One of the top defenders in the NBA had the word \”defense\” inscribed in his hair in Hebrew, as well as in Japanese and Hindi.\n\nRon Artest, a forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, dyed his hair blonde and had the word \”haganah\” shaved and then dyed in purple in his hair to match the team\’s colors for Sunday\’s game against the Orlando Magic in Florida.\n
A senior operative of the al-Qaida terrorist organization called on U.S. Muslims to take up arms against America.\n\nAl-Qaida spokesman Adam Gadahn, who was born Adam Pearlstein and is now known as Adam Yahiye Gadahn, in a video released Sunday on Islamist Web sites also called on Muslims in the U.S. military to emulate the Fort Hood shooter. Nidal Malik Hasan killed 13 soldiers and civilians, and injured 30 during a shooting spree at the Army base last November.
The body of a Jewish man from Canada reportedly was pulled from the rubble of the Haiti earthquake.\n\nA body carrying the passport of Alexander Shmuel Bitton was taken out of the Montana Hotel in Port-au-Prince by Israeli rescue volunteers from ZAKA nearly two months after a devastating quake hit the Caribbean nation, the Jewish Chronicle reported.\n
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