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Sunday, February 16
The Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day event in Rosemont was quite the looker this year, with talks about the role of UFOs in Islam and Minister Louis Farrakhan's prouncements that Middle Eastern style protests are coming to the US and that he and Gadhafi are still pals.