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BILLINGS — A Montana Army National Guard recruitment poster is being taken down statewide after an editing mistake was pointed out on social media. The poster reads: "It’s more than college money….It’s the spirit of tradition." But in the background, images of German Nazi World War II soldiers are prominent, which sparked outrage online. "I’m sure that somewhere, the (Public Affairs) office for the National Guard is squirming, to say the least,” said Randy Stiles, a district commander for the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Billings, on Friday. Last fall, the poster was distributed across Montana. "I can see their...

On the surface there would seem to be little to unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi movement with the terrorists of radical Islam. To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without exception either atheists or members of fringe quasi-Christian sects. But the reality is that there has been close cooperation between Muslim extremists and Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi movement in the 1920`s. For all of their differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have always been united by a common group of beliefs and...

Upon arrival an unpleasant incident occurred involving reporters who were strictly prohibited from entering the monastery. When asked whose decision this was and who was the officer preventing the reporters from doing their job, they received an answer: It's none of your business and you will get no information. When the reporters insisted, a German soldier (on the photograph) spat on a woman reporter from TV Most, Mirjana Nedeljkovic, and then physically attacked Zivojin Rakocevic, the editor of Glas Juga (the Voice of the South). Thanks to the presence of mind of Abbot Herman, who promptly intervened with a senior...