Evil

So, I have a short story.  One day at college, I was talking to my Humanities teacher - Dr. Robert Sullivan.  And for whatever dimwit reason, I decided to tell him about a book I had read - The Amityville Horror.  For me it was the scariest thing I had ever read, and I knew he was an academic and very philosophical ... he never exhibited any degree of interest in anything so ... purely emotional.  He taught us about Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, and was by no means overly demonstrative except when it came to being rational or critical of ideas.  He was also a former priest who married a former nun and together they had ten children.  He spent decades teaching philosophy at the college and passed away in 2007.  Anyway, so I was telling him about this book and as it all vomited forth, my first reaction was - OMG, he is going to think I am a whack job (partly because listening to the words I was spewing forth - I thought I was a nut job).

 Instead he said to me - if you had seen the things I saw in [South America] (I don't recall now if it was Bolivia or Peru), you'd believe in the evil you've just described ... and it was even worse than the book, I read the book. 

He walked into his office, picked up some books and said we had to get to class.  That was the last time we ever discussed that.

He explained that he had been a priest in South America for years, and during that time, what he experienced and saw made him a believer, not only in what he preached, but in the deep and dark parts so often marginalized as too theatrical today - the evil that lurks and possesses men.  Just because we do not come face to face with the evil everyday, doesn't mean it or worse, isn't there.  We are just fortunate, as of that moment, to have not experienced that evil.

A few days ago I was reading an article/interview with Father Gary Thomas from the Diocese of San Jose, California.  He is one of 14 mandated, trained exorcists in the United States.  One of the last statements he made in the interview caught my attention (interview had been on evil / Satan / exorcists):

 "There’s lots of people in our culture that think it’s all make-believe. If people saw what I saw, they’d be at church every single week.”  


Two men, many years apart, one a former priest turned PhD; the other a mandated exorcist for the Catholic Church, one from Arizona and wherever it was in South America, the other up in San Jose and wherever it is he has been.  Both men said the same thing.

Austria: Serious Problems

Memories of Fritzl.  It is just ... unspeakable.  How.  A culture so closed off that it could enable people like this.  Neighbors so oblivious.  A community devoid of community.  Family and friends ... absent.  I don't understand.

The fact Fritzl received life in prison.  Not enough.  This guy, should fall head first into a trash truck, or perhaps he should be thrown into a 4x4x50 ft deep hole.

More claims of Austrian incest and incarceration

25/08 23:24 CET
Euronews



Austrian police have arrested an 85-year-old man suspected of imprisoning and sexually abusing his two daughters for more than 40 years.

Police say both women, now aged 53 and 45, suffer psychiatric problems.

Investigators claim he kept his daughters locked in a small kitchen with only a narrow wooden bench to sleep on. They say he beat them systematically at the house in the village of St Peter am Hart from 1970 until May of this year.

Police chief Martin Plumberger said: ‘The family always lived in seclusion. The mother and the daughters never said anything probably because of physical and emotional pressure from the father.’

There are echoes of two similar Austrian cases in recent years; Josef Fritzl, who was jailed for life after fathering seven children with his incarcerated daughter, and schoolgirl Natascha Kampusch who was imprisoned for eight years in a basement.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Stephen Harper: A Man Who Gets It.

National Post
November 9, 2010


‘MORALLY OBLIGATED TO TAKE A STAND’


The following is excerpted from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech on Parliament Hill yesterday to a gathering of international parliamentarians and experts on combatting anti-Semitism.

Two weeks ago I visited Ukraine for the first time. At the killing grounds of Babyn Yar, I knew I was standing in a place where evil — evil at its most cruel, obscene and grotesque — had been unleashed. But while evil of this magnitude may be unfathomable, it is nonetheless a fact.


It is a fact of history. And it is a fact of our nature — that humans can choose to be inhuman. This is the paradox of freedom. That awesome power, that grave responsibility — to choose between good and evil.

Let us not forget that even in the darkest hours of the Holocaust, men were free to choose good. And some did. That is the eternal witness of the Righteous Among the Nations.

And let us not forget that even now, there are those who would choose evil, and would launch another Holocaust, if left unchecked. That is the challenge before us today.

In response to this resurgence of moral ambivalence on these issues, we must speak clearly. Remembering the Holocaust is not merely an act of historical recognition. It must also be an understanding and an undertaking. An understanding that the same threats exist today. And an undertaking of a solemn responsibility to fight those threats. Jews today in many parts of the world and many different settings are increasingly subjected to vandalism, threats, slurs, and just plain, old-fashioned lies.

Let me draw your attention to some particularly disturbing trends.

Anti-Semitism has gained a place at our universities, where at times it is not the mob who are removed, but the Jewish students under attack. And, under the shadow of a hateful ideology with global ambitions, one which targets the Jewish homeland as a scapegoat, Jews are savagely attacked around the world — such as, most appallingly, in Mumbai in 2008.

We have seen all this before. And we have no excuse to be complacent. In fact we have a duty to take action. And for all of us, that starts at home.

In Canada, we have taken a number of steps to assess and combat anti-Semitism in our own country. But, of course, we must also combat anti-Semitism beyond our borders — an evolving, global phenomenon. And we must recognize that while its substance is as crude as ever, its method is now more sophisticated.

Harnessing disparate anti-Semitic, anti-American and anti-Western ideologies, it targets the Jewish people by targeting the Jewish homeland, Israel, as the source of injustice and conflict in the world, and uses, perversely, the language of human rights to do so.

