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The attack came as the bus sat outside Terminal 2 at the airport, according to Frankfurt police spokesman Manfred Fuellhardt. The bus driver and a passenger were killed, and one person suffered serious wounds and another light injuries, he said. A source tells Fox News that the shooter yelled "Allah Akbar" when opening fire on the U.S. military personnel. He then dropped his gun at the scene, ran into the terminal and was subdued. U.S. Air Force Europe spokeswoman Maj. Beverly Mock said all four victims were airmen. They were all based at the Lakenheath military base in Britain. A...

North Miami mayor returns PorscheMayor Andre Pierre says the Porsche he was driving earlier this year was lent to him -- but he never reported the loan and there are conflicting memories of who did the lending. BY NADEGE CHARLES Posted on Sunday, 10.17.10 For a few weeks over the summer, the mayor of North Miami was riding in style on the streets of a city that had been pinched hard by the recession. The dark blue, four-door 2010 Porsche Panamera that sat in Mayor Andre Pierre's city parking spot has a sticker price of $100,000. And if the mayor...

Editors' preface: A noted historian of the Middle East has said the following about the legacy of scholars who devoted their careers to the study of the region: The giants of the recent past tend to be largely forgotten as soon as they are dead if not before, especially if what they have written isn't what is now considered fashionable or central … They are criticized when they are in error, but their achievements are forgotten.[1] While this is largely true in the English-speaking countries, it is not true in France, where a few French "giants" of Islamic and Arab...

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