CNS STORY: U.S. nun who started Holocaust seminars gets award from Yad Vashem

 Well, these are good news indeed!!
Catholic nun from Pennsylvania is the first non-Jew and non-Israeli to receive Yad Vashem’s Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education. Sister Gemma del Duca, a Sister of Charity and former chair of the history department at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pa., has been leading seminars for Holocaust education with [...]

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Pakistan: the siege of the Red Mosque (UPDATED: leading cleric captured under burqa)

UPDATE AT THE END.
Pakistan Extends Mosque Deadline; Students Surrender (Update3)
Bloomberg - 42 minutes agoBy Khaleeq Ahmed and Khalid Qayum July 4 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan extended a deadline at Islamabad’s Red Mosque after at least 16 people were killed in gun battles between police and students supporting the chief cleric’s call for Islamic law to be imposed [...]

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Yemen arrests Qaeda-linked suspects after blast

Last news about the Yemen attack:
Reuters.uk – 56 minutes ago
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni authorities have arrested dozens of suspects linked to al Qaeda since Monday’s deadly suicide bombing that killed seven Spanish tourists and two Yemenis, security sources said on Wednesday.
A security official said they were still unsure whether al Qaeda was behind the attack [...]

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7 Doctors Tied to British Plots – ex-Jihadi confess Jihadis laugh at Western blaming on foreign policy

Continuing with the British terrorist plot:
The seven men are physicians, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, while the lone woman, the wife of one, is a laboratory technician. The police are now working to unravel links and prior contacts within this far-flung expatriate medical circle.
For the British public, the prospect [...]

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Happy 4th of July!

For all American readers:

US Marines in Spain’s National Day Parade 2006 [you can see Zapatero at the back looking other way ]

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