We must be relentless in exposing this new anti-Semitism for what it is. Of course, like any country, Israel may be subjected to fair criticism. And like any free country, Israel subjects itself to such criticism — healthy, necessary, democratic debate. But when Israel, the only country in the world whose very existence is under attack — is consistently and conspicuously singled out for condemnation, I believe we are morally obligated to take a stand. Demonization, double standards, delegitimization, the 3 Ds, it is a responsibility, to stand up to them.

And I know, by the way, because I have the bruises to show for it, that whether it is at the United Nations, or any other international forum, the easy thing to do is simply to just get along and go along with this anti-Israeli rhetoric, to pretend it is just being even-handed, and to excuse oneself with the label of “honest broker.” There are, after all, a lot more votes, a lot more, in being anti-Israeli than in taking a stand. But, as long as I am Prime Minister, whether it is at the UN or the Francophonie or anywhere else, Canada will take that stand, whatever the cost. Not just because it is the right thing to do, but because history shows us, and the ideology of the anti-Israeli mob tells us all too well, that those who threaten the existence of the Jewish people are, in the longer term, a threat to all of us.

Earlier I noted the paradox of freedom. It is freedom that makes us human. Whether it leads to heroism or depravity depends on how we use it.

We are free citizens, but also the elected representatives of free peoples. We have a solemn duty to defend the vulnerable, to challenge the aggressor, to protect and promote human dignity, at home and abroad. None of us knows whether we would choose to do good, in the extreme circumstances of the righteous. But we do know there are those today who would choose to do evil, if they are so permitted.…

Our work together is a sign of hope, just as the existence and persistence of the Jewish homeland is a sign of hope. And it is here that history serves not to warn but to inspire.

As I said on the 60th anniversary of its founding, the State of Israel appeared as a light, in a world emerging from deep darkness. Against all odds, that light has not been extinguished. It burns bright, upheld by the universal principles of all civilized nations — freedom, democracy, justice.

By working together more closely in the family of civilized nations, we affirm and strengthen those principles. And we declare our faith in humanity’s future, in the power of good over evil.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Culture: We are all the same, don't judge.

The virtues of other cultures.  Naturally every culture is equal.



Albino girl, 11, killed and beheaded in Swaziland ’for witchcraft’




An 11-year-old albino girl from Swaziland was shot dead in front of her friends and then beheaded in what police believe was a ritual murder.


By Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg
The Telegraph
20 Aug 2010

The child had been washing clothes and bathing at a river with friends and was returning home when she was grabbed by a man wearing a balaclava.












Swaziland


As her friends looked on, the man shot her in the back before dragging her away. Her headless body was found upriver a short time later.

[There are evil men everywhere, so don't pick on Swaziland.]

The murder is the latest in a series of albino killings in Sub-Saharan Africa, where sufferers of the rare skin pigmentation condition are concentrated.


Earlier this year, another 11-year-old albino child was killed close to the same spot in Swaziland and her hand was removed.

Police believe both children may have been targeted because of a belief by witch doctors that the blood and body parts of albinos - who lack pigment in their eyes, hair and skin - can bring good luck and fortune when used in potions.

Their value for black magic practitioners sees them often fall prey to human traffickers, one of whom was jailed for 17 years in Tanzania this week for abducting and attempting to sell a live albino man.

The girl murdered in Swaziland was named locally as Banele Nxumalo. A man identified as her father, Luke Nxumalo, told The Times of Swaziland that his late uncle had also been an albino.

“What happened to my child is very painful. I wonder why albinos are targeted because they are just humans like us and a gift from God,” he said.

Bad People who Deserve Justice

One drawback to not watching the news and reading very little of the mainstream media drivel, is you miss bits like this story, which may or may not have been reported.

I find nothing useful about this person and if the allegations are true, he is one of the truly deserving who has no right to live among civilized people.   He is a waste, a human flaw, and Darwin needs to correct a few mistakes.  While Epstein is the biggest flaw, there were others who aided and supported, who benefited and knew and who should suffer the same Darwinian fate.

About anyone else, a thug, a burglar, a thief ... fine, jail - and don't harm them.  But someone who harms a child and does so with impunity, and worse - does so flagrantly ... vile and evil are two words that come to mind.








Billionaire Pedophile Goes Free



Conchita Sarnoff
Wed Jul 21, 2010
The Daily Beast


NEW YORK – Hedge fund mogul Jeffrey Epstein becomes a free man today, five years after he was first accused of sexually abusing underage girls. After months of reporting, The Daily Beast’s Conchita Sarnoff reveals exclusive details of the investigation and the legal wrangling that saved him from a long prison term. She reports:


• Palm Beach’s police chief objected to Epstein’s “special treatment” and gave The Daily Beast an exclusive look at his nine-hour deposition about the investigation.

• Earlier versions of the U.S attorney’s charges, including a sealed 53-page indictment, could have landed Epstein in prison for 20 years.

• Victims alleged that Epstein molested underage girls from South America, Europe, and the former Soviet republics, including three 12-year-old girls brought over from France as a birthday gift.

• The victims also alleged trips out of state and abroad on Epstein’s private jets, which would be evidence of sex trafficking—a much more serious federal crime than the state charges Epstein was convicted of.

• Epstein’s attorneys investigated members of the Palm Beach Police Department, while others ordered private investigators to follow and intimidate the victims’ families; one even posed as a police officer.

