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  • Teacher resigns for giving kids puzzle with Hamas messages

    11/22/2006 2:52:30 AM PST · by gondramB · 71 replies · 1,441+ views
    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A high school Spanish teacher has resigned because of an extra-credit assignment he gave that included anti-American phrases and defended the Palestinian group Hamas. Khalid Chahhou resigned from Smithfield-Selma High School last week after students alerted school officials about a word-search puzzle he assigned that contained phrases including "destroy America" and "terrorist." "I think some of the people in the class were kind of afraid, because how the world is today, you never know with people," said Chris McDaniels, a sophomore at the school in Johnston County southeast of Raleigh. Chahhou acknowledged that he gave students...