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80% of 'Palestinians' in fear under Hamas reign of terror Jerusalem Newswire, Israel - Palestinian Arabs 80% of 'Palestinians' in fear under Hamas reign of terror January 22, 2007 Palestinian Arab society is harvesting the fruits of the violence it has agreed to live with for decades. A new poll shows that 80 percent of these Arabs who live in areas under control of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority fear for their personal safety. Seventy-six percent believe their security situation is worse under Hamas than it was when the PLO's Fatah faction held a majority in the PA. Hamas was handed...

FREDDIE MAC, STANDARD FEDERAL BANK ANNOUNCE NEW ISLAMIC HOME FINANCING INITIATIVE FOR MICHIGAN FAMILIES Freddie Mac’s Summer of Homeownership to Help More Observant Muslims McLean, VA - Freddie Mac announced today a new initiative designed to help Muslims living in Michigan become homeowners while observing traditional Islamic restrictions on paying interest on mortgages and other types of debt. Developed with Standard Federal Bank and Detroit-based United Mortgage of America, the new initiative enables prospective homeowners to enter into long-term lease-purchase arrangements that permit them to later sell the house and profit from any home price appreciation. Freddie Mac has agreed...

<p>Just saw this on New York channel 4. Woo Hoo! Impending lawsuit forcing him out. Something like that. details to follow.</p>

The Starr-O'Connor legacy Posted: August 4, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Sometimes Republicans do more harm to America than Democrats ever could by themselves. Kenneth Starr and Sandra Day O'Connor are two prime examples. Starr is best known as the independent counsel who investigated Bill Clinton's crimes as president. As such, he set himself up as a foil for Democrats – a kind of pit bull who would stop at nothing to bring Clinton to justice. The truth? He was either the most incompetent prosecutor in the history of the country or complicit in the cover-up of those...

July 17, 2003, 9:55 a.m.Get ReadyAcquittals loom in the Inglewood cop trial. Will trouble follow? LOS ANGELES — Do you hear that? If you listen closely, you can hear the faint, far-off sounds of the No Justice, No Peace Hallelujah Chorus practicing their scales and limbering up the old vocal chords. That's right, soprano Maxine Waters, baritone Al Sharpton, bass Jesse Jackson, and all their assembled multitudes may soon be, as is their wont, raising a ruckus. Though the story has been largely eclipsed by other events in the national media, the two Inglewood, Calif. police officers indicted in...

A YEAR ago today, Regis Demeester voted for Jean-Marie Le Pen, the National Front candidate, in the first round of the French presidential election. “I’m a racist and I can’t stand all the immigrants who live around here,” M Demeester said as he sat in his allotment garden on the outskirts of Dunkirk, northern France, this weekend. “If I voted for the National Front, it was to scare them.” Yet it was not just the ethnic minorities who were scared by the extreme right-wing party’s success on April 21, 2002. With M Le Pen beating Lionel Jospin, the Socialist Prime...