Naked White Man Goes on a Rampage

I’m sure theres a perfectly logical explanation for this…..

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A hotel and grocery store are assessing the damage after a naked man ran amok and allegedly did thousands of dollars’ worth of damage.

West Lampeter Township police said they were dispatched to the Willow Valley Resort, and later Darrenkamp’s Market, on Friday amid reports of a nude man on a rampage.

Some office space at the resort was trashed, and a forklift was driven into an interior wall, also damaging an overhead sewer pipe, authorities said.

Police said the suspect, whom they identified as Nicholas Hadzick, 28, of Freeland, then crossed the street and entered Darrenkamp’s in the Willow Valley Shopping Center, causing more destruction.

Joe Darrenkamp, company president, said Hadzick threw chairs and tossed a 300-pound pizza oven to the floor, as well as three scales, valued at about $7,000 each. Also damaged was a $90,000 meat-wrapping machine, several soda coolers and the windshield of a delivery truck.

The incident was captured on the market’s surveillance cameras, Darrenkamp said. He estimated the cost of the damage at about $40,000.

Police charged Hadzick, who had been a guest at the resort, with risking a catastrophe, criminal mischief, open lewdness, public drunkenness and related counts. He was being held on $200,000 bail.

Telephone messages left at three phone listings for a Nicholas Hadzick in the Freeland area were not returned.

Michael Donovan charged with kidnapping Shannon Matthews

Business as usual.

A 39-year-old man has been charged with kidnapping and falsely imprisoning schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.

Michael Donovan, a former computer programmer who now lives on disability benefits, will appear in Dewsbury Magistrates Court this morning charged with snatching the nine-year-old on February 19.

	Mick Donovan is led away from Halifax magistrates’ court

Mr Donovan, formerly known as Paul Drake, is an uncle of Shannon’s stepfather Craig Meehan.

Peter Mann, Head of CPS West and North Yorkshire Complex Case Unit, said: “Having carefully considered all of the material supplied by West Yorkshire Police, we have made the decision that there is sufficient evidence and have authorised that Michael Donovan be charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment.

“We will continue to keep this case under constant review as it develops.”

It has also emerged that Shannon was kept unaware of the massive search for her as she was held captive in a dingy flat for 24 days.

Although there was a television in the premises, the nine-year-old was prevented from watching news programmes.

A senior police source told The Daily Telegraph: “We believe she was kept totally incommunicado. There was a TV in there, but we suspect she wasn’t allowed to watch any news.”

The source also disclosed how police had feared Shannon could have been in imminent danger before officers broke down the door and found her hidden in the base of a divan bed on Friday.

The disclosures came as Sir Norman Bettison, the chief constable of West Yorkshire police, hit back at those criticising his force over claims that officers ignored leads regarding Shannon’s whereabouts. He described them as “fantasists”.

Instead he singled out for praise the two officers who found her, said he was “immensely satisfied and immensely proud” of his investigative team and dismissed accusations of a lack of professionalism.

Shannon remained in police care as two female detectives gently tried to coax more information from her about her ordeal.

	Shannon Matthews’s mother Karen returns home yesterday

Sir Norman said the three-week long investigation involved searching 3,000 houses and interviewing 6,000 people, mostly within a mile radius of Dewsbury Moor, West Yorks.

He said officers had received 2,000 calls from the public “with just a hook in there about a weirdo, paedophile, living at X or living at Y”.

He said the “painstaking investigation” to find Shannon reached its conclusion when “the jigsaw pieces came together” last Thursday, throwing up the address of Michael Donovan, Shannon’s stepfather’s uncle.

Two officers, Det Cons Paul Kettlewell and Nick Townsend, both members of the force’s homicide and major inquiry team, visited his house in Batley Carr, Dewsbury, a mile from Shannon’s house, but there was no reply.

They began questioning neighbours who told them for the first time they had heard child’s footsteps in the flat and, keeping it under surveillance, asked for back-up before smashing the door in.

