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Chicago student celebrates recovery from terror attack By Melissa Radler March, 03 2002 NEW YORK (March 3) - Shayna Gould, a 19-year-old American student given a 3 percent chance of surviving a terrorist attack in Jerusalem last month, returned home last week to Skokie, Illinois, in good health, good spirits, and accompanied by an Israeli-Arab doctor who saved her life. "Everyone was so supportive and so sweet and kind to me," said Gould in a phone conversation following a press conference at the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Fed-eration of Metropolitan Chicago Thursday. "All the e-mails and letters and phone calls ...

Aqsa Brigades Suicide Bombers Vow Attacks from Lebanon Yasser Arafat's militant Al Aqsa Brigades faction has made a dramatic appearance in south Lebanon, with hooded guerrillas in battle gear and a female human bomb vowing to wage suicide attacks into Israel. "We have been instructed to stand by for martyrdom operations," a masked gunman told a news conference held on the roof of a house in Sidon's Mieh Mieh refugee camp. He said Al Aqsa Brigades "founder and leader" who goes by the nom de guerre of Hajj Abu Ahmed radioed the instructions on Thursday as assaults by Israeli ...

Two infiltrators from Lebanon caught By David Rudge March, 03 2002 METULLA (March 3) - A Palestinian resident of Lebanon and a Lebanese Army soldier crossed into Israel separately over the weekend. On both occasions, soldiers spotted the infiltrators as they climbed the border fence near Metulla and caught them within minutes. Soldiers then fired flares to illuminate the area in case of any other infiltrations, and the region was put on a heightened security alert. The Palestinian, whom security sources described as being an eccentric, crossed over Friday night and was returned to Lebanon yesterday morning after being ...

Report: IAF jets bomb Ramallah targets Israeli Air Forces F-16 jets are bombing Palestinian Authority police headquarters in Ramallah at this hour, according to Palestinian sources. The sources also said helicopters fired rockets at offices adjacent to PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's compound. Elsewhere, IDF tanks shelled the PA's General Intelligence Service headquarters in the West Bank village of Salfit earlier this morning, Israel Radio reported. There are no reports of Palestinian casualties in either strike. The shelling and air raid come in the wake of this morning's lethal shooting attacks on a civilian convoy and soldiers at an army roadblock ...

An x-ray shows a nail embedded in the brain of an Israeli wounded in a suicide bombing, February 16, 2002, in the West Bank Jewish settlement Karnei Shomron. Palestinian bombers pack screws and nails into their devices for deadly effect. The shrapnel in the bomb can cause brain damage if it enters the brain. (Reuters)

Israeli soldiers pose for pictures beside the body of a Palestinian gunman who was killed in an exchange of fire at a checkpoint at Baka a-Sharkiya, February 21, 2002. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced plans to set up special 'buffer zones' to protect Israelis and demanded Palestinians disarm fully, after Israeli forces carried out a new wave of deadly reprisal raids. (Yarif Katz/Reuters)

The U.S. Air Force is honoring the victims of Sept. 11 with a new aircraft logo bearing Todd Beamer's phrase "Lets Roll", as seen Saturday, Feb. 23, 2001. Four F-15s at the 33rd Fighter Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. now bear the logo near the cockpit. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force)

Liberal Chris Matthews Slams Senate Dem 'Whiners' Wes Vernon, NewsMax.comFriday, Feb. 1, 2002 ARLINGTON, Va. – Democrat-leaning commentator Chris Matthews compares Senate Democrats to "kids in the back seat” whining and asking, "Are we there yet?” Speaking Thursday at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), he described President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top administration officials as the leaders – "the adult drivers of the car.” He cited polls showing higher ratings for the president and Cabinet officials than for senators. Matthews, who worked in the past for such Democrats as President Jimmy Carter and House ...

Wednesday Jan. 30, 2002; 10:51 p.m. EST McAuliffe Stonewalls Request for Global Crossing Documents Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who made an $18 million profit from a $100,000 investment in the now bankrupt telecommunications giant Global Crossing, refused to respond to repeated requests early Wednesday to disclose notes and records of his meetings with company officials, including GC CEO Gary Winnick. In a testy confrontation on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes," McAuliffe was asked four times whether he would honor the same demand for documents that he and other Democrats have been making of Vice President Dick ...

FBI Document Raises Questions About Prior Knowledge An FBI document released under the Freedom of Information Act to the McCurtain Daily Gazette raises renewed questions about the FBI's alleged prior knowledge of the plot to bomb the Murrah building in Oklahoma City in 1995. The document in question is a hotel receipt for FBI agent Danny Coulsen who was one of the Bureau's counter-terrorism experts in the mid-90s. It shows he checked into the Embassy Suites hotel on south Meridian in Oklahoma City 20 minutes after midnight on the morning of April 19th, 1995. It was 8 hours and 42 ...

The Women of Afghanistan: Whose Concern Is It, Anyway? The Muslim-American Community Needs to Give Its Uncompromising Support for the women, children AND men, the People of Afghanistan by Saraji al Muslima (c) 1999 c.e. Contents: 1. The Women of Afghanistan: Whose Concern Is It, Anyway? (Editorial) 2. Brief Background of the Recent History of Afghanistan and the Taliban 3. The Taliban Now: What do they Have to Say? 4. Islam and the Taliban 5. Afghani Women 6. Reactions to the Taliban: Muslims and Non-Muslims 7. What Our Purpose as Muslims Should Be The rest of the article, which MUST ...

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