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Kidnappers of Journalist Jill Carroll Set New Deadline

KUWAIT CITY – The Iraqi kidnappers of American journalist Jill Carroll have set a Feb. 26 deadline for their demands to be met or they will kill her, the owner of Kuwait’s Al-Rai television said Friday. People close to the kidnappers told the private TV channel earlier Friday that Carroll …

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Ice Cream Shop Owner Gets 15 Years for Funding Terror

NEW YORK – An ice cream shop owner from Yemen was sentenced to 15 1/2 years in prison Friday for illegally funneling nearly $22 million overseas in a case stemming from a major terrorism investigation. Abad Elfgeeh, 51, was convicted last year of running an illegal money-transmitting business and structuring …

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Flag Fracas, Mural Madness

The mayor of a town in Massachusetts who flew the Danish flag outside town hall as a sign of solidarity with his besieged Scandinavian brothers is now being accused of being insensitive and inflaming Muslim passions, according to the Boston Globe. Town Manager Mark Stankiewicz of Stoughton, Mass. was so …

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