A look back at Somalia

White “peacekeepers” in action

The response :

British terrorist ‘threatened to set Iraqi boy on fire’ and kicked and beat prisoners, claims disgraced ex-corporal

Setting children on fire? Apparently the Geneva convention does not apply to non-whites…

The only soldier convicted in connection with the death of Iraqi prisoner Baha Mousa claimed yesterday he saw officers abusing detainees.

Disgraced former corporal Donald Payne said he saw Lieutenant Craig Rodgers punching or kicking a group of detainees and even threatening to set one on fire.

He said the group included Mr Mousa, 26, a father of two who suffered 93 separate injuries while in custody at a British base.

Payne also accused his commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Mendonca, of being ‘gung-ho’ and ‘trigger-happy’.

He said the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment CO once held his pistol above a suspected insurgent’s mouth and threatened to ‘blow his face off’.

Payne, who was giving evidence to the public inquiry into the death of Mr Mousa in Basra in 2003, became the first member of the UK armed forces to be convicted of a war crime when he pleaded guilty to inhumanely treating civilians at a 2006 court martial.

He was jailed for a year. Six soldiers accused with him were cleared through lack of evidence.

Payne said he had covered up the extent of the abuse of Iraqis out of ‘misguided loyalty’ and ’self-preservation’.

Watched by Mr Mousa’s father Dawood, who at one point left the inquiry in tears, he admitted for the first time that he used ‘gratuitous violence’ against detainees and saw other soldiers do the same.

Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa, 26, with his wife and two children. He died in British custody in Basra four years ago

The allegations come at a hugely sensitive time for the Ministry of Defence, following fresh claims from Iraq that prisoners suffered abuse including rape and torture.

Payne said that in September 2003 he was part of a group of soldiers headed by Lieutenant Rodgers. Everyone in the group was involved in abuse of the prisoners.

He said in a statement: ‘I have seen each one, including Lieutenant Rodgers, forcefully kick and/or punch the detainees.’

Payne said Lieutenant Rodgers once put a can of petrol in front of a young boy and tried to trick him into thinking he was being set on fire.

He said: ‘He poured water over him and then lit a match’.

Mr Rodgers, who left the Army in 2007 as a captain, strongly denied allegations of prisoner abuse when he gave evidence last week.

A video played at the inquiry shows ex-corporal Donald Payne shouting and swearing at the Iraqis as they are forced to hold painful ’stress positions’

Last night he repeated the denial and branded Payne’s allegations ‘utterly outrageous’.

Payne did not accuse Colonel Mendonca of involvement in the abuse but said: ‘It was my impression the CO was somewhat trigger-happy. He would pull his pistol out at any opportunity.

‘He would behave as if he were a member of the SAS. Everyone knew and commented about his behaviour.’ Payne said that on one patrol with Colonel

Mendonca they picked up an Iraqi who had fired a flare near Basra market.

He said: ‘Towards the end of the patrol we stopped and the CO got the prisoner out of the Land Rover and started interrogating him.

‘He asked how he got his weapons in. The prisoner did not reply and the CO cocked his pistol and said he was going to blow his face off.

‘He was holding the pistol above the man’s mouth. The prisoner said he was getting his weapons in through a taxi and we left him and drove off.’

Col Mendonca, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his leadership in Iraq, was cleared at court martial of any blame in the death of Mr Mousa. His counsel, Tim Langdale QC, accused Payne of lying about his client.

Witnesses have told the inquiry they lied to protect Payne by saying Mr Mousa accidentally banged his head during a scuffle.

Former private Aaron Cooper said last week that Payne violently assaulted the prisoner just before he died, claiming: ‘He seemed to completely lose his self-control. He started to lash out wildly, punching and kicking Baha Mousa’s ribs.

‘Corporal Payne certainly kicked Baha Mousa’s head, which rebounded off the wall.

‘He also grabbed Baha Mousa’s head and banged it against the wall.’

Yesterday Payne admitted putting his knee in the Iraqi’s back in an attempt to restrain him but denied banging his head against a wall.

He told the inquiry Mr Mousa had been thrashing about and added: ‘I heard his head, but I don’t know whether it was the floor or the wall… I heard it whack.’

No one has ever been convicted of causing the death of Mr Mousa and the claims at the London inquiry could lead to new criminal charges.

Payne, who was cleared of manslaughter and perverting the course of justice at his court martial, admitted yesterday that he lied in interviews, to the court martial and in his first statement to the inquiry.

The Ministry of Defence agreed last year to pay £2.83million compensation to the families of Mr Mousa and nine other Iraqi men mistreated by British troops.

 

British terrorists sexually abused us, claim Iraqis

Is there any doubt why people in the region loathe and support retaliation against white terrorists?

LONDON – Iraqi civilians who were detained by British troops during the U.S.-led war have leveled some 33 allegations of rape and abuse against male and female soldiers, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said Saturday.

The allegations come in the wake of the British withdrawal from Iraq this year.

One man says he was raped by two British soldiers while another claims he was sexually humiliated by both male and female personnel. Others allege they were stripped naked and photographed in the same style as the notorious pictures at Abu Ghraib, where abuses of prisoners by U.S. troops helped fuel anti-American sentiment.

British soldiers have faced a series of claims that they mistreated Iraqi civilians in southern Iraq during six years of combat operations. Last year, Britain settled a legal case involving the death of one Iraqi civilian, and the abuse of nine others, paying out nearly 3 million pounds in compensation.

A public inquiry is still under way into the death of hotel worker Baha Mousa. He died in the custody of British troops following a raid on his hotel in the southern Iraq city of Basra in 2003 and suffered 93 separate injuries. British Cpl. Donald Payne pleaded guilty to inhumanely treating Iraqi civilians in Britain’s first war crimes conviction.

“Given the history of the U.K.’s involvement in the development of these techniques alongside the US, it is deeply concerning that there appears to be strong similarities between instances of the use of sexual humiliation,” Phil Shiner, the lawyer representing the Iraqis who made the claims, said in a letter to the Ministry of Defense. He said some Iraqis are coming forward now since the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq this year.

The Ministry of Defense said the allegations were being taken seriously.

The 33 new cases include allegations of controversial techniques widely used by the Americans, including mock executions, dog attacks and exposure to pornography.

“Over 120,000 British troops have served in Iraq and the vast majority have conducted themselves to the highest standards of behavior, displaying integrity and selfless commitment,” the ministry said in a statement. “There have been instances when individuals have behaved badly but only a tiny number have been shown to have fallen short of our high standards. Allegations of this nature are taken very seriously but must not be taken as fact. Formal investigations must be allowed to take their course.”

Armed forces minister Bill Rammell said any new claims of mistreatment will be investigated.

In one of the most serious allegations, a 16-year-old boy claimed that he was among a group of Iraqis in May 2003 who were taken to the Shatt-al-Arab British camp to help fill sandbags. In a statement reported by The Independent newspaper, he alleged when he entered a room to get more sandbags he saw two British male soldiers engaged in oral sex. When he tried to leave, he alleges the men started to beat and kick him. When he fell to the floor, he claims one of the men held a blade to his neck while the other soldier stripped him naked. He claims the two British soldiers, one after the other, raped him.

In another claim, a 24-year-old Iraqi said he was playing football with friends in April 2007 when he was approached by British soldiers in vehicles and taken to a British base with another youth. When he arrived at the camp, he was allegedly surrounded by six to eight soldiers who ordered two of the young men to pick fights with one another. He alleges that the soldiers then stood on top of them and shouted and laughed.

Another 35-year-old carpenter said he was arrested in April 2006 and taken to the British camp at Shaaibah where he alleges he was subjected to sexual abuse and humiliation by both male and female soldiers.

He alleged soldiers used to watch pornographic films and would play loud music when he tried to pray. He also alleged that female soldiers exposed themselves or taunted him sexually. He alleged a soldier in the observation tower used to point the laser spot of his gun at his penis when he was in the toilet.

At the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, female guards and interrogators were documented as using aggressive and sexually charged techniques with the detainees, most of whom were Muslim.

It was unclear when results of the investigation would be released.

White terrorist assaults Greek Orthodox Priest whom he mistook for an Arab

Claiming that a GREEK ORTHODOX PRIEST with a crucifix around his neck was yelling “Allah hu Akbar”? Realizing how idiotic that sounded he got his lawyer to say that the priest tried to grab his genitals and rob him.  Why can’t whites be truthful?

Tampa, Florida – Marine or Priest? Who do you believe? The accounts of what went on in a parking garage on Monday vary so drastically, it’s hard to tell which man wears the halo.

Police say it all started when Alexios Marakis, a priest from Greece, got lost in Tampa. He followed some cars into an apartment parking garage and in very broken English asked Jasen Bruce for help.

Bruce, a Marine Reservist, told police the priest tried to rob him, so Bruce hit him with a tire iron and chased Marakis three blocks.

Bruce also told police he thought the robed and bearded Marakis was an Arab terrorist.

Police spokesperson Laura McElroy says Bruce told officers that the priest shouted “Allahu Akbar!” The phrase, Bruce told officers, that Arab terrorists use before they blow you up.

McElroy says Bruce also told officers that Marakis made a sexual advance towards him in the parking garage.

And that sexual advance is what Bruce’s attorney Jeffrey Brown says motivated the attack. Brown held a news conference Tuesday afternoon to counter what he called the “one-sided, tainted” press release from TPD.

According to Brown, the priest “made a sexual reference and grabbed the genitals of Lance Corporal Bruce. Lance Corporal Bruce defended himself,” explained Brown.

Brown says he’s confident that eventually surveillance tapes and the 911 call will back up his client’s account.

However, the president of the group Tampa Bay Human Rights is urging the police and FBI to investigate the attack on the priest as a hate crime.

Ahmed Bedier told 10 Connects, “There was some sort of motivation based on the person’s ethnicity, where he perceived him to be Arab or Muslim and that’s simply unacceptable.”

Marakis is from Crete and is a visiting priest to St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Tarpon Springs. 10 Connects called and also visited the church on Tuesday, but no one was available to comment on the attack.

White Cop Tasers Non-Resisting Man Until He Passes Out

“To protect and serve” as usual. Notice how nice they are to the white dude.

 

Was the Ford Hood massacre a White Psyop?

This was sent to us by a South American reader(Hat tip : Blanko). Was this the result of a lone wolf or something far more sinister? While this act should be condemned , we must also remember that those who orchestrated 9/11, lied about Iraq(resulting in the deaths of over 1.3 million of its citizens) cannot be trusted to speak the truth. The following article raises some very interesting points.

In what one Russian Military Analyst (jokingly?) speculated could possibly be a “very sick” way of publicizing a new American movie opening this week about the US Pentagons decades long experiments in mind-control technology (“The Men Who Stare At Goats”), has instead, according to these reports, resulted in a tragic massacre of at least 13 US Soldiers preparing for deployment to the Iraq war from the giant US military base of Fort Hood, Texas.

From Western propaganda news media reports on this massacre the American people are being told that a US Army Military Trained Psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan [photo top left], became despondent over his recently receiving orders to deploy to Iraq and in “typical” lone gunman fashion “decided” to open fire on hundreds of his fellow soldiers killing and wounding them without discrimination.

Completing the “new legend” (in almost record time too) about this “lone gunman” being made responsible for this massacre, the Western propaganda machines are reporting such idiocies as Major Hasan having previously “complained to relatives of harassment by fellow-officers mocking him for being Middle Eastern” (Major Hasan’s parents came from small Palestinian town near Jerusalem) and his “attracting the attention of police six months ago for internet postings analyzing the motives of suicide bombers that was not formally investigated”.

Interesting to note in these reports, however, about Major Hasan is his past psychiatric training, paid for by the US Military, at Virginia Tech University where he graduated from that schools Center for Applied Behavior Systems with a degree in biochemistry, a school which FSB reports have long warned “is most likely” one of the US Department of Defenses top PSYOP training centers and where in April, 2007, it suffered the worst school massacre in US history when a Chinese student named Seung-Hui Cho, reported to be a subject to mind-control experiments, single-handedly gunned down 32 fellow students.

Even more interesting to note is that from the initial chaotic scene of the Fort Hood massacre not just the wounded Major Hanson taking into custody, but so were three other “alleged” gunmen, two of whom were released leaving one, at last report, still in US Army custody.

Now to understand the circumstances that placed Major Hasan at Fort Hood in the first place one has to understand that he was one of the US Militaries top PSYOP specialists and had received his medical degree, with honors, from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2001, and did his internship at Walter Reed Army Hospital.

Major Hasan then became one of the top researchers at the US Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress in the field this US Military funded organization stated was:

“Center scientists are actively engaged in studies of military deployment, combat stress and the mental health of active duty, Guard and Reserve and veterans. This research helps military command (leaders, physicians and mental health providers) mitigate, respond to and foster recovery from the consequences of war and other military extreme environments that can occur in combat, peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance.

In addition, a primary focus of the Center is conducting studies of the impact of deployment on servicemen and women and their families. This research includes surveillance of psychiatric problems among battle injured soldiers, and measuring the psychological effect of treating severely injured and disfigured soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan on health care providers at institutions like Walter Reed Army Medical Center and the National Naval Medical Center.”

[Note: The US Military has completely removed the website of their Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress organization early on the morning of 6 November 2009]

From his position at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Major Hasan became one of the originators of what is called the US Army’s “Warrior Combat Reset Program” set up to help American soldiers returning from war zones, or being redeployed to them, cope with what is called post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and which according to these reports led to his being at Fort Hood to “electronically prepare” an experimental group of US Soldiers for their return to the Iraq war zone.

Important to be understood about these reports is their detailing that nearly all of the US Military Forces are suffering what is termed a “catastrophic” level of stress disorders, murders, rapes and suicides so bad that American commanders are now warning that the readiness of their forces in is danger of “outright collapse”, and which is no wonder being that in just three short months this will become the longest war in US history.

Making the recycling of these battle hardened US Soldiers (to keep killing and dying for reasons they don’t even know about anymore) even more crucial are new American Military reports stating that over one-third of “Americans ages 17-24 are unqualified for military service because of physical and medical issues.”

So to yesterday’s massacre at Fort Hood, and Major Hasan’s “true role” in it, we need to turn to a little known, but extremely shocking case filed in the United States this past spring by a San Francisco lawyer named Gordon Erspamer and alleging:

“That [US] government scientists conducted human experiments at Edgewood is not in question. “The program involved testing of nerve agents, nerve agent antidotes, psychochemicals, and irritants,” according to a 1994 General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office) report (PDF). At least 7,800 US servicemen served “as laboratory rats or guinea pigs” at Edgewood, alleges Erspamer’s complaint, filed in January in a federal district court in California. The Department of Veterans Affairs has reported that military scientists tested hundreds of chemical and biological substances on them, including VX, tabun, soman, sarin, cyanide, LSD, PCP, and World War I-era blister agents like phosgene and mustard. The full scope of the tests, however, may never be known. As a CIA official explained to the GAO, referring to the agency’s infamous MKULTRA mind-control experiments, “The names of those involved in the tests are not available because names were not recorded or the records were subsequently destroyed.” Besides, said the official, some of the tests involving LSD and other psychochemical drugs “were administered to an undetermined number of people without their knowledge.”

And among these “experiments” conducted on US Soldiers by their government, and according to FSB files was a “research specialty” of Major Hasan’s, one was one called Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral Control Electronic Dissolution of Memory (RHIC-EDOM) which was pioneered for the US Military in the 1960’s by New York University Professor J. Anthony Deutsch who…“indicated that the mind is a transmitter and if too much information is received, like too many vehicles on a crowded freeway, the brain ceases to transmit. The Professor indicated that an excess of acetyl choline in the brain can interfere with the memory process and control. He indicated excess amounts of acetyl choline can be artificially produced, through both the administration of drugs or through the use of radio waves. The process is called Electronic Dissolution of Memory (EDOM). The memory transmission can be stopped for as long as the radio signal continues.”

So strong was the American Military and Intelligence establishments’ belief that only by “erasing” the previous “battle stained” memories of their Soldiers could they be made to continue killing and dying that in 2007 they contracted with Russia’s Psychotechnology Research Institute in Moscow to purchase a system called Semantic Stimuli Response Measurements Technology (SSRM Tek) which is a software-based mind reader that tests a subject’s involuntary response to subliminal messages and which was used by the Soviet Military on Russian troops being redeployed to Afghanistan.

Unfortunately for the Americans, and who were undoubtedly warned by their Russian counterparts about this, the previous Soviet experiments using SSRM Tek software combined with RHIC-EDOM technology had a very dangerous side-effect of “triggering immediate battle memories” instead of “erasing” them and resulting in masses of Russian troops who were undergoing these experiments to “erupt” in “immediate violence” which left an estimated 37 of them dead when they began (for no apparent reason) to begin firing upon each other.

In the United States today 13 American Soldiers lie dead, and many more are wounded leaving countless numbers of wives, children, fathers and mothers to mourn over their seemingly senseless killing.

But, like the events of 9/11, the assassinations of their President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert, and the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King have shown us, these Americans have been well schooled in seeing only what they are told to see when tragedies like these, and Fort Hood now, occur.

Sometimes the childlike stories concocted by their propaganda masters to explain these horrific events are enough to placate the American people, but one has to wonder when at least some of them will wake up to the stark and brutal truth about what is happening to them.  One can only wonder if these Americans had demanded the truth before if these Soldiers were massacred would still be alive?

That is not in our knowing. But what is in our knowing is this, before they awaken from their long slumber these Americans can expect many more such deaths. We’re sure their propaganda organs are up to the task.

“F*** off, we’re full.” Violence mars Australia’s national day celebrations

..full of s*** considering Australia is one of the least populated countries in the world. Is such violent behavior to be expected since most of them are descendants of illegal immigrants and criminals from England?

Each January 26, Australians gather in parks and on beaches to celebrate all that is great about their country: mateship, sunshine, barbecues and free-flowing beer.

But this year, across the country’s most populous state, the day of national pride turned violent when groups of youths rampaged through suburbs targetting non-white shopkeepers in a display of racism that echoed the ugly scenes of the 2005 Cronulla riots.

In the affluent Sydney suburb of Manly, where hundreds of families had set up their picnics for the day, more than 100 shirtless young men draped in “Aussie pride” flags smashed car windows and vandalised shops

Carrying signs that read “—- off we’re full”, they paraded up and down the seafron threatening bypassers.

One 18-year-old Asian woman was injured when the gang smashed her car window, showering her in glass and causing several cuts to her arms.

There were also reports that the group attacked a taxi driven by an Indian Sikh and an Asian shopkeeper.

In scenes reminiscent of the Cronulla riots, when 5,000 white Australians congregated in the Sydney beachfront suburb and attacked Lebanese immigrants, groups of men jumped on cars that were stopped at traffic lights and chanted racist slogans to the terrified passengers.

At one point the gang was reportedly heard singing “lets go —- with these Lebs”.

Jean Hay, the mayor of Manly, said the youths came from the north-west of Sydney and were not Manly residents.

The unrest was brought under control by the late afternoon. Police charged a 16-year-old for assaulting police and three others were cautioned for offensive and dangerous behaviour.

The violence in Manly was mirrored in the coastal towns of Shellharbour to Sydney’s south and Port Macquarie to the north. Fights were also reported as far north as Queensland’s Gold Coast, where hundreds of teenagers clashed on a popular family beach.

White Weapon of Mass Extinction : Depleted Uranium

Where is the outrage?

Doctors in Iraq are recording a sharp rise in the number of cancer victims south of Baghdad. Sufferers in the province of Babil have risen almost tenfold in just three years.

Locals blame depleted uranium from US military equipment used in the 2003 invasion.

In this part of Iraq, 500 cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2004. That figure rose to almost 1,000 two years later.

In 2008, the number of cases increased sevenfold to 7,000 diagnoses. This year, there have so far been more than 9,000 new cases … and the number is rising.

White Family ran a day care with bomb-making material and neo-Nazi lit in the back

Nazi paraphenalia, bombs and weed in a day care center? Stoner Skinhead fun for the whole family!

Explosives and a marijuana farm were discovered at a Southern California home doubling as a state-licensed child day care center after a man blew off four of his fingers while mixing homemade explosives, authorities said Thursday.

Benjamin Kuzelka, 23, remained hospitalized at Loma Linda Medical Center and will be arrested when he his discharged, said sheriff’s Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez. His mother, Rebecca Kuzelka, 55, and brother, Grey Kuzelka, 21, were booked Thursday on suspicion of manufacturing illegal explosives, illegal growing of marijuana and child endangerment, he said.

Authorities went to Kuzelka Family Day Care after a local hospital reported late Wednesday that Kuzelka walked in and said he had shot himself in the hand. Doctors, however, became suspicious because the wound was inconsistent with a gun shot injury and they called authorities, Gutierrez said.

Investigators found explosives, a sophisticated marijuana-growing facility and evidence that the home had been used as a state-licensed child care facility as recently as the day before, Gutierrez said. The home is on a cul-de-sac in a remote area of Riverside County about 70 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

“We do believe that when all this illegal activity was going on, that children were present,” he said. However, no children were home at the time of the explosion, authorities said.

The explosives were hidden outside and detectives believe Grey Kuzelka moved them from the garage to the backyard while his brother was seeking medical treatment, said sheriff’s Sgt. Pat Chavez.

A hazardous device team responded to the scene and defused explosives Thursday in several controlled blasts throughout the day. They left the scene by the late afternoon, Gutierrez said.

The FBI, which is also investigating, said there was no immediate indication that the case was linked to any terrorist investigation or any threat to public safety.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller referred all other questions to Gutierrez, who said he did not know what types of explosives were found at the site or how powerful they were.

Grey Kuzelka had been arrested on Saturday for investigation of possessing marijuana and concentrated cannabis, and was released the next day on $5,000 bail. Riverside County court records show Benjamin Kuzelka has a string of convictions for drunken driving and drug possession dating back several years.

A child care advocate with the state’s community licensing division, which awards day care licenses, did not immediately respond to an e-mail or phone message seeking comment.

The facility was licensed for children ages 2 to 5 and was approved for no more than eight children at a time, Chavez said.

Great White men in history : Vlad Tepes

No doubt he continues to inspire many…

Wallachian commander Vlad Ţepeş (Impaler), whose residence was located in Sighisoara, Romania, was neither a vampire nor any other supernatural creature. His family coat of arms had an image of a dragon on it, Dracula in Wallachian. That’s where the commander’s sinister nickname came from. However, the stories of his cruelty are most likely true. And Tepes was a nickname as well, not his last name. Vlad enjoyed impaling people (“tep” means “pole” in Romanian).

They say he nailed the hats to the heads of French ambassadors because they refused to remove them before him. He impaled his servant only because the poor guy could not stand the smell of corpses that served as a background for Dracula’s feasts.

Once he gathered all the beggars of his area for a feast and burned them down afterwards. The villain believed that he killed two birds with one stone – freed the country from the beggars and saved the beggars themselves from illnesses and suffering.

Once Dracula ordered to chop off the hands of a peasant’s wife and then impale her because she met her husband wearing rugged clothes. This was a reminder for other female peasants to patch their clothes.

Once Dracula ordered to impale ten thousand people at once, the entire population of a little town that was short of paying him two silver coins in taxes. Dracula was smiling doing this: “This will make others always pay me what they owe.”

By his order people were burned down in their houses and their corpses were fed to crabs in a local pond. Then Dracula fed the crabs to the families of those who dared to infringe upon his power. He liked to dine in a hall next to his enemies’ corpses with their throats cut open. Their dead hands held glasses filled with wine.

There is a castle on a mountain in Brasov called Black Castle. The owner gave it to Dracula as a birthday gift. Dracula did not like something about the castle and ordered to put the vassal to death.

In 1474 the maniac count was assassinated by fed up people at the foot of Moldoveanu mountain. He was not just murdered as a regular criminal, but dismembered.

His head was chopped off (most likely to kill any hope of his revival by black magic), covered with honey (most likely, to preserve it) and sent off to Istanbul to a Turkish sultan. The body was buried in the family tomb in Brasov visited by over 250 thousand tourists a year.

Hundreds of years ago medical experts came to the conclusion that Dracula suffered from continuous sluggish schizophrenia and another rare disease, porphyria. The symptoms of this disease include sunlight phobia (ultraviolet may cause cancerous tumors), extensive body hair coat, sharpening of all teeth.

9/11

These questions are not going away. When will whites stop lying about 9/11?

Heroic Hispanic teacher tackles White Pipe Bomber, prevents bloodbath

Kennet Santana deserves a medal for subduing this domestic terrorist. But the burning remains : Why are young white males so angry and violent? Why do they insist on targeting schools?

SAN MATEO, Calif. – A teacher being hailed as a hero said Tuesday he had no time to think when he encountered a 17-year-old boy who detonated two pipe bombs at a Northern California high school while armed with a chain saw, sword and explosives.

Teacher Kennet Santana, 35, is one of a number of Hillsdale High School staffers credited with subduing the boy, who police say walked into the San Mateo school Monday morning and set off two pipe bombs in a hallway near a library.

Santana told The Associated Press he saw the commotion and was walking cautiously toward it when he found himself face to face with the teen.

“He had a black tactical vest on with lots of pockets,” Santana said by phone Tuesday. “We were maybe six feet away from each other at this point. We’re talking seconds. There was not time for a lot of thinking.”

Santana stopped the boy with a bear hug and threw him to the floor. He was then joined by Principal Jeff Gilbert and school counselor Ed Canda, and the three held the boy down until police arrived.

There was little risk the other bombs would go off because the boy hadn’t lit the fuses.

“He was not struggling,” Santana said. “It was almost like he was defeated.”

The explosions caused neither serious damage nor injury, but the 1,270-student school was evacuated, and Santana and the other staff members were credited with stopping a situation that could have played out much more tragically.

Evidence collected so far suggests the boy had planned the attack for months, and that he had a number of specific targets on the school faculty whom he believed had wronged him, San Mateo police Chief Susan Manheimer said.

“He had planned in brutal and chilling detail this action over months,” she said. “He clearly was out to demonstrate he could get back at the school administration.”

Police Lt. Mike Brunicardi lauded the work of Santana and other staff members who helped subdue the boy.

“The teachers acted heroically and risked their own lives,” Brunicardi said. “(They) were not taking into consideration their personal safety. They were taking the greater good into mind to save 1,270 students and about 100 school staff members.”

Police quickly arrived and arrested the teen on suspicion of six felony counts of attempted murder, igniting a destructive device with intent to murder, possession of destructive devices, possession of destructive devices on school grounds, possession of destructive devices with intent to injure or destroy property and assault with a deadly weapon.

The boy, whom police have not identified because he is a minor, is being held in San Mateo County’s juvenile hall while the district attorney reviews the evidence and decides whether he should be tried as an adult.

Police and agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives searched the apartment where the boy lives on Monday night.

“They did find materials consistent with making explosives, specifically pipe bombs,” Brunicardi said.

Student Olivia Pappas, 14, was in her tenth-grade classroom when she saw the boy walk by. He was wearing black pants and a black, hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled over his head, she said.

