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Today Thursday Friday High: 79 Low: 50 Precip: 0% S u High: 77 Low. 48 Precip: 0% High: 74 Low: 48 Precip: 0% IN BRIEF Supreme Court to hear commandments case WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Tliesday it will consider whether the Ten Commandments may be displayed on government property, ending a 25-year silence on a church-state issue that has prompted bitter legal fights around the country. Ten Commandments displays are common in town squares and courthouses and on other government-owned land, in cluding the Supreme Court. A wall carving of Moses holding the tablets js in the courtroom where justices will hear arguments in the case. Lybia to demilitartize after sanctions are lifted TRIPOLI, Libya -- The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi pro posed a new plan for general reforms in which he said his country will move away from the Middle East and reduce spending on the military. “Libya has decided to separate from the so-called Middle East,” Seif al-Is lam Gadhafi said at the opening ses sion of a Tripoli conference for busi ness leaders from Western countries. Gadhafi said he is proposing a new reform plan that will include major cuts in military expenditure. “There is no need anymore to continue spending on the military field,” he said. “Instead, we will direct such spending to development.” The conference opened a day af ter the European Union ended 12 years of sanctions against Libya and eased an arms embargo to re ward the North African country for giving up efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction. Hussein underwent hernia operation BAGHDAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein underwent an operation to repair a hernia about 10 days ago but has made a full recovery, Iraqi sources said Tues day. The ousted dictator was tak en to the Ibn Sina hospital near the U.S.-controlled Green Zone for the procedure, which was per formed by Iraqi doctors, according to sources close to the Human Rights Ministry. CDC flu plan aims to guard those at risk WASHINGTON — The govern ment moved Tuesday to direct scarce remaining flu shots straight to pediatricians, nursing homes and other places that care for the patients who need them most. But only a fraction of the 22.4 million doses that maker Aventis Pasteur has yet to ship can be diverted to areas with the biggest shortages. And officials acknowledged Tues day that even if planned rationing goes well, there will be high-risk patients who struggle to get shots but can't find them. Students hospitalized after school bus accident CLERMONT-FERRAND, France — Fifteen high school students were hospitalized Tuesday, two in serious condition, after their school bus veered off the road to avoid an oncoming car and over turned in central France, authori ties said. Police were investigating, the bus was carry 20 students. Two were seriously injured, and 13 oth ers, aged between 11 and 15, were under observation in hospitals. Jean-Yves Fraquet, a local official in the Puy-de-Dome region, said the accident could have been worse be cause the bus came to a stop just before a ravine. U.S. steps up attacks before Ramadan BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. troops went on the offensive from the gates of Baghdad to the Syrian bor der TUesday, pounding Sunni in surgent positions from the air and supporting Iraqi soldiers in raids on mosques suspected of harbor ing extremists. 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It also had a photograph that showed him wearing a black robe and a white turban similar to those worn by Shiite clerics. The bearded, heavyset man, his face bruised and dark circles under his eyes, spoke in a shaky voice of ties to a Shiite militia and to a former U.S. military commander in Iraq. Then, he was shown held down on his back, his face covered with a white sheet and his head being cut off. Afterward, the sheet was re moved to show his face. The death was part of an upsurge in decapitations of both foreigners and Iraqis that have swept Iraq since last spring. Insurgents in Iraq have kiunapped more than 150 foreigners in their campaign to drive out coalition forces and hamper reconstruction. Many Iraqis also have been killed on suspicion of cooperating with U.S. led forces in Iraq, but Internet videos of beheadings generally have been of foreigners abducted to pressure foreign governments or companies to stop doing business with the Americans. In the video posted Tuesday, the man, whose accent was Iraqi, said he was a follower of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. He said he “had close relationship with the Sadr army... and relations with political leaders such as (Lt. Gen. Ricardo) Sanchez.” Sanchez was replaced as head of U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq on July 1 by Gen. George Casey. He re mains commander of the Army’s V corps, based in Germany. In Baghdad, an al-Sadr aide, Ab dul Hadi al-Daraji, told The Associ ated Press he couldn’t immediately verify that the cleric belonged to al Sadr’s camp. “I have not heard of him before, but I am contacting other al-Sadr fol lowers,” he said. Al-Daraji condemned those who carry out beheadings, regardless of al-Malki’s affiliation. “These people do not serve Islam. They blemish the reputation of Is lam,” he said. “This is proof that they do not represent resistance to occupa tion, but rather aim at inciting strife. ” The video showed the man saying he worked with an American mili tary officer named Paul, with whom he allegedly established a “Citizens Claims Office” that was used as a cover “to collect and buy weapons from the street, and sell them to the American army. ” A statement purportedly from the Ansar al-Sunnah Army that accom panied the video said al-Malki was killed because “he used the Citizens Claims Office as an underground tun nel — during his work with the American forces — to assassinate a number of Sunni leaders.” The statement was more of a message showing the group’s antag onism toward the Shiite religious sect; the same message was con veyed in an audio tape posted on another Islamic Web site in July by the spiritual adviser of Tawhid and Jihad, Abu Anas al-Shami. 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