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UPDATE:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55691

“Staged gun attack ‘is beyond absurd’
‘The children were in that room in the dark, begging for their lives’”
Posted: May 14, 2007
5:00 p.m. Eastern

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A teacher and an assistant principal at a Tennessee school have been suspended for about two weeks because they staged a gunman’s attack on their sixth-grade students for a “prank” or a “learning experience,” depending upon the explanation.

Officials with the school district in Murfreesboro told WND today that the decision was being described only as a “disciplinary action.”

“Director of Schools Marilyn Mathis has suspended lead teacher, Mr. Quentin Mastin, and assistant Principal, Don Bartch, for unprofessional conduct and neglect of duty due to actions taken with Scales Elementary School students on May 10, 2007 at Fall Creek Falls State Park,” said a terse statement given to WND by district spokeswoman Cheryl Harris.

“The suspension is without pay and will commence of May 14, 2007 and continue through the end of this school year ending June 1, 2007,” it said.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1833629/posts

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OTE5MDdhMzU5OTY2ZjcwODk5MGY0OTE4NmM3NDg1NmY=

May 11, 2007 7:20 AM

“Jihadi Chic
Ideology isn’t everything.”
By Jonah Goldberg

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “At the annual Cairo antiwar conference in Egypt, the hot panel discussion this year was “Bridge-Building Between the Left and Islam.” John Rees, a British Trotskyite, observed: “Where else can you sit down in a single evening and listen to senior people from Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, people from the revolutionary left and the antiwar movement from around the globe?”

Gosh, it sounds great. I’m just sorry I missed the rollicking game of Pictionary between the Castroites and the jihadis afterwards.

Steven Stalinsky, executive director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, recently reported in the New York Sun on the growing alliance between elements of the hard left and the Islamist extremists. “The roster of Islamist-left alliances quietly grows every day,” Stalinsky writes. For example, “Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguistics professor Noam Chomsky praises Hamas and denounces America on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television. London Mayor Ken Livingstone invites a leading Islamist, Sheikh Yosef Al-Qaradawi, who is known for supporting suicide attacks, to visit his city. And Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “calls for a world without America even as he plays host to a Tehran peace conference” well attended by American members of the religious Left.

The aim of those “bridge-building” sessions in Cairo was, according to literature at the event, to address “the challenges and prospects facing the international antiwar and pro-intifada movements” and planning “strategy and tactics for bridging the gap and uniting Islamist and leftist ranks in the face of U.S. imperialism and Zionism.””