“Then I heard a crashing sound, and my teacher looked out and we saw a guy run,” she said. “My hands were shaking. It was so scary.”

Back on campus Tuesday, Santana and other teachers discussed the incident. Students were scheduled to return on Wednesday, and teachers, students and others will gather to discuss the incident in the morning, then restart classes in the afternoon.

“We had more people running to the explosion than we had running away from the explosion,” Gilbert said. “So I think that speaks to the staff and just what they feel about the students.”

White terrorist “sorry” for Vietnam Massacre

40 years too late.

The US army officer convicted for his part in the notorious My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War has offered his first public apology, a US report says.

“There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened,” Lt William Calley was quoted as saying by the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.

He was addressing a small group at a community club in Columbus, Georgia.

Calley, 66, was convicted on 22 counts of murder for the 1968 massacre of 500 men, women and children in Vietnam.

Cold blood

“I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, for the American soldiers involved and their families. I am very sorry,” the former US platoon commander said on Wednesday.

The My Lai massacre was a turning point in the Vietnam War

He was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the killings in 1971. Then-US President Richard Nixon commuted his sentence to three years’ house arrest.

But Calley insisted that he was only following orders, the paper reported.

He broke his silence after accepting a friend’s invitation to speak at the weekly meeting of the Kiwanis Club, a US-based global voluntary organisation.

At the time of the killings, the US soldiers had been on a “search and destroy” mission to root out communist fighters in what was fertile Viet Cong territory.

Although the enemy was nowhere to be seen, the US soldiers of Charlie Company rounded up unarmed civilians and gunned them down.

When the story of My Lai was exposed, more than a year later, it tarnished the name of the US army and proved to be a turning point for public opinion about the Vietnam War.

Shocking : White terrorists kidnap and kill people to steal their body organs

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why these guys(90% of Israelis are White Europeans) aren’t liked or wanted in the Middle East?

The article published in Sweden’s largest circulation daily Aftonbladet on Monday claimed Israeli soldiers abduct young Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip and return their bodies to their families after removing their organs.

The shocking report was revealed following the arrest of a New York rabbi accused of trafficking in human organs.

The article,They plunder the organs of our sons, nonetheless, was heavily criticized by Israeli media as well as officials who accused its writer, Donald Bostrom, of being “anti-semite.”

Bostrom, however, says he has based the story on testimony from Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza and has denied accusations that he was motivated by anti-Semitism.

In the article, he mentions an incident in which a Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers apparently for hurling stones at their vehicle in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

The Palestinian, who was shot in his chest, stomach and both legs, was moved to an unknown location while being in critical condition. Five days later, his body was returned to his family with a visible scar from his neck to stomach.

Autopsy revealed that some of his organs were removed.

Bostrom believes a shortage of organs for transplant in Israel is the real cause behind the violent crime and mentions a 1992 government campaign to recruit new donors.

At the same time that this organ campaign was going on, young Palestinian men were disappearing and being delivered back to their villages five days later at night, dead and cut open, he writes.

Responding to the shocking report, an Israeli military spokesman denied the charges and said Palestinians killed by Israeli forces were routinely subjected to autopsies.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has also condemned the report, saying This piece is so blatantly racist and can induce to hate crimes in such a way that we think authorities need to take care of the matter.

The ministry is also reportedly considering summoning the Swedish ambassador to protest against his government policies as well as the article.

The Israeli Embassy in Stockholm has also sent a strong diplomatic protest to the Swedish government.

Bostrom said another Swedish newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, refused to publish his piece “with no explanation” while Aftonbladet, a popular newspaper in Sweden, published the article without making any editorial changes.

Police use Taser to light Homeless Man on Fire

“Don’t break the law(being a homeless person) or we’ll set you on fire.”

It didn’t take Lancaster police long to discover a potential danger with their newly issued stun guns: They can set their targets on fire.

One day after officers received Tasers this week, two of them were patting out the flames on Daniel Wood, a 31-year-old homeless man who reportedly had been inhaling a chemical from a spray can to get high. Wood was not seriously injured but was taken to a hospital as a precaution, said Lancaster Police Chief David Bailey.

“Clearly, this is not the way we’d hoped to get started,” Bailey said. “But I’m glad the suspect is OK, and this gives us an opportunity to review how we will do things from this point.”

The makers of stun guns warn that such fires are extremely rare but a risk nonetheless, and Lancaster’s written policy for the department’s seven new Tasers says that the devices shouldn’t be used when flammable materials are evident.

Bailey said his officers acted appropriately given the situation and Wood’s combative behavior.

“There was no recognition on the part of these officers that this would be the result,” Bailey said. “They didn’t know the vapor was present and would flash. … It wasn’t as if the suspect was doused in a chemical.”

CNN reported last month that a man in Australia who had been huffing a chemical poured gasoline on himself as he charged police. An officer used a stun gun, and that man burst into flames and was seriously injured.

And a man died in Texas in 2007 after police hit him with pepper spray and then jolted him with a stun gun, according to published reports.

Authorities in both cases said the men were carrying lighters in their hands, so the source of ignition couldn’t be determined for certain.

In Lancaster, the officers responded just after 8 p.m. Monday to a report of a man darting into traffic and yelling threats outside the Kmart on Memorial Drive.

When the two officers arrived, Wood was holding a can of keyboard cleaner in his hand, and one of the officers saw him inhale the chemical, according to a written report.

Wood took off running and, once caught, kicked the officers and tried to bite them, the report says. That’s when an officer used his stun gun, hitting Woods in the chest and an arm with the charged prongs.

“I then observed a flame ignite and I quickly shut off the Taser,” wrote the officer, identified only as H.W. Lanham. “(I) approached him and patted out the flame.”

Wood has a history of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and alcohol and drug charges in Fairfield County Municipal Court.

He was charged on Monday with resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and abusing harmful intoxicants and taken to the Fairfield County jail. He was released about 11:30 p.m. Monday and rearrested yesterday when he failed to show up in court.

Arizona-based Taser International has sold 430,000 devices to law-enforcement officers at 14,750 agencies. Spokesman Steve Tuttle said the warnings about possible ignition are clear but that the incident described in Lancaster “is beyond freakish.”

Lancaster police officers have spent the last four months training under an instructor certified by the Ohio Peace Officers Training Academy, Bailey said. Officers also had to pass a qualifying test.

Spokesmen for both the State Highway Patrol and the Columbus Division of Police, where most troopers and officers carry stun guns, said their training is extensive, and that their respective policies also warn of the risk of fire.

Black man fights off 3 white supremacists

3 to 1? White kind of odds…

Many people were shocked by the video that surfaced recently of three young Caucasian men apparently swarming a lone black man in a strip mall parking lot on a hot summer night in the Vancouver Island city of Courtenay.

But having to fight because of his skin colour was no surprise for that black man, 38-year-old Jay Phillips. It was just history repeating itself.

His father also had to defend himself in B.C. because he was black.

On Friday, David Samuel White, 19, Adam David Huber, 24, and Robert William Rodgers, 25, were charged with assaulting Phillips on the evening of July 3, in an apparent racist attack captured on video and broadcast on the Internet.

The trio were allegedly involved in a separate attack on a young Caucasian man later that evening, RCMP Const. Tammy Douglas told The Province.

Phillips and his mother, Kirsten, who is Caucasian, responded to the charges in separate interviews with The Province.

Both remembered Jay’s father Reginald Phillips, who died before Christmas, as a man who taught his son to be proud of his colour and to defend himself.

Reginald and Kirsten first started dating in the 1960s in Prince Rupert.

“He was the only black man in town, dating a white woman, so of course he had to fight plenty,” Jay Phillips said with a laugh.

Racially-motivated fights continued in various B.C. towns, Kirsten said.

Reginald taught Jay Phillips to box from a young age, both mother and son recalled. Those skills are apparent in the July 3 video, as Phillips, a 210-pound man who can bench press 300 pounds, fought three men to a draw at the very least.

But it’s the way Jay has acted after the fight that Reginald would most appreciate, Kirsten said.

“He’d be extremely proud of the way Jason is handling this with his brain.” “He’d be beaming; he’d be so proud that I did this the right way,” Jay said. “My dad told me stand up for yourself — don’t be racist. Don’t take s— from anyone.” The family is well aware that the video of Phillips repelling three brawlers has become an Internet sensation. But the ugly incident can be used to teach and spark dialogue, they say.

Initially, Kirsten felt the gut-wrenching emotion of a mother watching her son on the pavement getting hammered by six fists.

“My heart stood still and I still choke up when I watch the video,” she said. “But I had to cheer when Jason got up and they started to scatter like little flies.” “It shows racism is alive and well,” she added. “First and foremost, people are talking about it.” Phillips says the media sensation around his actions has led to offers to teach in classrooms and even run for politics, as he proves he can “speak well” with his message against racism and gang-up attacks.

“I was at a rally [in Courtenay against racism] and eight mothers came up to me and said the same thing has happened to their kids,” he said.

“There’s a mentality bubbling up [with bullying and fighting in Courtenay] and I don’t want to see it explode.” Phillips says he will eventually show the now-famous fight video to his baby son, Malik. And like his father taught him, he’ll teach the boy to box.

“I’ll let him know racism is out there. I just hope he doesn’t have to go through this.” Before they were charged, the alleged attackers appeared in a TV interview with faces obscured under hooded sweaters. They admitted to racist language easily heard on the video, but claimed racial motivation in the fight was “blown out of proportion.” “We’re not white supremacists,” one said.

Police have presented evidence to Crown prosecutors and if the three are convicted, a judge will decide whether hate-crime law is warranted during sentencing, RCMP say.

Phillips told The Province he’s convinced he was the victim of a hate crime, but he’s not at all interested in vengeance on the three.

In fact, he hopes they get proper instruction — in the justice system.

“They’re young and stupid, so hopefully they’ll learn from this,” Phillips said.

“You start running around and doing this kind of stuff and sooner or later, someone loses their life.”

British Neo-Nazi had ‘chilling’ plans to form racist hit squad

As usual white media plays down the high number of domestic terrorists in its midst…

Neo-Nazi Neil Lewington had “chilling” ambitions of forming a racist hit squad along the lines of Hitler’s Waffen SS.

Calling itself the Waffen SS UK, he envisaged teams working in twos to plant bombs all over Britain.

His plans were found in a hand-written manual called Waffen SS UK Members Handbook, discovered in his bedroom.

After defining terrorism and the law, he set out his “statement from the command council”.

It said: “A new group has been formed, the Waffen SS UK. We have 30 members split into 15 two-man cells.

“We are highly trained ex-military personnel and will use incendiary and explosive devices throughout the UK at random until all non-British people as defined by blood are removed from our country. This is no joke.

“In this country the most serious domestic terrorist threat is the Alf (Animal Liberation Front), start rewriting the books?

“Finally our motto: You cannot stop what can’t be stopped.”

Brian Altman QC told the jury: “You may conclude that this was a chilling mission statement, a statement of intention by this defendant, one he took very seriously and, quite clearly, an intention he had begun to put into effect.”

Under another title, Targeting/Attacking Pakis, was written “general surveillance, names and addresses, observing Asians in cars, planting motion-sensitive bombs, hate mail, hit-and-run by vehicles”.

He also used a statement linked to Combat 18, described as “Britain’s leading neo-fascist group”.

During the war, the feared Waffen SS acted as the Nazi party’s combat section and ran death camps in which millions of people were murdered.

Counter-terrorism police found nothing to suggest the existence of a UK group following Lewington’s arrest.

Although he had sympathies for fascist groups, there was no proof that he was a member of any organisation.

A source said: “The SS handbook, this was something he was planning – or at the very least gives an insight into his mind.

“He was a nobody who thought this would make him a somebody.”

Dutch Return of Severed Head Revives Gruesome Colonial Past

How “civilized” of them…and a reminder of how little has changed.

The Dutch returned the disembodied head of a Ghana king, reviving memories of a grisly colonial past.

Head Returned in Tense Ceremony

In a ceremony at The Hague last week, the Dutch government officially restored an executed Ahanta chief’s head to Ghanaian tribal leaders, months after Ghana demanded its return.

Severed from the body of King Badu Bonsu II in 1838, the head hid preserved in a jar of formaldehyde in the Leiden University Medical Center’s anatomical wing for 170 years. It is believed that the Dutch decapitated the chief in retaliation for the deaths of two of their emissaries. Dutch officials issued a statement insisting that King Bonsu had been “handed over by his own nation,” according to the BBC. Arthur Japin, an author who came across the Ahanta chief’s head while researching a novel, believes that Maj. Gen. Jan Verveer brought the head back to the Netherlands at the request of a phrenologist. Phrenology, a pseudoscience popular in the 19th century, attempted to scientifically determine people’s characters by the lumps and structures of their skulls.

Professor Addo-Fening described to the BBC the head’s significance for the chief’s tribe, explaining that, “When people die and their bodies are not found and buried, it leaves a lingering fear that they will not find rest with their ancestors until this is done.”

Members of the Ahanta tribe, The Associated Press reports, sprinkled Dutch gin over the Foreign Ministry’s floor in honor of their former chief’s spirit. Despite Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen’s insistence on the two countries’ “mutual desire to lay to rest episodes in … history that were unfortunate and shameful,” the Ahanta chief’s descendants remained angry, especially amid confusions over the transfer, according to the AP. Current Ahanta chief Nana Etsin Kofi II declared that, “We, the Ahanta, are not happy at all.” Leading the ceremony, Nana Kwekwe Darko III added that, “It is because of the injustice meted out to our people that our great king, who was fighting for his people, was murdered.”

The Gold Coast: Centuries of Imperialism

With its extensive mineral wealth, Ghana, or the Gold Coast, was the first place in sub-Saharan Africa to attract European traders. In 1482, the Portuguese built the Gold Coast’s first permanent trading fort, the still-standing Elmina Castle. Although the government of Ghana reports that the area exported about 10 percent of the world’s gold supply by 1600, the gold trade rapidly gave way to the slave trade over the course of the 17th century.

According to Philip Curtin, a slave trade scholar cited by the Library of Congress, roughly 6.3 million slaves were sent to North and South America from West Africa. To this day, Ghana’s infamous Door of No Return, the spot where many shackled Africans last glimpsed the continent before boarding slave ships, stands as a monument to Ghana’s gruesome past.

With the new trade came new European traders, including the Dutch, the English, the Danish and the Swedish. The Dutch were a strong early presence, conquering Elmina Castle in 1642 and expanding their presence in the 1700s through the Dutch West India Company. During the 19th century, Britain became the dominant Gold Coast power, and finally expelled the Dutch in 1872 with the purchase of Elmina Castle. In 1874 the British declared their coastal protectorate the Gold Coast Colony, after having used hostility between tribes to expand their influence. The British continued to fight the powerful Asante tribe until 1902, the U.S. State Department explains, when they finally established control over that region.

In 1957, Ghana, the first sub-Saharan site of European trading, likewise became the first sub-Saharan country to declare independence from a colonial power.

White man kills 3 women, wounds 9 others in Shooting Rampage at Pittsburgh Gym

Another deadly example of how white men continue to blame others for their own failures…with woman as the target of choice.

George Sodini finally got the attention he wanted. After years of hoping women would take notice of him, Sodini allegedly entered a Pennsylvania health club Tuesday night and murdered three women in cold blood before turning a gun on himself.

Investigators need not puzzle over the motives for Sodini’s rampage; the 48-year-old suspected killer spelled them out in blood-chilling detail in an online diary.

“These are the rambling messages of a likely psychotic” and display characteristics of a man who has been “severely depressed for a long time,” forensic psychologist Naftali Berrill said of Sodini’s writing.

The image that emerges from his blog is that of a loner — a psychopath, routinely rejected by women who spent a year casing the gym and plotting his revenge on the “the young girls here [that] look so beautiful as to not be human, very edible.”

A combination of feelings of neglect, loneliness, insanity and perhaps a fear of losing his job may have all contributed to what set off Sodini, a seemingly by-the-book computer programmer from Pittsburgh, experts said.

The loner, who feels he was neglected as a child and seeks attention through killing, fits the classic profile for a mass shooter, law enforcement officials said. Forensic psychologists who study killers told ABC News.com that judging from Sodini’s writings he was likely severely depressed and felt that the shooting was the one way he could garner people’s interest in him.

“He fits the profile of a shooter,” said former FBI agent and ABC News consultant Brad Garrett, “He spends a lot of time in his blog talking about how he was mistreated as a child. He felt he went through life feeling no one cared for him, loved him or nurtured him.”

“As he got older, he likely isolated himself more and more and was able to justify his disturbing behavior. His perceived rejection justifies his actions,” he said.

Sodini writes that no one suspects what he is planning. Roberta Kozel, 39, who co-owns the tanning salon Sodini frequented as recently as Saturday, said he seemed awkward but not dangerous.

“He didn’t seem like a violent person, he seemed like the typical class nerd. He was a little odd but you could never figure out what it was. Maybe it was shyness, I’m not sure. He just reminded me of the class nerd,” she said.

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“It certainly could have been us, it could have been anybody. Obviously he methodically thought this out. He frequented the gym as much as he frequented the salon.”

 

Murders ‘Purposeful and Conscious’

Tellingly, Sodini’s online diary — posted on the Web for anyone to read — left instructions that he wanted his notes published and studied following his suicide.

That behavior, reminiscent of Cho Seung-hui, the Virginia Tech shooter who sent a manifesto to NBC News to be aired after his plot, is a classic move of shooters who feel this is the only way to get attention, said Berrill.

“‘Practice Papers’ left on my coffee table I used or the notes in my gym bag can be published freely. I will not be embarrassed, because, well, I will be dead. Some people like to study that stuff,” Sodini wrote.

“This is all part of a grandiose posture,” said Berrill. “There was a moment when he decided to stop being a sad sack that couldn’t get women to look at him, or get dates, or have sex. He hatched a scheme to kill people and he knew if he did he would finally become a subject of interest.”

“The murders were a purposeful and conscious effort to be a grand, powerful man of the moment. He couldn’t achieve that through social means, like having a career or girlfriend, so he did by becoming a killer,” said Berrill.

Sodini, who had been employed since 1999 as a systems analyst at the Pittsburgh law firm K&L Gates, writes of his inability to meet or connect with women, despite wanting to desperately.

He said he had not had a girlfriend since 1984. In one instance he says he has no children, but later claims another woman, Lee Ann Valdiserri, had his baby in 1991. Public records indicate Valdiserri died in 2004. “I guess some of us were simply meant to walk a lonely path. I have slept alone for over 20 years. Last time I slept all night with a girlfriend it was 1982. Proof I am a total malfunction. Girls and women don’t even give me a second look ANYWHERE. There is something BLATANTLY wrong with me that NO god dam person will tell me what it is,” he wrote on his blog.

Sodini writes that he had previously planned the shooting for January but “chickened out.”

He complains about feeling neglected and bullied by his mother and older brother, a classic grievance for high-profile murderers, said Garrett.

Sodini refers to his mother as the “central boss” and calls her “vindictive” and “very dominant.”

He describes his brother Michael Sodini, as a “big bully, twice the size of most others.”

White Terrorist Army “Blackwater” Founder Implicated in Murder

Is it time for a “War on White Terror” to be declared?

A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that Prince’s companies “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.”

In their testimony, both men also allege that Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq. One of the men alleges that Prince turned a profit by transporting “illegal” or “unlawful” weapons into the country on Prince’s private planes. They also charge that Prince and other Blackwater executives destroyed incriminating videos, emails and other documents and have intentionally deceived the US State Department and other federal agencies. The identities of the two individuals were sealed out of concerns for their safety.

These allegations, and a series of other charges, are contained in sworn affidavits, given under penalty of perjury, filed late at night on August 3 in the Eastern District of Virginia as part of a seventy-page motion by lawyers for Iraqi civilians suing Blackwater for alleged war crimes and other misconduct. Susan Burke, a private attorney working in conjunction with the Center for Constitutional Rights, is suing Blackwater in five separate civil cases filed in the Washington, DC, area. They were recently consolidated before Judge T.S. Ellis III of the Eastern District of Virginia for pretrial motions. Burke filed the August 3 motion in response to Blackwater’s motion to dismiss the case. Blackwater asserts that Prince and the company are innocent of any wrongdoing and that they were professionally performing their duties on behalf of their employer, the US State Department.

The former employee, identified in the court documents as “John Doe #2,” is a former member of Blackwater’s management team, according to a source close to the case. Doe #2 alleges in a sworn declaration that, based on information provided to him by former colleagues, “it appears that Mr. Prince and his employees murdered, or had murdered, one or more persons who have provided information, or who were planning to provide information, to the federal authorities about the ongoing criminal conduct.” John Doe #2 says he worked at Blackwater for four years; his identity is concealed in the sworn declaration because he “fear[s] violence against me in retaliation for submitting this Declaration.” He also alleges, “On several occasions after my departure from Mr. Prince’s employ, Mr. Prince’s management has personally threatened me with death and violence.”

In a separate sworn statement, the former US marine who worked for Blackwater in Iraq alleges that he has “learned from my Blackwater colleagues and former colleagues that one or more persons who have provided information, or who were planning to provide information about Erik Prince and Blackwater have been killed in suspicious circumstances.” Identified as “John Doe #1,” he says he “joined Blackwater and deployed to Iraq to guard State Department and other American government personnel.” It is not clear if Doe #1 is still working with the company as he states he is “scheduled to deploy in the immediate future to Iraq.” Like Doe #2, he states that he fears “violence” against him for “submitting this Declaration.” No further details on the alleged murder(s) are provided.

“Mr. Prince feared, and continues to fear, that the federal authorities will detect and prosecute his various criminal deeds,” states Doe #2. “On more than one occasion, Mr. Prince and his top managers gave orders to destroy emails and other documents. Many incriminating videotapes, documents and emails have been shredded and destroyed.”

The Nation cannot independently verify the identities of the two individuals, their roles at Blackwater or what motivated them to provide sworn testimony in these civil cases. Both individuals state that they have previously cooperated with federal prosecutors conducting a criminal inquiry into Blackwater.

“It’s a pending investigation, so we cannot comment on any matters in front of a Grand Jury or if a Grand Jury even exists on these matters,” John Roth, the spokesperson for the US Attorney’s office in the District of Columbia, told The Nation. “It would be a crime if we did that.” Asked specifically about whether there is a criminal investigation into Prince regarding the murder allegations and other charges, Roth said: “We would not be able to comment on what we are or are not doing in regards to any possible investigation involving an uncharged individual.”

The Nation repeatedly attempted to contact spokespeople for Prince or his companies at numerous email addresses and telephone numbers. When a company representative was reached by phone and asked to comment, she said, “Unfortunately no one can help you in that area.” The representative then said that she would pass along The Nation’s request. As this article goes to press, no company representative has responded further to The Nation.

Doe #2 states in the declaration that he has also provided the information contained in his statement “in grand jury proceedings convened by the United States Department of Justice.” Federal prosecutors convened a grand jury in the aftermath of the September 16, 2007, Nisour Square shootings in Baghdad, which left seventeen Iraqis dead. Five Blackwater employees are awaiting trial on several manslaughter charges and a sixth, Jeremy Ridgeway, has already pleaded guilty to manslaughter and attempting to commit manslaughter and is cooperating with prosecutors. It is not clear whether Doe #2 testified in front of the Nisour Square grand jury or in front of a separate grand jury.

The two declarations are each five pages long and contain a series of devastating allegations concerning Erik Prince and his network of companies, which now operate under the banner of Xe Services LLC. Among those leveled by Doe #2 is that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe”:

To that end, Mr. Prince intentionally deployed to Iraq certain men who shared his vision of Christian supremacy, knowing and wanting these men to take every available opportunity to murder Iraqis. Many of these men used call signs based on the Knights of the Templar, the warriors who fought the Crusades.

Mr. Prince operated his companies in a manner that encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life. For example, Mr. Prince’s executives would openly speak about going over to Iraq to “lay Hajiis out on cardboard.” Going to Iraq to shoot and kill Iraqis was viewed as a sport or game. Mr. Prince’s employees openly and consistently used racist and derogatory terms for Iraqis and other Arabs, such as “ragheads” or “hajiis.”

Among the additional allegations made by Doe #1 is that “Blackwater was smuggling weapons into Iraq.” He states that he personally witnessed weapons being “pulled out” from dog food bags. Doe #2 alleges that “Prince and his employees arranged for the weapons to be polywrapped and smuggled into Iraq on Mr. Prince’s private planes, which operated under the name Presidential Airlines,” adding that Prince “generated substantial revenues from participating in the illegal arms trade.”

Doe #2 states: “Using his various companies, [Prince] procured and distributed various weapons, including unlawful weapons such as sawed off semi-automatic machine guns with silencers, through unlawful channels of distribution.” Blackwater “was not abiding by the terms of the contract with the State Department and was deceiving the State Department,” according to Doe #1.

This is not the first time an allegation has surfaced that Blackwater used dog food bags to smuggle weapons into Iraq. ABC News’s Brian Ross reported in November 2008 that a “federal grand jury in North Carolina is investigating allegations the controversial private security firm Blackwater illegally shipped assault weapons and silencers to Iraq, hidden in large sacks of dog food.” Another former Blackwater employee has also confirmed this information to The Nation.

Both individuals allege that Prince and Blackwater deployed individuals to Iraq who, in the words of Doe #1, “were not properly vetted and cleared by the State Department.” Doe #2 adds that “Prince ignored the advice and pleas from certain employees, who sought to stop the unnecessary killing of innocent Iraqis.” Doe #2 further states that some Blackwater officials overseas refused to deploy “unfit men” and sent them back to the US. Among the reasons cited by Doe #2 were “the men making statements about wanting to deploy to Iraq to ‘kill ragheads’ or achieve ‘kills’ or ‘body counts,’” as well as “excessive drinking” and “steroid use.” However, when the men returned to the US, according to Doe #2, “Prince and his executives would send them back to be deployed in Iraq with an express instruction to the concerned employees located overseas that they needed to ’stop costing the company money.’”

Doe #2 also says Prince “repeatedly ignored the assessments done by mental health professionals, and instead terminated those mental health professionals who were not willing to endorse deployments of unfit men.” He says Prince and then-company president Gary Jackson “hid from Department of State the fact that they were deploying men to Iraq over the objections of mental health professionals and security professionals in the field,” saying they “knew the men being deployed were not suitable candidates for carrying lethal weaponry, but did not care because deployments meant more money.”

Doe #1 states that “Blackwater knew that certain of its personnel intentionally used excessive and unjustified deadly force, and in some instances used unauthorized weapons, to kill or seriously injure innocent Iraqi civilians.” He concludes, “Blackwater did nothing to stop this misconduct.” Doe #1 states that he “personally observed multiple incidents of Blackwater personnel intentionally using unnecessary, excessive and unjustified deadly force.” He then cites several specific examples of Blackwater personnel firing at civilians, killing or “seriously” wounding them, and then failing to report the incidents to the State Department.

