FRENCH OFFICIAL FIRED FOR ANTI-ISRAEL DIATRIBE

French Official Sacked for Anti-Israeli Diatribe (AFP)
A French senior civil servant has been sacked for publishing a violent anti-Israeli diatribe on a web site. Bruno Guigue, deputy prefect of Saintes, wrote in an online column this month that Israel was "the only state where snipers shoot down little girls outside their school gates."  Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie dismissed the official after learning of the column.