• Then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told The Daily Beast that he “would have instructed the Justice Department to pursue justice without making a political mess.”


Film director Roman Polanski is not the only convicted pedophile to walk free this month and return to a life of privilege. On Wednesday, hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein completes his one-year house arrest in Palm Beach, which has been even less arduous than Polanski’s time at a Swiss ski chalet.

During Epstein’s term of “house arrest,” he made several trips each month to his New York home and his private Caribbean island. In the earlier stage of his sentence for soliciting prostitution with a minor—13 months in the Palm Beach Stockade—he was allowed out to his office each day. Meanwhile, Epstein has settled more than a dozen lawsuits brought by the underage girls who were recruited to perform “massages” at his Palm Beach mansion. Seven victims reached a last-minute deal last week, days before a scheduled trial; each received well over $1 million—an amount that will hardly dent Epstein’s $2 billion net worth.

With that, the known victims of Epstein’s sexual compulsion have been officially silenced, and the case against him is closed unless new ones come forward. According to banking sources, he has been moving assets out of the U.S. and may well follow Polanski into a luxurious exile.

But the question remains: Did Epstein’s wealth and social connections—former President Bill Clinton; Prince Andrew; former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers were just a few of the prominent passengers on his private jets—allow him to receive only a slap on the wrist for crimes that carry a mandatory 20-year sentence? Was he able, with his limitless assets and heavy-hitting lawyers—Alan Dershowitz, Gerald Lefcourt, Roy Black, Kenneth Starr, Guy Lewis, and Martin Weinberger among them—to escape equal justice?

Michael Reiter, the former Palm Beach police chief, certainly thinks so. He gave The Daily Beast exclusive access to the transcript of his nine-hour deposition for the victims’ civil suits, in which he explained how the case against Epstein was minimized by the State Attorney’s Office, then bargained down by the U.S. Department of Justice, all in an atmosphere of hardball legal tactics and social pressures so intense that Reiter became estranged from several colleagues. At the time, Reiter, who retired in 2009 and now runs his own security firm, objected both to Epstein’s plea agreement and to the flexible terms of his incarceration in the county jail rather than state prison. Asked during the deposition whether he thought Epstein received special treatment, he answered “yes.”

In March 2005, Reiter’s department, acting on a complaint from the Florida parents of a 14-year-old girl, launched an investigation that would eventually uncover a pattern of predatory behavior stretching back years and spanning several continents, knowingly enabled by Epstein’s associates and employees. Two or three times a day, whenever Epstein was in Palm Beach, a teenage girl would be brought to the mansion on El Brillo Way. (“The younger the better,” he instructed Haley Robson, a local teenager who was paid to bring other girls to the house, and who declared, on a police tape, that she was “like a Heidi Fleiss,” the infamous California madam.) Advised that she would be giving a “massage,” the girl was then pressured to remove her clothes, submit to fondling and a large vibrator, and sometimes lured into more invasive sexual contact. Each girl was paid $200 or more, depending on how far things went, by house manager Alfredo Rodriguez, who was instructed always to have $2,000 cash on hand.

The Palm Beach Police Department identified 17 local girls who had contact with Epstein before the age of consent; the youngest was 14, and many were younger than 16. And that was just at one of Epstein’s many homes around the world—he also owns property in New York, Santa Fe, Paris, London, and the Caribbean. Subsequent investigation by the FBI, reaching as far back as 2001, indentified roughly 40 victims, not counting Nadia Marcinkova, whom Epstein referred to as his “Yugoslavian sex slave” because he had imported her from the Balkans at age 14. Now 24, Marcinkova became a member of the household and is alleged to have participated in the sexual contact with underage girls.

Epstein quickly got wind of the investigation, and progress on the case got messy very quickly. He hired a squad of lawyers and private investigators and dispatched influential friends to pressure the police into backing off. Instead, local detectives pressed on and brought the matter to the attention of the FBI. The detectives asked their federal colleagues whether the fact that some victims appeared to have traveled out of state on Epstein’s planes—plus the use of interstate phone service to arrange assignations—might be violations of the federal 2000 Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which carries a minimum sentence of 20 years. (Florida enacted the federal TVPA in 2002.)

So when State Attorney Barry Krischer, who also ran Florida’s Crimes Against Children Unit, proved reluctant to mount a vigorous prosecution of Epstein, saying the local victims were not credible witnesses, Chief Reiter wrote the attorney a letter complaining of the state’s “highly unusual” conduct and asking him to remove himself from the case. He did not, and the evidence his office presented to a state grand jury produced only a single count of soliciting prostitution. (Krischer has since retired and would not comment for this article.) The day after that indictment was returned, Reiter was relieved to have the FBI step in and take over the investigation.

The details that eventually emerged were often shocking and occasionally bizarre. For Epstein’s birthday one year, according to allegations in a civil suit, he was presented with three 12-year-old girls from France, who were molested then flown back to Europe the next day. These same civil complaints allege that young girls from South America, Europe, and the former Soviet republics, few of whom spoke English, were recruited for Esptein’s sexual pleasure. According to a former bookkeeper, a number of the girls worked for MC2, the modeling agency owned by Jean Luc Brunel, a longtime acquaintance and frequent guest of Epstein’s. Brunel received $1 million from the billionaire around the time he started the agency.

