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Well, let’s see how Jimmy Carter’s Middle East tour is going.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200804/FOR20080414a.html
“Jimmy Carter Gets ‘Souvenir’ Rocket Tail on Visit to Rocket-Pounded Sderot”
By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
April 14, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Just days before he is supposed to meet with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Damascus, Syria, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter criticized Palestinian rocket attacks on civilians in southern Israel.
“I think it’s a despicable crime for any deliberate effort to be made to kill innocent civilians, and my hope is there will be a cease-fire soon,” Carter said during a visit Monday to the rocket-ravaged town of Sderot. (One Kassam rocket slammed into an open area near Sderot on Monday, the army said.)
Although some senior Israeli officials have snubbed Carter — refusing to meet with him — a Foreign Ministry representative in Sderot, Jonathan Peled, said it was important for Carter to visit Sderot.
“The fact that Carter came to Sderot is basically important - for him to see the terrible situation in Sderot and the conditions [under which the residents are living],” Peled told Cybercast News Service.
Carter was shown a house that was hit by a Kassam rocket, the remains of rockets and he also visited an overlook that shows just how close the Gaza Strip is to Israel, said Peled.
Carter also received a “souvenir” - the tail of a Kassam rocket, with an inscription from Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal.
“To President Carter: A momento of the thousands of Kassam rockets that were shot at Sderot and the region and caused the death of many innocent civilians. With hope for peace and tranquility in the near future,” read the inscription, written in Hebrew.
Moyal was one of the few Israeli officials to meet with Carter on his trip here. He said he does not believe that Carter’s upcoming meeting with Mashaal will bring “calm and peace” nor advance Israel’s interests.”
UPDATE:
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/894352,041508sxufolo.article
“’4-14’ threat creates empty SXU campus”
April 15, 2008
BY ANGELA CAPUTO Staff writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Saint Xavier and Chicago police along with the FBI are trying to find the person or persons who wrote the ominous threats at the main campus’ Regina Hall that prompted officials to call off classes as of Friday evening and send 870 campus residents packing - effectively clearing the campus.
They interviewed all 227 students in the dorm last week, beginning after the first threat, “Im gon killll,” was found April 5 scratched, with a blunt object, into the stall of a washroom in the freshman dorm. On Monday, “Can’t catch me” was found written on a handicapped-parking sign on the main campus, 3700 W. 103rd St., according to police.
A decision to reopen Saint Xavier is contingent on the recommendation of law enforcement, according to university “
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Commentary:
http://www.southtownstar.com/news/kadner/894528,041508Kadner.article
“Some terrorists are home grown”
April 15, 2008