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<p>Deputies in South Carolina have arrested a suspect who they say killed a puppy by setting the animal on fire in a church parking lot, reports CBS affiliate WLTX.</p> <p>Hykeem Dontavious Jabar Golson, 21, has reportedly been charged with ill treatment of animals, a felony.</p>

Terrorists released in exchange for Gilad Shalit will not be safe on the streets of Hevron, local Jews warned Wednesday. In particular danger, they said, is terrorist Hani Rasami Jabar, a convicted murderer released into Hevron itself, who plans to resume work at his family’s business in the city. Jabar murdered yeshiva student Erez Shmuel in the 1990s. Signs have already appeared in Hevron in Hebrew and Arabic seeking Jabar’s death. A sign in Hebrew carries the warning, “You could be the next one murdered!... If you don’t murder [Jabar] he will murder you,” while a sign in Arabic calls...

Cindy Sheehan, Tom Hayden, and the Hate America Left meet with pro-Ba'athist members of the Iraqi parliament to discuss “peace.” TO FIND PEOPLE WHO HATE AMERICA AS MUCH AS THEY DO, the Fifth Column Left had to go halfway around the world to meet with Iraqi political leaders who call terrorism “honorable national resistance” and say foreign jihadists “are guaranteed Paradise” – and at least one of whom has ties to militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr. By the end of the trip, the American leftists would echo these sentiments. Somehow most of the media – occupied with interminable coverage of Hurricane...

An Indonesian militant has been jailed for 20 years for bombing the home of the Philippines' ambassador in Jakarta three years ago. The judge at the trial said that the man, Abdul Jabar, had conspired with others to blow up a car filled with explosives, killing two people. The ambassador was seriously injured. The Indonesian authorities have blamed the banned Jemaah Islamiah for the attack, which is said to have been in revenge for the oppression of Muslim separatists in the southern Philippines.

SCENES of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shia Muslims expressing their newfound political power on the streets of Iraq’s cities are causing growing concern in Western and Arab capitals. A fortnight after American and British troops deposed Saddam Hussein’s regime, there is a growing consensus that the only credible force to have emerged in the country is the Shia clergy and its followers, many of whom advocate the creation of an Iranian-style Islamic state. “There is real concern,” a senior British official said. “The Iraqi Shia are the only group to have made any real impact so far. There was...