The non-prosecution agreement executed between Epstein and the Department of Justice states that Epstein and four members of his staff were investigated for “knowingly, in affecting interstate and foreign commerce, recruiting enticing and obtaining by any means a person, knowing that person has not yet obtained the age of 18 years and would be caused to engage in commercial sex act”—that is, child sex trafficking. Yet the agreement allowed Epstein to plead guilty to only two lower-level state crimes, soliciting prostitution and soliciting a minor child for prostitution.

Although the police investigation was officially closed, Chief Reiter tried to stay abreast of the federal case against Epstein. He was particularly concerned that Epstein be registered as a sex offender, which was part of the final deal, and that a fund be set up to compensate his victims—which was not, although Epstein agreed to bankroll their civil lawsuits. Attorney Dershowitz says Epstein’s agreement to pay attorney fees for the victims and agree to civil damage claims—without admitting guilt—amounted to “extortion under threat of criminal prosecution.”

But exactly which crimes did the Department of Justice threaten to prosecute? The Daily Beast has learned that there were several earlier versions of the U.S Attorney’s charges, including a 53-page indictment that, had he been convicted, could have landed Epstein in prison for 20 years. Brad Edwards, attorney for seven of the victims, confirms the existence of an earlier draft of the non-prosecution agreement, officially under seal, in which it appears that Epstein “committed, at some point, to a 10-year federal sentence.” But in the end Epstein’s legal team refused that deal and threatened to proceed to trial. And that’s where the question of whether the case was “winnable” before a jury again came into play, according to a source in the U.S Attorney’s Office, which shared the state attorney’s view that the prosecution was far from a slam dunk.

For one, it was clear from the start that Epstein would spare no legal expense and that his team of veteran lawyers, whose cases ranged from O.J. Simpson to the investigation of Clinton’s relationship with an intern, would play rough. When the Palm Beach police started to identify victims, according to Detective Joe Recarey’s report, Dershowitz began sending the detective Facebook and MySpace posts to demonstrate that some of these girls were no angels. Reiter’s deposition also states that he heard from local private investigators that Dershowitz had launched background checks on both the police chief and Det. Recarey. Dershowitz denies all of that. According to Reiter, both he and Recarey also became aware that they were under surveillance for several months, without knowing who ordered it. And the Florida victims began to complain that they and family members were being followed and intimidated by private investigators who were then linked to local attorneys in Epstein’s employ. In one reported instance, the private investigator claimed to be a police officer, and Reiter considered filing witness-tampering charges.

The credibility of the victims was also an issue; they had never complained of their treatment by Epstein until they were contacted by police, and they may have voluntarily returned to the Palm Beach mansion several times. Many of the girls came from disadvantaged backgrounds or broken homes, and they were susceptible to Epstein’s cash, intimidation, and charm. Those who were 16 when they went to El Brillo Way would have been in their 20s by the time they took the stand, and Epstein’s investigators had dredged up every instance of bad behavior in their pasts. According to an exchange in the Reiter deposition, a few of the victims had worked in West Palm Beach at massage parlors known as “jack shacks.” Each new compromising detail was immediately forwarded to the State Attorney’s Office, where staff met frequently with Epstein’s lawyers.

The Florida statutes are clear: Any person older than 24 who engages in sexual contact with someone under the age of 18 commits a felony of the second degree. The victim’s prior sexual conduct is not relevant; ignorance of her age is no defense. She needn’t resist physically to cast doubt on the issue of “consent.” For a child under 16, even lewd behavior short of touching is a felony of the second degree. But convincing a jury that a sexual encounter is a heinous crime is difficult if the victim can be made to appear willing and unharmed, not to mention vulgar and mercenary. It wasn’t hard to imagine some of the victims quickly being discredited in court by Epstein’s crack legal team, who repeatedly noted that the age of consent is lower in many other states.

But that doesn’t quite explain why the Department of Justice would forgo the child-trafficking charges, which pertain regardless of a girl’s attitude or character. Epstein’s final sentence is so out of line with the statutory guidelines for that crime that it appears the department may have been influenced by the existence of his many powerful friends and attorneys. A highly intelligent man who once taught math at the Dalton School in New York without a bachelor’s degree, Epstein has been a serious and respected player in the highest reaches of politics and philanthropy. He has made substantial contributions to political candidates, served on the Council on Foreign Relations, and donated $30 million to Harvard University.

Moreover, many of his high-powered acquaintances availed themselves of Epstein’s private jets, for which the pilot logs, obtained by discovery in the civil suits, sometimes showed that bold-face names were on the same flights as underage girls. A high-profile trial threatened to splash mud over all sorts of big players, just as both Gov. Richardson and Bill Clinton’s wife were running for president. Also, a hedge fund prosecution in which Epstein offered to give evidence was heating up. Alberto Gonzales, who was U.S. attorney general throughout most of the Epstein investigation and resigned just before the non-prosecution agreement was signed, told The Daily Beast that he “would have instructed the Justice Department to pursue justice without making a political mess.” But that may have been an impossible mandate, given the players involved.

Instead, said attorney Brad Edwards, “Epstein committed crimes that should have jailed him for most of his life…he was jailed for only a few months.” And this week he walks through his door a free man.
















bad people

Sometimes Life is Good, and We get to See the Evil Punished.

Sometimes good things happen and bad people are sent to hell to become the play thing of Satan for all eternity.  Sometimes life is good and we can smile knowing that two creatures have been sent home.




