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The Israel Security Agency (also known as Shin Bet or Shabak for short), in conjunction with the Israel Police, announced the discovery of an Arab cell that had solicited the help of a driver at the French consulate to smuggle weapons to Judea and Samaria. Romain Franck, a 24-year-old French national who worked at the French Consulate in Jerusalem smuggled weapons five times in recent months in a vehicle belonging to the French Consulate, which received eased security checks and restrictions at the border crossing security checkpoint, as is customary for such vehicles. Franck thus smuggled approximately 70 pistols and two assault...

<p>A dozen Bay Area Muslims gathered at the French Consulate in San Francisco at noon Tuesday to protest France's proposed ban on religiously mandated head scarves, or hijabs, and other religious symbols in public schools.</p> <p>The protesters, mostly women wearing hijabs, waited outside the consulate to show their support as a representative of the Northern California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-NCA) presented a letter of opposition to Olivier Arribe, the deputy consul general.</p>