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A Hamas spiritual leader says teaching Palestinian children about the Holocaust amounts to a war crime.

Cleric Younis al-Astal rejects a reported U.N. proposal to include in Gaza's school curriculum information about the Nazi killing of 6 million Jews during World War II: "I do not exaggerate when I say this issue is a war crime," adding that the Holocaust teaching would be "marketing a lie and spreading it."

A senior Israeli official says such statements should make the West think twice about ending its boycott of Hamas.

No Pressure

Former Homeland security chief Tom Ridge says he did not feel pressure from the Bush administration to raise the terror alert level ahead of the 2004 presidential election.

Ridge tells the Erie Times-News that no one pressured him, but rather officials expressed an opinion that ran counter to his: "There was no pressure at all. There was a judgment call on their part and on my part."

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