Al-Qaida in Iraq confirms deaths of top 2 figures



Sinan Salaheddin, Associated Press Writer
April 25, 2010



.BAGHDAD – An al-Qaida front group in Iraq on Sunday confirmed the killing of its two top leaders but vowed to keep up the fight despite claims by U.S. and Iraqi officials that the deaths could be a devastating blow to the terror network.

The defiance came in a statement released a week after the group's leaders — Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri — were killed in a raid by Iraqi and U.S. security forces on their safe house near Tikrit, north of Baghdad.

"After a long journey filled with sacrifices and fighting falsehood and its representatives, two knights have dismounted to join the group of martyrs," the statement said. "We announce that the Muslim nation has lost two of the leaders of jihad, and two of its men, who are only known as heroes on the path of jihad."

The four-page statement by the Islamic State of Iraq was posted on a militant website early Sunday.

It concluded: "The war is still ongoing, and the favorable outcome will be for the pious."

The Islamic State of Iraq is an offshoot of al-Qaida in Iraq. Al-Baghdadi was its self-described leader and was so elusive that at times U.S. officials questioned whether he was a real person or merely a composite of a terrorist to give an Iraqi face to an organization led primarily by foreigners.

Al-Masri, a weapons expert who was trained in al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, was the shadowy national leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Their deaths were triumphantly announced last Monday by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called the killings a "potentially devastating blow" to al-Qaida in Iraq.

But four days later, officials believe al-Qaida struck back, bombing mosques, shops and the office of an influential Shiite cleric, killing 72 people in Iraq's bloodiest day of the year so far. Homes of police also were bombed. Al-Maliki said the insurgents were fighting back after the deaths of their two leaders.

The new statement did not mention Friday's bombings, and no group has claimed responsibility for them yet. But the statement signals that al-Qaida will remain a threat to Iraq even without its top two leaders, and urges its members and supporters to stay the course.

"Commit to what those two leaders stood for," the statement says. "Transform the blood of those two leaders into light and fire — a light which will illuminate the path before you and facilitate your ability of speech, and a fire against the enemies of the creed and the religion."

Al-Qaida in Iraq has proven resilient in the past, showing a remarkable ability to change tactics and adapt — most notably after its brutal founder, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed nearly four years ago in a U.S. airstrike. Still, it is widely believed the group was far stronger then and would likely have a harder time now replenishing its leadership and sticking to a timetable of attacks.

Al-Maliki has seized on the militants' killings to show he can restore stability to Iraq after years of bloodshed. Following his political coalition's second-place finish in the March 7 parliamentary elections, al-Maliki is locked in a tight contest with secular challenger Ayad Allawi to see who will form the next government.

Al-Maliki's coalition trails Allawi's bloc by two seats in the 325-seat parliament, and neither has yet been able to secure enough support from other parties to muster a majority.

Meanwhile, the police chief in Hawija, 150 miles (240 kilometers) north of Baghdad, said troops raided the nearby town of al-Safra and arrested Burhan Mahmoud Mohammed, a local leader of the Islamic State of Iraq.

Col. Fatah al-Khafaji told The Associated Press that troops acted on intelligence but did not indicate exactly where the information came from. Iraqi officials have said the investigation into al-Baghdadi and al-Masri, especially the arrest in March of a senior al-Qaida official, has also led them to a number of other leaders associated with the insurgency.

In Baghdad, a so-called sticky bomb attached to the underside of a civilian's car exploded, killing the driver and wounding six passers-by, according to a police officer and a medic at the nearby al-Yarmouk hospital, where the victims were taken. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Also Sunday, an explosion at an iron factory in the northern city of Irbil killed five workers, including two Indians, two Arabs, a Kurd, and wounded 15. Workers from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other Asian nations have flocked to the Kurdish region in recent years as the economy there has grown.

Police Chief Abdul-Khaliq Talaat said the cause of the explosion was not immediately known.

Irbil is located in Iraq's Kurdish-controlled north about 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad.

An Irbil hospital worker confirmed the deaths.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Turkey: Culture of Peace, Horizons of Ignorance.

honor



Turkish girl buried alive by father and grandfather for talking to boys

By Tom Pettifor
6/02/2010
Mirror.co.uk




A terrified girl of 16 was buried alive by her father and grandfather - as a punishment for talking to boys.

The body of Medine Memi was found in a sitting position with her hands tied in a 6ft hole beneath a chicken coop.

A postmortem showed she had been conscious when she was covered with dirt.

One forensic investigator said: "What we found is blood-curdling.

"She had no bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her blood - she was alive and fully conscious when she was placed into the pit."

The medical examination revealed a large amount of soil in Medine's lungs and stomach - indicating she had suffocated during a slow and agonising death.

The teenager's remains were discovered outside her family's house in the town of Kahta in south-eastern Turkey.

She had been missing for 40 days and the hole had been cemented over.

A coroner was told how desperate Medine repeatedly tried to get help from local police in the weeks leading up to her horrific death. Her father and grandfather are accused of killing her because her friendship with boys "brought dishonour on the family".

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There are other sources:
 
BBC - which includes the following tidbit:  A local organisation that campaigns against honour killings said the victim, one of 10 children, had gone three times to the police to complain that she was being beaten, but she was sent back to her family each time.
 
 
and even more insight into the people of peace, we are told we must accomodate ...
 
