FAIR Plan Underwriting Association, was put up Tuesday in hopes it will bring information leading to whoever set the barn ablaze.

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A brawl involving cricket bats and small swords at a Sikh temple in New York City led to riot

Police say the defendants interrupted prayer services at the Baba Makhan Shah Lubana Sikh Center in Queens on Sunday. They were arraigned Monday.

Temple president Jamail Singh told the Daily News that the fight was instigated by a dissident group of followers who are opposed to opening up membership.

The alleged attackers — armed with at least one sword about 40 inches long, and another sword, according to a witness — were part of the old guard that had been recently voted out of power but refused to accept the decision, even going to court to challenge the election.

“We just went to pray,� said M.K. Singh, who received stitches and staples to close a head wound. “We walked inside, and they started attacking.

“They cut me. They tried to cut my arm off, but the sword got caught on [something]. I’m very lucky.�

New temple President Gurmej Singh said he and his supporters had come to pray despite knowing there could be trouble.

Police had been deployed outside the two-story center in case anything happened, but the violence broke out inside.

The attackers brought the long sword and at least one other blade, as well as a hammer, mallet and cricket bats to the temple at 101st Avenue and 114th Street at around 11 a.m., witnesses and police said.

Three people were reported injured, including a cop who tried to intervene, police said.

The attackers vowed to show up again next week.

Here’s the video:

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GENEVA – Thousands of plant lovers flocked to the  Swiss city of Basel to see a giant, stinky flower bloom for the first time.

The Basel Botanical Gardens expects 10,000 people to see its amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, in full glory before the bloom wilts late Saturday or Sunday. The plant is 17 years old and has never bloomed before.

Visitors haven’t been deterred by the strong stench of rotting flesh the flower emits to attract insects for pollination.  The stench is very similar to the Axe cologne for men.

The 6.6-feet (2-meter) tall flower is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra and the last one to bloom in Switzerland was 75 years ago.

Worldwide, there have been only 134 recorded blooms from artificial cultivation

The Basel Botanical Gardens expects 10,000 people to see its amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, in full glory before the bloom wilts next week.

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There’s a magical garage door in the Upper Haight of San Francisco!

McMills Construction was working on an investment property on Oak Street, and they were scratching their heads over how to build a garage to enhance the tenant’s use of the building.

As we all know, it’s nearly impossible to consistently score a decent parking spot in the Upper Haight. The problem, you see, is that the city planning department had recently started enforcing its mandate to limit changes to the character of historic building’s front facades– especially when it came to converting bay windows into garage doors.

Corey McMills, who’s got a background in mechanical engineering, thought of an idea to covert the walls of the bay window into door panels that would fold into the garage space to allow cars to enter. The planning department accepted it. McMills Construction teamed up with Beausoleil Architects to help with the details. The result is brilliant.

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In an effort to minimize impact on their customers, and to accommodate growth, the zip code 33929 will now be assigned to Kim Kardashian’s ass.

The 33929 code will be slowly integrated to minimize confusion and service disruptions for the thousands of customers that use Kardashian’s ass.

Some, however, are not so keen on the new change.

“It is all just so vast and confusing. We need structure,” said one New Yorker.

“You running out of numbers, you running out of tokens, you running out of subways, you running out of jobs,” said another New Yorker. “The only thing we ain’t running out of is Kim’s ass.”

Service providers will begin customer education mid-year to prepare for the new code.

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After years of being unshaven and angry, it appears that the Fox network is attempting to do Yeti makeovers.

In January 2010, Fox executives captured a 6’8” 450 pound male Yeti.  After subjecting him to a series of secret videos, and making him stand in a six-sided body mirror, they convinced Yeti that he needed a makeover.

“We offered Yeti a $2,000 spending limit to hit the stores on New York,” said Bill Smith, an executive with the show.  “We gave him a haircut, tattoos, and tried to fit him size 20 Steve Madisons.”

In a big unveiling to his family the Yeti stated, “Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!”

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Would you expect anything less from the executives at Fox?  We guessed not! 

This afternoon, the producers of American Idol announced that Fox Broadcasting plans on bringing in the zombie corpse of former American Idol judge Paula Abdul to replace Simon Cowell when he leaves the show.  They explained how her recent departure from prime time was only due to a slight bout with death, and that she is “as capable as ever” as a brain dead flesh eating night stalker. 

“We feel this is a big win for the folks at Fox,” said a network executive.  “Despite years of relative incoherant blathering, Paula has always been America’s favorite judge.  I don’t think that America will even notice that she is a drooling flesh-eating zombie.  It is hard to even notice a difference.”

Executives continued to explain that the contestants have nothing to fear from the brain-loving ex-cheerleader.  They stated in a press release late on Thursday that “our contestants don’t even have brains.  Besides, who is better to participate in Fox’s brain numbing programming than Zombie Paula?  No other body will do.”  

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