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New Yorkers Wage Jihad Vs. WTC Mosque – New York Post
Angry relatives of 9/11 victims last night clashed with supporters of a planned mosque near Ground Zero at a raucous community-board hearing in Manhattan.
After four hours of public debate, members of Community Board 1 finally voted 29-1 in support of the project. Nine members abstained, arguing that they wanted to table the issue and vote at a later date.
The board has no official say over whether the estimated $100 million mosque and community center gets built. But the panel’s support, or lack of it, is considered important in influencing public opinion.
Holding up photos of loved ones killed in the Twin Towers and carrying signs such as, “Honor 3,000, 9/11 – No mosque!” opponents of the proposed Cordoba House on Park Place called the plan an insult to the terror-attack victims.
“That is a burial ground,” said retired FDNY Deputy Chief Al Santora, referring to the fact that victims’ remains were scattered for blocks.
Santora’s 23-year-old son, Christopher, was the youngest firefighter to die that day.
“I do have a problem with having a mosque on top of the site where [terrorists] can gloat about what they did,” said Santora, with his wife, Maureen, by his side.
About 150 people attended the emotional Greenwich Street meeting, were some shouted down others as they took their turns.
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the head of the Cordoba Institute, which is in charge of the project, insisted that the site would help “bridge the great divide” between Muslims and the rest of America.
“We are Americans, we are Muslim Americans,” Rauf said. “Many of us were born in the United States. We have no higher aspirations than to bring up our children in peace and harmony in this country.”
But the crowd got ugly when he added, “Freedom of assembly is the right of all Americans.”
Amid boos, one woman shouted, “Not at the World Trade Center!”
Rauf’s wife, Daisy Khan, followed him to the microphone to pitched the planned community facility as “much needed party space and much needed venue space” for the area. She was roundly booed.
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5 Years In Prison For Former Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick – CSM
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced to up to five years in prison Tuesday for violating the terms of his probation stemming from his conviction for lying under oath about an affair.
Kilpatrick, 39, asked Judge David Groner to show him compassion during the hearing, but Groner said “that ship has sailed.” Groner said Kilpatrick would have to serve at least one-and-a-half years in prison.
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At Least 60 Dead In Jamaican Slum Standoff – Daily Mail
At least 60 people have died in Jamaica in a battle between police and a drug gang after police stormed the stronghold of a powerful druglord wanted by the U.S.
Thousands of police assaulted the Kingston council estate occupied by heavily armed gangsters as a three-day slum standoff over Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke exploded into violence.
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Obama Names Rationing Czar To Run Medicare – CNS
Dr. Donald Berwick of the Harvard Medical School does not like free enterprise, but he does like rationing. Two years ago he delivered a talk celebrating the 60th birthday of Britain’s National Health Service.
He apparently entertained some fear that day that Great Britain might turn back to free enterprise. So, in his address he offered British socialists some words of advice.
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Mystery Suicide Trend Claims 10th Victim In South China Factory – Times Of India
The combined might of police sleuths and mantra chanting Buddhist monks have failed to check the stream of 10 suicides that have taken place at an iPhone component making factory in South China.
Tuesday morning saw another worker jumping to death from a tall building at the factory in Shenzhen city. Two of the suicide deaths happened to female workers. Only one of them has left behind a suicide note.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis Home For Good – Fox News
Barring an incredibly unlikely space ship rescue of stranded astronauts during Space Shuttle Endeavor’s final mission – ever – in November, the Space Shuttle Atlantis will never launch again.
At 8:48am EDT, Atlants, commanded by Ken Ham and piloted by “Tony” Antonelli, dropped from orbit safely and glided back to earth, landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Australian Baby Lives After Stroller Hit By Train – Yahoo News
A 15-month-old boy escaped with just a few cuts and bruises on Wednesday after a train struck his stroller, which rolled onto the tracks when his grandmother looked away for just a moment.
The dramatic escape came just seven months after another baby in the southern city of Melbourne survived a train striking his stroller, which also had rolled onto the tracks.
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O’Keefe, 3 Others Plead Guilty In Landrieu Caper – KLFY
Four conservative activists accused of trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu”s office pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of entering federal property under false pretenses.
James O’Keefe, famous for wearing a pimp costume in a video that embarrassed the ACORN community organizing group, received the heaviest sentence: 3 years probation, a $1,500 fine and 100 hours of community service.
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IG Report: Meth, Porn Use By Drilling Agency Staff – News Max
Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events and other gifts from oil and gas companies, and used government computers to view pornography.
In at least one case, an inspector for the Minerals Management Service admitted using crystal methamphetamine and said he might have been under the influence of the drug the next day at work
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Man Pleads Guilty To Vomit Attack At Phillies Game – WCBS
A 21-year-old New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to intentionally vomiting on a man and his 11-year-old daughter in the stands during a Philadelphia Phillies game.
Police say Matthew Clemmens stuck his fingers down his throat and vomited on Easton police Captain Michael Vangelo and his daughter during an April 14 Phillies game after his companion was ejected from the park.
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Swedish Court Convicts Dead Man For Assault – The Local
A Swedish appeals court convicted a man in absentia of assault in April. The man’s absence turned out to be due to his untimely death a month previously and the prosecutor has now called on the court to re-open the case.
The man was tried on charges assault in Stockholm district court on May 27th 2009. While the court found him not guilty the prosecutor elected to appeal the case.
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Pink Hitler Ad Causes Outrage – Stuff
An ad for a clothing shop featuring a pink-clad Adolf Hitler has outraged citizens in Sicily and led World War 2 resistance fighters to ask that it be taken down.
The resistance fighters said in a statement posted on their website that the poster “offends those who fought to defeat Nazi-Fascism”. Citizens wrote to the Italian president to express their indignation, according to reports.
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Walmart Employee Foils Shoplifter, Loses Job – AZ Central
Heather Ravenstein tried to save Walmart some money Friday by foiling a shoplifter’s plan to steal a $600 computer, but it cost her her job. “I’m a single mom, and I don’t know what I’m going to do,” says Ravenstein.
Friday night at around 10:20, she was standing near some registers when she saw a man with a computer coming up the main walkway of the store.
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