Teen arrested in Oregon car bomb plot led 2 lives

The plot explained by the FBI was horrific: a 19-year-old Somali-born Muslim with a complaint against the West, prepared to kill and maim thousands at a busy Portland Christmas tree illumination ritual.

Except while the FBI describes Mohamed Osman Mohamud as a would-be terrorist, there were few hints of that unseen life to Mohamud's friends, who knew him as "Mo," a quiet, inhabited teen who liked to drink gin and play video games.

The teen who supposedly thought he was going to kill thousands of people the day after Thanksgiving in the name of Islamic extremism is the same one who, three days previous, wrote and read a Kwanzaa verse about unity with two Christian college students.

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Lawmaker blasts asylum offers for Iraqi Christians

A politician called on Iraq's government Tuesday to better keep its dwindling Christian the public and lambasted other nations that have accessible asylum to fleeing Christians as interfering in Iraq's problems.

The comments by Christian politician Younadem Kana, from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, approach after a spate of brutal attacks on Iraqi Christians — including a Catholic Church bombing last month that killed 68 people.

Previous this week, two Christian brothers in Kana's place of origin were terminally shot by indefinite gunmen who raid their auto mechanic shop.

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Afghans protest Quran burning plan, torch US flag

Hundreds of annoyed Afghans burned a U.S. flag and chanted "Death to the Christians" to complaint plans canceled Thursday. By a small American minster to torch copies of the Muslim holy book on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

Spiritual and political leaders across the Muslim world, as well as more than a few U.S. officials, had asked the church to call off the plan, caution it would lead to violence against Americans. Iraq, worried that it will let loose a backlash against all Christians, beefed up security near churches.

International police association Interpol warned its 188 member countries that "there will be tragic penalty" and a "strong likelihood" of aggression if the burning takes place.

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