Doe #1 also alleges that “all of these incidents of excessive force were initially videotaped and voice recorded,” but that “Immediately after the day concluded, we would watch the video in a session called a ‘hot wash.’ Immediately after the hotwashing, the video was erased to prevent anyone other than Blackwater personnel seeing what had actually occurred.” Blackwater, he says, “did not provide the video to the State Department.”

Doe #2 expands on the issue of unconventional weapons, alleging Prince “made available to his employees in Iraq various weapons not authorized by the United States contracting authorities, such as hand grenades and hand grenade launchers. Mr. Prince’s employees repeatedly used this illegal weaponry in Iraq, unnecessarily killing scores of innocent Iraqis.” Specifically, he alleges that Prince “obtained illegal ammunition from an American company called LeMas. This company sold ammunition designed to explode after penetrating within the human body. Mr. Prince’s employees repeatedly used this illegal ammunition in Iraq to inflict maximum damage on Iraqis.”

Blackwater has gone through an intricate rebranding process in the twelve years it has been in business, changing its name and logo several times. Prince also has created more than a dozen affiliate companies, some of which are registered offshore and whose operations are shrouded in secrecy. According to Doe #2, “Prince created and operated this web of companies in order to obscure wrongdoing, fraud and other crimes.”

“For example, Mr. Prince transferred funds from one company (Blackwater) to another (Greystone) whenever necessary to avoid detection of his money laundering and tax evasion schemes.” He added: “Mr. Prince contributed his personal wealth to fund the operations of the Prince companies whenever he deemed such funding necessary. Likewise, Mr. Prince took funds out of the Prince companies and placed the funds in his personal accounts at will.”

Briefed on the substance of these allegations by The Nation, Congressman Dennis Kucinich replied, “If these allegations are true, Blackwater has been a criminal enterprise defrauding taxpayers and murdering innocent civilians.” Kucinich is on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and has been investigating Prince and Blackwater since 2004.

“Blackwater is a law unto itself, both internationally and domestically. The question is why they operated with impunity. In addition to Blackwater, we should be questioning their patrons in the previous administration who funded and employed this organization. Blackwater wouldn’t exist without federal patronage; these allegations should be thoroughly investigated,” Kucinich said.

A hearing before Judge Ellis in the civil cases against Blackwater is scheduled for August 7.

Suspect identified in LaGuardia bomb scare

Given that they represent the majority of terrorists worldwide why isn’t there more rigorous profiling of while males?

NEW YORK (CNN) — Authorities evacuated LaGuardia Airport’s Central Terminal for several hours Saturday after a man with a bag containing wires and a battery entered the airport, a Port Authority spokesman said.

The man is in custody, and authorities have allowed passengers back into the terminal, Port Authority spokesman John Kelly said.

A law enforcement official close to the investigation identified the man as Scott McGann, 32, of New York. He had tickets on a United Airlines flight to Chicago, as well as connecting flights that would have ended in Oakland, California.

The law enforcement source said the suspect approached a security checkpoint in the Central Terminal as he was carrying a backpack with two square six-volt batteries taped together, and with wires protruding from them.

Port Authority police told him not to move, the source said, but he did not comply and appeared as though he tried to “push a switch,” but “nothing happened.”

The backpack also contained unspecified electronic devices and personal items, the source said.

McGann has three prior arrests in the New York area, the source said. The most recent involved June charges of tampering with evidence and resisting arrest. He was also arrested twice in 2008, the source said.

New York Police Department’s Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Paul Browne had told CNN earlier that the man, whom he did not identify, raised the suspicions of a Transportation Security Administration employee because he appeared “intoxicated.”

Kelly, who also didn’t identify the man, had said he “was just acting crazy,” and offered no further details.

Browne had described the man’s bag as a duffel, which he said contained batteries that were hooked up to wires.

The city’s bomb squad was called in to examine the device, Browne said, and determined that it was not dangerous.

“It was a hoax device,” he said.

Asked whether the man had said anything about a bomb, Browne said, “Clearly, it appeared he wanted people to think that’s what he had.”

The terminal was evacuated shortly after 5:20 a.m., but by midmorning, all concourses in the terminal were reopened, with the exception of Concourse C, Kelly said. Authorities are treating the concourse, which serves American Eagle, United and United Express flights, as a crime scene, Kelly said. iReport: Watch crowds start moving back into the terminal

Concourse C will likely reopen in a few hours, he said.

Authorities had stopped flights from taking off or landing at the airport, but by a little after 9 a.m., flights were slowly resuming, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Holly Baker said.

Baker said flights were expected to be back to normal in a few hours.

It was not known how many passengers were in the terminal at the time of the evacuation, although scores of them with luggage lined the roads outside the airport after the terminal and entrances were closed. Watch the chaotic evacuation scene »

Central Terminal is one of four terminals in the airport, which is in the borough of Queens. It is about eight miles from Manhattan.

The incident disrupted travel plans for many passengers, including CNN iReporter Jose Ojeda, 24, who had been sitting on the tarmac on a plane headed to Chicago, Illinois, when the evacuation was ordered.

“We were all ready to go,” Ojeda, of Bronx, New York, said of his flight, which he said had been scheduled to leave at 6:10 a.m.

“They didn’t make any announcement other than, ‘You need to evacuate,’” he said. “I thought it was standard procedure, but then once we got out of the plane, they kept pushing us back and back, out of the terminal [and] out of the actual airport.

White man arrested for making terrorist threats against telemarketer

So what else is new? Why not just hang up?

Fostoria, OH – Charles W. Papenfus, 43, was arrested after he reportedly threatened a telemarketer – stating that he would burn down their building and kill the employee’s families.

According to the suspect’s attorney, the fiasco began when an extended warranty company contacted Papenfus to inform him the factory warranty on his Ford Focus had expired.

Papenfus reportedly became upset because he had purchased the vehicle as a used car that hadn’t been covered by the factory for years. He repeatedly asked the telemarketer why they were calling him about a warranty for a car he purchased used for $3,000.

After hanging up, Papenfus reportedly called the telemarketer back to complain again. The exchange between Papenfus and the telemarketer degenerated into a verbal confrontation where both parties began insulting each other, according Papenfus‘ attorney.

During the confrontation, Papenfus allegedly threatened to burn down the telemarketing firm’s building and kill the families of those employed by the company, according to court documents.

Prosecutors say Papenfus‘ delivered the threats “without provocation” and went so far as to identify specific workers he intended to target. Papenfus‘ wife blamed the outburst on prescription painkillers that she claimed he was taking for a wrist injury.

Papenfus was booked into the St. Louis City Jail on charges of making terroristic threats. Bond has now been set at $40,000.

Mexico builds border fence to “keep US assholes out”

A nation has the right to secure it’s borders.

German Neo-Nazi murders pregnant Egyptian woman in court

The White media has ignored this shocking tale of manslaughter in the hope that it will go away. Why do they tolerate Neo-Nazis, who insist on using murderous violence against non-whites? Should white males be considered terrorists until proven otherwise? Isn’t it time non-whites take measures to protect themselves and their families from savage unrepentant racist white terrorists?

A woman stabbed to death in a German court was an Egyptian who had sued her attacker after he insulted her for wearing the Islamic headscarf, local newspapers reported on Friday.

Marwa Aal-Sherbini, 32, who was killed in a court in Dresden on Wednesday, was the wife of Egyptian academic Elwi Ali Okaz who was also hurt in the incident and is now in critical condition in hospital, the state-owned Al-Akhbar reported.

Husband Okaz was in Germany on a scholarship through Menufiya University’s institute of Genetic Engineering. He is still unaware that his wife had died.

The attacker stabbed Sherbini “shortly before she was to give evidence in an appeal lodged by the man against a conviction for insulting her over wearing the hijab,” said the state-owned Egyptian Gazette.

The 28-year-old man, identified only as Axel W., was overpowered and was being investigated for manslaughter over the killing of the woman, a spokesman for the Dresden prosecutor’s office said.

Axel W. was previously found guilty and fined €2,800 in civil compensation for calling the victim a “terrorist” in August 2008 in a Dresden park because she was wearing a headscarf.

Magdi Al-Sayed, press officer at the German embassy in Cairo, said the case was isolated and did not reflect German attitude towards Muslims.

“It is a criminal act. It has nothing to do with persecution against Muslims,” Sayed told the Gazette.

The Minister of Higher Education Hani Helal has given orders that travel arrangements to Germany for the families of both victims be facilitated. –Daily News Egypt with additional reporting by AFP

Russian Neo-Nazis kill 9 year old girl

Khursheda’s father and nephew were injured in the attack

Why aren’t Neo-Nazis being publicly executed for killing children? Hat tip : Greg

Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld the verdict in the high-profile killing of a nine-year-old Tajik girl in 2004.

In March, seven defendants were found guilty of hooliganism and one of them was found not guilty of murder.

Khursheda Sultonova died of 11 knife wounds in St Petersburg after being attacked by a group of teenagers.

The seven teenagers were given jail terms of 18 months to five-and-a-half years. Prosecutors and defence lawyers appealed against the verdict.

The jury also rejected prosecution claims that the attack in February in 2004 was ethnically motivated.

Ethnic minority activists in Russia have raised concerns that the ruling could provoke more attacks by racists who think they can act with impunity.

Russia has recently witnessed a series of attacks targeting foreigners and representatives of ethnic minorities. Some of the attacks were fatal.

Dissatisfaction

“The panel of judges ruled to uphold the verdict delivered by the St Petersburg City Court on 30 May to seven defendants,” said the Supreme Court’s ruling, quoted by Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency.

The court also dismissed requests by both sides to hold a retrial, without further elaboration.

Prosecutors had been pressing for a retrial, arguing that “the jury sympathised” with the defendants, Itar-Tass reported.

The defence lawyers also expressed dissatisfaction with the court’s ruling, claiming that the trial was flawed.

They said they did not rule out appealing against the verdict to the European Court of Human Rights.

Pictured: The shocking moment police officer grabs female climate change protester by the throat

White men seem to prefer a violent approach towards woman…

Dramatic footage has been released of two women protesters being bundled to the ground after asking a policeman for his identification number.

The video shows one of the climate change protesters being held by the throat by a police officer.

The footage shot by police, who were policing the protest at the Kingsnorth power station in Kent last August, has been handed to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, according to the protesters.

Under arrest: An officer grabs climate change protester Val Swain by the throat

The pictures show Emily Apple, 33, asking one of the policemen for his number. He responds: ‘I don’t have to tell you.’

She insists he does and asks her fellow protester, Val Swain, 43, a mother of three from Cornwall, to take a picture of the officer. Moments later both are dragged to the floor and put in the stress position.

Mrs Apple, a mother of one from Cardiff, told The Guardian newspaper, which obtained the footage, that within seconds of her request she had been thrown to the floor.

‘The first shot she [Mrs Swain] tried to take was blocked by the officer and the second shot she was grabbed and bundled across the road,’ Mrs Apple said. ‘Within seconds I was also on the floor being restrained.’

When told she is being arrested, Mrs Swain cries out: ‘Arrested for what? Taking a photograph?’

The footage also shows the officer holding her by the throat and pulling her head up, seemingly to show her face to the camera. Mrs Swain is later shown having her legs bound and being carried into the back of a police van by several officers.

The video also shows officers applying pressure to stress points on the women’s body as fellow protesters are heard in background demanding to know why they are being arrested.

Both women insist they were deliberately targeted by officers for their involvement in Fit Watch, an organisation which opposes heavy-handed policing and surveillance filming.

The pair were held for four days after being arrested for obstructing police officers but were eventually released without charge, they claim.

A spokesman for the IPCC said last night that the video had not yet been received.

‘Today is the first I have heard of the video. But we will look at anything that comes to us,’ said Trish Keville, IPCC press officer.

West Yorkshire Police could not be reached last night and a Kent Police spokesman said he did not know how the video, shot by police officers, ended up with the Guardian.

Great White men in history : Jeffrey Dahmer

White cannibalism at its finest.

“Why the hell should I feel sorry?” – Lynndie England

The benefits of of being a white war criminal : Torture and sexually abuse prisoners in an illegal war, barely spend anytime in prison, show no regret and get a book deal.

In this deeply disturbing interview, the trailer trash torturer who appalled the world by appearing in shocking ’souvenir’ photographs remains utterly unrepentant and says she has 800 MORE torture photos that could rock the White House

Normally, not much happens in Keyser, West Virginia, but today the folks in this quaint little railroad town, nestling in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, are spoilt for choice.

Either they can whoop and holler along to fiddle music at the annual Strawberry Festival or head down to the bookshop, where a local ‘celebrity’ – as her agent-cum-lawyer describes her – is signing first editions of her new biography.

Arriving at Main Street Books to find a young woman – considerably heavier now, but still grimly familiar – loitering self-consciously beside a pile of unsold manuscripts, it becomes clear that the fiddle players have won hands-down.

Degrading: One of the images of U.S. soldier Lynndie England at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Six years on a defiant England claims she was just doing her duty

When the shop closes, two hours later, Lynndie England has autographed barely two dozen copies, mostly for acquaintances such as her old schoolteacher.

For even on her home territory, few people are willing to line the pockets of this fallen girl soldier; who posed for a stomach-churning series of ’souvenir’ photographs that cost countless American lives and brought shame on the nation.

Five years have passed since a U.S. TV station first broadcast those pictures, staged to humiliate and dehumanise Iraqi prisoners – and provide warped amusement for their U.S. Army guards – at Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad.

They caused universal outrage, ending any lingering pretence that President George W. Bush was on some moral crusade in Iraq, and sparking a wave of retaliatory beheadings; many of which were videoed to reciprocate the horror and degradation meted out to the Muslim detainees.

Such was their impact that they are still said to be used as recruitment propaganda for Islamic terror groups.

After all, what better way to incite a young fanatic than by showing him a photo of a female American soldier nonchalantly holding a leash, tightened around the neck of a naked and hooded Iraqi prisoner, as he squirms on the floor of his cell?

In another photograph, the waif-like Military Police private casually inspects a line of terrified Iraqi prisoners – again stripped and wearing sandbags over their heads – as they are forced to masturbate.

Grinning broadly with a cigarette clamped in her mouth, England, then just 21 and weighing less than seven stone, added to their humiliation by pointing mockingly at their genitals and giving the thumbs-up sign; a gesture now known as the ‘Lynndie salute’.

One of seven U.S. Army reserves jailed for mistreating prisoners at Abu Ghraib – including her former lover Corporal Charles Graner, a sadistic, camera-obsessed bully who orchestrated the photo sessions – she has served three years in detention and is now on parole.

With a new book to peddle and her appeal against the conviction due to be heard next month, one might have expected the 26-year-old England to express some remorse.

Following Barack Obama’s release of CIA torture files which lend credence to her claim that the ritual humiliation of prisoners was a White House sanctioned tactic during the Bush regime, she even consulted her local senator about petitioning for a Presidential pardon

But ’sorry’, it becomes clear, is not in Lynndie England’s vocabulary.

When we speak, three things strike me: her breathtaking lack of contrition; her unsuitability to have been a serving soldier and her utter indifference towards the horrifically abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib, 90 per cent of whom were later released without charge.

Since no established biographer would touch her life story (it was even dropped by the literary agent who handled O.J. Simpson’s widely reviled book, If I Did It) her biography has been penned by a greenhorn local author, Gary Winkler.

For a man whose two previous works were lilting chronicles of Appalachian life, it has proved a chastening experience. Not only has he fallen out bitterly with his subject and her agent-cum-lawyer and confidant, Roy T. Hardy, but he has patently struggled to get the characteristically withdrawn England to open up.

‘I just don’t think she’s a very deep person,’ Winkler, a white-bearded former musician in his late 50s, concludes miserably.

Disgrace: Iraq detainees appear to be surrounded by U.S. military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison

‘Lynndie only has two moods: bored and p****d off.’

During our first meeting, when she yawns through my questions, I see what he means.

Two days later, however, perhaps enlivened by the anti-depressant tablets upon which she relies, England is more animated and opens up to describe the background to the photographs in more detail than ever before.

They were taken on three separate nights in late October and early November 2003. At the time, her job was to process the detainees’ admission and release forms.

As a clerical support worker, she had no business in the so-called Hard Site at Abu Ghraib, a block of some 40 cells where the supposedly most dangerous inmates were held.

But she routinely sneaked in late at night to sleep with Graner, a hulking 6ft 3in ex-Marine in charge of the night patrol.

After their arrest, she discovered he had also been having sex with another female soldier who worked on the block, Megan Ambuhl, whom he has married while in prison.

At the time of their affair, England was also married, to childhood sweetheart James Fike, so their relationship was against U.S. military rules.

Even after being repeatedly warned, she refused to break off with Graner and was eventually demoted.

She says she was mesmerised by Graner, who worked in civilian life as a prison corrections officer and had an appalling record for abusing prisoners – one claimed he hid razor blades in the prison food.

‘I was blinded by a fool’s love,’ England says in her cigarette-coarsened south-country drawl, as if this explains and excuses her participation in the pictures.

‘I know now that Graner was manipulating me, but at that point I would have done anything he told me.’

I ask her about one of the most chilling pictures, in which seven naked detainees, brought to the block after allegedly taking part in a riot elsewhere in the prison, were forced to form a ‘human pyramid’.

After instructing the men to pile up on top of one another, Graner proudly draped his arm around England, and the smiling couple posed beside the grotesque tangle of human flesh.

Looking at the image now, it appears that the detainees could not have remained in this painful position for very long; yet England says quite matter-of-factly that they were forced to stay fixed in position for ‘20 minutes or something’.

When I suggest that this must have been excruciatingly painful, she shrugs and replies: ‘Probably.’

So why hadn’t she asked Graner to call a halt? A grin and another shrug: ‘I’m pretty sure he’d have said “No”.

‘There were only three of us and seven of them, and he wanted to contain them by keeping them connected and concentrating on not falling – so they wouldn’t overpower us. That’s how he explained it.’

But surely she must have felt some pity for them? As often, she takes an eternity to reply, then says: ‘In my eyes they were the enemy; the other side. What happens in war happens. They would have done 20 times worse to us.’

Five years on: Lynndie England with her authorised biography

We move on to another hideous image, in which the same group of prisoners – one of whom Graner had punched full in the face – were lined up and ordered to masturbate.

How long had this sick charade continued? ‘You are going to find this ridiculous,’ says England, half suppressing a snigger. ‘One guy did 45 minutes! Freddie [Graner's fellow prison guard, Ivan Frederick] just wanted to see if they would do it – and all seven of them lined up doing this.

‘Well, six stopped after a few minutes, but the seventh carried on.’

Hearing this account for the first time, even Roy T. Hardy, her lawyer, who had thought himself beyond shock after representing England for five years, is clearly taken aback.

‘But you were there the whole time?’ gasps bespectacled, roly-poly Hardy. ‘I’ve never heard this stuff before.’

‘Yes I was – unfortunately,’ England says, fixing him with her strange, lop-sided smile. ‘I was standing there, like, watching. I was there the whole four hours.’

Hardy, who doubles as a local assistant county prosecutor, clears his throat, as if about to address the bench. ‘Don’t mistake Lynndie’s grin for amusement,’ he implores me. ‘That’s just a nervous mannerism.’

Maybe so, I say, but she caused so much harm. What people want to hear is an apology.

‘Sorry? For what I did?’ she interjects, incredulous. ‘All I did was stand in the pictures. Saying sorry is admitting I was guilty and I’m not. I was just doing my duty.’

She recites her often-rehearsed argument: that the Abu Ghraib guards were tacitly encouraged to ’soften up’ the prisoners before they were interrogated by military intelligence officers.

Given all we know now, this sounds plausible. It is also easy to see how this gullible backwoods girl became the sociopathic Graner’s stooge; as Gary Winkler says: ‘She was his prop; all she was guilty of is stupidity.’

For all this, however, it is impossible to empathise with her, for she is such an unsympathetic character.

The daughter of a railway worker, Ken England, and his wife Terrie, she was two years old when her family moved from Kentucky to a trailer park in Fort Ashby, West Virginia.

There she grew into a tomboy and loner, never happier than when shooting squirrels in the woods. Until her wedding day, she had never owned a dress.

Teachers recall her for saying almost nothing during her school years, and her defence psychologist diagnosed her with speech-related learning difficulty called selective mutism.

However, she was bright enough to graduate from high school with good grades, and set her heart on becoming a meteorologist.

This ambition began, she says, after she saw the film Twister and became fascinated by tornadoes.

To pay her way through college, she took menial jobs, including processing chickens and serving in a supermarket, where she fell for the mild-mannered Fike.

They were divorced after she admitted her affair with Graner, although England insists she still loves Fike, and would like to get back together with him.

‘But I wouldn’t blame him if he hates me.’

They wed as teenagers, but soon afterwards she joined the local reserve regiment, the 372nd Military Police Company – partly because she needed the money, but mainly because she ‘always wanted to serve’, she says.

Never having travelled beyond the nearby states, and not even owning a passport, she hadn’t expected to be sent overseas.

But as operations in Afghanistan and Iraq stretched U.S. services to breaking point, the ‘weekend warriors’ were marched off to war.

By then her affair with Graner had already begun. Having pursued her for weeks at their U.S. base, Fort Lee, the 34-year-old divorce 14 years her senior, checked them into a seedy motel where the liaison was consummated.

She first discovered that Graner got a kick out of taking – and showing his friends – perverted photographs of her soon afterwards, when they holidayed in Virginia Beach.

This was in March 2003, more than six months before the Abu Ghraib pictures were taken.

While she performed a sex act on him, he reached for his Sony and started clicking away, she says.

‘Whoa! Hey, what are you doing? I don’t want pictures taken,’ England says she protested.

But when Graner insisted they were for his eyes only and just ‘harmless fun’, she relented.

She claims she had no idea he was emailing compromising pictures of her to fellow soldiers until after her arrest; hence her lack of caution when he asked her to pose with the prisoners.

However, as her boyfriend had maliciously shown the Virginia Beach photos to her mortified parents during a visit to her family in April 2003 – by ‘accidentally’ slipping them in among some other innocent snaps they were viewing – surely alarm bells should have rung?

Graner and England were deployed to Abu Ghraib in October 2003, and although nothing can excuse their subsequent behaviour, it is possible to see how things happened.

A few months earlier, the prison had held just 700 detainees, but when they arrived the numbers had swollen to 7,000.

Understaffed, undertrained and poorly led, the guards struggled to control this sweltering bedlam.

Though she insists that ‘everyone’ knew about the detainee photographs, a criminal investigation began only some three months after they were taken, when a soldier with a conscience, Sergeant Joseph Darby, handed in two CDs of photographs which Graner had boastfully shown to him.

Hastily airlifted out of Iraq for his own safety, Darby has lived in hiding ever since. Just as well, for England says she would ‘definitely beat the hell out of him if I saw him’, adding: ‘In war, you don’t rat on your buddies.’

Intriguingly, she claims to possess about 800 more unseen photographs from her time in Iraq, depicting scenes which would be highly damaging to the U.S. Army and the White House, if they were ever released.

Sick: Prisoners are made to lie on top of each other naked

Roy T. Hardy claims they include pictures of an Iraqi woman bearing her breasts and graphic images of wounded enemy combatants, but declines to go into more detail because, until her dishonorable discharge is finalised, England remains a serving soldier.

It is not clear whether these photographs, which are locked away in a vault, are among the hundreds which Obama is withholding – having reneged last month on his promise to release them when he came to power.

But their very existence constitutes a ticking time-bomb for the U.S. authorities, and biographer Gary Winkler believes she and Hardy will try to sell them to the highest bidder.

The author claims England is being manipulated by her lawyer-agent, and describes Hardy as ‘the new Charles Graner’.

Understandably, Hardy, 39, is incensed by this – though the happily married father-of-two hardly helps himself by constantly joking that he and England are having a secret fling.

Winkler is embittered, the lawyer says, because Hardy and England have criticised his book, which was supposed to have been her first-person story but has ended up an error-strewn exercise in vanity publishing. But she needs the money.

She has applied for countless jobs, she complains, but no one dares to employ her, and so, two years after her release she remains unemployed and has given up hope of working.

Reliant on food stamps and the charity of her family and friends, she lives with her parents and four-year-old Carter, the child she had with Graner, in the same cramped trailer where she was raised.

Her hatred for Graner, who is midway through his ten-year sentence, was compounded when he demanded a DNA test to prove Carter is really his child.

England was pregnant by the time she stood trial and maintains that only Graner could be the father.

The result is not back yet, but one look at the boy would be enough for Graner to realise he is wasting his time.

England, now 26 and without a boyfriend – though she receives marriage proposals from twisted internet admirers – says she is depressed because she feels trapped and has lost her independence.

‘I can’t even hunt squirrels no more, because I’m not permitted to own a firearm,’ she moans.

As a result of post-traumatic stress, she says, she also suffers flashbacks and horribly vivid nightmares.

Do they reawaken memories of those chilling photograph sessions at Abu Ghraib?

‘It’s a whole variety of stuff. You can’t hear somebody screaming their heads off and not dream about it,’ she drawls sardonically.

‘I’ll be watching a movie, or TV, and then something triggers it and, bam! I’m back there.’

This hardly sounds like contrition, but is probably as close as Private First Class Lynndie England will ever come to expressing regret for becoming the unacceptable face of the U.S. Army.

Nationwide manhunt for man who threatened to kill Obama

White radicals on the loose…again.

The gun-loving former New Yorker being sought Friday for threatening to kill President Obama was known in his old neighborhood as the “Cape Man” of Blue Jay Way.

Daniel James Murray, who sparked a nationwide federal manhunt by telling a Utah bank manager he was “on a mission to kill” Obama, used to amble through the streets of upstate Rexford, wearing a black cape and muttering to himself, his former neighbors said.

“Everybody started calling him ‘Cape Man,’ ” said Leighann Anastasia, who lives two doors down from the modest but nicely maintained house Murray once called home on Blue Jay Way.

“He was a little whacked out, it was obvious,” added another former neighbor, Sam Masrouri.

Murray, 36, lived with an elderly couple who the neighbors believe were his parents. They moved out last December to an unknown destination, the neighbors said.

The property used to be dotted with assorted religious statues, including a “glowing cross” in the back yard by the tool shed, Anastasia said.

Murray – last seen heading east and driving a blue 2001 Buick LeSabre with New York plates – purportedly threatened Obama on May 27 after withdrawing nearly $13,000 from a bank in the town of St. George, Utah, court papers say.

“We are on a mission to kill the President of the United States,” Murray reportedly said before he split.
Murray returned the next day and withdrew his remaining $72,000. He was spotted later that day at another bank in Cedar City, Utah.

Wearing glasses and a scraggly beard, Murray was dressed in a black T-shirt with the words, “My way is the highway— God” emblazoned across the chest with a Christian cross sprouting wings, sources said.

Murray’s pursuers are concerned because he has money to burn – and because he has at least eight registered semi-automatic pistols and revolvers. But they rate his threat to Obama “more aspirational than operational.”

“He’s obviously a little off his stride, which becomes more of a concern for police officers who might stop his car,” a federal law enforcement source told the Daily News.

While little is known about Murray, he apparently blames Obama for the economic meltdown that began under the Bush administration.

