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Islamists target Morocco's Jews Giles Tremlett Monday September 15, 2003 The Guardian (UK) Violent Islamists have murdered two members of Morocco's shrinking Jewish community in the past four days and look set to drive out most of the remaining members of a community whose history stretches back centuries. The stabbing to death of 75-year-old Elie Afrat as he left his house in Meknes, 90 miles east of Rabat, to go to the synagogue on Saturday has finally shattered what the Moroccan authorities had always held up as a model of coexistence between Muslims and Jews. The killing of Mr Afrat,...

Monday, 4 November, 2002, 15:10 GMTMorocco's miracle mule 'confirmed' The foal is about one quarter horse DNA tests have confirmed that a Moroccan mule did give birth to a foal. Veterinary experts say the foal's father was a donkey and its mother a true mule. The foal inherited a mixture of horse and donkey chromosomes via the mother's ovum Gigi Kay, Society for the Protection of Animals of North Africa The discovery defies scientific wisdom because mules are supposed to be sterile. Mules are hybrids - a cross between two species - in this case, the horse and the donkey....

Wednesday, 2 October, 2002, 08:56 GMT 09:56 UKMorocco's miracle mule The mule's owners did not realise it was pregnant By the BBC's Katty Kay A mule has given birth to a male foal in a hamlet deep in rural Morocco. No big deal, you may think, but in fact the birth was a minor scientific miracle. A mule is the hybrid of a horse and a donkey and should be sterile - except in this instance. There have only been two substantiated cases of a mule giving birth in the past quarter century: one in China in 1988 and the...