Originally Posted: 09 Sep 2008 06:31 AM CDT Via INN: Paris’s mayor is being asked to protect the city’s Jews following an attack on three Bnei Akiva Jewish youth group counselors Saturday on a street in Paris’ 19th District, in the city’s northeast end. The youths were outside a Bnei Akiva branch, and were about to go on an activity sponsored by the Bnei Akiva youth movement and the Jewish Agency. According to Rafi Zaush, who represents both organizations: “The attackers threw chestnuts at the boys. One of the boys asked: ‘Why are you attacking us?’ The attackers answered with
Read More +Via TimesOnline and CNN: A picture of a Taliban fighter in the uniform of a dead French soldier drew anger in France Wednesday as the army came under new fire over its conduct in an ambush that killed ten paratroopers in Afghanistan last month. Paris Match magazine was condemned by politicians, the military and soldiers’ families for publishing a spread of Taliban posing with their French trophies from the battle, east of Kabul, on August 18. These included Famas assault rifles, helmets, body armor, walkie-talkies and a wristwatch that the Taliban asked the magazine to return to the family of
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