“With all this mess going on under President Obama with banks and the economy, I’m sure if citizens happen to lose their money, they will rise up and we could see killing and deaths,” he reportedly ranted on May 19, when he opened a savings account at the Utah bank with $85,000.

Eight days later, Murray returned and tried to withdraw $12,698. He flipped out when a teller turned him down because he lacked proper identification.

“Not to be disrespectful, but if I don’t get this money, someone is going to die,” he said, the court say.
The teller then fetched the bank manager, who okayed Murray’s withdrawal. He also agreed to Murray’s request for no bills larger than $50 – and in non-sequential order.

While the teller counted out the money, court paper say Murray declared:

“We are 94 million miles from the sun, and are in between the sun and moon, and the eagle that flies between them and it’s a giant step for mankind … I have traveled thousands of miles to be here and know things that are going to happen … The banking system will fail and people will die … There will be chaos in the world.”

Then Murray blurted out his assassination threat and left, authorities say.

Murray, who had recently been in California, Utah, Georgia, Oklahoma and possibly Texas, was born July 12, 1972, stands 6-foot-2, and weighs 250 pounds

Memorial day 2009

Interesting.

White Media Ignores Real Controversy Behind Torture Photos; They Show Prison Guards Raping Children

Should white terrorists be allowed to walk free?

The real reason behind Obama�s reversal of a decision to release the torture photos has been almost completely ignored by the corporate media – the fact that the photos show both US soldiers raping teenage boys in front of their mothers.

The Obama administration originally intended to release photos depicting torture and abuse of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq by the end of May, following a court order arising out of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit first filed by the ACLU in 2004.

Practice makes perfect…

However, a reversal of Obama�s decision was announced this week, after he “changed his mind after viewing some of the images and hearing warnings from his generals in Iraq and in Afghanistan that such a move would endanger US troops deployed there,” according to a Washington Post report.

In response, the ACLU charged that Obama “has essentially become complicit with the torture that was rampant during the Bush years by being complicit in its coverup.” The Obama administration has also sought to protect intelligence officials involved in torture from prosecution at every turn.

The primary reason why Obama is now blocking the release of the photos is that some of the pictures, as well as video recordings, show prison guards sodomizing young boys in front of their mothers, both with objects as well as physical rape.

This horrific detail has been almost completely ignored by the establishment media in their coverage of the story this week, despite the fact that it�s been in the public domain for nearly five years, after it was first revealed by investigative Seymour Hersh during an ACLU conference in July 2004.

“Some of the worst things that happened you don�t know about, okay?” said Hersh. “Videos, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib � The women were passing messages out saying ‘Please come and kill me, because of what�s happened� and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It�s going to come out.”

Hersh�s contention that minors were raped by prison guards while others filmed the vulgar spectacle is backed up by a leaked Abu Ghraib memorandum highlighted in a 2004 London Guardian report, in which detainees Kasim Hilas describes “the rape of an Iraqi boy by a man in uniform”. The testimony was also part of the military�s official Taguba Report into the torture at Abu Ghraib.

“I saw name blacked out fucking a kid, his age would be about 15-18 years. The kid was hurting very bad and they covered all the doors with sheets. Then when I heard the screaming I climbed the door because on top it wasn�t covered and I saw blacked out, who was wearing the military uniform putting his dick in the little kid�s ass,” Mr Hilas told military investigators. “I couldn�t see the face of the kid because his face wasn�t in front of the door. And the female soldier was taking pictures.”

Another inmate, Thaar Dawod, described more abuse of teenage boys.

“They came with two boys naked and they were cuffed together face to face and Grainer Corporal Charles Graner, one of the military policemen facing court martial was beating them and a group of guards were watching and taking pictures from top and bottom and there was three female soldiers laughing at the prisoners,” he said.

A 2004 London Telegraph report also described photos which showed “US soldiers beating an Iraqi prisoner nearly to death and having sex with a female PoW,” as well as a videotape, apparently made by US personnel, which shows “Iraqi guards raping young boys”.

Former Governor Jesse Ventura today offered a solution to the controversy surrounding President Obama�s decision to reverse an earlier promise to release the torture photos – let Ventura see the photos on behalf of the American people and then decide if they should be released.

Ventura told the Alex Jones Show today, “How about if I step forward on behalf of the taxpayers and the citizens of the great United States of America – and I wanna go public with this – I will represent us, let me go where these photos are, let me go inside and see them and let me come out and report back as to what these photos are.”

“I think I have the right to do that, I think they have no right to keep me from doing that, you know why? I pay their salaries and I�m a governor, I�m a mayor, I�m a former Navy SEAL, I had a top secret security clearance – I think I�m fully qualified to walk in and view these photos,” said Ventura, adding, “I�ll report to the public, what it is why we shouldn�t be able to see them because I understand it could infuriate the enemy, but I�m not the enemy and therefore I think I have every right to see these photos in private.”

Thousands beaten, raped in Irish reform schools

Torturing and raping children? What else is new?

DUBLIN – A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland’s Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades — and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation.

Nine years in the making, Wednesday’s 2,600-page report sides almost completely with the horrific reports of abuse from former students sent to more than 250 church-run, mostly residential institutions.

It concluded that church officials always shielded their orders’ pedophiles from arrest to protect their own reputations and, according to documents uncovered in the Vatican, knew that many pedophiles were serial attackers.

The commission said overwhelming, consistent testimony from still-traumatized men and women, now in their 50s to 80s, had demonstrated beyond a doubt that the entire system treated children more like prison inmates and slaves than people with legal rights and human potential.

“A climate of fear, created by pervasive, excessive and arbitrary punishment, permeated most of the institutions and all those run for boys. Children lived with the daily terror of not knowing where the next beating was coming from,” the final report of Ireland’s Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse concluded.

More than 30,000 children deemed to be petty thieves, truants or from dysfunctional families — a category that often included unmarried mothers — were sent to Ireland’s austere network of industrial schools, reformatories, orphanages and hostels from the 1930s until the last church-run facilities shut in the 1990s.

The report, unveiled by High Court Justice Sean Ryan, found that molestation and rape were “endemic” in boys’ facilities, chiefly run by the Christian Brothers order, and supervisors pursued policies that increased the danger. Girls supervised by orders of nuns, chiefly the Sisters of Mercy, suffered much less sexual abuse but frequent assaults and humiliation designed to make them feel worthless.

“In some schools a high level of ritualized beating was routine. … Girls were struck with implements designed to maximize pain and were struck on all parts of the body,” the report said. “Personal and family denigration was widespread.”

Victims of the system have long demanded that the truth of their experiences be documented and made public, so that children in Ireland never endure such suffering again.

But most leaders of religious orders have rejected the allegations as exaggerations and lies, and testified to the commission that any abuses were the responsibility of often long-dead individuals.

The report proposed 21 ways the government could recognize past wrongs, including building a permanent memorial, providing counseling and education to victims and improving Ireland’s current child protection services.

But its findings will not be used for criminal prosecutions — in part because the Christian Brothers successfully sued the commission in 2004 to keep the identities of all of its members, dead or alive, unnamed in the report. No real names, whether of victims or perpetrators, appear in the final document.

Irish church leaders and religious orders all declined to comment Wednesday, citing the need to read the massive document first. The Vatican also declined to comment.

The Irish government already has funded a parallel compensation system that has paid 12,000 abuse victims an average of euro65,000 ($90,000). About 2,000 claims remain outstanding.

Victims receive the payouts only if they waive their rights to sue the state and the church. Hundreds have rejected that condition and taken their abusers and those church employers to court.

Wednesday’s report said children had no safe way to tell authorities about the assaults they were suffering, particularly the sexual aggression from church officials and older inmates in boys’ institutions.

“The management did not listen to or believe children when they complained of the activities of some of the men who had responsibility for their care,” the commission found. “At best, the abusers were moved, but nothing was done about the harm done to the child. At worst, the child was blamed and seen as corrupted by the sexual activity, and was punished severely.”

The commission dismissed as implausible a central defense of the religious orders — that, in bygone days, people did not recognize the sexual abuse of a child as a criminal offense, but rather as a sin that required repentance.

In their testimony, religious orders typically cited this as the principal reason why sex-predator priests and brothers were sheltered within the system and moved to new posts where they could still maintain daily contact with children.

But the commission said its fact-finding — which included unearthing decades-old church files, chiefly stored in the Vatican, on scores of unreported abuse cases from Ireland’s industrial schools — demonstrated that officials understood exactly what was at stake: their own reputations.

It cited numerous examples where school managers told police about child abusers who were not church officials — but never did when one of their own had committed the crime.

“Contrary to the congregations’ claims that the recidivist nature of sexual offending was not understood, it is clear from the documented cases that they were aware of the propensity for abusers to re-abuse,” it said.

Religious orders were chiefly concerned about preventing scandal, not the danger to children, it said.

The commission also condemned Ireland’s Education Department for aiding the abusive culture through infrequent, toothless inspections that deferred to church authority.

Inspectors were supposed to restrict the use of corporal punishment and make sure the children were adequately fed, clothed and educated — but the report called those inspections “fundamentally flawed.”

It said a lone inspector was responsible for monitoring more than 50 industrial schools, schools were told about the visits in advance and inspectors rarely talked to the children.

Wednesday’s report also highlighted the rarity of human kindness in the institutions.

“A word of consideration or encouragement, or an act of sympathy or understanding, had a profound effect. Adults in their 60s and 70s recalled seemingly insignificant events that had remained with them all their lives,” the report said.

“Often the act of kindness, recalled in such a positive light, arose from the simple fact that the staff member had not given a beating when one was expected.”

Redneck psychos to face murder charge for shotgun blast at car that killed boy

Shooting children in the face? Isn’t it time to take their guns away?

Gayle and Sheila Muhs gave trespassers a blunt warning. They posted a large sign outside their Texas home saying trespassers would be shot and survivors would be shot again.They weren’t joking.

The Muhs are currently being held on charges of aggravated assault for allegedly firing at least two shotgun blasts at a pair of packed cars that stopped outside their rural Texas house. Those charges are expected to be upgraded to murder, since a 7-year-old boy who was wounded in the assault has died from shotgun pellets to his head and face.

But police said the families in the two cars were driving on a public road when the Muhs opened fire from their house, killing Donald Coffey Jr. and hitting three others, including the boy’s 5-year-old sister.

Outside the Muhs’ house is a handpainted sign complete with misspelling and exclamation points that warns: “Trespassers Will Be Shot. Survivers Will Be Reshot!! Smile I Will.”

Liberty County Sheriff’s Department Chief Deputy Ken DeFoor told ABCNews.com today that the shooting was the most “violent reaction to something so blatantly, blatantly minor” he’s ever seen.

Police got a 911 call just after 9 p.m. Thursday, DeFoor said, from Sheila Muhs who “reported there were people in jacked up four-wheel automobiles … and that she shot them.” She also reported that the vehicles were destroying the nearby levees.

But in reality, DeFoor said, the families in the two cars had done nothing illegal. And, he said, they never set foot on the Muhs’ property.

DeFoor said the Coffey family — mom Becky, dad Donald Sr. and their three children — were visiting friends along with Patrick Cammack and Cindy Nelton in the Muhs’ neighborhood near Dayton, Texas, about 45 miles east of Houston.

The two families had planned to go off-roading at the nearby government-owned levees on the way home, an activity that is both popular and legal in the area, DeFoor said.

In the Jeep were Cammack, 30, Donald Coffey, 30 and Donald Jr., 7. In the following Ford SUV were Becky Coffey, Nelton and the Coffey’s 5-year-old daughter, Destiny, and 11-year-old son.

The two cars stopped on the county-owned road outside the Muhs’ home so one of the boys could go to the bathroom by the side of the road.

That’s when, DeFoor said, the couple ran out of their house.

“Sheila Muhs started cursing at them ‘Get off our property,’” DeFoor said and fired off at least one round, causing the Jeep, which had started to leave, to veer off the road.

Muhs, he said, then put the shotgun down and chased after the Jeep on her all-terrain vehicle, eventually catching up to it on the levee about 100 yards away, the ATVs headlights pointed at the Jeep.

While that was happening, DeFoor said Gayle Muhs picked up the discarded shotgun and fired at the SUV. DeFoor said the trajectory of that shot showed that the back of the SUV was sprayed with pellets, it’s rear window blown out.

“The SUV was in the process to flee,” the officer said.

Nelton told the Houston Chronicle that they yelled at the Muhs after the first shot that they had kids in the car and to stop shooting, but another gunshot — possibly more — is all they heard in return.

Nelton said Destiny was in the back of the SUV screaming.

“She said, ‘Mama, they shot me. Mommy, they shot me.’ There was blood all over her,” Nelton told the Houston Chronicle.

When it was over, Destiny had been shot in the elbow, Donald Coffey Sr. in the shoulder and Cammack, who was driving the Jeep, in the base of his skull. Little Donald Coffey, however, had been hit by several shotgun pellets in the face and head.

‘They Need to Be Dead’

DeFoor said the two families gathered up their wounded into the SUV and raced to the nearest fire station about a mile away where medical helicopters and ambulances transported everyone to the hospital.

DeFoor said the investigation is ongoing, but police believe the Muhs may have fired as many as four shots from the 12-guage pump shotgun, each one spraying 15 pellets.

He called it “a total disregard for whoever may be out there.”

Nelton declined to speak to ABCNews.com about the shooting, saying she’s trying to take care of Cammack.

“We’re all dealing with this very, very hard,” she said.

She told the Houston Chronicle that she only had one wish for the Muhs. “They need to be dead,” Nelton told the newspaper.

Gayle Muhs is being held on $25,000 bond for one count of assault, and Sheila Muhs, who faces two counts of aggravated assault, is being held on a $525,000 bond. DeFoor said the Sheriff’s Office would be submitting further information to the district attorney’s office today and expects the charges to be upgraded to murder.

Stephen Taylor, the court-appointed attorney for Sheila Muhs said he had not yet spoken to his client but probably would do so tonight.

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“I don’t know anything more than what I’ve read in the newspapers,” he said.

The court said Gayle Muhs did not yet have a lawyer.

Though Donald Coffey Jr. was pronounced dead, DeFoor said his family had kept the boy on life support while doctors prepared to transplant his organs.

Cammack, he said, had been released from the hospital, the pellet still lodged at the base of his skull. Destiny and Donald Coffey Sr. were also treated for their wounds, he said.

DeFoor said the Muhs were known to police and have previous arrests though neither he nor the court could say what the charges were or when.

Most of the people in the area own firearms, he said, saying that that specific neighborhood was at “lower socio-economic level.”

Texas does have a “castle” law that allows property owners to shoot if someone is trespassing on their property at night. But that law, he said, does not apply in this case.

While guns may have been used to settle disputes in the 1800s, he said, Texas is “not the Wild West.”

Special investigation: Is Britain spawning a generation of violent, alienated Lord Of The Flies children?

The next generation of white terrorists?

A boy stripped naked, battered and left in a makeshift grave. Two little brothers sexually humiliated and tortured in a two-hour ordeal. And the attackers? Young children like themselves. DAVID JONES explores a chilling modern phenomenon…

The two attacks bore chilling similarities and they were carried out on grim Yorkshire council estates less than 30 miles apart. In both cases the victims were young and vulnerable, and an elaborate story was invented to lure them to a secluded place.

In both cases they were stripped, and saw their clothes ritually burnt before they were tortured and savagely beaten.

Most disturbingly of all, however, when police investigated these protracted and gratuitous acts of violence they discovered that the perpetrators were themselves no more than children, their ages ranging from just ten to 14 years old.

Savage: A scene from the 1963 film of William Golding’s book, Lord Of The Flies, which saw a group of children turn on each other with animalistic savagery

One of the attacks, which took place in Leeds – the other happened in nearby Doncaster – involved four children, who attacked a 15-year-old with a mental age of seven.

Such was the savagery of the assault that Judge Kerry Macgill described it in court as ‘almost like a scene out of Lord Of The Flies, where children are left to their own devices and do simply appalling things to other children’.

After talking to those involved, I have found this reference to William Golding’s disquieting novel, in which a group of schoolboys turn on one another with animalistic savagery after being stranded on a desert island, was no exaggeration.

These two cases come more than 40 years after another North Country child – 11-year-old Mary Bell – was convicted of strangling two little boys aged four and three ’solely for the pleasure and excitement of killing’, as the prosecutor phrased it. At the time, a horrified nation vowed that it must never be allowed to happen again.

The same was said in 1993, when Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, two ten-year-old Merseyside boys, abducted and murdered toddler James Bulger while he was out shopping with his mother.

Aeriel view of the police investigation in the Brick Ponds areas of Edlington in Doncaster last month

Yet barely a week seems to pass without news of a vicious assault by a young person, and those recent atrocities in Doncaster and Leeds – in which, as we will see, the victims were fortunate to escape with their lives – are only the latest reminder that such brutality is happening again, and with alarming regularity.

Inevitably, this raises disturbing questions. Are attacks by children really increasing, and are we correct to suppose the attackers are using ever more extreme and inventive forms of violence? If so, why?

More pressingly, what social factors are spawning this frightening new generation of potential Bells and Thompsons, and is enough being done to identify them and prevent them from developing into psychopaths?

During this investigation I have examined reams of statistics and reports, and spoken to leading experts, including two of Britain’s most eminent adolescent psychiatrists, Professor Susan Bailey and Dr Eileen Vizard, both of whom gave evidence at the Bulger trial.

The picture that emerges is surprising and illuminating. Before we study it, however, we should describe in more detail the two episodes in Yorkshire. For, extreme as they may have been, the background to these incidents appears to form part of an all-too-typical pattern.

‘They threatened to kill him, stripped him naked, made a bonfire of his shoes and coat, urinated on him, stuck lit cigarettes up his nose, punched and kicked him and lashed him with planks and branches’
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As Judge Macgill heard in court last week, the Leeds attack occurred on a sprawling red-brick council estate south of the city, where the four assailants – a girl of 14, two boys aged 11, and another boy of 13 – lived in close proximity to their 15-year-old victim.

Since the attackers all pleaded guilty to attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent, the full story was not told in court. But according to the 14-year-old girl’s mother, the attack was conceived after the victim became infatuated with her.

‘He stalked her for four months and would not leave her alone, spending hours standing outside her house,’ she told me. ‘He was constantly texting and telephoning her.’

She claims the attack happened one Sunday evening after the victim sent the 14-year-old girl – a pretty, popular teenager, who had hoped to become a nursery teacher – a particularly lewd message accompanied by a ‘pornographic’ image of himself.

But even supposing this story to be true – and the victim’s mother strongly disputes it – then it surely cannot excuse the calculating manner in which this mentally disabled boy (who attends a special needs school and cannot even tie his own shoelaces) was ensnared, nor the horrific torture inflicted on him.

According to his mother, a 55-year-old who has seven children by several fathers, he was lured to a stretch of waste ground, hidden from the estate by a ring of trees, after the girl asked him to help her look for a mobile phone she had supposedly lost there.

When he arrived, he was grabbed by the gang. They threatened to kill him, stripped him naked, made a bonfire of his shoes and coat, urinated on him, stuck lit cigarettes up his nose, punched and kicked him and lashed him with planks and branches.

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Horrifying: Police pictures of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables who abducted and then murdered two-year-old James Bulger

When the onslaught was over, the boy was dumped in a ditch and covered with pieces of wood. It was described by the prosecutor as ‘perhaps a makeshift grave’.

The waste ground is only a few yards from a bus stop and a busy pub, so why no one heard his screams and came to his aid is anyone’s guess. He eventually crawled on to the road, and local shop assistants covered him with dustbin-liners and called 999.

When his mother arrived, he was being treated by paramedics, and she thought at first that he had been hit by a car. ‘He was unrecognisable,’ she told me. ‘His face was all bruised and swollen and he was covered in cuts and burns, and they had kicked him so hard between the legs that his private parts went black.

‘He was born with his left kidney attached to his bladder, and when they examined him they found that it was bleeding. Nine months later he still has terrible flashbacks and wakes up screaming, and I have to put my arms round him and reassure him that no one will ever get him again.

The front page of the Mail on Sunday on February 14, 1993

‘The children who did this are animals. But it’s happening every day now, isn’t it? There’s just a lack of discipline; they’ve taken all the power away from the parents. You can’t even chastise your own kids when they misbehave anymore, or more than likely it will be you who ends up in trouble.’

Ironically, the attackers’ families said precisely the same thing. ‘They’ve got no respect for anything,’ lamented the tattooed father of the girl, who was described as the ringleader and received the longest sentence – 15 months in detention.

Her grandfather concurred, adding that ‘they’ would benefit from ‘a good smack’. But whether he was referring to his granddaughter – and whether she has ever been smacked or otherwise disciplined – the family declined to say.

Instead, they retreated to a position that has become wearily par for the course in an era when so many parents have abdicated responsibility for their children’s behaviour and blame everyone else if something goes wrong.

Their daughter had only intended the boy to be thumped and warned off… she was a model pupil who had never been in trouble before, and her sentence was grossly unfair… the attack was unwarranted, of course, but the victim had brought it on himself.

For good measure, they pointed out that they had recently moved into a private house away from the roughest part of the estate, and had been trying to better themselves.

A female relative of one of the 11-year-old boys, who were both given two-year supervision orders, similarly defended him. ‘Yes the attack was ferocious – but when you listen to what the victim did, you can understand why it happened. It’s so unfair. They’ve been tarred as savages.’

She said the younger boys did not usually hang around with the 13-yearold boy (whom she claimed to be a habitual trouble-maker), nor with the girl. But they had been drawn into the attack because they happened to have been present when she was describing the lewd text messages.

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Devastated: Murdered James Bulger and his mother Denise Fergus, pictured here in 2001

Significantly, perhaps, she said her young relative – who had ‘a bit of attitude’, but was otherwise polite and well-behaved – had been habitually bullied by the other 11-year-old. She depicted this other boy as a tearaway who had been suspended from school.

The clear suggestion was that he had been ‘led on’ and was trying to impress more dominant, aggressive boys.

It will come as no surprise that the 13-year-old’s family were also at pains to exonerate him. Rather belatedly, we might think, his 18-year-old sister reproached herself for teasing him relentlessly, making his life ‘hell’.

His mother, the wife of an unemployed builder, claimed that he had been born six weeks prematurely and suffered from learning difficulties. ‘He’s a victim, too,’ she said. ‘He’s a victim of society. It seems everybody was out to get him.’

As for the attack in neighbouring Doncaster, two brothers aged ten and 11 have been charged with the attempted murder so we can report little about this case.

‘Whereas in the past there was much more of a reason to commit violence, now it often starts over a trivial issue and it’s more likely to result in serious injury… and the culprits are also getting younger’
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Suffice it to say that the victims, one 11 years old and the other nine, were allegedly subjected to an even more sickening ordeal, which included sexual humiliation and other forms of torture, and is said to have lasted about two hours.

No one could possibly pretend that the accused boys were raised in favourable circumstances. Their home was a dilapidated semi shared with several brothers, and the front door bore a sign saying: ‘Beware of the kids.’

By all accounts, when their father left the family, their mother was unable to cope, so they were fostered by a couple in a former pit village in Yorkshire, where the alleged attack took place.

The prosecution claims that they persuaded the victims to accompany them to a secluded stream running through a copse by telling them that they had seen a dead animal there.

They were so badly beaten that the younger boy’s arm was cut to the bone, and the 11-year-old was placed on a life-support machine. The latter’s mother said last week that he is still not ready to return to school, five weeks after the attack.

So much for the depressing details; but are such incidents becoming more prevalent? The simple answer is that it depends on who you ask.

According to the Youth Justice Board, whose statistics are compiled simply by asking young people, in confidence, whether they have committed crimes, violence by under 17-year-olds has varied little year on year since the Bulger murder.

Many academics consider these numbers to be the most reliable because others are derived from court convictions, and only about 3 per cent of cases ever come before the courts.

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Horror: A police tent marks the spot where James’s body was found on the embankment of the Edge Hill to Bootle freight line in Liverpool

However, Ministry of Justice figures released a few weeks ago show that the number of ten to 17-year-olds successfully prosecuted for violence has soared by 30 per cent in the decade since New Labour came to power.

Furthermore, according to researchers at the Centre for Social Justice, the independent think-tank set up by former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, all the anecdotal evidence points to a significant rise, both in the frequency and seriousness of attacks committed by children.

But this likely rise is being obscured, according to the think-tank’s senior policy adviser Charlotte Pickles, by changes in government methods of recording violent crime.

‘When we look at the type and degree of violence among young people, we would certainly say it’s getting worse – and much more chaotic,’ she says.

‘Whereas in the past there was much more of a reason to commit violence, now it often starts over a trivial issue and it’s more likely to result in serious injury. The culprits are also getting younger, which would fit the pattern in these recent cases in Yorkshire.’

Shocking: Child murderer Mary Bell in a police issued picture in 1977

The CSJ is critical of the Government for failing to do more to identify potential problem children at a very young age, and Mr Duncan Smith believes they must be set on the right path before their third birthday if they are to have a realistic hope of growing into responsible adults.

He is convinced this can be done via voluntary ‘early intervention’ programmes targeted at the worst sink estates, and cites areas in America where they have transformed the outlook for children from unpromising family backgrounds.

Such programmes are expensive, of course, but U. S. research shows them to be 17 times more cost-effective than doing nothing and allowing these children to drift into a life of crime with all its associated costs. When we learn that British taxpayers shell out between £50,000 and £150,000 a year to keep young people in secure accommodation, the benefit becomes clear.

So how do we identify these children? At present the task falls to those who have regular access to the families: hard-pressed health visitors and social workers, for example, or primary school teachers.

But as Professor Bailey, who has studied more than 250 child murderers in her 30-year career, points out, teachers aren’t trained to detect the behavioural differences which mark out the abnormal child.

Professor Bailey says there are a number of factors which might cause children to behave aggressively. They include inconsistent parenting, being raised by a mother who suffers from depression during the child’s early years, and/or an aggressive father figure, and witnessing repeated domestic violence or sexual abuse at an early age. Such experiences can affect the physiology of a child’s brain, ‘programming’ them to act violently.

But, of course, a large number of children are nurtured amid these unfavourable conditions, and only a tiny percentage grow into violent criminals. One thing that may separate them is the absence of a positive influence, such as supportive teacher or relative, so that they do not build ‘resilience’ to their environment.

Professor Bailey is urging the Government to fund more extensive research in these areas, and calls for an end to politically expedient quickfixes, such as ASBOs which, she says, only shift a problem child on to someone else’s doorstep.

Dr Vizard, consultant child psychiatrist for an NSPCC national service for young offenders which was set up 20 years ago, agrees, saying that, given sufficient commitment, much could be done to prevent children becoming violent criminals.

Violent: Barely a week seems to pass without news of a vicious assault by a young person

Her Home Office research study into 280 children with abusive and violent behaviour shows that many potential psychopaths can be spotted by the time they enter primary school, where they can be very hard to handle and are often excluded.

Moreover, if they go on to commit aggressive crimes early in their lives – say between the ages of ten and 13 -they are far more likely to become hardened career criminals than those who don’t get into trouble for the first time until their mid-teens.