Sir Norman rounded on critics who claim police were given Mr Donovan’s name early in the investigation and ignored it.

He said: “People who might have said, that have been quoted as having given the police the whole jigsaw, the box lid, are fantasising.”

	Telegraph TV: Police chief defends professionalism of his force in hunt for Shannon Matthews

He said Shannon was “safe and well and in the place where she is the safest at the moment”. She is being questioned in a child-friendly interview suite and questions are being kept to a maximum of two hours a day.

Her mother, Karen, 32, who has only been able to glimpse her through a one-way mirror, said: “I can’t wait to have my daughter back.”

She said that when she saw Shannon she was in “scraggy clothes” and her hair had not been brushed.

She said: “It was very hard not to be able to talk to her. When I first saw Shannon again I was overwhelmed – I just couldn’t stop crying.”

Iraq war 5th anniversary Poll : 7 out of 10 Iraqis want White terrorists out

After 5 years of terrorist occupation, no less. Would white people accept a a brutal foreign occupation of their countries ?

LONDON (AFP) – More than two-thirds of Iraqis believe US-led coalition forces should leave, according to a poll conducted for British television ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion.

The ORB/Channel 4 News survey suggested that 70 percent thought multinational forces should withdraw.

Yet some 40 percent of the 4,000 people surveyed said they wanted the United States to play a bigger role in rebuilding Iraq and 36 percent wanted more British involvement.

Overall, the wide-ranging poll painted a mixed picture of Iraqi attitudes, contrasting their bleak daily existence with a surprisingly positive attitude about the future.

It threw up stark statistics on the human cost of war, which began on March 20, 2003, its effect on infrastructure and daily life, plus the bloody sectarian violence that erupted in the aftermath of the invasion.

A quarter of those surveyed said they had lost a family member to murder. In Baghdad, that figure rose to nearly half (45 percent).

Some 81 percent had suffered power cuts and 43 percent had experienced drinking water shortages. In the last month, more than a quarter (28 percent) had been short of food.

Opinions varied on progress towards democracy.

Less than a quarter (23 percent) thought military action would prove to have been in Iraq’s long-term interests but 55 percent were optimistic about the future — although 48 percent of the minority Sunni were not.

Some 45 percent said they were satisfied with the pace of change, compared with 40 percent who were not; and just over two-thirds (68 percent) predicted Iraq would “one day be peaceful and normal.”

Four out of five people said their own area was already trouble-free.

- ORB and its local partner IIACSS interviewed 4,000 Iraqis in person between February 24 and March 5.

Recalling America’s heart of darkness: My Lai

White terrorism, plain and simple. 

Vietnamese fisherman To Tuu still remembers the helicopters full of US troops, zooming in on the morning of March 16, 1968. Within hours, there was nothing left of his village.

“The American soldiers left bodies everywhere,” says the 85-year-old, who fled with his family as soon as he saw the choppers arriving. “Some of them were burnt, including a woman who had just given birth.”

The My Lai massacre was one of the darkest moments of the Vietnam war, and for many Vietnamese like To Tuu, the scars have yet to heal four decades later.

US Lieutenant William Calley, the only US soldier convicted over the killings, said he had been given orders to clean the area — several hamlets including Tu Cung, Co Luy and My Lai — of communist guerrillas.

Hundreds of people, most of them civilians and many of them women and children, were killed in what had been intended as a “search and destroy” mission to flush out Viet Cong fighters.

“I didn’t think they would do anything, just like previous times,” recalls Pham Dat, 80. “But they started to kill everyone. The animals at first — and then the men.”

Some people survived by hiding under the bodies of the dead. The killing went on for hours — 170 people were pushed into a ditch and shot at Tu Cung alone — with more than 400 people believed killed in that hamlet and around 500 in all.

But some US soldiers tried to stop the carnage — notably helicopter pilot Hugh Thomson, who landed his aircraft between the US troops and civilians and managed to save some lives.