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Muslim Rivalry Hits New York Prisons

The rivalry and violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims isn’t just limited to Iraq. It is increasingly found in one place presumed shut off from the influence of faraway sectarian politics: New York’s state prisons.

In the last two decades, the state’s Muslim inmates, who number 7,987, have been increasingly identifying as either Sunni or Shiite, a phenomenon that prison chaplains elsewhere say is most pronounced in New York. -snip-
http://www.nysun.com/article/65974


279 posted on 11/06/2007 8:40:53 PM PST by Velveeta (Duncan Hunter.)
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Medical clinic at Vandenberg Air Force Base receives suspicious letter

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE

An emergency response team was dispatched to a medical clinic at Vandenberg Air Force Base when they received a suspicious letter Tuesday.

The envelope delivered was found to contain writings discussing a variety of bio-hazard topics.

http://www.ksby.com/Global/story.asp?S=7322138


281 posted on 11/06/2007 9:13:44 PM PST by Velveeta (Duncan Hunter.)
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