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<p>LEBANON, Maine — A freak burst of wind on a clear day apparently caused an auto body shop to collapse, killing the owner, officials said.</p> <p>Monday's collapse was initially thought to be caused by an explosion, but a witness reported seeing a windstorm lift the roof off Vintage Auto Body, causing much of the two-story building to collapse, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Public Safety Department.</p>

I have turned this over in my mind for weeks now, trying to decide whether to post this or not.  It is SORT OF a vanity, but not entirely.  I am reading a book that I was turned on to, titled The Sword of the Prophet:  Islam, history, theology, impact on the world, by Serge Trifkovic.  The book has a sub-title called 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam'.  It is published by Regina Orthodox Press and though this is a Catholic publishing house, the book is not about Catholicism but a history of how Islam began and what some political...

BEIRUT, Lebanon - A terrorist network led by a Yemeni national planned to kill the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon earlier this year by firing a rocket-propelled grenade into his car, judicial officials said Thursday. The attack was to have taken place during a visit by U.S. Ambassador Vincent Battle to the northern port city of Tripoli on Jan. 15, the officials said on condition of anonymity. It was foiled when the envoy's motorcade changed its route, said three Lebanese newspapers, citing security and other judicial sources. The unidentified Yemeni man behind the plot is hiding in the Palestinian refugee camp...

A popular new music video with outright incitement to murder Jews is being aired on official Palestinian Authority (PA) television. The video features lyrics and footage encouraging attacks specifically upon Jews living in Judea, Samaria and Gaza (Yesha). Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) translated the movie clip from Arabic. As images of a Jewish couple and a group of young Jewish girls walking home from school are flashed on the screen, the following background lyrics are heard repeatedly: "From the mountain of fire [Nablus] came the rebels... Everywhere there are settlements.br> Oh brave Nablus, keep the cauldron ablaze Pour over the...

‘CHILLING' LESSON FOR LEMRICK JUDGE - Hasidic scholar stabbed in riot By HEIDI SINGER ROSENBAUM Stabbed in riot. May 1, 2003 -- The elderly judge overseeing the Yankel Rosenbaum stabbing trial got a slang lesson yesterday when he asked a Crown Heights resident for the meaning of "chilling." "Can you explain to somebody who is not a brother what that means?" asked federal Judge Frederic Block. The jurors tittered in response - and the judge quickly told them he was just trying to break the tension with a little humor in an otherwise very serious case. The culture clash happened...

Five killed in attack on Kashmir TV station A car bombing and an ensuing gun battle at the offices of the state radio and television service in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed three suspected Islamic militants and two soldiers yesterday. Three paramilitary officers were wounded. Hours later, at least 10 others were injured in two separate attacks, including an apparent attempt to assassinate Kashmir's finance minister. Two Pakistan-based Islamic rebel groups claimed responsibility for the car bombing, which took place in the state's summer capital, Srinagar. One of the militants was killed in the explosion, while the two others died in the...

Two Israeli workers killed in grenade attack Militant linked to Arafat group killed after shooting Israeli soldier JERUSALEM — A Palestinian fugitive emerging from a building surrounded by Israeli soldiers opened fire today, killing an Israeli officer before being shot dead by other soldiers, the army said. At the Karni truck crossing between Israel and Gaza, a Palestinian opened fire and threw grenades, killing two Israeli workers and wounding another three before he was shot and killed by troops, the army said. In the West Bank city of Nablus, troops from an elite army unit, backed by helicopters, encircled a...

Bomb Kills Five at Kashmir Dairy Yard SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - At least five civilians died when a homemade bomb planted by suspected Muslim separatists ripped through a crowded cattle-milking yard in Indian Kashmir on Tuesday, police said. Another 11 people were injured, many seriously, in the attack in Tral village, south of the summer capital, Srinagar. "It was an improvised explosive device planted near a field and was probably meant to target security forces," a police spokesman told Reuters. The bomb went off early in the morning as villagers crowded into the communal yard to milk their cattle. Hours...

MILF attacks 2 police sites in Lanao, kills 2, takes hostages By BUTCH D. ENERIO TODAY Correspondent ILIGAN CITY, Lanao del Norte - Hundreds of Muslim rebels attacked two police detachments near a highway in Lanao del Norte on Thursday, taking at least four officers hostage and killing two civilians, the military said. About 500 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels also bombed a bridge, then commandeered a passenger bus and a cargo truck and used the vehicles to block the highway in Lanao del Norte’s Colambugan town, 780 km southeast of Manila. The driver of the bus and a...