Dr Vizard wants the Government to fund research into new treatment approaches for these disturbed children which, she says, could save the public purse millions by keeping them out of the criminal justice system.

When treating this youngest group of offenders, Dr Vizard also tends to uncover more severe psychological disturbances than she finds in slightly older clients. ‘It’s as if they have not been able to develop a moral compass in the way that older adolescents have,’ she says.

From the expert who evaluated Robert Thompson, this is a sobering pronouncement indeed. And, while it is undoubtedly right that everything possible should be done to identify and help these children, there is a far wider problem.

In a society where family breakdown, lack of community, absent or feckless parents and ill-discipline have rapidly become the norm, we have created the very conditions which are more likely to produce the sort of troubled children who indulge in this horrific violence.

How dreadful it will be if one of the legacies of our supposedly ‘enlightened’ age is to create a generation of violent, alienated Lord Of The Flies children.

White terrorist convicted in Iraq rape, 4 slayings

Is the US army full of animals like these?

A former U.S. soldier on trial in the gang rape of an Iraqi girl and the murder of her and her family in the war zone in 2006 was caught in a “perfect storm of insanity,” his lawyer told a jury on Monday.

But government prosecutors in the same courtroom said former Private 1st Class Steven Green, alleged ringleader of the slayings, was only interested in killing Iraqis “non-stop” and bragged during a barbecue celebration later that what he had done was “awesome.”

Green, 23, is being tried in federal court as a civilian since his arrest came after he was discharged from the U.S. Army later in 2006 for a “personality disorder.”

He is the last of five men charged in the rape of Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, 14, and the slaying of her and her father, mother and six-year-old sister. The incident unfolded after the soldiers drank whisky, played cards, and plotted the attack in Mahmudiya, 30 kilometres south of Baghdad, prosecutors have said.

Three of the other soldiers pleaded guilty in the attack and the fourth was convicted, all in military courts-martial. They were given sentences of from five to 100 years, though they could be paroled much sooner. Prosecutors said they are seeking the death penalty for Green.

In opening statements at the trial, Patrick Bouldin, a public defender, said Green’s platoon had been decimated by deaths and injuries before the crime.

“You have to understand the background that leads up to this perfect storm of insanity,” Bouldin told the jury.

Bouldin said Green had sought help dealing with combat stress after the deaths of close colleagues and was unsure whether Iraqis he encountered were friend or foe.

“They couldn’t tell the village people and the farmers from the insurgents and the terrorists,” he said.

Green, from Midland, Texas, faces 17 charges including sexual assault, murder, and obstruction of justice.

Outlining the gruesome details of the crime, federal prosecutor Brian Skaret said: “Who could have done these things? It wasn’t done by insurgents or terrorists. It was the work of this man, Steven Green.”

He said Green took his turn raping the girl after he shot to death the girl’s mother, father and sister. He said Green was predisposed to the crime.

“Steven Green wanted to kill Iraqi civilians,” Skaret said. “He wanted to kill them all the time, non-stop.”

After the crime, Skaret said, the men celebrated with a barbecue, and Green was said to have commented “that was awesome.” He also told an Army investigator the day after, “I did that. I killed them,” Skaret said.

The family was chosen because the soldiers viewed them as an easy target, prosecutors have said.

Iraqis were horrified by the crime, one of a series of incidents involving U.S. soldiers that strained relations with the Iraqi government. But the onset of Green’s trial three years later is not resonating with most Iraqis, observers there say.

The incident was portrayed in the 2007 movie Redacted by director Brian De Palma, who complained the film was censored by the studio. Its graphic images shocked many viewers.

Playstation 2 component incites African war

Parasitic as ever.

Has the video game industry dug up its very own blood diamond?

According to a report by activist site Toward Freedom, for the past decade the search for a rare metal necessary in the manufacturing of Sony’s Playstation 2 game console has fueled a brutal conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At the center of the conflict is the unrefined metallic ore, coltan. After processing, coltan turns into a powder called tantalum, which is used extensively in a wealth of western electronic devices including cell phones, computers and, of course, game consoles.

Allegedly, the demand for coltan prompted Rwandan military groups and western mining companies to plunder hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the rare metal, often by forcing prisoners-of-war and even children to work in the country’s coltan mines.

“Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms,” said Ex-British Parliament Member Oona King.

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So where’s the connection to Sony? According to Toward Freedom, during the 2000 launch of the PS2, the electronics giant was having trouble meeting consumer demand. To pump out more units, Sony required a significant increase in the production of electric capacitors, which are primarily made with tantalum. This helped drive the world price of the powder from $49/pound to a whopping $275/pound, resulting in the frenzied scouring of the Congolese hills known for being ripe with coltan.

Sony has since sworn off using tantalum acquired from the Congo, claiming that current builds of the PS2, PSP and PS3 consoles are sourced from a variety of mines in several different countries.

But according to researcher David Barouski, they’re hardly off the hook.

“SONY’s PlayStation 2 launch…was a big part of the huge increase in demand for coltan that began in early 1999,” he explained. “SONY and other companies like it, have the benefit of plausible deniability, because the coltan ore trades hands so many times from when it is mined to when SONY gets a processed product, that a company often has no idea where the original coltan ore came from, and frankly don’t care to know. But statistical analysis shows it to be nearly inconceivable that SONY made all its PlayStations without using Congolese coltan.”

Currently, the Playstation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all-time, having sold through over 140 million units.

Swine flu, depopulation scheme by Whites?

Why would they want to do this?

Unless you live on Planet Zod (somewhere the other side of the galaxy), you will know there is growing international concern, amounting almost to panic, that we are facing a deadly worldwide pandemic of swine flu. The actual figures, as of today Apr. 27th, are: 1,614 cases and 103 deaths (not all confirmed as swine flu).

After years of trying to will into existence a pandemic of avian flu, the media loonies have finally got what they wanted: something to scream and wring their hands about, trying to induce fear and despair in the population they seek to mind-control.

There is nothing the media likes more than fear and panic. They try to create it, every day, in the news and on television. Living here in the USA, I laugh sometimes. If there is nothing to be scared of that day, they drag up past miseries, instead of saying “It’s been a great day folks. Go home and sleep peacefully”.

In the hurricane season, if nothing is blowing in, they run stories of past hurricanes, over and over and over, just in case the population should relax and start to behave normally.

That said, the media in the USA is almost totally censored by control from the owners. The population is told there are dangers and threats on every hand. They are NOT told that most of this hysteria is full-on lies and counterfeit stories. They are CERTAINLY not told that there are plenty of solutions to the dangers posed.

What lies hidden, covered up by your leaders, can certainly cause trouble and even kill you.

US vaccine manufacturers bio-terrorists?

Now, nobody here is being told that the present “outbreak” of ‘flu was deliberately engineered by a US pharmaceutical company. Baxter International Inc. were caught on the brink of starting an avian flu “pandemic,” by distributing flu vaccines contaminated with H5N1 avian flu virus to 18 countries last December.

It was only by providence that the batch was first tested on ferrets in the Czech Republic, before being shipped out for injection into humans. The ferrets all died and the shocking discovery was made.

H5N1 is a strain of avian flu virus classed as a bio-terrorism agent, as it has a kill ratio of 60%. If they had gone into full human inoculation procedures—and well they might—they would have perpetrated the biggest crime against humanity ever to take place. The scale would make Hiroshima, genocide and the Holocaust seem like schoolboy pranks.

By the way, it is impossible and almost inconceivable, that the vaccines could have been “accidentally” contaminated. You will hear that as an excuse, I’m sure, and the government will back them—because the government also has dirty fingers (I’m referring to the previous administration, which spent most of its term in office trying to create the myth of a flu pandemic and putting in place severe population control methods to coerce the masses into doing what they are told).

The fact is, that if Baxter has such dirty cross-contamination techniques, they are not fit to produce pig food, never mind vaccines for inoculation into human beings. Yet they are now snooping around the back door and asking for samples of the virus—so they can make up more vaccine and get more profits. What?

Why should Baxter be trusted, when they have already been proven to be at the very least criminally negligent, and at worst a prime suspect in attempting to carry off one of the most heinous crimes in the history of mankind?

The company has already put the safety of the entire human race at risk, and now, just a few weeks later, we’re expected to invest our confidence in them and take their shots with a smile and keep quiet?

As Mike Adams, The Health Ranger, has commented, “If you mail an envelope full of anthrax to your Senator, you get arrested as a terrorist. So why is Baxter — which mailed samples of a far more deadly viral strain to labs around the world — getting away with saying, essentially, ‘Oops?’”

A Bigger Conspiracy

Along with total silence and connivance from the US government about Baxter’s criminal intent (or negligence), the controlled US press has been totally unwilling to talk about this story or investigate it. All they bleat about is the coming pandemic and the fear it generates.

Yet in other countries, this shocking revelation is being freely talked about.

Not only that, but there is the whisper of a mass extermination agenda. People are asking: is this a blatant attempt to reduce the world’s population by over 50%?

It would suit the elite—but, of course, not the billions of dead people, if such a scenario could be truly engineered.

And while I am talking about engineered, let me tell you something TOTALLY SHOCKING that puts the whole thing into the right perspective…

The scores of people who have so far died in Mexico were killed by a strange virus that has bits of genetic material from swine flu, avian flu and human flu, consisting of an intercontinental mix of viruses from North America, Europe and Asia. This is odd, to say the least.

Scientists said the virus combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before. The official view states that despite mutations which are considered normal, viruses ‘rarely’ pass from one species of animal to another. So how could this swine flu manage to traverse the boundaries of humans, birds and pigs all by itself?

“We are very, very concerned,” World Health Organization spokesman Thomas Abraham said. “We have what appears to be a novel virus and it has spread from human to human,” he said. Flu DNA does mix but such an unusual combination does raise the likelihood that it is an artificial virus—perhaps derived from the Baxter vaccine, released only weeks before.

I didn’t believe the stories of deliberately manufactured AIDS disease: but I have no choice, as a scientist, except to grasp the fact that in this outbreak could have been caused when somebody deliberately released a contrived artificial virus into the population.

I mean, maybe the Baxter story is just a ruse, a device, to deflect attention from the fact that the power elite are working on this program and have just ordered the release of this “mass extermination” agent. Not that I am saying that Baxter might be innocent; goofs of such magnitude are criminal, not merely a slip up.

But this story already smacks of dirty, dark hidden layers upon layers, and I doubt very much that the Baxter plot is any more than the tip of a very nasty iceberg.

Meanwhile, if there is a high-up conspiracy, President Obama doesn’t seem to be in on it. On Apr. 16th Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist, who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu.

The president seems to have been closer to contact with the mutant virus than almost anyone else in the USA!

In fact the really paranoid among us might even wonder if this was an elaborate attempt to assassinate him. It remains a rather strange “coincidence” that it all started on ground zero, right where he was visiting.

So, here’s how to decode the official dissembling and the media hysteria

Item #1. Somebody, somewhere wants this pandemic. It’s been pushed for years and the fact that the dangerous virus is now an engineered mix of strains does not alter this fact.

Item #2. The response will be totally unscientific, not based on sound medical reasoning but based on a manipulative and evil political agenda.

Item #3. Somebody wants the dollars. That means worthless vaccines will be forced on the population as a response. It may even come to the point where the population is forced, at gunpoint, to accept a dangerous and quite ineffective vaccine, because big shots like Rumsfeld have shares in the vaccine company.

Item #4. The Bush administration prepared the ground for an avian flu “pandemic,”
calling it “inevitable”, although in order to even jump from human to human, the virus would have to have mutated (or “evolved”) in a very specific way—a totally unpredictable event. So how could they know about it in advance?

Well, they could if they CAUSED it to happen. One might draw the conclusion that the government was working on that very mutation, and were going to release it soon. That’s how they knew…

Item #5. This is a tool for further restrictions of freedom. Regulations
have been set in place so that, should the government declare a pandemic,
vaccinations could become mandatory; if refused, the person would be
“quarantined,” which, of course, means imprisoned (you have wonder why so MANY new prisons are being rapidly built in the US, when there is no corresponding increase in crime statistics).

Committed anti-establishment figures seem to have a way of dying suddenly and conveniently in US prisons. It could be a pre-planned way to get rid of political troublemakers. Deaths will be blamed on the fact they didn’t get the vaccine in time.

Anyone who stands in the way of profits for Big Pharma is obviously, by definition, politically undesirable.

Item #6. The mandatory vaccine, in this Hell scenario, would become a further source of the disease, not a protection against it. If the depopulation agenda has been set in motion, instead of the pandemic being controlled, it will be fanned. The vaccine will infect healthy people. Figures will rise rapidly. Deaths will soon be out of control.

At the first sign of forced vaccinations, I’m over the border. Care to join me?

The 1918 Flu Pandemic

You’ll start hearing officials comparing this pandemic scenario with the great flu disaster of 1918- 1922. There is a persistent myth about this pandemic and its deadly effects, which 99.99% of doctors and experts get wrong, even when they are sincere.

The fact that most of the Mexican dead were aged between 25 and 45 rather than being elderly or very young is seen as a particularly worrying sign. The first victims of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 were also healthy young adults.

[MYTH There were no real healthy young people in 1918. By the turn of the century, 50% of recruits for the British Army were being turned down as unfit for service, because of severe nutritional deficiencies. The picture was the same in the USA and elsewhere. After 4 years of wartime restrictions, malnutrition only got worse, not better. In other words young people were greatly a risk].

I’ve uncovered the real truth of why so many people died of flu at that time and who so few have died in subsequent outbreaks. It doesn’t make sense, until you know what I have uncovered. Then one of the biggest medical mysteries of all time becomes understandable. It also explains why the flu struck young and fit adults first.

It’s a very neat but of detective work. I’ve told the whole story in a recording I did years ago for alternative-doctor-radio. You can listen to it, using this link:  http://www.alternative-doctor-radio.com You can see the box around the center of the page, with a headline about 1918 flu.

You will also hear some good advice on how to combat flu, nutritionally and homeopathically (my first choice).

White policeman opens fire in public, kills 3

Lose a woman, go on a killing spree?

MOSCOW – A Moscow district police chief opened fire on the street and in a supermarket early Monday, killing three people and wounding seven others — four of them critically, Russian investigators said.

Police Maj. Denis Yevsyukov, who heads a southern Moscow police department, opened fire just after midnight and was detained after killing a driver, a supermarket cashier and customer, federal investigators said in a statement.

Yevsyukov, whose wife had recently left him, finished his late shift Sunday and hitched a ride to the supermarket, Moscow police chief Vladimir Pronin told Russian television. Yevsyukov was in civilian clothes, with one part of his uniform slung around his shoulders, Pronin said.

Yevsyukov shot the driver of the car with a gun that Russian news agencies reported was unlicensed. Yevsyukov then entered a supermarket and killed a cashier and customer before shooting at least seven others, authorities said.

Details of those killed were unavailable, but Russian news agency Interfax reported that four people were hospitalized with head injuries and they were aged between 19 and 23.

Russian television network NTV reported that supermarket employees activated a silent alarm to alert police as the shooting progressed. Yevsyukov shot and missed at an officer who managed to disarm and detain him, NTV said.

“He killed the cashier, we know for sure, and then there were more shots, three shots inside the store,” a young, unnamed female witness told NTV. “Then a shop assistant came running up to us and asked: ‘What are you doing here? There is a killer here and you should run away,’” the witness said.

 

3 dead, 2 hurt in Ga. shooting; professor sought

Whites are out of control. Even the educated seem to be prone to violent acts.

ATHENS, Ga. – A University of Georgia professor who police suspect in the fatal shootings of his ex-wife and two men outside a theater near campus Saturday disappeared in his Jeep after dropping his children off with a neighbor, authorities said.

A nationwide manhunt was on for 57-year-old George Zinkhan, whom neighbors and others described as a quiet, introverted and well-respected marketing professor at the university in Athens.

Members of a local theater group had gathered midday at the Athens Community Theater when Zinkhan left his children in his car and fired at the group, said Athens-Clarke County Police Capt. Clarence Holeman. Killed were Zinkhan’s ex-wife Marie Bruce, 47, Tom Tanner, 40, and Ben Teague, 63, Holeman said. Two others were injured by flying shrapnel.

SWAT members swarmed Zinkhan’s neighborhood about seven miles from campus and authorities searched his university office but came up empty. It didn’t appear he had used his credit cards or ATM card, police said.

“We’re doing everything we can to shut him down,” Holeman said. “I believe he will turn up somewhere, somehow.”

Zinkhan has been a professor in the Terry College of Business and had no disciplinary problems, university spokesman Pete Konenkamp said. He has taught at the school since the 1990s.

“His track record is impeccable as far as his teaching credentials,” Konenkamp said. “He’s a respected professor on campus.”

The three victims were all involved with the Town & Gown Players Inc., a group that had planned an evening performance of “Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure” at the theater. The show was canceled after the shooting.

Tanner was set to be Dr. John Watson in the play, and Teague described himself as “a confirmed theater bum” for the local group on a Web site that bears his name. Bruce, a family law attorney her friends described as a well-respected, had for years volunteered as a set designer and director for the group.

Zinkhan had argued with at least one of the victims prior to the shooting, Holeman said. After walking away, he returned with the guns and opened fire. Police said they received a call about 12:25 p.m.

Zinkhan then drove his young son and daughter to a next-door neighbor’s home in Bogart and dropped them off, only saying he needed them to watch them for about an hour because of an emergency.

Neighbor Robert Covington said when he asked Zinkhan’s daughter, who is about 10 years old, about the emergency “all she would relate to me was there was something about a firecracker.” The children were with police, and Covington said his neighborhood for awhile was “police central.” Covington described Zinkhan and Bruce as still living together in the house.

Athens-Clarke County Coroner Sonny Wilson said the three victims were shot multiple times. Two different guns were involved, and neither was recovered at the scene, nor at Zinkhan’s two-story colonial in the tidy middle-class suburb of Athens, Holeman said.

Authorities issued a nationwide alert for Zinkhan and his 2005 red Jeep Liberty. Zinkhan also has a house in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and authorities were keeping a lookout at airports. Also, police in Austin, Texas, have been alerted since Zinkhan has family there.

“Anyone who shoots three people is dangerous, that’s the best way I can put it,” Holeman said.

Shortly after the shooting, the university issued a campus-wide alert as a precaution.

“Our first thoughts are for safety of the university community and for prompt apprehension of the person responsible,” university President Michael F. Adams said in a statement.

Zinkhan was quiet and introverted, Covington said, but he never suspected something like the shootings.

“It’s a pretty huge shock,” Covington said.

Dana Adams, who lives across the street, said police looking for Zinkhan had hidden in her backyard. She didn’t know the professor that well, but described him as “kind of a strange character,” who would sometimes walk off in the middle of a conversation. “But I would never suspect this.”

Bruce, his ex-wife, loved the theater and recently directed a production of “Trip to Bountiful,” said Wesley Cook who knew Bruce through the theater company, where Cook’s girlfriend performs.

“She was very lively and charming and was an integral part of that theater community,” Clark said.

Bruce graduated from the University of Georgia’s law school and specialized in family law. She moved to Athens in 1980 from Augusta, where she performed in school and church shows, according to a 2002 profile of her in the Athens Banner-Herald. She taught high school and college before law school.

Athens attorney Ed Tolley said he and Bruce worked on cases together and knew her well.

“She was a wonderful person,” Tolley said, “Red-headed, very attractive, very professional, and a wonderful mother.”

He said when he heard one of the victims was a lawyer whose husband was a professor, he feared it was Bruce.

“My heart breaks for the children,” he said.

Teague wrote on his site: “For over 17 years I’ve spent most of my weekends (and a lot of evenings) working with a community theater company here in Athens.”

Teague, who was married to a longtime University of Georgia professor, also said he had worked providing German to English translation services to business, industry, government and the law since 1972. He said he grew up in East Tennessee and lived in Texas for several years and moved to Athens in 1977.

Before joining the faculty at the University of Georgia, Zinkhan held academic positions at the universities of Houston and Pittsburgh. He has a doctorate from the University of Michigan and graduated from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in 1974.

Tom Reichert, a professor at the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, knew Zinkhan from around the campus.

“This is a total shock,” Reichert said. “I wouldn’t say he was particularly vivacious or particularly quiet. He was right down the middle.”

White terrorists admit killing mother, children

The Army of Scum winning hearts and minds, as usual.

KABUL (AFP) – The US military in Afghanistan admitted Thursday that four people its troops killed in a raid were not “combatants”, after Afghans said they included a mother and her children, with a baby dying afterwards.

Afghan officials and witnesses earlier accused the forces of killing civilians in an overnight raid in the eastern province of Khost that the US military initially said killed “four combatants”.

“Further inquiries into the coalition and ANSF (Afghan National Security Force) operation in Khost earlier today suggest that the people killed and wounded were not enemy combatants as previously reported,” the military said.

“Coalition forces are working closely with local Afghan officials and family members to express condolences and provide assistance in the aftermath of this tragic event,” it said, adding that an investigation was continuing.

It is the latest in a series of incidents in which civilians have been killed or wounded by international forces, who are in Afghanistan to hunt down Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants.

The Khost police chief in charge of counter-terrorism, who is named only Ghazuddin, told AFP that the soldiers had gone to a village outside of Khost city in search of a militant.

They climbed on the roofs of other houses to surround the targeted building, he told AFP.

The occupants of one of the homes, which belonged to a colonel in the Afghan National Army who was serving elsewhere, suspected they were thieves, came out with guns and opened fire, Ghazuddin said.

“The Americans shot them thinking they are insurgents,” he said.

The colonel’s wife and daughter, son and brother were killed, he said.

Two women and a baby boy were also wounded. “The coalition took the women and little boy to hospital for treatment. Later the boy died,” Ghazuddin said.

He was unable to say what injuries killed the baby, whom he said was nine months old.

However, the baby’s uncle, Janat Gul, said the child was seven days old.

The dead woman was a school teacher, the Afghan education ministry said in a statement. It added that the girl who died was in the fourth grade at school, which would make her about 10 years old, and the boy was in the ninth grade, making him around 15.

The US military gave a similar version of events.

“Coalition and Afghan forces do not believe that this family was involved with militant activities and that they were defending their home against an unknown threat,” its statement said.

The force said earlier that the raid targeted a militant linked to the radical Haqqani network and the Islamic Jihad Union, both associated with Al-Qaeda.

Three suspected militants were arrested at the compound that was initially targeted, it said. They included the targeted militant, the force told locals.

Civilian casualties caused by international forces in Afghanistan have sparked frequent anger and resentment, leading President Hamid Karzai to accuse them of not taking enough care.

Karzai has told the international forces to work in close consultation with the Afghan authorities to avoid harming civilians.

The United Nations said in February that a record 2,118 civilians were killed in the Afghan conflict in 2008, with nearly 40 percent of the deaths caused by pro-government forces, including US-led and NATO troops.

White terrorist acquitted of murder in Iraq slaying

How is it “self-defence” to kill an unarmed and detained man?

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – A military jury has acquitted an Illinois Marine sergeant on charges of murdering an unarmed detainee during battle in Fallujah, Iraq.

The jury of eight Marines who served in Iraq or Afghanistan also acquitted Sgt. Ryan Weemer on Thursday of dereliction of duty in the November 2004 death.

Weemer could have faced a maximum sentence of life in prison and dishonorable discharge if convicted of murder. The maximum sentence for dereliction is six months in prison and a bad conduct discharge.

The defense argued during closing arguments that the 26-year-old Weemer acted in self-defense.

A prosecutor recounted that Weemer said in recorded interviews that he shot the man and told a squadmate that he would have to live with that for the rest of his life.

Britain launches massive, one-year program to archive every email

White dictatorship coming to a nation near you…

In a move that even the most nonchalant of privacy advocates is crying foul over, the UK has put into effect a European Union directive which mandates the archival of information regarding virtually all internet traffic for the next 12 months. The program formally goes into effect today.

The data retention rules require the archival of all email traffic (the identities of the sender and receiver, but not the contents of the messages), records of VOIP telephone calls (traditional phone calls are already monitored), and information about every website visited by any computer user in the country. The rules are being pushed down “across the board to even the smallest company,” as every ISP large or small will be required to collect and store the data. That data will then be accessible — to fight “crime and terrorism,” of course — by “hundreds of public bodies” to investigate whatever crimes they see fit.

Technically the new directive applies to all countries of the EU, but individual nations appear to be complying with the rules to various degrees. Privacy-obsessed Sweden is reportedly ignoring the rule completely, for example.

The privacy implications of the rule are enormous, as everything UK citizens do online will now be under the watchful eye of EU’s powerful Home Office. One privacy advocate, whose anger is clearly barely being held back, called it “the kind of technology that the Stasi would have dreamed of.” Naturally, the government counters that this kind of information has already proven invaluable in tracking down criminals, including the killer of an 11-year-old boy a couple of years ago.

Privacy concerns aside, another issue becomes one of how exactly to manage all this data. A report dating back to 2004 estimated that a single, large ISP in the UK would need up to 40 million gigabytes of storage capacity to store the traffic data from a year of user activity. Even in 2009, that kind of storage doesn’t come cheap, nor does the challenge of managing it all come easy.

White Gunman ‘lying in wait’ kills 3 Pittsburgh officers

Is it time to take away their guns?

PITTSBURGH – A gunman wearing a bulletproof vest and “lying in wait” opened fire on officers responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday, killing three of them and turning a quiet Pittsburgh street into a battlefield, police said.

Police Chief Nate Harper said the motive for the shooting isn’t clear, but friends said the gunman recently had been upset about losing his job and feared the Obama administration was poised to ban guns.

Richard Poplawski, 23, met officers at the doorway and shot two of them in the head immediately, Harper said. An officer who tried to help the two also was killed.

Poplawski, armed with an assault rifle and two other guns, then held police at bay for four hours as the fallen officers were left bleeding nearby, their colleagues unable to reach them, according to police and witnesses. More than 100 rounds were fired by the SWAT teams and Poplawski, Harper said.

The three slain officers were Eric Kelly, 41, Stephen Mayhle, 29, and Paul Sciullo III, 37. Kelly had been on the force for 14 years, Mayhle and Sciullo for two years each. Another officer, Timothy McManaway, was shot in the hand and a fifth broke his leg on a fence.

Poplawski had gunshot wounds in his legs but was otherwise unharmed because he was wearing a bulletproof vest, Harper said. He was charged with three counts of homicide, aggravated assault and a weapons violation.

The shooting occurred just two weeks after four police officers were fatally shot in Oakland, Calif., in the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001. The officers were the first Pittsburgh city officers to die in the line of duty in 18 years.

“This is a solemn day and it’s a very sad day in the city of Pittsburgh,” Harper said. “We’ve seen this kind of violence happen in California. We never would think this kind of violence would happen in the city of Pittsburgh.”

At 7 a.m., Sciullo and Mayhle responded to a 911 call from Poplawski’s mother, who remained holed up in the basement during the entire dispute and escaped unharmed, Harper said.

When they arrived at the home, Sciullo was immediately shot in the head. Mayhle, who was right behind him, was also shot in the head.

