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AULNAY-SOUS-BOIS, France - Rampaging youths shot at police and firefighters Thursday after burning car dealerships and public buses and hurling rocks at commuter trains, as eight days of riots over poor conditions in Paris-area housing projects spread to 20 towns. Youths ignored an appeal for calm from President Jacques Chirac, whose government worked feverishly to fend off a political crisis amid criticism that it has ignored problems in neighborhoods heavily populated by first- and second-generation North African and Muslim immigrants. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin called a string of emergency meetings with Cabinet ministers throughout the day. He told the...

NEW DELHI -- As many as 1,500 militant were killed in Saturday's earthquake in Pakistani Kashmir, Indian intelligence officials said. "At least a third of the 1,500 killed were hard-core jihadis," Indian intelligence sources said.

Asian Quake May Be Serious Blow To Islamic Groups Hostile to U.S. By ZAHID HUSSAIN in Islamabad and PETER WONACOTT in New Delhi Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL October 12, 2005; Page A15 The massive earthquake that tore through the Kashmir region of Pakistan and India appears to have been especially costly for battle-hardened Islamist extremists hostile to the U.S. Radical groups are beginning to acknowledge heavy casualties from the 7.6-magnitude temblor. Meanwhile, U.S. aid arriving in a mountainous corner of Pakistan has marked the start of what U.S. officials hope is a significant role in the area's...

It is my humble opinion that another "shoe" will drop on the heels of the ongoing success garnered by the the Swiftee's; that "shoe" will be the renewed examination of John Kerry's record regarding POW/MIA hearings (which he chaired...), and his treatment of one COL Millard A. Peck. To steal something from the book title, "Kiss the Boys Good Bye"...I believe it will be Kiss The Boy Good Bye. He cannot run from his record and all the Lanny Davis', James Carvil's and the host of under-thirty something spinmeister apologists cannot fix it for him. I know this next bit...