Boy Scout saves president!!!

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A 15-year-old Boy Scout in the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean, is being hailed as a national hero after defending the nation's President from a would-be assassin. On January 8, Mohammed Jaisham Ibrahim and several members of his scout troop were in the crowd waiting to greet President Maumoon Gayoom as he arrived on Hoarafushi, one of the Maldive islands. Mohammed says the attacker was behind him. "He pushed me and I pushed him back;" he said. "Then I saw him take out the knife. It was wrapped...

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