Sidelights.(France Senate raises marriage age for women)(Washington D.C.'s anti-terror funds spending)(violent anti-Semitic acts in France)

Washington, D.C. city officials have failed to spend $120 million of the $145 million in federal anti-terror funds allocated to the city after 9/11.

* Over 20 percent of the world's oil is controlled by states that sponsor terrorism or are under economic sanctions from the U.S. or the U.N. * Parliament Coach Corporation of Florida is manufacturing luxury RVs to protect occupants from dirty bombs or chemical and biological warfare. The vehicles will cost between $1.3 and 2 million. * The French Human Rights Commission found a record number of violent anti-Semitic acts in France last year. The 970 attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions in 2004 led the commission's leader, Gerard Fellous, to say that anti-Semitism "has now become constant."

* In an attempt to stem the rising number of forced marriages in France, the French senate voted unanimously to raise the legal marriage age for women from 15 to 18. According to senator Joelle Garriaud-Maylam, up to 70,000 young women in France may be in forced marriages. That number is tied to the nation's growing Muslim population. ... Hatin Surucu, a 23-year-old Turkish woman living in Berlin, was shot by her brothers in the city's latest Muslim "honor killing." She was apparently murdered for divorcing her Turkish husband and adopting a Western lifestyle. In recent months, at least five other Turkish Muslim women were killed in Germany by husbands, boyfriends or brothers. * A poll by the Center for Opinion Survey and Consultancy found that 87 percent of Saudis favor participation of women in the next elections. * At least a dozen Iraqi barbers have been killed by Islamic terrorists this year. Barbers are targeted because they shave beards or cut hair in Western styles. * Americans spend 6 percent of their income on food; in 1950 it was 17 percent. * The average American donates $1,600 a year to charity, reports Money magazine.

Officials at the University of Michigan are offering students $100 to clean up their dorm rooms. * Native American casinos made over $18 billion in 2004, almost double the amount of the state budget of Nevada. There are more ...