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Saturday, March 10, 2007 BRAVE NEW SCHOOLSStudents facing charges of 'desecration of Allah'Hamas, Hezbollah flags used in college Republicans protest Posted: March 10, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Hezbollah flag College Republicans at San Francisco State University desecrated the name of Allah by stepping on makeshift Hezbollah and Hamas flags, charged school officials who brought the students before a hearing yesterday. The trouble began at an Oct. 17 anti-terrorism rally in which the students stepped on butcher paper painted to resemble the flags of the Middle East terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah. The College Republicans say they simply copied the...

"Plans to shut down the senior part of Hermodsdal school in Malmö have prompted the Liberals to request an extra parliamentary debate on the problem of discipline in Swedish schools. "In Malmö a gang of troublemakers has dictated the decision. It's unacceptable," said the Liberal Party's Jan Björklund. The proposal to close the high school with 200 students, which was put forward during the Easter break, was due to "lack of security, vandalism and poor study results". The school has been vandalised several times and in January part of it was damaged in an arson attack." ... "It's the first...

NEW YORK (AP) - Federal agents and city police are keeping tabs on people they say might try to cause trouble at the Republican National Convention, questioning activists, making unannounced visits and monitoring Web sites and meetings. The law enforcement effort has been going on quietly, overshadowed in public by talk of counterterrorism measures planned for the Aug. 30-Sept. 2 event. "We're not engaging in surveillance of groups or individuals without legal predication," said Jim Margolin, spokesman for the New York office of the FBI. Ann Roman, a spokeswoman for the Secret Service, said agents expect to respond to an...

SAN'A, Yemen - Yemen is willing to send peacekeeping soldiers to Iraq and Sudan but only with a U.N. Security Council mandate, Foreign Ministry officials said Friday. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that Yemen was discussing plans to send forces to Iraq. But any deployment would have to have U.N. backing and the forces would have to be under the control of the world body, the officials said. Yemen also is considering sending forces to the African nation of Sudan to operate in a similar peacekeeping capacity and under U.N. authority, the officials said....

In ever increasing numbers, gun owners in this country have, by their actions, said to government: You are my master, all rights flow from you, I bow down before you and will beg, no, even pay for your permission to have my firearms. I have watched this occur here in my home state of New Mexico since January of this year, although it has been happening in many other states over the past decade or so.Let me draw an analogy for you, if I may. Let’s say robbers beset your town. They are becoming more and more brazen in...