“It appears he was lying in wait for the officers,” Harper said.

Kelly, who was on his way home after completing his overnight shift when he heard the call for help, rushed to the scene and was killed trying to help Sciullo and Mayhle, Harper said. SWAT teams and other officers arrived and were immediately fired on as well.

Don Sand, who lives across the street from Poplawski, said he was woken up by the sound of gunfire. Hunkering down behind a wall in his home, he saw the first two officers go down and then saw Kelly get shot.

“They couldn’t get the scene secure enough to get to them. They were just lying there bleeding,” Sand said. “By the time they secured the scene enough to get to them it was way too late.”

Deputy Chief Paul Donaldson, who lives nearby, was one of the first officers to arrive. He saw Mayhle by a bush to the right of the door; Kelly was in the street and McManaway, his hand injured, was kneeling beside him, yelling that Kelly needed help.

Donaldson suggested using a police van to get them. They draped a bulletproof vest on the window to protect the driver and several officers got into the van to get Kelly and McManaway.

During this time, Poplawski was somehow distracted, Donaldson said.

“We were fortunate that he didn’t fire on us. I don’t know why he was distracted, but he apparently didn’t see us coming down to get them,” he said. “It could have been worse.”

Poplawski had feared “the Obama gun ban that’s on the way” and “didn’t like our rights being infringed upon,” said Edward Perkovic, his best friend.

Perkovic, 22, said he got a call at work from him in which he said, “Eddie, I am going to die today. … Tell your family I love them and I love you.”

Perkovic said: “I heard gunshots and he hung up. … He sounded like he was in pain, like he got shot.”

Poplawski had once tried to join the Marines, but was kicked out of boot camp after throwing a food tray at a drill sergeant, Perkovic said.

Another longtime friend, Aaron Vire, said Poplawski feared that President Barack Obama was going to take away his rights, though he said he “wasn’t violently against Obama.”

Vire, 23, said Poplawski once had an Internet talk show but that it wasn’t successful. He said Poplawski owned an AK-47 rifle and several powerful handguns, including a .357 Magnum.

Obama has said he respects Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms, but that he favors “common sense” gun laws. Gun rights advocates interpret that as meaning he would approve some curbs on assault and concealed weapons.

Poplawski had been laid off from his job at a glass factory earlier this year, said another friend, Joe DiMarco. DiMarco said he didn’t know the name of the company, but knew his friend had been upset about it.

The last Pittsburgh police officers killed in the line of duty were Officers Thomas L. Herron and Joseph J. Grill, according to a Web site that tracks police killings. They died after their patrol car collided with another vehicle while chasing a stolen car on March 6, 1991.

In 1995, an off-duty officer was shot with his own gun after he confronted a group of teenagers about graffiti. Tests later showed the officer had been drinking.

According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 133 law enforcement officers died in the line of duty in 2008, a 27 percent decrease from year before and the lowest annual total since 1960.

Poplawski had often fought with neighbors and had even gotten into fist fights with a couple, Sand said.

“This is a relatively really quiet neighborhood except for him,” Sand said. “He was just one of those kids that we knew to stay clear from.”

Harper confirmed police had responded to calls from the Poplawski house several times but said the incidents were still being investigated.

Rob Gift, 45, who lives a block away, said the well-kept single-family houses with manicured lawns are home to many police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other city workers.

“It’s just a very quiet neighborhood,” Gift said.

1 dies as violent whites rampage in London

Why can’t white demonstrate peacefully to get their message across?

LONDON, theAFP) (AFP) – Thousands of people demonstrated on the streets of London ahead of the G20 summit here in angry protests that descended into violent battles with police and saw one man collapse and die.

After a day of protests Wednesday to mark the summit of world leaders in the capital, a man died in hospital after falling unconscious inside a police cordon near the Bank of England.

Police and the London Ambulance Service said they were alerted by a member of the public and tried to resuscitate the man — despite at one point being pelted by bottles from protesters — but he was declared dead in hospital.

It was not clear how he died, but several people were earlier injured when protesters held in a police cordon surged against the barriers, following violent clashes and an attack on a bank that led to 63 arrests.

The independent police complaints body, the IPCC, has been informed of the death and could decide to investigate.

Thousands of protesters rallied outside the Bank of England ahead of Thursday’s summit, where world leaders including US President Barack Obama will seek a response to the global financial crisis.

Anti-war activists also peacefully protested outside the US embassy across town.

Police said about 4,000 protesters, including anti-globalisation, anti-war and environmental activists, converged on the City to demand more help for the poor and the punishment of bankers they blame for the crisis.

Some of the demonstrators smashed their way into a branch of the state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) near the Bank of England, breaking the windows and hurling out office equipment including computer parts.

Riot police protecting the main doors of the building came under a hail of glass bottles, beer cans and eggs, while other officers entered the bank to try to repel anyone attempting to get inside.

“Scum” and “Beat inflation — eat the rich,” were sprayed in graffiti on the windows of the office, which had been closed for the day as a precaution.

Outside the Bank of England activists scuffled with police, hurling taunts, paint bombs, firecrackers and glass bottles, while baton-wielding police responded with occasional charges to keep masked demonstrators at bay.

“Build a bonfire, build a bonfire. Put the bankers on the top,” protesters chanted, while others taunted staff watching from the Bank of England balcony and urged them to jump.

Metropolitan Police Commander Simon O’Brien said: “It did seem to us from CCTV and police on the scene that they tried to find a way to ramp up the protest and hijack it into violence.

“We saw a determined attack on the RBS where… there was a clear attempt to throw lighted material in that premises.”

The violence calmed briefly but flared up as dusk fell, with protesters held in by police cordons charging the lines. Some tore down the crash barriers and dragged them towards the police, before riot officers surrounded them.

A shop dummy dressed as a banker was hanged by a noose from a lamp post, and then torched, with bits of the burning effigy hurled at police officers.

Several people were injured in the clashes, including one girl whose hair was soaked with blood as medics bandaged her head.

Neil Caffrey, an unemployed 45-year-old from London who had blood streaming down his cheek, claimed a policeman had caused his injury.

He told AFP: “I was standing my ground peacefully, there was a surge forward and he attacked me with a big metal truncheon.”

Asked about the raid on the RBS office, he said: “I saw one man pick up a large metal pole and smash the window. So what? He smashed a window, he’s angry. Sometimes a man has to shout to be heard.”

White man goes on murder spree in nursing home

Nothing like killing the elderly on a Sunday. White social Darwinism at work.

CARTHAGE, N.C. – A lone gunman burst into a North Carolina nursing home Sunday morning and started “shooting everything,” barging into the rooms of terrified patients, sparing some from his rampage without explanation while killing seven residents and a nurse caring for them.

Authorities said Robert Stewart also wounded three others, including the Carthage police officer who confronted him in a hallway of Pinelake Health and Rehab and stopped the brutal attack. Officials said the massacre could have been bloodier if the officer had not managed to subdue Stewart.

“He acted in nothing short of a heroic way today, and but for his actions, we certainly could have had a worse tragedy,” said Moore County District Attorney Maureen Krueger. “We had an officer, a well-trained officer, who performed his job the way he was supposed to and prevented this from getting even worse than it is now.”

By late Sunday afternoon, Krueger had charged Stewart, 45, of Moore County, with eight counts of first-degree murder and a single charge of felony assault of a law enforcement officer. Authorities offered few other details, allowing only that Stewart was not a patient or an employee at the nursing home and isn’t believed to be related to any of the victims.

Authorities said they would release more information at a news conference Monday morning.

“I don’t know if the emotion entirely has set in,” said Police Chief Chris McKenzie, a Carthage native who said nothing in his nearly 20-year law enforcement career compared to Sunday’s slaughter. “It’s a small community built on faith, and faith will get us through.”

While authorities declined to comment on a possible motive, Stewart’s ex-wife said he had been reaching out recently to family members, telling them he had cancer and was preparing for a long trip and to “go away.” Sue Griffin said she was married to Stewart for 15 years, and while they hadn’t spoken since divorcing in 2001, he had been trying to call her during the past week through her son, mother, sister and grandmother.

Griffin said Stewart had once been a painter. She said she had no idea whether her ex-husband was somehow connected to the nursing home or why he would shoot people there.

“He did have some violent tendencies from time to time,” Griffin said. “I wouldn’t put it past him. I hate to say it, but it is true.”

Authorities said Stewart began his rampage around 10 a.m. at Pinelake Health and Rehab in the North Carolina Sandhills about 60 miles southwest of Raleigh, firing shots inside and outside the home. It ended when 25-year-old Officer Justin Garner traded gunfire with Stewart in a hallway, wounding the suspect.

Garner was wounded in his leg, and police said Stewart wounded two others. One person remained hospitalized Sunday night at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in nearby Pinehurst, and police would only say Stewart was in the custody of the Moore County Sheriff.

Krueger said the victims were Pinelake residents Tessie Garner, 88; Lillian Dunn, 89; Jessie Musser, 88; Bessie Hendrick, 78; John Goldston, 78; Margaret Johnson, 89; Louise Decker, 98; and nurse Jerry Avent, whose age wasn’t immediately available.

The facility was closed after the attack as authorities worked to gather evidence inside and out. The surviving residents — some with Alzheimer’s disease — were taken to an undisclosed location.

Beverly McNeill said her mother, Pinelake resident Ellery Chishole, called moments after the gunman stormed into her room and pointed his “deer gun” at her roommate. “They’re up here shooting, they’re up here shooting,” she frantically told her 14-year-old granddaughter, Tavia, over the phone.

Chishole told her daughter she hid her face in her shirt so she couldn’t see the man or what she expected him to do, McNeill said. He didn’t shoot, but left the room and began shooting down the hallway.

Friends and family of Pinelake residents and employees started to gather not long after the shooting at the First Baptist Church of Carthage. They were frustrated by the lack of immediate news about who had died, said Lea Chandler, a volunteer with the Moore County chapter of the American Red Cross.

Chandler said she saw two women and their husbands get the news that their mother had been killed.

“They were just crying out, ‘Why mama?’” Chandler said. “To see people suffer is hard. To see people suffering, not knowing, trying to find information. It’s a crime scene. They’re not releasing things until people are notified, all next of kin. That’s got to be hard. It really had to be hard.”

Carthage police, Moore County sheriff’s deputies and the State Bureau of Investigation conducted a search Sunday afternoon of the nursing home and its parking lot, where the windows of at least two cars were shattered and towed by authorities. Among the items they found was a camouflaged-colored rifle or shotgun, which was leaning against the side of a Jeep Cherokee.

Howard McMillian, of Lakeview, said he raced to the scene as soon as he heard about the shooting. His 56-year-old sister lives at the nursing home, and McMillian said his brother had gotten a call from officials saying she was unharmed.

“I know she’s real nervous,” McMillian said. “I just want to make sure she’s OK.”

Carthage is a small town of roughly 1,800 people in the North Carolina Sandhills, an area popular among retirees and home to several noted golf courses, including the famed Pinehurst resort and its No. 2 course that regularly hosts the U.S. Open.

Pinelake Health and Rehab was last inspected in May, and the review resulted in an overall five-star — or “much above average” — rating from federal Medicaid officials. A nursing home Web site said the facility opened in 1993 and has 110 beds, including 20 for those with Alzheimer’s disease.

Sunday’s rampage happened just weeks after a man killed 10 people, including his mother and several other relatives, in the worst mass shooting in Alabama’s history on March 10. On March 11, a teen killed 12 people at his former high school in Germany.

German teenager ‘killed for fun’

Of course he did. Young white males often kill for fun.

The teenager who attacked a German school and shot dead 15 people said he was doing it “for fun”, according to a driver whose car the killer hijacked.

Tim Kretschmer also talked of attacking another school as he forced Igor Wolf, 41, at gunpoint to drive him away, Mr Wolf told Germany’s Stern magazine.

Prosecutors are considering whether to charge Kretschmer’s father, who owned the gun, with involuntary manslaughter.

The massacre in Winnenden last week plunged Germany into national mourning.

Kretschmer, 17, used a pistol to kill eight schoolgirls, a schoolboy and three teachers at his former school in the small south-western town, and a bystander nearby, before commandeering Mr Wolf’s car.

Mr Wolf eventually managed to veer off the road and escape unharmed but the gunman went on to kill two other people in the town of Wendlingen, 40km (25 miles) away before he shot himself as police closed in.

Kretschmer stole the legally held gun from his businessman father’s bedroom, police say.

‘Another school?’

In the interview published on Wednesday, Mr Wolf recounts how the teenager jumped into the back seat of his car after fleeing the school, put a gun to his head and forced him to drive away at high speed.

People grieved publicly outside the Albertville School Centre

He told him he had just killed people at his old school.

“Why are you doing this shit?” the driver asked.

“For fun, because it’s fun,” Kretschmer replied, speaking very loudly.

When he in turn asked Mr Wolf “Do you think we can find another school?”, the driver says he distracted him by changing the subject.

“He was preparing himself for the next shooting – that’s what went through my mind,” he told Stern.

He initially considered trying to escape from the car at a red light but saw children and women pushing buggies.

“He would have immediately started to shoot, whether at children or old people,” Mr Wolf told the German magazine.

A charge of manslaughter is being considered because the father allegedly left the murder weapon unlocked in his bedroom despite knowing his son was depressed.

“There are concrete signs that the parents knew of their son’s health problems,” prosecutors and local police said in a joint statement.

“Based on this, there is reason to suspect this may be a case of involuntary manslaughter.”

Alabama shooter was depressed over failures

“I can’t get to kill people overseas so I’ll start killing them at home!”

GENEVA, Ala. – Officials say the man blamed for the worst massacre in Alabama history was depressed and frustrated with his inability to become a Marine or a police officer.

Authorities say 28-year-old Michael McLendon killed five family members and five other people before fatally shooting himself Tuesday.

Barry Tucker with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation says McLendon had told a confidant in the days before the shootings that he was depressed and unfulfilled. He’d been a Marine briefly but was discharged for falsifying information. He also tried and failed to become a police officer.

Authorities also say he left a letter saying he had killed his mother and planned to kill himself. He also mentioned a family dispute over a legal issue but authorities say he didn’t reveal plans to kill any one else.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

SAMSON, Ala. (AP) — Investigators found dozens of soot-covered DVDs on how to commit acts of violence in the charred Alabama home where a man killed his mother at the start of the worst massacre in state history, a county official said Thursday.

Authorities say Michael McLendon, 28, set his mother’s body on fire Tuesday afternoon at the home they shared in the isolated community of Kinston. He later killed nine more people, four of them family members, before fatally shooting himself.

Coffee County District Attorney Gary McAliley said investigators found 30 or 40 violent CDs and DVDs in the home and are trying to find out who manufactured them. He said they appeared to be serious, not a joke.

“There was one DVD on how to shoot into a moving car,” McAliley said. One of the victims was driving when he was shot and killed.

McAliley also said McLendon had a permit for two pistols he took with him during the rampage but no license for two assault rifles he used as he squeezed off some 200 rounds.

Officials with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said agents were tracing the weapons to find their source.

McAliley had said earlier that McLendon, whose parents had divorced, appeared to have had a dispute with family members over a family Bible. But he said he now believes “there’s no merit” to that idea.

McLendon began his killing spree a dozen miles from Samson at his mother’s house in Kinson. It ended about an hour later with him taking his own life after a shootout with police in nearby Geneva at Reliable Products, the metals plant where he worked until 2003.

In between, he gunned down three relatives and the wife and 18-month-old daughter of a local sheriff’s deputy on a wide front porch in Samson. He then turned his gun next door and killed his 74-year-old grandmother and sent panicked bystanders fleeing and ducking behind cars.

McLendon then drove off, spraying bullets through the town lined with old brick buildings, killing three more bystanders.

State investigators have interviewed McLendon’s father but say they did not find out a lot that would aid their search for the motive behind the massacre.

Briton arrested after trying to shoot Spanish guard who caught him urinating in public

Whatever happened to normal British behavior of soccer hooliganism and, having public sex in foreign countries? Should all British expats be expelled till they’ve been proven not to be a public threat and nuisance?

Two Britons face charges of attempted murder after shooting at police who stopped them for urinating in the street. The Spanish officers only survived because the 9mm semiautomatic pistol jammed twice.

The British gunman surrendered following a stand-off in Alhaurin el Grande, near Marbella. Named only as Paul B, he had another expat’s passport with him when he was arrested.

The second man, Paul Logan Donnelly from Newcastle, fled the scene after abandoning a sixinch knife. He was later arrested.

The way the men reacted has prompted the authorities to check with British police whether they are on the run.

The drama unfolded around 9pm on Monday evening. Two civil guards stopped the pair after spotting one of them urinating outside a video shop.

Paul B threw the passport to the police and took out the gun. He aimed at one officer and pulled the trigger but it jammed.

He then pointed it at the second guard but it jammed again. The officers then took out their guns and talked him round.

It is thought he had been drinking all day after learning of the death of his six-year-old daughter. Last night the pair were also facing the charge of illegal possession of weapons.

An Irishman who was with the men, both thought to live locally, has been questioned but released without charge.

Eleven killed in Alabama shooting spree

Another day, another white rampage. No place or person is safe when a white man loses his job.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 11 (Reuters) – Eleven people including the suspected gunman and his mother were killed in a shooting spree and car chase in southern Alabama on Tuesday, authorities and local media said.

The shooter, who was in his mid-30s, killed five people including the wife of a local deputy sheriff and her 3-month-old baby at a mobile home in Samson, according to Wynnton Melton, mayor of nearby Geneva, Alabama.

His other victims included his own mother, two people killed at a convenience store and a man in a pickup truck who died during a car chase as the gunman apparently fired at random, said Melton.

In all 10 people plus the gunman died, according to the website of the Dothan Eagle newspaper.

The shooting began in Samson, a small town in the southeastern part of the state and ended after a car chase and gun battle in Geneva, the county seat about 12 miles (20 km) away, according to the FBI and local police.

“Officer Ricky Morgan rammed his car to distract him and was rewarded with a hail of bullets,” said Melton. “One bullet grazed the shoulder of police chief Frankie Lindsey.”

A police officer in Geneva said the gunman “shot at several vehicles on the highway and then he shot at Wal-Mart and Piggly Wiggly,” a grocery store.

A statement from the Alabama Department of Public Safety said state and local law enforcement agencies had responded to “a series of at least four shooting incidents” involving what was believed to be a lone gunman.

The suspect “left at least nine victims dead before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot,” the statement said.

Police said they expected to find more victims. There was no indication of a motive for the spree in which a house was also burned in a nearby county.

Rural southeastern Alabama, which borders Florida, is a largely agricultural area with many low-income families.

Mass shootings have become a feature of life in the United States.

In one of the worst recent incidents, a gunman dressed as Santa Claus killed nine guests at a Christmas Eve party, before taking his own life in Covina, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

On April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia, became the site of the deadliest rampage in modern U.S. history when a student gunman killed 32 people and himself.

White gunman dead after killing 16 in Germany

Is it time to start profiling white males?

WINNENDEN, Germany – A 17-year-old gunman dressed in black opened fire at his former high school in southwestern Germany on Wednesday then fled in a hijacked car, killing at least 15 people before police shot him to death, state officials said.

The gunman entered the school in Winnenden and opened fire, shooting at random, police said. He killed nine students, three teachers and a passer-by outside the building, officials said.

“He went into the school with a weapon and carried out a bloodbath,” said regional police chief Erwin Hetger. “I’ve never seen anything like this in my life.”

Triggering a land and air manhunt, the gunman hijacked a car, freed the driver and drove about 25 miles (40 kilometers) before police found him. When confronted, he killed two bystanders in a shootout with police before he was slain, Baden Wuerttemburg governor Guenther Oettinger said. Two officers were seriously injured, but there was no immediate information on other casualties.

Four hours after the shootings began, police announced the teenager’s death.

Police have identified the gunman only as Tim K, who graduated last year from the school of about 1,000 students.

In their hunt for him, police searched his parents’ home in a nearby town. The suspect’s father, who is a member of a local gun club, had 16 firearms and one was missing, police said.

Authorities have said the weapon was not a rifle, but have otherwise only called it a “high caliber” firearm.

Police had said that a 10th student died of injuries in a local hospital, but spokesman Klaus Hinderer later changed that report saying that it was wrong and blaming an internal police “communications error.”

The death toll brings the killing close to that of Germany’s worst school shooting.

In the 2002, 19-year-old Robert Steinhaeuser shot and killed 12 teachers, a secretary, two students and a police officer before turning his gun on himself in the Gutenberg high school in Erfurt, in eastern Germany.

Steinhaeuser, who had been expelled for forging a doctor’s note, was a gun club member licensed to own weapons. The attack led Germany to raise the age for owning recreational firearms from 18 to 21.

German Chancellor Angel Merkel called the shooting “a horrific crime.”

“It is hard to put into words what happened today, but our sadness and sympathy goes out to the victims’ families,” Merkel said at a news conference.

The European Parliament, meeting in Strasbourg, France, stood in silence for a minute, to honor the victims.

“It is our task as responsible politicians in the European Union and, indeed, all the member states to do our utmost that such deeds can be prevented,” said EU assembly president Hans-Gert Pottering, a German.

White gunmen goes on shooting spree in church, kills Pastor

Another day, another white shooting spree. Schools, hospitals, churches, its all game.

The pastor of an Illinois church was shot and killed during a service this morning, according to the Maryville Police Department.

CBS Affiliate KMOV reports that a gunman opened fire after 8:00 a.m. at the First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill., fatally shooting Pastor Fred Winters, 45.

Illinois State Police spokesperson Ralph Timmens said that the gunman walked up one of the aisles at the church and exchanged words with Winters, who walked over towards him.

The suspect then pulled out a .45 caliber handgun and started shooting.

Police said the pastor used a Bible to deflect the first of four rounds fired.

Timmens said the gun then jammed, and the assailant pulled out a knife and started stabbing himself. When parishioners tried to subdue him, he stabbed two others in the process.

At a press briefing this afternoon, Illinois State Police Director Larry Trent said the Bible exploded, producing what appeared to be confetti, causing some in attendence to believe the episode was a skit being performed as part of the service.

Only one of the four rounds fired struck and killed Winters.

Officials don’t know if Winters and the suspect knew each other.

“We don’t know the relationship (between the gunman and pastor), why he’s here or what the circumstances came about that caused him in the first place to be here,” Timmins said.

Winters was taken to Anderson Hospital in Maryville, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, according to spokeswoman Natalie Head.

The gunman and one victim, 39-year-old Terry Bullard, were being treated at St. Louis University Hospital, said spokeswoman Laura Keller. Bullard underwent surgery for stab wounds and was in serious condition, she said. The second wounded congregation member was treated and released.

Keller said the gunman was undergoing surgery early Sunday afternoon but could not provide his name, condition, or type of injuries.

At a press briefing he was described as a 27-year-old white male from Troy, Ill.

The Rev. Mark Jones, another pastor at First Baptist, said he briefly saw the gunman but did not recognize him by name or face.

“We have no idea what this guy’s motives were,” Jones said outside the church. “We don’t know if we’ll ever know that.”

Police said at the time there were approximately 150 people in the church for the first of three Sunday services. Many coming for the second service arrived to find emergency vehicles directing them away from the church, which reportedly has 1,500 members. Some parked at a nearby senior center where they were consoling one another.

First Baptist parishioner Sharla Dryden pulled into the church parking lot for a 9:30 a.m. service in time to see “just a lot of chaos, lot of police, fire, and people just devastated.”

“They just said there had been a shooting,” said Dryden, 62. “I would have been devastated if anyone had been shot, but to hear it was the pastor was terrible. You just never expect this to happen at a church.”

Winters, a father of two who had led First Baptist for nearly 22 years, was the former president of the Illinois Baptist State Association and an adjunct professor for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, according to the church’s Web site.

“Our great God is not surprised by this, or anything,” Nate Adams, executive director of the Illinois Baptist State Association, said in a statement. “That He allows evil and free will to have their way in tragedies like this is a mystery in many ways. But we know we can trust Him no matter what, and draw close to Him in any circumstances.”

A notice on the church’s Web site announced a prayer service this evening at 6 p.m. at Metro Community Church in Edwardsville, Ill., and asked, “Please continue to pray.”

Maryville is about 20 miles northeast of St. Louis.

2 Whites arrested in southeastern Pa. arsons

Why do whites like to play with fire so much?

COATESVILLE, Pa. – A second man was arrested Thursday in connection with a series of arsons plaguing southeastern Pennsylvania, hours after a teenager was charged with setting nine fires in this steel town.

Mark Gilliam, 20, was arrested Thursday night on a federal charge in the Jan. 25 attempted arson of a restaurant in Thorndale, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said in a statement.

Gilliam, who was arrested without incident at his West Chester home, is expected to appear in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia on Friday. It was not immediately clear if Gilliam had a lawyer. A phone number listed for a Mark Gilliam on the block where the ATF said the suspect lived was disconnected.

Earlier Thursday, a 19-year-old described as a pyromaniac who liked to watch things burn was charged with setting nine fires in Coatesville, including a block-long blaze that displaced dozens of people last month.

Roger Leon Barlow Jr. of Downingtown was charged with arson, aggravated assault and related counts. He was arraigned Thursday afternoon at the Downingtown District Court and bail was set at $9 million. Court officials said he did not have an attorney.

John Hageman, a spokesman for the ATF, declined to say whether Gilliam and Barlow knew each other.

“We had developed information on the two individuals and were seeking both of them,” he told The Associated Press late Thursday. He did not elaborate.

Chester County District Attorney Joseph Carroll, who lives in Coatesville, said he does not believe the fires were gang-related, hate crimes or targeted at specific individuals. Carroll called Barlow a pyromaniac, but declined to disclose evidence to support it, other than to say that Barlow enjoyed watching fires.

Coatesville, about 35 miles west of Philadelphia, has tallied 18 arsons this year and 26 last year, one of them fatal. In December, authorities arrested three people believed to have been responsible for some of the arsons, including the early December blaze that killed an 83-year-old woman.

The fires, however, continued and many of the city’s approximately 11,000 residents said they were afraid to go to bed at night for fear another blaze would be set.

On Thursday, several residents interrupted a City Hall news conference about Barlow’s arrest with applause. City Councilman Kurt Schenk said he was elated.

“It’s just evil — pure evil — as far as I can see, anybody who would want to hurt somebody like that,” Schenk said.

Barlow, a high school graduate, lives with his parents. His father, Roger, told reporters Thursday evening that his son got mixed in with “the wrong crown.”

“The wrong crowd led him up the wrong path,” the elder Barlow said.

The teen told investigators Wednesday that he set nine fires since Jan. 2, according to a police affidavit. One of them tore through 15 row homes on a single block, displacing about 50 residents and causing an estimated $1.2 million in damage.

Barlow set his last fire on Feb. 3, but the last identified arson in the area was Feb. 6 at a trailer home in East Fallowfield Township, Carroll said. Besides the 18 fires in Coatesville this year, there have been at least five outside the city limits.

