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<p>August 22, 2002 -- A trusted Palestinian painter at Hebrew University planted the bomb in the cafeteria that killed nine people, including five Americans, Israeli authorities said yesterday.</p> <p>Mohammed Oudeh, of East Jerusalem, even returned the next day to the campus to clean up the damage - with no one the wiser until authorities yesterday smashed a 15-member Hamas terror cell.</p>

Psychotic Death Cult Photo Album Hamas member and aspiring suicide terrorist Taher Al-Ja'ara, posing with his mother, superimposed on a background of "paradise". Al-Ja'ara was elevated into martyrdom by Israeli forces on April 22, 2002. He was apparently responsible for the bombing of a bus at Emmanuel in December 2001 that killed 10. The Al-Qassam Brigade, the military wing of Hamas which has murdered and crippled hundreds of innocent people, has a website, at www.qassam.net . Each of the group's "martyr"s has a one page biography and a one page "album" of photographs. Every Al-Qassam member who is killed in...

What would be the response of civil libertarians and leftist academics if a major state-run university decided to mandate that all incoming freshmen students study a commentary on the Bible written by me? You can imagine that the ensuing outcry from the left would be deafening. "A state school cannot force one religion on students of varying faiths, or even students who practice no faith," they would assert. However, a comparable situation is actually happening at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which has gotten a taste of that old-time religion ... of Islam. The university is, in...

JAKARTA, Indonesia, Jul 27, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- A bomb exploded in Indonesia's strife-torn province of Maluku Saturday morning, injuring as many as 27 people and shattering hopes of peace. The explosion occurred around 9 a.m. at a traditional market packed with shoppers in a Christian neighborhood of Ambon, the provincial capital and focus of three years of religious violence that has left 9,000 people dead, witnesses said. Frans, who like many Indonesians uses only one name, said he was inside his house when he heard the explosion. He looked outside to see shards of glass and...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.(AP) - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won't force incoming freshmen to read a book about Islam, but those who don't will have to write a one-page paper about their religious objections to the book. After the threat of a lawsuit, UNC-CH administrators quietly added the disclaimer Wednesday to their Web site about the mandatory reading selection, "Approaching the Qur'n: The Early Revelations." The new option makes the situation worse by requiring objectors to defend their religious beliefs in class, critics said. "Rather than defuse concern about this issue, I think they serve to stoke...