Palestinian Bomber Attacks Train Station A Palestinian bomber has blown himself up at the entrance of a train station in the central Israeli town of Kfar Saba, some 20 km north of Tel Aviv, killing one Israeli and injured at least 10 others. Rescue workers said about half of the casualties were in serious condition. The explosion occurred during morning rush hour, as commuters entered the station which serves as a link between Tel Aviv and its suburbs. The bomber apparently detonated his explosives when an Israeli security guard stopped him from entering the station, a link between Tel Aviv...

Gov't helps former Abu hostages resume normal lives FORMER Abu Sayyaf hostages Amelie Mantec and Cleofe Montulo have the full support of the government as they resume to live normal lives, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assured them in Malacañang Thursday. Mantec and Montulo escaped from their Abu Sayyaf captors in Patikul, Sulu on April 18, ending almost ten months spent as hostages of the terrorist group. Ms Macapagal said the former captives would be assured of utmost security, livelihood assistance and educational support for their school-age children. "The government has provided us with security. We are okay," Mantec told INQ7.net. Mantec...

ON A RAMPAGE Muslim rebels kill 6, take cops, commuters hostage PAGADIAN - Muslim separatists attacked a town and ambushed two buses in the southern Philippines, killing at least six people and taking policemen and commuters hostage, the military and rebels said Thursday. Four people were killed when their bus was ambushed by guerillas from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Carmen town late Wednesday, the military said. Two others were shot dead while travelling in another bus along a highway near Kulambugan town on Thursday, a rebel leader said. The towns are in the southern island of Mindanao,...

Bombings 'fail to kill' Saddam By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent and Neil Tweedie in Qatar (Filed: 09/04/2003) America pulverised a Baghdad restaurant in a second attempt to kill Saddam Hussein, but intelligence sources suggested yesterday that the Iraqi leader had escaped. A Royal Marine stands in front of a mural of Saddam Hussein in Basra The restaurant in the Mansur district of the capital was destroyed by four 2,000lb smart bombs dropped by a single US aircraft early yesterday. The Pentagon would only confirm publicly that it had hit a "leadership target" in the district, a Ba'ath Party stronghold. Privately,...

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US Marines 'kill seven Iraqis after truck fails to stop' By Andrew Clennell 05 April 2003 Seven civilians, including three children, were killed by US Marines last night after they opened fire on a truck that refused to stop at a checkpoint south of Baghdad, an American television network reported. The alleged incident was reported by an ABC News correspondent travelling with a marine unit early this morning. The civilian Iraqis were in vehicles behind a military truck that refused to stop and tried to crash through the marines' roadblock. Pentagon officials said they had no immediate details of the...

8,000-strong army of children ready to take on U.S. forces -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: April 4, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Reminiscent of the Hitler Youth of World War II, Saddam Hussein has trained an 8,000-strong army of children to face coalition forces in Baghdad. In a report by the New York Daily News, Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution explains the children are considered a junior Fedayeen Saddam – the paramilitary forces Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has dubbed "death squads" for the atrocities they commit. The child army is called Ashbal Saddam, or Saddam's Lion Cubs, according to...

<p>MARINE COMBAT HEADQUARTERS, Southern Iraq ? At 2:05 p.m., Lt. Col. David Pere, the senior watch officer at this U.S. command post, fields a disturbing intelligence report.</p> <p>Iraqi troops at an Ababil missile site northwest of Basra have been spotted wearing chemical weapons suits. A special vehicle designed to decontaminate troops and their gear after a chemical attack is parked nearby.</p>

IN THE KUWAIT-IRAQ DEMILITARIZED ZONE - One U.S. Marine died Friday in fighting as troops advanced on an oil field in southern Iraq (news - web sites), the military said. Separately, 12 coalition soldiers were killed as their helicopter crashed in the first hours of the ground war. U.S. Marines encountered mortar fire as they took control of the main highway leading to the key port city of Basra, at the heart of Iraq's southern oil facilities. The Marine was killed during the advance on the Rumeila oil field, the military said. British forces said they ran into "stiff resistance"...

Gulf War Vet Seeks Clemency Associated Press February 18, 2003 LUBBOCK, Texas - A decorated Army veteran who blames childhood abuse and exposure to nerve gas during the Gulf War for his killing of a female soldier has asked President Bush to spare his life.

The head of the Hamas military wing in the Gaza Strip was shot Monday morning by IDF troops and died of his wounds a short while later in Be'er Sheva's Soroka Medical Center. The man, Riyad Abu-Zed was considered to be the replacement for Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh, killed by the IDF last July. Palestinian sources said IDF troops ambushed Abu-Zed's car near the al Bureij refugee camp, and fired at it. Abu-Zed, who was seriously injured, died of his wounds a short while later in hospital. The IDF said that the troops intended to arrest Abu-Zed, and not to...