An arson task force focused on Barlow after police stopped his vehicle during elevated patrols, said Mark Potter, special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Investigators asked Barlow what he was doing in town. Based on his reaction — and a later glance at his MySpace page, which includes a box showing animated flames — officers knew they wanted to talk to him further, Potter said.

Arsonists are typically motivated by thrill-seeking, revenge or hate, Potter said.

“Roger Barlow’s dangerous and risky behavior for the past 48 days, and maybe longer, has now been stopped,” he said.

Even with Barlow and Gilliam in custody, Hageman said investigators will take a new look at the other unsolved arsons and determine if either had a role in them.

White terrorist : I shot blindfolded Iraqi prisoner at point-blank range

Winning hearts and minds as usual.

A U.S. soldier confessed to military investigators that he shot a bound and blindfolded Iraqi prisoner point-blank in the back of the head, according to a video played at his murder trial today.

Sgt Michael Leahy, 28, told the Germany-based investigators that after shooting the first prisoner, he turned his 9mm pistol on another captive.

‘The detainee I shot fell back on me,’ he said in the videotape of the January 2008 interrogation played at his trial in the Army’s Rose Barracks’ courtroom.

‘I turned to the right and saw the other detainee flinch, and turn his head after he heard the shot. My weapon was pointed toward him, my weapon was anywhere from a foot to a couple of inches away. I hit him in the side of the head, the face, anywhere from the ear forward.’

But the shot didn’t kill the second man, so Master Sgt John Hatley, 40, finished him off with a shot to the chest, Leahy said.

‘I’m ashamed of what I’ve done,’ he said in the video, occasionally wiping tears from his eyes and holding his face in his hands. ‘I don’t consider myself a murderer. I made a huge mistake. I’ll accept the consequences.’

Leahy has pleaded not guilty to charges of premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit premeditated murder and obstruction of justice in the deaths of a total of four Iraqi prisoners, who were dumped in a Baghdad canal in 2007 after they were killed.

Leahy is also being tried for the alleged murder of another Iraqi who was shot while in his care as a medic in January of 2007.

The Illinois man faces a possible life in prison and dishonourable discharge if convicted.

Six soldiers including Leahy are accused of involvement in the slaying of the four prisoners sometime between March 10 and April 16, 2007. All were with the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division in Iraq, which is now part of the Germany-based 172nd Infantry Brigade.

Leahy, Hatley and Sgt 1st Class Joseph Mayo, 27, are accused of pulling the trigger.

According to testimony at the court-martial, which began Tuesday, at least four Iraqis were taken into custody in spring 2007 after a shootout with a patrol that included five other accused soldiers.

The prisoners were taken to the U.S. unit’s operating base in Baghdad for questioning and processing though there wasn’t enough evidence to hold them for attacking the unit.

Later that night patrol members took the Iraqis to a remote area and shot them in retribution for the attacks against the unit, according to testimony.

Three soldiers are scheduled for later courts-martial. Sgt Charles Quigley, 28, of Providence, Rhode Island, faces one charge of conspiracy to commit premeditated murder. Mayo and Hatley are charged with premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit premeditated murder, and obstruction of justice.

Two more soldiers – Spc (specialist) Steven Ribordy, 25, of Salina, Kansas, and Spc Belmor Ramos, 23, of Clearfield, Utah – pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to commit premeditated murder.

More Police fun

Notice they turned off the camera while he beat her up. Why are white men so eager to assault woman? Power issues?

Cop punches restrained woman in the face 4 times

“To serve and protect.” Nothing like beating up a middle aged woman.

From the video captured by two Millville Police car dashboard cameras, emerge two very different versions of what happened in the pre-dawn hours of February 3, 2008.

The just-released video (see left) is at the center of a lawsuit in which Sheila Stevenson, 42, claims she became the victim of excessive force, after then-Millville Police Officer Carlo Drogo pulled her over for illegally riding her bicycle on a sidewalk.

In the course of trying to handcuff Stevenson, the video shows Drogo as he sprays himself in the face with pepper spray and she appears to push him. Drogo then appears to knock Stevenson to the ground to subdue her. Drogo is seen, seemingly doubled over in pain, as other officers arrive.

“I am not doing nothing,” Stevenson screamed on the video.

“Put your hands behind your back,” one of the other officers ordered.

“Can you not do this? I’m not doing nothing! I’m not doing nothing,” she wailed.

Seconds later, Drogo approaches Stevenson again and appears to punch her four times.

“Why are you hitting me? You’re hitting me! Why are you hitting me?” Stevenson cried out. “Why did you hit me and I’m handcuffed?”

Stevenson was eventually led away by officers and put into a police cruiser. She was later convicted of resisting arrest.

Stevenson’s civil suit, filed in Cumberland County Superior Court in December, names Drogo, other Millville Police officers and the city of Millville as defendants.

READ: Stevenson’s Civil Suit Complaint

Stevenson’s lawyer would not comment on the case, nor would Millville’s Police chief, citing pending litigation.

Drogo resigned from the police department in October for undisclosed reasons. He would not talk with NBC 10 News on-camera, but issued a statement in which he stood by his actions and called Stevenson’s allegations a distortion of the facts.

READ: Drogo’s Statement to NBC10

Drogo also insisted the arrest was lawful and described Stevenson’s lawsuit as frivolous.

Meanwhile, there’s now a warrant out for Stevenson’s arrest on drug possession charges, stemming from her encounter with police that was caught on camera.

Can’t white people get along?

Proving the point that there need be no minorities around for white folks to get into trouble.

White terrorists kill 16 civilians, mostly woman and children

Standard white rules of engagement : target and kill woman and children and then call them militants.

MEHTAR LAM, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Thousands of Afghans protested against President Hamid Karzai and the United States on Sunday over reports of fresh civilian deaths caused by U.S.-led troops during a raid against Taliban militants.

The issue of civilian casualties is sensitive in Afghanistan and has eroded public support for Karzai’s government and the foreign troops backing it.

It has also caused a rift between Karzai and his Western allies more than seven years after U.S.-led and Afghan forces overthrew the Taliban’s government.

The operation causing the latest controversy happened this week in eastern Laghman province. The U.S. military said on Saturday that troops, backed by air support, had killed 15 militants in an overnight operation.

Assadullah Wafa, a Karzai adviser investigating the deaths, said on Sunday that “16 civilians, many of them children and women, were killed” in the operation.

“We strongly condemn it and want an end to it (civilian casualties),” he told reporters in Mehtar Lam, Laghman’s provincial capital, where the protest was held.

A statement from the presidential palace quoted Karzai as saying that bombing villages and causing civilian deaths “will not bear any progress in the war against terrorism.”

Karzai said failure to coordinate attacks with his government would weaken its sovereignty and bolster the militants, it added.

A spokesman for the U.S. military said it planned to jointly investigate the incident with the Afghan government this week.

Chanting slogans against Karzai and the United States, thousands of people took part in the protest despite heavy rain.

“If the foreign troops do not put an end to their operations, we will launch jihad,” said Malik Hazrat, a protest leader.

The provincial governor tried to calm the demonstrators and invited them for talks with representatives of the U.S.-led troops. But some protesters threw stones at him and he stopped his speech.

There was no report of injuries and by midday the protest had simmered down.

Nearly 700 civilians were killed in operations by foreign and Afghan forces against the militants until October last year, according to a national human rights body based on a U.N. estimate.

Karzai, who has repeatedly urged foreign troops to coordinate operations with his government, last week termed civilian deaths as a main source of Afghanistan’s instability.

White terrorists kill Iraqi couple in bed, wound child

Wonder why the Iraqis hate them?

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi couple was killed in their bed Saturday morning as their daughter slept between them when U.S. forces raided their home.

The U.S. military said that the raid, in the area of Hawija, just west of Kirkuk , was an Iraqi government approved operation against a wanted man and that the killings were in self-defense. But the family described the slayings of a modest farmer, his wife and the wounding of their daughter by U.S. forces as the three slept.

According to a U.S. military statement, at 2 a.m. U.S. and Iraqi soldiers entered the bedroom where the couple lay and the woman reached under the mattress. The soldiers told her multiple times to show her hands; when she didn’t, they shot her, the statement said.

The woman’s husband, Dhia Hussein Ali , jumped up and “physically attacked” the soldiers after his wife was shot, the statement said. The soldiers killed him in self-defense, the statement said. The couple’s 9-year-old daughter, Alham, was injured during the attack.

After the killings a “high-powered pistol” was found under the mattress, the statement said. U.S. and Iraqi troops went to the house because they believed Ali was a member of Al Qaida in Iraq and later identified him as a wanted terrorist, the statement said. He had been detained at least once before by U.S. forces in a detention center in southern Iraq in 2004, his family said.

The U.S. military said the operation was “fully coordinated with Iraqi authorities (who were also present for the operation) and conducted with full respect for the Iraqi Constitution and the laws of Iraq .”

After a security agreement took effect Jan. 1 , the U.S. military can conduct operations on their own if Iraqi authorities approve them and they are coordinated with Iraqi authorities.

Ali Dabbagh , the Iraqi government spokesman, said he had no information on the raid.

Brig. Gen Abdel Kareem Khalaf , the spokesman for the Ministry of Interior , told National Public Radio that no Iraqi forces were present at the raid, and he demanded an investigation. It was unclear if the raid was approved, he said.

“We have asked for a joint investigative committee plus we have asked for an explanation from the American side regarding what happened,” he told NPR . “Up to now there were victims on the ground and we have to know why.”

In the small village where Dhia Hussein Ali lived, his children and his father questioned the reason for the raid. Ali was a modest farmer with a small fish pool where he raised the popular carp eaten in Iraq , they said. The man was a former officer in Saddam Hussein’s army.

Omar Dhia Hussein , 14, was in shock Saturday night. He said in a telephone interview that in the morning he’d seen his parents’ bodies side by side in their bed, the sheets covered in blood. The wall was covered with his father’s blood, he said.

At 2 a.m. , Omar said, he heard a bang of a percussion grenade. When he opened his eyes he saw American soldiers standing over him in the room where he slept with his two sisters. Except for an Iraqi interpreter there were no Iraqis with the Americans, he said.

The interpreter shouted at the young boy.

“You are hiding weapons,” Omar recalled the interpreter saying. “Where are you hiding the weapons? You are terrorists, you are hiding weapons in that unfinished house. Confess!”

Omar began to cry and his sisters wept with him, he said. Then the American soldiers left and he heard gunfire next door. The soldiers carried Omar’s wounded sister from the room and took the remaining four children, including Omar, to his uncle’s home. Outside were at least four U.S. Humvees and two SUVs, Omar said. His grandfather, Hussein Ali , who lives next door saw no Iraqi soldiers, either.

After the Americans left, Omar and his sisters returned to their home with their grandfather. In his parents’ bedroom, Omar said, he saw his father’s body at the very edge of the right side of the bed, motionless and bloody.

His mother lay in the middle of the bed in a pool of her own blood. She’d been shot in the head, the family said.

“I will avenge my father’s death,” Omar said calmly Saturday evening.

White man goes on rape and murder spree to “save” the white race

Why would a man trying to save the “white race” rape a woman of color? Perhaps some good old fashioned prison rape will help him get his bearings straight.

BROCKTON – Had Brockton police not stopped an “evil plan of mass murder,” dozens of innocent people could have been massacred by a 22-year-old computer geek intent on stopping the “extinction” of the white race, police said.

“It really could have been a disaster,” said Joshua Cohen, rabbi of Temple Beth Emunah, where accused double-murderer Keith Luke told police he planned to end his hate-fueled rampage by spraying a bingo night crowd of hundreds with bullets. “Only through the good work of Brockton police were we able to avert a huge disaster and tragedy.”

Brockton Police Chief William Conlon said had Luke not been stopped, “it would have been much worse.

“I think it shook the whole community,” said Conlon, whose officers dodged bullets as they chased Luke through Brockton.

Prosecutors allege that Luke, 22, hatched his plan of racial vengeance months ago with the goal of slaughtering as many “Jews, blacks and Hispanics” as he could.

Wednesday morning, he left his mom’s house in Brockton in a black Ford van. He was strapped with a 9mm handgun and 200 rounds of ammunition he bought on the street, police said.

It’s unclear what triggered him to launch the attacks, Cruz said.

According to a chilling police report, Luke started the day at his old apartment, intent on killing his 20-year-old Cape Verdean neighbor, Selma Goncalves, then taking to the streets to kill as many “non-whites” as he could.

He planned to end the day precisely at 6:30 p.m. at Beth Emunah before shooting himself, but instead he led police on a wild car chase – at one point firing at officers – before surrendering.

He later told cops he was “fighting extinction” of the white race.

Luke was arraigned yesterday in Brockton District Court on murder, assault and rape charges, and civil rights violations. The 320-pound, 6-foot-tall defendant was ordered held without bail.

Killed in the attack were Arlindo Goncalves, 72, a homeless man who was blasted in the face and back as he pushed a carriage of cans, and Selma Goncalves, who was shot in the back as she fled her blood-splashed apartment, where Luke allegedly shot and raped her sister. The Goncalves sisters are not related to the third victim.

Anabela Fernandes, 24, described her uncle, Arlindo Goncalves, as a kind man who struggled with alcohol and got by collecting cans. “He never did nothing to nobody,” she said.

Luke lived with his mother on Pleasant Street, where he kept to himself, other than going to the gym. A law enforcement source called him a “recluse” who spent hours on his computer, and tooled around the neighborhood on his bicycle.

“He was my whole life,” Luke’s mother, Dara, cried to the Herald yesterday, adding that her son battled mental illness. “I swear, I never thought he’d be capable of something like this.”

Luke’s attorney did not deny the allegations in court, only saying that his client had a “history.”

Great White men in history : George W. Bush

Nice farewell salute…

50. “I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn’t here.” —at the President’s Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug. 13, 2002

49. “We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.” —Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14, 2001

48. “You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.” —Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001

47. “We both use Colgate toothpaste.” —after a reporter asked what he had in common with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Camp David, Md., Feb. 23, 2001

46. “Tribal sovereignty means that; it’s sovereign. I mean, you’re a — you’ve been given sovereignty, and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities.” —Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004 (Watch video)

45. “I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what’s moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.” —Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003

44. “I’m the commander — see, I don’t need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being president.” —as quoted in Bob Woodward’s Bush at War

43. “I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport.” —Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001

42. “The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.” —Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 29, 2003

41. “I saw a poll that said the right track/wrong track in Iraq was better than here in America. It’s pretty darn strong. I mean, the people see a better future.” —Washington, D.C., Sept. 23, 2004

40. “Oh, no, we’re not going to have any casualties.” —discussing the Iraq war with Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson, as quoted by Robertson

39. “I hear there’s rumors on the Internets that we’re going to have a draft.” —presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004 (Watch video)

38. “Haven’t we already given money to rich people? Why are we going to do it again?” —to economic advisers discussing a second round of tax cuts, as quoted by former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neil, Washington, D.C., Nov. 26, 2002

37. “We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.” —Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002

36. “After standing on the stage, after the debates, I made it very plain, we will not have an all-volunteer army. And yet, this week — we will have an all-volunteer army!” —Daytona Beach, Fla., Oct. 16, 2004 (Watch video)

35. “Do you have blacks, too?” —to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001

34. “This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.” —as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002

33. “I got to know Ken Lay when he was head of the — what they call the Governor’s Business Council in Texas. He was a supporter of Ann Richards in my run in 1994. And she had named him the head of the Governor’s Business Council. And I decided to leave him in place, just for the sake of continuity. And that’s when I first got to know Ken and worked with Ken.” —attempting to distance himself from his biggest political patron, Enron Chairman Ken Lay, whom he nicknamed “Kenny Boy,” Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2002

32. “It is white.” —after being asked by a child in Britain what the White House was like, July 19, 2001

31. “I couldn’t imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah.” —at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, Washington, D.C., Dec. 10, 2001

30. “For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It’s just unacceptable. And we’re going to do something about it.” —Philadelphia, Penn., May 14, 2001

29. “I don’t know why you’re talking about Sweden. They’re the neutral one. They don’t have an army.” —during a Dec. 2002 Oval Office meeting with Rep. Tom Lantos, as reported by the New York Times

28. “You forgot Poland.” —to Sen. John Kerry during the first presidential debate, after Kerry failed to mention Poland’s contributions to the Iraq war coalition, Miami, Fla., Sept. 30, 2004

27. “I’m the master of low expectations.” —aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

26. “I’m also not very analytical. You know I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about myself, about why I do things.” —aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

25. “I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe — I believe what I believe is right.” —Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001

24. “We need to counter the shockwave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates.” —Washington, D.C. Oct. 4, 2001

23. “People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in’s house and say I love you.” —Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002

22. “I wish you’d have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it…I’m sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn’t yet….I don’t want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I’m confident I have. I just haven’t — you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I’m not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.” —President George W. Bush, after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2004

21. “The really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway.” —explaining why high taxes on the rich are a failed strategy, Annandale, Va., Aug. 9, 2004

20. “My plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that we’re going to run out of debt to retire.” —radio address, Feb. 24, 2001

19. “You know, when I was one time campaigning in Chicago, a reporter said, ‘Would you ever have a deficit?’ I said, ‘I can’t imagine it, but there would be one if we had a war, or a national emergency, or a recession.’ Never did I dream we’d get the trifecta.” —Houston, Texas, June 14, 2002 (There is no evidence Bush ever made any such statement, despite recounting the trifecta line repeatedly in 2002. A search by the Washington Post revealed that the three caveats were brought up before the 2000 campaign — by Al Gore.)

18. “See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.” —Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003

17. “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” —State of the Union Address, Jan. 28, 2003, making a claim that administration officials knew at the time to be false

16. “In Iraq, no doubt about it, it’s tough. It’s hard work. It’s incredibly hard.” —repeating the phrases “hard work,” “working hard,” “hard choices,” and other “hard”-based verbiage 22 times in his first debate with Sen. John Kerry

15. “The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.” —Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001

14. “I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” —Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002

13. “But all in all, it’s been a fabulous year for Laura and me.” —summing up his first year in office, three months after the 9/11 attacks, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2001

12. “I try to go for longer runs, but it’s tough around here at the White House on the outdoor track. It’s sad that I can’t run longer. It’s one of the saddest things about the presidency.” —interview with “Runners World,” Aug. 2002

11. “Can we win? I don’t think you can win it.” —after being asked whether the war on terror was winnable, “Today” show interview, Aug. 30, 2004

10. “I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.” —Washington, D.C. June 18, 2002

9. “I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job.” —to a group of Amish he met with privately, July 9, 2004

8. “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.” —speaking underneath a “Mission Accomplished” banner aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, May 1, 2003

7. “We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories … And we’ll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.” —Washington, D.C., May 30, 2003

6. “Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere!” —President George W. Bush, joking about his administration’s failure to find WMDs in Iraq as he narrated a comic slideshow during the Radio & TV Correspondents’ Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 24, 2004

5. “If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.” —Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000

4. “There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 (Watch video)

3. “Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 (Watch video)

2. “Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 (Watch video)

1. “My answer is bring them on.” —on Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003

White cop executes restrained man with a bullet in the back

To serve and protect…

At Least 46 Killed as White terrorists attack Gaza School

Business as usual.

In the deadliest single attack on Gaza civilians since the war began, Israel fired three mortar shells at the United Nations’ al-Fahoura school in the Jabalya refugee camp. The school was filled with civilians who had been forced from their homes by the Israeli invasion, and the attack killed at least 46. The United Nations reports that at least 55 other civilians were wounded in the attack.

The United Nations says the building was clearly marked with UN flags and that they were in contact with the Israeli military when the war began to inform them of the location of the school precisely to prevent it being targeted.

Indeed, the Israeli military does not seem to deny that they deliberately targeted a building they knew to be filled with hundreds of innocent Palestinian civilians. Instead they claim that Hamas militants were using the school as a base of operations, something the United Nations adamantly denies.

“So far we’ve not had violations by militants of our facilities,” insists UN Relief and Works Agency Gaza Director John Grig, who added that those seeking shelter in the school were carefully vetted to ensure that no militants were allowed inside. Israel’s claims about the compound only came hours after the international community began to express outrage over the killings: initially they promised simply to “look into the incident.”

The outrage over the killings was so palpable, in fact, that even President-elect Barack Obama managed to find his voice to briefly speak on the Gaza conflict for the first time. Though he insisted he had “plenty to say on the matter,” he said little else, instead promising more elaborate comments after January 20th. Hopefully in another two weeks the president-elect will be able to decide if attacking a school full of civilians is a good thing, or a bad thing.

White terrorists continue killings, invade Gaza

Not even children are spared.

A column of Israeli tanks rolled into the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday in the start of a ground offensive against Hamas. The Israeli military confirmed that a force had entered the Gaza Strip to seize some areas used to fire rockets.

Israeli security officials said the operation is likely to go on, but the goal is not to reoccupy Gaza. The depth and intensity will depend on parallel diplomatic efforts, the officials said, according to the AP.

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Israel has ordered the call-up of tens of thousands of military reservists as part of the ground offensive, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office said in a statement late Saturday. It said that, in accordance with a secret cabinet discussion on Friday, the government ordered the armed forces “to draft the necessary reservists, on a scale of tens of thousands of troops”.

A text message sent by Hamas’ military wing, Izzedine al-Qassam, said “the Zionists started approaching the trap which our fighters prepared for them.”

Hamas said it also broadcast a Hebrew message on Israeli military radio frequencies promising to kill and kidnap the Israeli soldiers. “Be prepared for a unique surprise, you will be either killed or kidnapped and will suffer mental illness from the horrors we will show you,” the message said.

Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan said in a televised speech that Gaza will “become a graveyard” for Israeli soldiers. He appeared on Hamas’ Al Aqsa TV shortly after the ground offensive started. After the invasion, Hamas spokespeople and gunmen fired off fiery warnings to the Israeli forces. In another message, Hamas warned Israeli forces that “Gaza will not be paved with flowers for you, it will be paved with fire and hell.”

White terrorists kill hundreds

Tis the season to kill…

Just hours after Israeli President Shimon Peres insisted his nation had no plans to ignite a war in the Gaza Strip and urged Arab nations to appoint “peace envoys” for the crisis, the Israeli military launched an unprecedented attack on the Gaza Strip.

The attack, dubbed “Operation Cast Lead” by the Israeli military after a Hanukkah poem, targeted police stations across the strip, killing Hamas security officials (reportedly including police chief Major-General Tawfik Jaber) and nearby civilians. The toll at present count was 205 killed and 300 wounded, according to a Hamas spokesman.

The attacks are expected to continue, with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak vowing “the operation will last as long as necessary” and promising to widen the campaign from its already enormous scale. Barak labeled the police stations hit “terrorism infrastructure” and claimed that over 150 of those killed were Hamas militants.

Hamas remained defiant after the killings, insisting “all options are open” for retaliation against Israel. Palestinian protesters staged demonstrations against the attacks in the West Bank, while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for “this aggression to stop immediately.” There are also reports of protests from Arabs inside Israel. Hamas fired at least 25 rockets in retaliation for the attacks, killing one Israeli civilian and wounding four others.

President Hosni Mubarak also hit out at the “Israeli military aggression.” In response to the massive casualties in a strip virtually bereft of medicine after months of lockdown, the Egyptian government has opened the Rafah border crossing to allow the wounded in for medical treatment.

The United States condemned Hamas in the wake of the attacks, but declined to criticize the Israeli strikes. They did, however, encourage Israel to avoid civilian casualties, a difficult matter in the densely populated strip. Israel has said they will mount an “emergency international public relations campaign” to gain international support for the attack.

‘Santa’ gunman kills several, kills self

The white man who stole Christmas…

COVINA, Calif. – A man dressed as Santa who had been having marital problems opened fire at a Christmas party, leaving more than three people dead in a home that then caught fire, authorities said.

Hours later, police found the body of the suspect, Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, 45, at the home of his brother early Thursday in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles. Police said he killed himself but would not say how.

“He was going through some type of marital problems, and we believe that this residence is a relative’s residence,” Lt. Pat Buchanan said of the house that burned.

Police initally said three people were dead in the shootings and fire late Wednesday. Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office said Thursday that investigators sifting through the ashes of the house found “several” more bodies, but would not say how many.

The bodies were too badly burned to immediately determine whether they died in the shootings or the fire, Winter said. “We have multiple bodies inside,” Winter said. “They’re extremely charred and burned.”

The gunman arrived at the party in Covina late Wednesday and immediately opened fire with a handgun, Buchanan said. Witnesses told police that the man took off the Santa suit and left the scene of the burning house in street clothes.

Winter said the search through the destroyed home would take at least until the end of the day.

Jan Gregory, a neighbor, said about 25 people were at the party when the gunshots rang out and people started running by the house.

She said she saw a teenage boy run from the house screaming, “They shot my family.”

Buchanan says three other people were injured. A woman in her 20s and an 8-year-old girl had gunshot wounds that were not life-threatening, and a third person had a broken ankle.

Police received several 911 calls with reports of shots fired at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday night, and were still hearing gunshots after they arrived and found the house in flames, Buchanan said.

At first, firefighters were held back by police because shots were still being fired, though it may have been ammunition burning in the blaze, fire Captain Mike Brown said.

Firefighters had extinguished the blaze by about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, fire Captain Mike Brown said.

The two-story home on a cul-de-sac was destroyed in Covina, a quiet suburb 25 miles east of Los Angeles.

“This neighborhood is really quiet,” said Jeffrey Barrientos, who lives half a block from the house that burned. Barrientos said the neighborhood’s residents were mostly retirees and elderly people.

Police: Dallas shooting suspect is White ex-Utah trooper

To protect and serve?

DALLAS – A man suspected in a series of rush-hour shootings near Dallas is a former Utah state trooper wanted on burglary and robbery warrants who apparently shot himself after a standoff with police, authorities said Tuesday.

Brian Smith, 37, killed at least one of the victims of Monday’s shootings, police Lt. Craig Miller said. Investigators linked Smith to a killing in Dallas by matching the bullets found at the standoff, he said.

“We feel safe in saying (Smith) … was the shooter,” Miller said.

Dallas police declined to comment on a second death in neighboring Garland, where the standoff took place, because it was out of their jurisdiction.

Garland police spokesman Joe Harn said his department has not been able to make a definitive connection between Smith and the killing there, but he acknowledged that Smith fit the description of the highway shooter: a balding, 40ish white man.

“We certainly hope it is him,” Harn said. “But we are going to have to see more concrete evidence.”

Two people were shot and killed and another was injured by broken glass in four shootings along or near a Dallas-area highway Monday evening. Police believe the victims were selected at random.

Smith was in critical condition Tuesday night at a Dallas hospital from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police said he shot himself in the head early Tuesday morning after a brief standoff more than six hours after the shooting spree ended.

Smith had been a Utah state trooper since 1996 but retired in May because of “personal issues,” said Sgt. Jeff Nigbur, a spokesman for the Utah Department of Public Safety.

The crime spree appears to have begun in Garland, where a man police identified as Smith jumped over a pharmacy counter at a grocery store and stole OxyContin pills.

