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A clerical worker was named yesterday as Germany's first suicide bomber and blamed for the deaths of two American soldiers in Afghanistan. Cueneyt Ciftci, 28, who was born in Bavaria to a family of Turkish immigrants, is believed to have driven a pick-up truck laden with explosives into a US guard post on March 3. An Uzbek terror group, the Islamic Jihadist Union (IJU), claimed responsibility. In the chaotic aftermath of the explosion, insurgents raked the Americans with gunfire and killed 60 men, the group claimed, adding that: “He was a brave Turk who came from Germany and exchanged his...

London: Four months ago, a 20 year old man – dressed neatly in an expensive suit , but soaking wet – was found wandering on a beach by police. He refused to speak, so police took him to a mental health unit for evaluation. During his evaluation , he was given a piece of paper and a pen – and promptly drew a sketch of a concert – style piano. Someone decided to let him sit at a piano in the hospital chapel, and-according to one of the psychiatrists , he gave a brilliant concert recital. Dubbed “ The Piano...

New Pope Benedict XVI has questionable past From: Nelson Marans, Silver Spring With the present pope's hometown in the heartland of Bavaria, the birthplace of the Nazi movement, there was little doubt that the overwhelming majority of the citizens were either Nazis or ready to follow the party line. There apparently was little opposition to the tactics of the Nazi Party from the residents of the town until they felt that their religion was being threatened by some of the pagan customs of the Third Reich. Certainly, despite his youth, the current pope was neutral when it came to the...