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Note: The following text is a quote: Eight Area Men Sentenced on Federal Racketeering Charges Involving Conspiracy to Transfer Cash and Checks to the Palestinian Territories ST. LOUIS, MO—The United States Attorney’s office announced today that eight members of a criminal enterprise operating out of five St. Louis area convenience stores have been sentenced on charges of federal racketeering or related charges. As far back as 2000, the RICO conspiracy has involved bank fraud, receipt of stolen property, conducting an unlicensed money transmitting business, purchasing contraband cigarettes for resale, evading reporting requirement on exporting monetary instruments, and transporting monetary instruments...

Last spring, an Islamic group came to Temple University with an extremely generous offer: $1.5 million for an endowed chair in Islamic studies to honor religion professor Mahmoud Ayoub. But after months of talks, the deal fell apart when trustees and others raised concerns about the donor, the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), ---snip--- David Horowitz, head of the Los Angeles-based Freedom Center, called IIIT "Islamo-fascists" and "part of a jihad against the West."

DOHA (Reuters) - Al-Jazeera television said one of its cameramen was killed on Tuesday in a U.S. air raid on Baghdad which set ablaze the network's downtown office. "We regret to inform you that our cameraman and correspondent Tarek Ayoub was killed this morning during the U.S. missile strike on our Baghdad office," the Qatar-based channel said in a statement read out during its news bulletin. The network, one of the most widely watched in the Arab world, had earlier reported that Ayoub was seriously wounded after a missile hit its Baghdad office. A second Jazeera correspondent was slightly...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 11/1/02 - Khost, Gaza, Ramallah, Ayoub & Canada, Hermesh BREAKING: Gaza - terrorist bomb blows up the terrorists and their supporters BREAKING: Khost, US heroes on the trail of Taliban BREAKING: Ramallah, terrorists and murderers of Americans mock the US with a Statue of Liberty BREAKING: Tel Aviv Hezbollah terrorist Faouzi Ayoub under a fake US passport, actually working with Canada. BREAKING: Hermesh - Arafat's monsters murder two girls and a woman. BREAKING: Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakstan Turkey - elections Sunday 10/3/02 ========= Khost, Afghanistan ========= BREAKING: In Khost, tireless US heroes...