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West Hollywood, California-AP -- Two men have been arrested for investigation of a hate crime in California that involved a group of men who allegedly attacked two other men while chanting "Kill the Jews." The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says Daoud Mavid (dah-OOD' mah-VEED') and Mohammed Aref are also accused of assault with deadly weapons -- their feet and fists. The men were released after posting 55-thousand dollars' bail each. Authorities say the attack took place at one a-m outside a Sunset Boulevard nightclub in West Hollywood. The Sheriff's Department says Fareed Kanani and Michael Kashany were hit and...

Al-Qaida had extensive contacts with Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, as well as with an elite military unit which helped the terrorists train and plot attacks against Americans, according to a former intelligence officer who recently fled Iran. Hamid Reza Zakeri, a former inspector and director of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Ministry of Intelligence, or MOIS, member said models of the World Trade Center, the White House, Pentagon and other United States government buildings "were in our headquarters." In an explosive interview with a London-based Arabic newspaper last week, Zakeri stated that al-Qaida leader and Egyptian terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri,...