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residents, including one who complained that the world was treating Muslims "like dogs," bought guns and a grenade and wanted to carry out a terror plot against a New York synagogue, officials said Thursday. One of the alleged homegrown terrorists also expressed interest in bombing the Empire State Building, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. But there was no indication that the plot orchestrated as part of a sting operation ever put New Yorkers in danger and no evidence that the men were affiliated with any terrorist organization. Ahmed Ferhani, a 26-year-old of Algerian descent, and Mohamed Mamdouh, a 20-year-old of Moroccan descent, plotted to bomb a "major synagogue" in Manhattan and bought several weapons and an inert hand grenade from an undercover officer, city officials said in announcing the arrests. Ferhani and Mamdouh were arraigned in Manhattan court Thursday.

They were being held without bail and face life in prison if convicted. Their attorneys said the two denied the charges. "Mr. Ferhani tells me he hasn't committed any crime at all," said lawyer Stephen Pokart. Mamdouh's attorney, Steven Fusfeld, noted that even under the prosecutor's version of the events, which he doesn't think was true, Mamdouh's alleged involvement is less than Ferha-ni's and it wasn't right to treat them both the same.

"My client says he is not guilty of these Summer drives will be shorter or more costly Gas prices may alter some plans calculations based on a 2010 Kb Optima. whkh gets 25. mpg (just under the average of 25.8 mpg for all 2010 cars, according to the Environmental Protection Agency) calculations based on a 2010 Ml 05. which gets 20.2 mpg (the same as (tie average for all 2010 SIM according to EPA) calculations represent a 37.6 percent difference in fuel costs, based on national average price per gallon on May It 2010 and May 11, 201 1 Source: AAA Cincinnati, AAA Fuel Cos Catcuttitof, TheEnquinr i Oil Prtoe Information Service, Enquirer research ing at less expensive places." But Sotiris Avgoustis, chairman of the tourism, conventions and event management department at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis, projects that higher gas prices will shorten the distance of vacation trips this summer. By Mike Boyer mboyerenquirer.com Driving to and from the most popular summer vacation spots will cost local drivers anywhere from $40 to $130 more in gas this year than last.

Will high gas costs discourage locals from taking the trips? Views are mixed as Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of the summer driving Democrats grill oil executives on prices, profits Senators at a hearing Tuesday asked the major producers to justify tax breaks. A4 season, is just two weeks away. "Higher gas prices usually don't have much impact on summer travel plans," said Elaine Zeinner, spokeswoman for AAA of Cincinnati. Requests for AAA TripTiks road guides to the most popular destinations are on par with prior years, she said. "Typically what happens is that travelers look for other ways to save money when gas prices are up," she said.

They look for less expensive places to stay, stay fewer nights, or look for ways to cut back on food by packing meals or eat See TRAVEL, Page A10 See TERROR, Page A10 Freedom Riders' memories, legacy live on 50 years later Parole board recommends clemency for inmate A unanimous Ohio Parole Board told Gov. John Kasich there are too many lingering doubts in the case of Shawn Hawkins, convicted of murder 21 years ago, to warrant next month's execution. CI Bond set at $1M for man accused in officer's death Marcus Anthony Isreal apologized to the family of Sgt. Brian Dulle on Thursday after a judge set his bond at $1 million. Isreal is charged with involuntary manslaughter and failure to comply with a police order in a Tuesday crash that killed Dulle.

LOCAL LIFE, CI white- and black-only waiting rooms. More than 430 nonviolent protesters that summer targeted the failure to enforce a 1946 U.S. Supreme Court decision desegregating interstate buses and trains. Fankhauser and Myers arrived May 24, just 10 days after a white mob torched the first Freedom Riders bus in Anniston, and a week after Ku Klux Wansmen beat Nashville Freedom Riders in Birmingham, Ala. "I was 19 years old and had no By John Kiesewetter jkiesewetterenquirer.com Get down! Don 't let them see you! Those were the first words David Fankhauser heard when two African-American men picked him up in a car 50 years ago at the Montgomery, airport to participate in the Freedom Rides.

Fankhauser and fellow Central State University student David Myers of Wilmington both are white had flown to Alabama to integrate bus stations. 'Freedom Riders' on PBS What: PBS' "Freedom Riders" When: 9 p.m. Monday Where: Channels 48, 54, 16 Clnclnnatl.com: More photos online. Search: photos In May 1961, four months after President John F. Kennedy took office, the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) sent volunteers, mostly college students, of both races to ride Greyhound and Trailways buses to 1 i.irjrSXiTr The Enquirer Amanda Davidson David Fankhauser holds "Breach of Peace, which includes his 1961 mug shot from his arrest with the Freedom Riders.

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