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Reverend Dr. Terry Jones has said that he would hold plans to burn Qur’ans in abeyance pending a decision on whether he could meet with Imam Feisal Abdul Ra’uf, the man behind the proposed Ground Zero “Cordoba” Mosque, to discuss abandoning, or at least moving, that mosque.  According to Jones, he was promised such a meeting by Imam Muhammad Musri, head of the Islamic Society of Central Florida; Musri disagrees.  Whoever is correct, the much more important issue is the violent petulance with which many Muslims around the world are responding to an event which has not even happened yet! ...

MOSUL — U.S. and Iraqi Security Forces delivered 400 new desks and chairs to the Qosh High School in northern Ninewah province, Oct. 31. The furniture delivery was the culmination of the school's opening and the final project for Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division "The ministry of education built them a new high school, but was unable to furnish it with desks and chairs so we were able to fill in that gap," said Capt. Joseph Himpelmann, the commander of Btry. B and a native of Waukegan, Ill. After...

A University of Colorado student has been arrested after campus police said they discovered two guns, a knife and several hundred rounds of ammunition in his dormitory room. Matthew Thomas Furnish is scheduled to appear in court today on two counts of unlawful possession of deadly weapons on campus and three counts of unlawful conduct on public property. Responding to a tip from a caller at about 9 p.m. Thursday, campus police visited Furnish's room. After an interview with police, Furnish consented to a search of his room. Police said they found a Glock .40-caliber handgun, a Remington 12-gauge shotgun,...

LAS VEGAS – Pop diva Elton John, never at a loss for feuds, launched a new one yesterday. Sir Elton’s target this time is The Sun, a British tabloid, which enraged the mercurial star by reporting that Sir Elton and partner David Furnish have to get married because Furnish has gotten an unnamed Canadian pop star pregnant, "and the baby needs a father." “Bullocks! Utter twaddle! Steaming horse droppings!” thundered Sir Elton by cell phone from an undisclosed jewelry store in Las Vegas. “I’ll sue those bastards for everything they’ve got. By the time I’m through with them, they’ll be...

ALBANY - It will cost the Albany Diocese more than $2.4 million for attorney Mary Jo White's exhaustive investigation that found "no-merit" to sexual misconduct allegations against Bishop Howard Hubbard. Nearly seven weeks after the former U.S. attorney cleared Hubbard on a number of sexual misconduct charges, diocese officials made public the final bill late Thursday afternoon by issuing a short statement. Diocese officials, including Hubbard, would not comment on the hefty bill, nor discuss how it might affect the feelings of parishioners, except to say they decided to release the amount before they paid it. "We're not going to...