Angered by the drawings of the Prophet (PBUH), masked Palestinian gunmen briefly took over a European Union office in Gaza on Monday. Islamists in Bahrain urged street demonstrations, while Syria called for the offenders to be punished. A Saudi company paid thousands of dollars for an ad thanking a business that snubbed Danish products.
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Hidden in everything from garbage, to vehicles and even roadkill, the thunderous blasts from concealed explosives have become a hallmark of the Iraq war.
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The Bush administration won support from other would-be Mideast peacemakers Monday in saying a Hamas-led Palestinian government would have to renounce violence and recognize Israel's right to exist in order to receive crucial financial aid. Hamas must accept the rule of law, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said after a meeting among members of the so-called Quartet that has tried to shepherd Israel and the Palestinians back to the peace table.
al-Qaida's deputy leader Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri calls George Bush a butcher and threatens a new attack in the US.
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The newly elected Hamas parliament member Mariam Farahat (Um Nidal Farahat) "We always resort to wisdom rather than coercion in implementing Islamic teachings. All What I said is that I wish to see the Palestinian people abiding by the Islamic law, and the school graduates be nourished with Islamic culture", the MP-elect affirmed.
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British military planners are hoping the deployment of 3,300 new troops to Afghanistan's Helman Province improves reconstruction efforts in the war-ravaged south of that country. Some 1,000 British troops are already in Afghanistan to help the police the capital and hunt out remnants of Al-Qaeda and the former hard-line Taliban regime. This new, three-year deployment is expected to participate directly in Afghan rebuilding. But they are entering difficult territory, with suicide attacks on the rise in southern Afghanistan.
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“They're not happy they're occupied. 
I wouldn't be happy if I were occupied either.” President Bush, April 13, 2004
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Even if they were cleared up, schools would still suck. Why? Because they were designed to.
It's no secret that the US educational system doesn't do a very good job. Like clockwork, studies show that America's schoolkids lag behind their peers in pretty much every industrialized nation. We hear shocking statistics about the percentage of high-school seniors who can't find the US on an unmarked map of the world or who don't know who Abraham Lincoln was.
Fingers are pointed at various aspects of the schooling system—overcrowded classrooms, lack of funding, teachers who can't pass competency exams in their fields, etc. But these are just secondary problems.
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"America has become a rogue nation, flying blind, guided only by ignorance and hubris. A terrible catastrophe awaits."
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