 
...the practice is linked more to the customs of this region of Turkey, than to religious belief.
When girls or women are deemed to have stained the family honour, by behaviour as innocent as simply talking to boys, there is strong peer pressure from the community on the male members of the family to restore their honour, say groups working on the issue in the south-east.


The only way allowed by their code is to kill the girl or woman - usually a young man is given the task after a family council meeting, and the method and location of the killing are discussed in detail.


Afterwards, the family will try to pretend she never existed.

or visit

Turkish Daily News, English


Now - some will tsk tsk and exclaim that all this proves is Americans have no shame.  We dishonor our fathers, mothers, families, and think nothing of it.  True, to a degree.  Many Americans value the life of innocents, and the rights of individuals over groups - or, we place an emphasis on individual liberties versus group liberties.  I understand the conundrum we end up in when we go to extremes, but we do not participate in barbaric actions that were sanctioned in pre-Islamic times, condoned in many parts of the Islamic world, and tolerated in several other parts.  Of course you could reference abortion - and that would be the best you could do, a response that does not have a snappy response.  The best is - a majority of Americans oppose abortion.  It is kept alive as an issue by a minority.   In any case, the barbarism and evil acts of a father upon a daughter, are unconscionable. 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Crimes: Evil Boyfriend?

Why do they not publish the 'rest of the story' along with Ali's defense!




"Evil" boyfriend guilty of sisters' murders
Fri May 22, 2009


LONDON (Reuters) - A 29-year-old man who stabbed to death his former girlfriend and her sister in a "brutal and depraved" attack was found guilty of murder on Friday.

Mohammed Ali had not shown any remorse for the "horrific" killing of Yasmine and Sabrina Larbi-Cherif, police said after his conviction at Birmingham Crown Court.

Ali had spent five months in jail on remand after Yasmine, 22, accused him of rape in February last year.

But Yasmine withdrew the complaint in June 2008, saying she could not cope with attending court and giving evidence.

In September, Ali went to the sisters' Birmingham flat and stabbed Yasmine and Sabrina, 19.

"He had left behind a scene of carnage," said prosecutor David Crigman, the Press Association reported.

"He had used violence of the most brutal and depraved kind and he had killed two young girls."

During the attack, Ali walked twice from the lounge to the kitchen to rearm himself after breaking two knives.

The women's partially clothed bodies were found dragged into the blood-drenched apartment's bedroom.

Yasmine had been stabbed twice and her sister more than 30 times.

Crigman said Ali's attack on Sabrina was sadistic -- her wounds appeared to be made with precision rather than anger and had drained all the blood from her body.

"At no stage has he shown any remorse or sorrow," said Detective Chief Inspector Joanne Clews.

Ali had failed to complete his cross-examination and had refused to leave his prison cell to attend court, she added.

"From what I have learnt during this investigation, I believe that Mohammed Ali is a monster ... Ali is a violent, controlling and evil man, who had no respect for Yasmine during their relationship."

Ali told his friends he was Moroccan but the court heard he had been born in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

He came to Britain in 1999 and was given indefinite leave to stay after claiming asylum.

The sisters' family, who moved to Britain from Algeria in 1998, welcomed the conviction.

"This verdict will not bring back our angels but it will ensure that this barbaric killer will be placed behind bars for a very long time, and that he will never get the chance to inflict any such suffering on any other family."





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Austria or Missouri - Evil exists.

Evil exists everywhere. Austria is not alone.




Mo. girl: I was tired of my dad abusing my sister

Jan 29, 2009 6:22 PM (3 hrs ago)
By ANDALE GROSS, AP

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. - The sister of a girl who was allegedly molested and impregnated four times by their father says she waited until she turned 18 to come forward because she was afraid of being placed in state custody.

"My dad was doing all this crazy stuff," the 18-year-old told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday. "I got fed up with it until I finally ran my mouth. ... I couldn't see my sister suffer anymore. That's why I wanted her out."

She said her sister, now 19, was 13 when their father started molesting her. The 18-year-old said her sibling confided in her about the abuse after becoming pregnant the first time.
"But I already knew," she said.

The 18-year-old told police in October that her sister was being molested by their father and had given birth to four of his children. The tip led to a search of a rural property in Harrisonville where the family used to live. The property's new owners found two sealed coolers with the remains of two infants on Jan. 1.

Authorities said one of those infants died after not receiving medical treatment for pneumonia. The 47-year-old father has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of that baby, who was born in November 2006.

He also is accused of fathering the other infant whose body was found in the coolers, and investigators said they were looking into the circumstances of that baby's death.

Authorities believe a third baby born in 2004 has been buried in Oklahoma where the family once lived. A fourth child, now a 3-year-old boy, is in state custody.

In addition to the murder charge, the father also was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, statutory rape and two counts each of incest and abandoning a corpse. He was being held in the Cass County jail in lieu of a $500,000 bond.

The suspect's wife, also 47, has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child because authorities claimed she did little to stop her daughter's sexual abuse. She was free on bond and due in court next week for a case review.

The Associated Press is withholding the names of the suspects and other family members to protect the identity of the daughter, an alleged sexual assault victim.

A cousin of the suspect's four daughters said the girls were afraid of their father and that's why none of them sought help sooner.

"He threatened to kill them if they ever said anything," she said Thursday. "They were petrified."

Janeal Matheson, the public defender representing the man, declined to comment when reached by the AP on Thursday. No attorney was listed for the man's wife in court records, and calls to multiple phone numbers for her went unanswered.

