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Translated article of the French source. Translator notes between [brackets]. Dijon (France): A driver runs pedestrians over while screaming "Allah is great". A man driving a car ran over about ten pedestrians at the end of the day in Dijon, while screaming "Allah is great" in Arabic. He reportedly wounded elevenpeople, two seriouly. Dijon's Place Wilson [named after WWI US president!] was a scene of panic at the end of the afternoon. A man driving a Renault Clio [a mini compact car] ran over pedestrians while yelling "Allah Akhbar". According to police, he was also yelling "in the name of...

The media are abuzz with the IRS affair. As you may have heard, former IRS official Lois Lerner, in charge of tax exempt groups, directed harassment operations targeting conservative groups. She also recommended auditing Republican Senator Charles Grassley. Appearing in front of the House Oversight Committee (HOC) in May 2013 and again last March, she pled the Fifth and refused to answer any questions. Later, IRS commissioner John Koskinen announced that potentially damning emails that were subpoenaed by the committee had disappeared in a series of computer crashes affecting Lerner’s machine, as well as the machines of at least six...

[excerpt] When Umar Abdulmutallab (a.k.a the undies bomber) attempted to blow a plane by setting his explosive-doused boxers on fire, I feared that we'd have to put our unmentionables on the X-ray belt, too. Maybe your flights are exclusively populated with supermodels, but when I fly, it's usually in less than athletic company, and believe me when I say that I have no interest in seeing more of my average travel mates. That goes for me too, I wouldn't want to inflict my hairy butt to unsuspecting passengers....snip...Not only does the scan remove any leftover dignity you might still possess,...

All of the 194 aliens arrested yesterday were realeased today, but operation was "successful", says Secretary All the 194 aliens arrested on Tuesday morning in Calais (France) were released. However, "a large number of fruitful elements of information have been collected", said the French Immigration Secretary, who promised more operations of this type. "Sentences are not the only objective of this type of operation" [which is good since you just admitted nobody was arraigned -- Ed.] said the Ministry. "A large number of fruitful elements of information have been collected during hearings. They will be exploited later," the Ministry added,...

A wealthy Iranian businessman was jailed for two years on Friday (local time) for stealing pages from rare books in Britain's top libraries to improve his own collection. Farhad Hakimzadeh, 60, admitted he used a scalpel to remove selected pages from priceless volumes in reading rooms at the British Library in London and the world-famous Bodleian Libary in Oxford, south-east England. "As an author, you cannot have been unaware of the damage you were causing," said judge Peter Ader, passing sentence at Wood Green Crown Court in London. "You have a deep love of books, perhaps so deep that it...

Attackers rammed a burning car into a synagogue in the southern French city of Toulouse, officials have said. The car, packed with a petrol bomb, was set alight and then pushed into the synagogue door by a second car. The building caught fire but a local rabbi and about 12 people caught inside escaped unharmed after Monday's attack. It came as the French defence minister met Jewish and Muslim community leaders to stress the Middle East conflict should not lead to violence in France. Police said they were investigating the attack and had not made any arrests. Molotov cocktails Damage...

Perigueux, France - The Perigueux District Attorney announced today that he is indicting a 40-year old man who had abducted and raped a 12-year old girl on Wednesday in Coulounieix-Chamiers [a small town]. The child was freed by police early on Thursday morning, after she alerted a few passers-by through a window. According to Adjunct DA Odile de Fritsch, the girl was in a state of acute shock. She had no injuries in her sexual organs, but she was sexually assaulted and was forced to perform oral sex. She was repeatedly beaten and kicked. Her jawbone joint was injured. The...

A German court has jailed a Muslim of Afghan origin for three and a half years for stabbing an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the stomach in the street. The court in the south-western city of Frankfurt convicted Sajed Aziz, 23, of grievous bodily harm. Witnesses said he had shouted anti-Semitic insults at the victim, Rabbi Zalman Gurevitch, 43. The case sparked a discussion in Germany about whether there were no-go areas for Jews in some cities. Passing the sentence, Judge Klaus Drescher said there had not been enough evidence to support the original charge of attempted manslaughter. Rabbi Gurevitch's injuries...

This is an article in French that would deserve a large diffusion. Check the pix in the URL! Summary: Rachel, a 24-year old shop employee in Valais (Switzerland) was transferred to the Lausanne (Sw.) hospital with heavy facial trauma: upper maxillary shattered, broken nose and sinuses, broken eye sockets. Rachel was going back home around 2:30 AM in the center of the town, accompanied by a neighbor. She was attacked by two young men and a girl who beat them up ferociously. The neighbor was also seriously injured and suffered facial wounds and a lost eardrum. This attack seems to...