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Eyes In The Sky
Cairo/JTA -- Egypt and Iran may be
close to launching spy satellites.
According to a report by
SpaceDaily.com, Cairo's satellite pro-
gram is two years away from comple-
tion, and Israeli experts believe an
Iranian satellite, announced by Tehran
in January, could be ready by 2005.
Israel is the only Middle East country
to have launched satellites both for
reconnaissance and telecommunications
purposes and Jerusalem has lobbied
hard to prevent Western-owned space
companies from selling images of its
military installations to Israel's enemies.
Egyptian and Iranian satellites not
only would open Israeli territory to spy-
ing, but could be used to mask pro-
grams to develop longer-range ballistic
missiles, experts said.
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seen since the attacks in 1995," a refer-
ence to a wave of attacks in France by
Algerian terrorists.
It also called on Muslims "to avoid
large gatherings" while issuing a threat
"to violently and blindly hit the descen-
dants of Charles Martel." Martel held
back Muslim armies in central France
in the year 732, halting Islam's advance
in Europe.
Googling For Jews
New York/JTA —.The No. 1 search
result for "Jew" on Google is an anti-
Semitic Web site.
The second listing is for a "messianic
Jewish" site. The results could be a
"Google bomb" — an organized effort
by a group to grab a top spot on the
search engine, a Google official told j.,
the Jewish news weekly of Northern
California.
ers to Israel. Sixty members of Jewish
Voice for Peace gathered at a San
Francisco-area Caterpillar dealership to
protest the company's sale of bulldozers
to the Israeli army.
The group chose the day to demon-
strate because it was the first anniver-
sary of the death of American activist
_Rachel Corrie in the Gaza Strip.
Corrie, a member of the pro-
Palestinian International Solidarity
Movement, was crushed to death by an
army bulldozer while trying to prevent
Israeli troops from demolishing a
Palestinian house as part of an anti-ter-
rorist operation.
"This is where corporate responsibili-
ty needs to take hold," said Liat
Weingart, co-director of Jewish Voice
for Peace. "Caterpillar is supposed to be
in the business of constructing homes
and working farmland, not destroying
homes, buildings and crops."
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Group Threatens France
Paris/JTA — An Islamic group threat-
ened to carry out terrorist attacks in
France unless a law banning religious
symbols in schools is scrapped.
In a letter to Prime Minister Jean-
Pierre Raffarin, copies of which were
sent to two leading French newspapers,
a group calling itself Commando
Mosvar Barayev said last month's vote,
which includes a ban on Muslim veils,
was "a declaration of war" against the
Muslim world.
Mosvar Barayev, a Chechen terrorist,
was responsible for holding hundreds of
Russian hostages in a Moscow theater
in October 2002. He was killed when
Russian troops stormed the building.
If the law is not scrapped immediate-
ly, the letter said, "we will respond firm-
ly and with a horrendous intensity not
`Publish Mein Kampf'
Gay Marriage Opposed
Berlin/JTA — Hitler's "Mein Kampf"
should be released in Germany, a
prominent Jewish author says.
Novelist Rafael Seligmann said it
would be an "exercise in true to
release the book so German readers
could see for themselves the seeds of
Hitler's plans for exterminating the Jews
and for expanding German dominion
eastward.
The State of Bavaria, which owns the
rights to the book, has banned publica-
tion in Germany and prevented publi-
cation in some other countries, includ-
ing Sweden, Croatia and Turkey.
Washington/JTA — Agudath Israel of
America has urged the Massachusetts
legislature to oppose gay civil mar-
riage.
Agudath said its move came in
response to an ad in the Boston Globe
by some 100 Massachusetts rabbis from
the liberal streams, supporting the state
supreme court's ruling that civil mar-
riage should not be limited to hetero-
sexuals. Moves have surfaced in the leg-
islature to reverse the ruling, which
Agudath said would "destroy" tradition-
al marriage.
"We cannot allow for the mispercep-
tion that same-sex unions are in conso-
nance with the Torah's prescription for
humankind," Agudath said.
`Stop Selling Bulldozers'
New York/JTA — U.S. activists protest-
ed the sale of American-made bulldoz-
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