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September 11 has poisoned the atmosphere of the world ... People don't trust to Muslim world, at the same time Muslims do not trust Christians anymore.
The Second World War is receding into history: in 2010, will celebrate the 65 anniversary of the surrender of Germany. More recent events are much more interesting. Remember the fall of Berlin Wall? It has been 20 years since that happened. But the biggest tragedy is 9/11. September 11 attacks that occurred nine years ago and have become the greatest catastrophe since the war.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's retailers are reporting signs of life in December sales figures that show modest holiday gains. Several are raising profit outlooks because they didn't have to resort to drastic price-cutting because of lean inventories.

As merchants report results Thursday, warehouse club operator Costco Wholesale Corp., The Buckle and Children's Place Retail Stores Inc. are reporting gains.
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Saint Louis, Missouri - A gunman stormed a power company's office on Thursday, shooting at least three people and killing one.
Police officers were dispatched after reports of a shooting spree at a busy factory near the centre of the city, and an interstate highway was shut down amid a hunt for a suspect vehicle.
"We have reports of at least three people shot," a police spokeswoman said, adding that the shooter was still at large.
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Miami - A Florida airline passenger who witnesses say proclaimed "I want to kill all the Jews" before police forced him off a Detroit-bound plane has been arrested.

Miami-Dade police said in a statement on Thursday that 43-year-old Mansor Mohammad Asad of Toledo, Ohio, faces several charges including disorderly conduct.
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Washington - The police were searching on Thursday for two adolescent girls suspected of robbing a bank in the north-eastern state of Ohio.

The girls, one believed to be between the ages of 14 and 16 and the other a couple of years younger, pulled off the unarmed heist on Tuesday at a bank in a suburb of Cincinnati.

The police said the juvenile suspects, wearing hooded sweatshirts that partly concealed their faces, had passed a note to a teller demanding money and had left with an unspecified amount of cash, in a robbery recorded by the bank's video camera.
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Children from rich Muslim families become Jihad fighters. The phenomenon was born in Europe and came to America, wrote Maurizio Molinari in his article in La Stampa. Nigerian kamikaze Umar Farooq Abdulmutallab was born in a happy, rich family it makes American experts on terrorism think on how to fight with "radicalization of the Muslim middle class". WHat happened in Detroit refuted the myth that the terrorists are children from poor families. ...