A preliminary hearing for the father was scheduled for March 5.





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I do not discuss missing children - occasionally in class it may come up, but watching reports about Caylee Anthony, I am left wondering - if ever something could tweak my belief / faith, it is Caylee Anthony and others.

We accept, and pride ourselves on free will, and choice, I am aware, but this little girl could do, and did, no wrong or harm to anyone. No two year old could. They are born with such love and forgiveness, and an abundance of trust for those adults in their life.

I think that is perhaps the most important charge we can be given - to care for and raise a child, and do so, to the best of our ability. Clearly that did not happen in Caylee's case.

I can understand accidents, tragic and terrible accidents - but I also understand that the most important charge a person can be given in life was wasted, and they must be punished - for whatever the crime - for negligence or murder - justice must be served, but more importantly - punishment for their failure to care for their child.

Another - Madeline McCann. She would be about five years old today. Such trust and innocence.

Photo by PA

Several reports from Britain of a world pedophile ring searching for a little girl ...
Telegraph: 1 Story, August 7/08
Telegraph: 2 Story, August 7/08

So many, many more. The untold story is of the tens of thousands who are sold into slavery today - many for sex.


For those who take children and harm them - the punishment can only be, in my opinion - death. No reprieve, no appeal.

I imagine these pedophiles live otherwise 'normal' lives, perhaps families, members of community groups, perhaps some quite wealthy, and their wealth aids in purchasing the children they violate, and will eventually kill, or have killed.

They should know that most human beings would, if we knew who they were, remove them from existence in a heartbeat. One cannot look at these images of the children, and not wish each day, and every night that God is just, and will send them to a flaming pit in hell where they receive the same satisfaction from Satan and all his minions. I pray they feel the pain ten thousand times what they have inflicted. Nothing less will satisfy.






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An innocents words

August 4, 2008
Tim McLean Jr., in his own words
By ADAM CLAYTON, SUN MEDIA
Winnipeg Sun


A profile Tim McLean Jr. posted on a dating website paints a picture of a young man who loved to travel and dreamed of someday starting his own business.

"I'm 22, but don't let my age fool you. I've lived quite the life so far and still going strong. I've already travelled most of Canada by myself, just got the east coast left," he wrote. "I plan on travelling a lot in my life and where better to start than home."

McLean was the victim of a brutal attack in which a 40-year-old Edmonton man allegedly stabbed the Winnipegger repeatedly and beheaded him.

The 22-year-old described himself as a laid-back person who liked to listen to music and wanted to learn how to play bass guitar. He also mentioned plans for the future.

"I'm the lead hand at my work which basically means I'm the boss next to the boss," he wrote. "I also plan on starting my own business in the next year or so mainly because I wanna be my own boss ... why work to make someone else the big money?"

McLean also described himself as "the life of the party", someone friends turned to when feeling bored.

"I'm the guy that when everything goes wrong I make it right," he wrote. "I'm the guy who brings everyone together to spend a day at the park ... I'm the guy who's mature but if there are kids around I'm the guy who spends all day playing and spoiling them rotten."

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I include the above, because too often the act and the killer cover the page and the victim fades into obscurity, but for the act committed.


In other news - the only words Li uttered to the Judge at his initial hearing was 'Please kill me'


I think Canada should honor his request.












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Cannibal killer

Oh Canada - What is wrong with your people? 2 Stories - The Good and the Evil.

It is not that it was pure evil which killed Tim McLean, nor that the killer cut his head off and stuck it on the body, as we have seen in the beheadings from Iraq and Afghanistan, but he ate parts of Tim, and took evil to whole new levels.

That is so rare among killers as to truly stand alone.

Pig Farmer and Greyhound Killer.

Those two will go down in history. The only difference between Jeffrey Dahlmer and Li is the numbers of people killed and eaten. I am sure, given enough time, Li would have knocked Dahlmer off the perch of cannibal killer.

What are you doing in Canada to develop the evil.

Apparently, it is working.

We will learn more about Li, what they find in his home, what else he may have done, his connections, and interests.

Li got on the bus with the knife. Not many people carry Rambo knives around routinely.
He got off the bus, and when he got back on, he MOVED his seat to sit next to Tim, and then he butchered him.

THAT shows intent. Intent to kill someone, and intent to kill that person (Tim), when he moved to and sat next to him.

Yet Canada, in all their civilized humane legal maneuvers, have charged Li with 2nd degree murder.

Do you want to show respect for human life, for Tim? Try the guy and then execute him.

That shows more respect for human life than does 15 or 20 years in prison.

And please do not jump to a defense of illness - Li was mentally incompetent or unstable at the time. Evil uses our refusal to acknowledge its existence, to spread. We do not even accept that evil per se exists, instead, we cloak it with terms and labels that make it more medically challenged than what it is - evil.

Evil exists and Li is the best example of evil in Canada or the US at this time. I believe, the all time honor goes to the Pig Farmer of British Columbia, who doesn't deserve a name, for the evil he committed, and the innocents he devoured.

It is interesting it shows up in Canada and sometimes in the US, two countries whose people do not universally accept the existence of evil, and instead prefer to call it sickness or mental illness, and in doing so, give safety to evil to spread.




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Decapitation Suspect Allegedly Ate Victim

According To Police Tapes, Officers Observed Attacker Hacking Off Pieces Of Victim, Eating Them
TORONTO, Aug. 2, 2008

(CBS/ AP) A police officer at the scene of a fatal stabbing on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked on the Internet Saturday.

