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To: a_screen_name
I'm not sure if I'm looking at this correctly but it does look fishy. Any thoughts ?

The CBS News site contains several stories and excerpts. What it appears that you have is the front end of a story about the VT shooter and then the Islam search term hit on a piece of a story about Barrack Obama containing the word Islam.

I brought up the CBS page and verified it:

One third down the page:

We now know the suspect was 23-year-old Tech senior Cho Seung-Hui, who yesterday was being identified only as a "young Asian male." In a press release, CBS News initially referred to him as Sueng-hui Cho. The discrepancy comes from the fact that Korean surnames are listed first, while in America they appear at the end of a name. CBS News is now referring to the suspect as Cho Seung-Hui, which follows the Korean tradition.

Go to bottom of page and click "Later Entries" Top story on that page (which seems to have scrolled off the front page since Google cached it).

Barack Obama has arguably the most diverse religious background of any candidate ever. He was raised in Indonesia by a Christian mother and Muslim stepfather and attended a Catholic school -- but while growing up, also studied Islam. That background sparked rumors that he had studied in a radical madrassa, or Quranic school -- rumors his campaign denied, declaring that Obama is now a practicing Christian.

So, it's a false alarm. The Islam excerpt immediately looked like a story about Obama and when I checked it out, that's exactly what I found.

312 posted on 04/17/2007 11:20:11 AM PDT by Spiff (Rudy Giuliani Quote (NY Post, 1996) "Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine.")
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To: Spiff

You are correct, please see my post #281


313 posted on 04/17/2007 11:22:06 AM PDT by a_screen_name
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