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• Some Muslims fear backlash after Fort Hood shooting (Reuters)
• Correction: Black Muslims story (AP)
• 'Islam not responsible' for Fort Hood massacre: US imam (AFP)
• US grieves after Muslim doctor kills 13 on army base (AFP)
• Fort Hood suspect said his goodbyes before rampage (AP)
• Muslim groups fear backlash after Fort Hood shooting (AFP)
• G20 officials to wrestle over economic imbalances (AP)
• Teen charged with killing nun in NM (AP)

Some Muslims fear backlash after Fort Hood shooting (Reuters) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:08 PM PST Reuters - Arab and Muslim Americans on Friday braced for the possibility of verbal or physical attacks after an Army psychiatrist of Arab descent allegedly killed 13 during a shooting rampage at a military base in Texas.

Correction: Black Muslims story (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:07 PM PST AP - In an Oct. 30 story about African-American Muslims, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a 2007 Pew survey estimated that 35 percent of the nation's Muslims were African-American. The survey estimated that 20 percent were African-American.

'Islam not responsible' for Fort Hood massacre: US imam (AFP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 12:37 PM PST AFP - Islam is "not responsible" for the bloodbath at an army base in Texas where Muslim-American army Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly gunned down 13 people, the prayer leader at the mosque where the officer regularly worshipped said Friday.

US grieves after Muslim doctor kills 13 on army base (AFP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 12:31 PM PST AFP - US President Barack Obama led his nation in mourning Friday as shocked Americans struggled to understand why a Muslim army doctor unleashed a massacre at a US military base, killing 13.

Fort Hood suspect said his goodbyes before rampage (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 03:33 PM PST AP - As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship — common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. Instead, authorities say, he went on the killing spree that left 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, dead.

Muslim groups fear backlash after Fort Hood shooting (AFP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 07:20 AM PST AFP - Fearing that a gunman who killed 13 people at a military facility in Texas may have been Muslim, US Islamic groups braced themselves for a public backlash against the faith on Thursday.

G20 officials to wrestle over economic imbalances (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 02:10 AM PST AP - Finance ministers from the world's leading rich and developing countries are gathering here Friday to begin the difficult negotiations over how to even out the imbalances weighing on the world economy.

Teen charged with killing nun in NM (AP) Posted: 06 Nov 2009 03:52 PM PST AP - A teenager was charged Friday with killing a nun after allegedly breaking into her trailer home on the Navajo Indian reservation in search of cash or valuable items.

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