In the tape of radio transmissions, officers referred to the attacker, who also beheaded the victim, as "Badger." They said he was armed with a knife and scissors and was "defiling the body."

"Badger's at the back of the bus, hacking off pieces and eating it," an officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said on the tape.

The RCMP described the tapes as "operational police communications and, as such, are not meant for public consumption." The tape was posted on YouTube among other Web sites. The employer of the man who witnesses said stabbed and beheaded his seat mate on a Greyhound bus in Canada said Saturday that he was in shock to learn that his "model employee" has been accused of the grisly attack.

Vincent Augert, an independent contractor who distributes newspapers in Edmonton, Alberta, said that Vince Weiguang Li, was one of his most reliable carriers.

"He was very punctual and always cleanly dressed," Augert told The Associated Press. "He was a very nice, polite guy. We would've had no reason to let him go before all this happened.

" Li faces second-degree murder charges for the brutal late Wednesday murder of a 22-year-old man on the bus traveling a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway about 12 miles from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba.

Witnesses described a bloody killing that occurred as some passenger were napping and others watching "The Legend of Zorro" on television screens inside the bus. Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said there were 37 passengers on the Winnipeg, Manitoba-bound bus at the time. Shortly after passengers reboarded following a break, the suspect - for no apparent reason - stabbed the man sitting next to him several dozen times as others fled in horror, witnesses said. He then severed the man's head, displayed it and began hacking at the body.

Li, who was in court Friday, did not reply when the judge asked him whether he was going to get a lawyer, and only nodded slightly when asked whether he was exercising his right not to speak. He was not required to enter a plea.

He shuffled into the courtroom Friday in Portage la Prairie with his head bowed and feet shackled.

The prosecutor asked for a psychiatric assessment, but the judge said he wanted to give Li a chance to meet with his lawyer. Li's next court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Li has no known criminal record.

Authorities have not released the victim's name but friends identified him as Tim McLean and said he was headed to Winnipeg after working with the carnival in Edmonton.

William Caron, 23, said McLean was quiet, though he liked to socialize with friends. He was small - about 5-foot-4 and 130 pounds - and tended to stay away from a fight, Caron said. "

All the time I've known Tim, he's never been the type of guy to get into a fight with. He always kept to himself when there's strangers around," Caron said.

Friends started a Facebook group to remember him after news of the attack.

Friends told the Globe and Mail newspaper that a small group gathered Thursday outside the home of McLean's father, also named Tim. They greeted him as he returned home from work, and sat with him as he watched the news at his computer for the first time. Witness Garnet Caton, who was sitting just one seat in front of the two men on the bus, said the suspect had been on the bus about an hour. He initially did not sit near the victim but changed seats after a rest stop. Caton said he did not hear the two speak to each other before the attack.

"We heard this bloodcurdling scream and turned around, and the guy was standing up, stabbing this guy repeatedly," Caton said.

Caton watched in horror as blood sprayed across the back of the bus, he told The Globe & Mail daily.

"He had a Rambo, hunting knife covered in blood and he just kept going at the guy," Caton said. "He was very calmly killing the guy and the other guy was screaming bloody murder," he added.

"There was no rage or anything. He was just like a robot stabbing the guy," Caton said.

Caton said the driver stopped the bus when he became aware of the attack and passengers raced off. A short while later, Caton said he re-boarded along with the bus driver and a trucker who had stopped to see what was happening.

He said the suspect had the victim on the floor of the bus and "was cutting his head off" with a large hunting knife.

The attacker turned toward them and the three men quickly left the bus, blocking the door as the attacker slashed at them through an opening. Caton said the driver disabled the vehicle after the attacker tried to drive it away.

As the three guarded the door with a crow bar and a hammer, the attacker went back to the body and calmly came to the front of the bus to show off the head, Caton said.

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Memorial service held at Regina Exhibition for man slain on bus

Kristina Jarvis, leaderpost.com
Published: Saturday, August 02, 2008

REGINA -- A memorial service was held on the midway of the Regina Exhibition on Saturday for Tim McLean, the young man who was murdered on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba last Wednesday night.

According to Amber Swedgen, the spokesperson for North American Midway Entertainment, the service was organized by Tony Diaz, general manager for Canadian midway operations. Diaz flew to Regina on Friday to meet with the midway employees about McLean's death.

"We were definitely planning something, but when he got back from Toronto he really felt the emotion on the midway and the emotion himself," she said. "So they got it all together and they got a hold of the church and they got it all organized immediately."

Clergy from a local church officiated the ceremony, which lasted 45 minutes and included a speech by McLean's direct manager and a poem by a coworker. Swedgen said that even though the service was organized overnight, over 200 people turned out for the service. She also said that members of the community were "extremely helpful" in helping put the service together.

"We all needed to have a nice get together today and just really remember and just be thankful that we all had a chance to be with him and work with him and he was a part of our life," Swedgen said.

According to Swedgen there are plans to coordinate a fundraising drive for the McLean family, one of the many ways the company came up with to try and help the family. She said that for many in the midway carnival company, those who work the carnival circuit become a "city within a city" and are like a massive family.











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According to the State Police Affidavit, statements by a minor accomplice - there are at least three men involved in this sex ring. 1 is Michael Jacques, the killer of the Brooke Bennett, the 12 year old girl; the other her step-father or former step-father, but so far no 3rd person.



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