Minutes later, the first shooting happened in Garland when a driver pulled up alongside a small Nissan stopped at a red light and began shooting, Harn said. The Nissan’s driver, 20-year-old Jorge “George” Lopez of Rowlett, was killed.

Minutes later on the same highway, a gunman shot and killed 42-year-old William Scott Miller, the driver of a United Van Lines rig, Miller said. Police said the driver, who was about to fly home to his wife and two young daughters in Frankfort, Ky., for the holidays, was able to bring his truck safely to a stop before he died.

“The act he did in and of itself I consider to be heroic,” Miller said. “Despite being mortally wounded, he was able to control his rig to the point where other drivers weren’t injured.”

After the shooting of Miller, another semitrailer was fired upon a half-mile away on the same interstate. The driver, 46-year-old Gary Roberts, was injured by debris and glass but not struck by any bullets. His right eye was hit by shattered glass and he needed several stitches in his fingers, said Bedford Wilhite, who works with Roberts at Dugan Truck Line.

Roberts is home recuperating after being treated at a hospital, Wilhite said. Roberts, who has worked for Dugan for about a year, told Wilhite he is “much blessed and thankful to be alive.”

Shoes thrown at White terrorist

Nice moves…Mr.Iraqi Journalist

Europe intends to “regulate the internet”

White control freaks at it again…

Italian president and media baron Silvio Berlusconi said today that he would use his country’s imminent presidency of the G8 group to push for an international agreement to “regulate the internet”.

Speaking to Italian postal workers, Reuters reports Berlusconi said: “The G8 has as its task the regulation of financial markets… I think the next G8 can bring to the table a proposal for a regulation of the internet.”

Italy’s G8 presidency begins on January 1. The role is taken by each of the group’s members in rotation. The holder country is responsible for organising and hosting the G8’s meetings and setting the agenda. Italy’s last G8 presidency in 2001, also under Berlusconi, was marred by riots at the annual meeting in Genoa.

Berlusconi didn’t explain what he meant by “regulate the internet”, but the mere mention of it has prompted dismay among Italian commentators. Berlusconi owns swathes of the Italian mass media.

The left-wing newspaper L’Unita wrote: “You can not say that it is not a disturbing proclamation, given that the only countries in the world where there are filters or restrictions against internet are countries ruled by dictatorial regimes: those between China, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia.”

La Stampa reports Italian bloggers are planning to protest against any move by the president to tighten government control over the web tomorrow. They plan to display anti-Berlusconi banners on their websites.

Any G8 move next year to “regulate the internet” led by Berlusconi is likely to attract criticism. He has often been accused of using his power to try to silence dissent. He lost a long-running libel battle against The Economist earlier this year after it said he was not “fit to run Italy” and was this week suing American critic Andrew Stille for defamation*.

However, the governments of industrialised nations have been ramping up their rhetoric against internet content they view as unacceptable. The UK has introduced new laws and revived arcane ones to clamp down on extremist websites and niche pornography. Australia is busy implementing filters.

After Obama’s win, White backlash festers in US

Time to profile white males.

Atlanta – In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from the Secret Service after posting “inappropriate” comments about President-elect Barack Obama on the Web. In Raleigh, N.C., four college students admit to spraying race-tinged graffiti in a pedestrian tunnel after the election. On Nov. 6, a cross burns on the lawn of a biracial couple in Apolacon Township, Pa.

The election of America’s first black president has triggered more than 200 hate-related incidents, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center – a record in modern presidential elections. Moreover, the white nationalist movement, bemoaning an election that confirmed voters’ comfort with a multiracial demography, expects Mr. Obama’s election to be a potent recruiting tool – one that watchdog groups warn could give new impetus to a mostly defanged fringe element.

Most election-related threats have so far been little more than juvenile pranks. But the political marginalization of certain Southern whites, economic distress in rural areas, and a White House occupant who symbolizes a multiethnic United States could combine to produce a backlash against what some have heralded as the dawn of a postracial America. In some parts of the South, there’s even talk of secession.

“Most of this movement is not violent, but there is a substantive underbelly that is violent and does try to make a bridge to people who feel disenfranchised,” says Brian Levin of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. “The question is: Will this swirl become a tornado or just an ill wind? We’re not there yet, but there’s dust on the horizon, a swirling of wind, and the atmospherics are getting put together for [conflict].”

Though postelection racist incidents haven’t posed any real danger to society or the president-elect, law enforcement is taking note.

“We’re trying to be out there at the cutting edge of this and trying to stay ahead of groups that are emerging,” says Special Agent Darrin Blackford, a spokesman for the Secret Service, which guards the US president.

“Anytime you start seeing [extremist propaganda] floating around, you have to be concerned,” adds Lt. Gary Thornberry of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, a member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. “As far as it being an alarmist situation, I don’t see that yet. From a law enforcement point of view, you have to be careful, because it’s not illegal to have an ideology.”

After sparking conflict and showdowns in the 1990s – think Ruby Ridge, Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing – white supremacist and nationalist groups began this century largely splintered and powerless. Though high immigration levels helped boost the number of hate groups from 602 in 2000 to 888 in 2007, key leaders of such groups had died, been imprisoned, or were otherwise marginalized.

But postelection, at least two white nationalist websites – Stormfront and the Council of Conservative Citizens – report their servers have crashed because of heavy traffic. The League of the South, a secessionist group, says Web hits jumped from 50,000 a month to 300,000 since Nov. 4, and its phones are ringing off the hook.

“The vitriol is flailing out shotgun-style,” says Mr. Levin. “They recognize Obama as a tipping point, the perfect storm in the narrative of the hate world – the apocalypse that they’ve been moaning about has come true.”

Supremacist propaganda is already on the upswing. In Oklahoma, fringe groups have distributed anti-Obama propaganda through newspapers and taped it to home mail boxes. Ugly incidents such as cross-burnings, assassination betting pools, and Obama effigies are also being reported from Maine to Alabama.

The Ku Klux Klan has been tied to recent news events, as well. Two Tennessee men implicated for plotting to kill 88 black men, including Obama, were tied to the KKK chapter whose leader was convicted in a civil trial in Brandenburg, Ky., last week, for inciting violence. The murder last week in Louisiana of a KKK initiate, allegedly killed after trying to back out of joining, came at the hands of a new group called Sons of Dixie, authorities say.

“We’re not looking at a race war or anything close to it, but … what we are seeing now is undeniably a fairly major backlash by some subset of the white population,” says Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report in Montomgery, Ala. “Many whites feel that the country their forefathers built has been … stolen from them, so there’s in some places a real boiling rage, and that can only become worse as more people lose jobs.”

In an election in which barely 20 percent of native Southern whites in Deep South states voted for Obama, the newly apparent political clout of “outsiders” and people of color has been unnerving to some.

“In states like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama, there was extraordinary racial polarization in the vote,” says Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta. “Black Americans really do believe that Obama is going to represent their interests and views in ways that they haven’t been before, and, in the Deep South, whites feel exactly the opposite.”

But for nonviolent secessionist groups like the League of the South, the hope is for a more vigorous debate about the direction of the US and the South’s role in it, says Michael Tuggle, a League blogger in North Carolina.

Mr. Tuggle says his group isn’t looking for an 1860-style secession but, rather, a model that Spain, for one, is moving toward, in which “there’s a great deal of autonomy for constituent regions” – a foil to what is seen as unchecked, dangerous federal power in Washington.

“To a lot of people, the idea of secession doesn’t seem so crazy anymore,” says Tuggle. “People are talking about how left out they feel, … and they feel that something strange and radical has taken over our country.”

Iraqi soldier kills 4 white terrorists

Why should the Iraqis tolerate armed illegal immigrants and terrorists?

An Iraqi soldier has shot dead at least 4 US soldiers and wounded six others in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

The incident happened at an Iraqi military base in the Zanjili district of the city, the US military said, not on a joint patrol as earlier reported.

The Iraqi trooper turned his gun on patrol members, the US military said, before being shot dead himself.

Reports suggested the man had been involved in an altercation with a US soldier before opening fire.

The US military said it was still investigating the incident.

There have been other incidents of Iraqi troopers attacking the Americans they are working with but this, reports the BBC’s Andrew North in Baghdad, would be one of the most serious.

Thousands of US and Iraqi troops usually work together across the country every day without serious problems, our correspondent adds, although cultural and language barriers can be a source of misunderstanding.

In Baghdad, meanwhile, at least 21 people were killed and more than 85 injured in a series of bombings – the third day in a row such attacks have taken place.

Overall security in Iraq has improved significantly in the past year but recent weeks have seen a rash of incidents that have undermined public confidence

White terrorists murder dozens of Afghan civilian deaths in the past week

Nothing like bombing a wedding party. These children sure look like militants don’t they?

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Istanbul, Turkey — The U.S. military acknowledged today that 37 civilians were killed and 35 injured during fighting this week in Kandahar province between insurgents and coalition forces.

Although the American statement stopped short of taking direct blame for civilian casualties in a southern province that is one of the country’s most active battlefields, it represented an unusually swift public response to claims of mass casualties made by Afghan officials.

The finding came just three days after provincial officials and the Afghan president’s office asserted that three dozen people had died in an errant U.S. airstrike on a wedding party in a village outside the city of Kandahar.

The city, the main population center in Afghanistan’s south, was the onetime stronghold of the Taliban. Militants and coalition forces clash almost daily in the province, also known as Kandahar, which is a center of Afghanistan’s drug trade.

The new commander of the U.S. Central Command, Gen. David H. Petraeus, was in Afghanistan this week to look at ways to revamp the Western military strategy in the wake of a dramatic resurgence by Taliban-led militants over the past two years. During his visit, Afghan defense officials told him that civilian casualties were sharply eroding public support for the presence of foreign forces.

The deaths and injuries of noncombatants also have become an extremely sensitive issue between the American-backed government of President Hamid Karzai and Western forces in Afghanistan. On Wednesday, hours after Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election, Karzai used what was to have been a congratulatory news conference to plead with the president-elect for an end to civilian fatalities.

The investigation into the deaths in Wach Baghtu village in Kandahar province was carried out jointly by Afghan government officials, the Afghan army and the U.S.-coalition, the American military said in a statement. That represents a departure from practice in past years, when American officials were sometimes reluctant to involve Afghan authorities in such probes, though such cooperation has become more common of late.

In releasing the findings, the U.S. military stressed that villagers’ homes were used for cover during a firefight between militants and coalition forces on Monday.

“Village elders told the joint investigation team that insurgentswho were not from their village . . . fired at [Afghan] and coalition forces,” the statement said. Local residents were prevented from leaving the area during the battle, it said.

The military did not directly acknowledge having inadvertently bombed the wedding party in question, but said coalition forces used “close air support to suppress enemy fire.” Compensation was paid to the families of the dead and injured, the military said without providing details.

The prompt investigation and findings stood in sharp contrast to some recent high-profile cases involving civilian casualties. Afghans were infuriated when it took weeks for the Americans to investigate claims by the Afghan government and the United Nations that 90 people, most of them women and children, were killed in an Aug. 22 airstrike in Herat province, in the west of Afghanistan.

After initially saying that five civilians were killed, a U.S. investigation ultimately concluded that 33 civilians had died. But that finding took six weeks, and the high-level investigation was launched only after videos surfaced that appeared to show large numbers of civilian dead.

“Civilians getting caught in the crossfire is the worst possible thing that could happen,” U.S. Army Col. Greg Julian said of last week’s deaths in Kandahar. “We regret this tragic loss of innocent lives.”

Afghan weddings are traditionally large, drawn-out affairs, and wedding parties several times have been the target of errant airstrikes, in part because from the air the gatherings can appear similar to concentrations of Taliban fighters.

But in Afghanistan’s clan-based tribal society, civilian deaths can cause otherwise peaceable villages to declare a vendetta against those they consider responsible for killing and injuring their kin — in many cases, Western forces.

More than 1,200 Afghan civilians have been killed violently so far this year. A majority of these deaths are caused by insurgent attacks such as suicide bombings, but human rights groups and Afghan officials say hundreds have died at the hands of foreign forces during fighting with the Taliban and other militant groups.

Faiez is a special correspondent. King is a Times staff writer.

Obama wins, but….

How long before volatile, and violent whites eager for revenge target him? It is high time for white males to be kept an eye on given that Obama has been targeted in the past.

White man rapes daughters and forces them to wear electric shock dog collar

Is it time for children to be taken away from their white parents given their tendency to sexually assault kids?

NOXVILLE, Tennessee - Wayne Burkhart has been charged with using electric shock dog collars to control his two teenage daughters and with raping both girls.

The man is being held on $1 million bond on charges of aggravated child abuse and two counts of rape. The man is a dog trainer and owns hunting dogs. The dog collars used are more powerful than your standard dog shock collar. He would place them on his two eldest daughters legs and activate them via remote control. A 15-year-old brother testified that his sisters would scream, lay on the floor and repeatedly plead with their father to stop activating the collars. The two girls — now ages 18 and 19 — are from their father’s previous marriage. The couple has three other children, a girl and two boys, but none of the abuse allegations relate to those children, prosecutors said.

Even worse, the 18-year-old wept during her testimony, explaining that her father had been raping her since was 12 or 13 years old and threatened her with death if she ever told anyone. The girl finally told a school official after her father used the collar on her neck for the first time, couple with the fact that she was in fear that her 11-year-old sister was about to go throught the same ordeal.

The mother, Rebecca Burkhart, who prosecutors say knew about the use of dog collars but not the alleged sexual assaults, is charged with aggravated child neglect failing to report child abuse. She is free on bond. The four youngest children, including the 18-year-old, are in foster care. Authorities don’t know the 19-year-old girl’s whereabouts. The family is not being identified because the charges involve allegations of rape.

White Men arrested in alleged Neo-Nazi plot to kill Obama

Why not just vote for McCain? I thought whites believed in the rule of law.

In court documents unsealed Monday, officials with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives linked two men to the plot.

The men allegedly planned to kill 88 black people, 14 of them by decapitation, according to court documents. Earlier reports had mistakenly said the plot involved killing 102 people.

The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic to neo-Nazi groups, referring to “Heil Hitler” and a 14-word slogan often citied in racist propaganda.

Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the Nashville field office for ATF, claimed that the two men planned to finish their killing spree by murdering Obama.

“They said that would be their last, final act — that they would attempt to kill Sen. Obama,” he told The Associated Press. “They didn’t believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying.”

Allegations against the two men — Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman 18, of West Helena, Ark. — have not been proven in court.

Officials with ATF said they seized weapons from the pair, including a rifle, three pistols and a sawed-off shotgun.

Cowart and Schlesselman are charged with possessing an unregistered firearm and threatening a candidate for president. They are also accused planning to steal more weapons for the plot.

Agents with ATF said it appears the two men were acting alone. In court documents, it’s alleged Cowart and Schlesselman “planned to drive their vehicle as fast as they could toward Obama shooting at him from the windows.”

“Both individuals stated they would dress in all white tuxedos and wear top hats during the assassination attempt,” the court complaint states. “Both individuals further stated they knew they would and were willing to die during this attempt.”

White gunman Opens Fire at UCLA Campus

Another reason why whites should be kept away from firearms.

Westwood Village, Los Angeles, CA—It was 11:30 PM Friday when a heavily armed homeless man pulled out a pistol and fired it at a traffic signal and concrete wall. This happened on a deserted corner of Le Conte and Broxton Avenues.

Gene Carlton Bush, 52, is a well know local guy who was recognized for his art-work. His friends called him “Dutch”. At least one local restaurant, The Habibi Cafe utilized his services to decorate the popular eatery. Bush was apparently living in his van with his gun collection. Bush has no known criminal record. Nobody can guess just what crisis prompted his behavior.

For whatever reason, Bush fired a few shots in what can only be described as a non-threatening manner to get police attention. Was Bush trying to commit, “Suicide By Cop?” Soon the UCLA police responded and using minimal force and a Taser they subdued him. Reportedly Bush has been making anti-government statements. I suspect he was only parroting words heard at the recent Democratic National Convention.

A subsequent search of Bush’s White Ford van revealed 10,000 rounds of ammunition and writings police suggest is a manifesto of sorts called, “The Secret”. Okay he writes! Maybe he was trying to pull off a Hollywood publicity stunt to sell his writings.

Bush could have gone on a deadly rampage at one of the restaurants nearby or the always crowded Starbucks coffee house. Instead Bush used a quiet corner for this drama.

I spoke with Saad Fathi, the owner of The Habibi Café who has known Bush for several years. “Dutch was reliable, honest, friendly and has never shown anger or violence” said Fathi. He was able to replicate the difficult Arabic script on Fathi’s walls and he painted the catering trucks too.

I asked Fathi if he had enough faith in Bush to post his bail. “I’d bail him out in a minute if he asked me” Fathi responded.

In any event I suspect the local media will make a big deal out of this incident where nobody was hurt or really threatened. Bush needs little time out way from his guns, not a jail cell. We can only hope Bush gets whatever help he needs and deserves.

As for the UCLA cops I must commend them for professionalism because they were able to bring a peaceful end to Bush’s emotional crisis. Bravo, UCLA PD.

White teen caught in plot to bomb his own family

Are white teenage boys ticking time bombs?

A suburban Pittsburgh teenager tried to kill his sleeping family by placing homemade chlorine bombs while they slept, police said.

Christopher Janney, 16, of South Fayette, was charged with attempted homicide for leaving what police described as “chlorine compression bombs” near the heads of five family members while they were asleep. Janney is being charged as an adult.

Police said the six devices were made of clear bottles with white powder that smelled of chlorine. The bottles did not explode and no one was injured.

Janney’s mother, Bonnie, told WPXI-TV that her son “has mental problems,” but that she did not think he would do anything to hurt her. A person who answered the phone at the family’s home told The Associated Press no one would comment.

The one-page complaint spelled out some details of what family members told police, but did not explain Janney’s purported motive.

Linda Hippert, superintendent of South Fayette School District where Janney is a high school junior on the soccer team, called the incident shocking.

She described Janney as “just what I would call your regular everyday student, and by that I mean not a student who was in trouble,” she said.

Police didn’t explain specifically how the bombs were assembled or what kind of injuries they were capable of causing.

“It’s an open investigation. We don’t want to jeopardize what we’re doing,” South Fayette Police Chief Louis Volle said Tuesday. “We’ve got a lot of unanswered questions.”

Sgt. Al Wessel of Allegheny County’s bomb squad told KDKA-TV that he did not believe such devices would kill, but said they could cause serious burns and possible blindness.

The criminal complaint also said that Janney had used a peppermill to grind up rat poison. It did not indicate whether he tried to use the rat poison on his family.

Police said they recovered a chemical gas mask, and text messages and e-mail from a computer and cell phone in Janney’s home. He had asked at least one person how to mix chemicals and wrote, “I went through with my plan,” the complaint said.

The teen was arrested Sunday, but Volle wouldn’t say where or how. The complaint said Janney and an accomplice planned to leave town by bus.

Janney is charged with five counts each of attempted homicide and one count each of reckless endangerment and criminal conspiracy.

Janney remained in jail Tuesday afternoon and it wasn’t clear if he had an attorney. He has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Wednesday in Pittsburgh at which he could either present a defense attorney or have one assigned to him by a judge.

Wall Street bailout fails, stocks crash

The white house of cards comes tumbling down…….call the suicide prevention hot line. How long did whites think they could keep the charade up?

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US House of Representatives Monday dramatically rejected a 700-billion-dollar Wall Street bailout, sending stocks crashing to their worst single day loss ever and deepening the US financial crisis.

As a palpable sense of fear ricocheted through Washington, President George W. Bush said he was “disappointed” that the bailout foundered, as Democrats accused Republican conservatives of killing the bill for ideological reasons.

The president immediately summoned top advisers to tackle the latest crisis “head on,” and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was seen hurrying into the West Wing of the White House.

Shockwaves reverberated through the presidential race and congressional campaigns just five weeks before the November 4 general election, and a blame game erupted between Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Amid panic selling on Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 777.68 votes (6.98 percent) and the Nasdaq crashed 199.61 points (9.14 percent) to 1,983.73, its lowest since 2005.

In scenes of suspense, tension and shock rarely seen on the House floor, Republican foes of the bill and rebel Democrats combined to doom the bill by 228 votes to 205, after Bush had pleaded for its passage.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi pledged to go back to work to pass a new bill, but a senior Democratic lawmaker said nothing would happen until at least Thursday as many members had gone home for the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah.

The 15-minute vote was kept open for 40 minutes as Democratic and Republican leaders made desperate attempts to twist arms of lawmakers who voted no.

One senior Democrat said Republicans had reneged on a pledge to get 50 percent of their caucus plus one member to vote for the bailout, pointing out that 60 percent of Democrats backed the plan.

Leading Democrat David Obey reacted bitterly, saying Republican leadership, including the president and Republican presidential nominee John McCain, “have lost total control over their own party.”

“Evidently some of those guys would rather lose an economy than lose an election.”

House Republican Leader John Boehner blamed what he called a partisan speech to the House by Pelosi shortly before the vote.

“I don’t know that we know the path forward from this point. We need everybody to calm down and relax and get back to work.”

But Barney Frank, the top House Democrat in charge of negotiating the bill, dismissed such critics of Pelosi’s speech as pure “pettiness” and said Republicans were trying to cover up their embarrassment over the split party.

“Give me those 12 people’s names and I will go talk uncharacteristally nicely to them,” he said.

Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama meanwhile appealed for calm, seeking to stablize global markets and show composure-in-a-crisis leadership credentials.

“I’m confident that we’re going to get there but it’s going to be a little rocky,” he said in Colorado.

“It’s important for the markets to stay calm because things are never smooth in Congress and to understand that it will get done,” Obama said.

There was no immediate reaction from McCain, who had boasted that he had helped bring the rebel Republicans along to vote for the deal.

But his economic advisor Doug Holz-Eakin blamed Obama for politicizing the situation — an identical charge McCain critics threw at the Arizona senator last week after he injected himself into the process.

“Barack Obama failed to lead, phoned it in, attacked John McCain and refused to even say if he supported the bill,” Holz-Eakin said.

Republican Congressman Paul Broun from Georgia compared the bill to a “huge cow patty with a marshmallow stuck in the middle of it.”

Indiana Congressman Mike Pence, also a Republican, warned that the bailout ran counter to the principles of American government.

“Economic freedom means the freedom to succeed and the freedom to fail,” he said.

The bailout proposal would grant the Treasury secretary authority to buy up toxic mortgage-related assets in troubled banks in hopes of easing the flow of credit and reviving the moribund housing market.

The bill would have immediately released 250 billion dollars to enable the government to buy up troubled assets, and sets a ceiling for all purchases of 700 billion dollars.

It also prohibits “golden parachutes” for CEOs or other executives who lose or leave their jobs at companies participating in the plan as long as the Treasury holds equity in those firms.

White gunman goes on school shooting spree at school, kills 11

Yet another day at school. Why are white males predisposed to such violence?

A 22-year-old gunman who killed 10 people before killing himself Tuesday at a vocational school in Finland left notes saying he hated humankind, police said.

The shooter, who was a student at the school, left two handwritten notes in the dormitory, saying he had planned the attack since 2002 and he hated humanity, police said.

He also wrote that the solution was a Walther 22, referring to the .22-calibre pistol he used in the attack.

He fired on students who were taking an exam and then shot himself in the head, He was taken to hospital, where he died hours later.

The shooting occurred just before 11 a.m. local time at the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality, 290 kilometres northwest of Helsinki.

Finland’s Interior Minister Anne Holmlund said the man had been questioned by police on Monday but was released because police had no legal grounds to detain him.

Holmlund said the man was detained briefly because of YouTube postings in which he is shown firing a handgun at what appears to be a shooting range.

She said the man had obtained the licence for the gun in August.

Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen declared Wednesday as a day of mourning for the victims, with flags to fly at half-mast, and he expressed condolences to their families.

“We have experienced a tragic day,” he said.

Reijo Lindroos, chief correspondent for Radio Finland, told CBC News he believed many of the victims were women because the shooting took place in a domestic sciences building.

Dozens of shots fired

Witnesses said the gunman was hooded as he made his way into the school and panic spread as he opened fire.

“Within a short space of time, I heard several dozen rounds of shots. In other words, it was an automatic pistol,” school janitor Jukka Forsberg told broadcaster YLE.

“I saw some female students who were wailing and moaning, and one managed to escape out of the back door.”

The attacker walked into the school armed with a pistol and what appeared to be explosive devices that were used to start a fire, police spokesman Jari Neulaniemi said. Some of those he killed were burned beyond recognition, Neulaniemi said.

Jussi Muotio, superintendent of the Kauhajoki police, said: “The incident is over now.”

Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat identified the gunman as Matti Juhani Saari, but police would say only that he was born in 1986 and was a student at the school.

In one of the YouTube videos brought to the attention of police, a young man wearing a leather jacket fires several shots with a handgun in rapid succession, Finnish media reported.

The posting, made five days before Tuesday’s shooting, gives its location as Kauhajoki.

The posting includes the message: “Whole life is war and whole life is pain. And you will fight alone in your personal war.”

Nearly a year ago, gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen killed eight people and himself at a school in southern Finland. Police at the time said Auvinen, 18, was bullied and a social outcast.

Auvinen killed six students, a school nurse and the principal before killing himself with a gunshot to the head on Nov. 7, 2007.

Police have said Auvinen left a suicide note for his family and posted videos to YouTube before his attack.

There are 1.6 million firearms in Finland. After the shooting last year, the government pledged to raise the minimum age for buying guns from 15 to 18 but made no promises about making major changes its gun laws.

White terrorists kill 60 year old grandmother

And whites ask why they are hated…

GAZA CITY — “They killed my mom in cold blood,” cried a tearful Heba. “They knocked her to the ground and left her bleed to death.”

Mariam Ayyad, a 60-year-old grandmother, was minding her own business when armed-to-the-teeth Israeli soldiers raided her building in the village of Abu Dis, east of occupied Al-Quds, on Sunday, September 21.

The Israelis hammered the door and stormed their way into the building.

She pleaded with them not to terrorize children and women in their sleep but her pleas fell on deaf ears.

“The occupation forces stormed their way to detain students from Al-Quds University stay in the same building,” recalls Heba with tears strolling down her face.

“When their went to the direction of my brother’s flat my mom rushed and blocked their way with her fragile body. She told them that only his kids and wife were sleeping inside,” she adds.

“They started cursing and beating. Suddenly the soldiers pushed her down the stairs,” said the grieving daughter choking to the memory.

Ayyad’s head hit the ground and her blood soon painted the floor.

“I was speechless and motionless. There my mom was lying in her own blood on the floor,” said Heba growing hysterical.

“I collected my self and rushed to the door to call an ambulance but the Israeli soldiers prevented me,” she added.

“They forced me to stay indoor at gunpoint. They prevented me from saving her.”

The director of the clinic where Ayyad was eventually later taken said she arrived dead, with a broken skull and possible internal bleeding.

But the Israeli military, as always, denied responsibility saying she only fell on a stairway.

No `Eid

The tragic death of Ayyad is casting a gloomy shadow over not only her immediate family, but the entire village.

“I can not imagine our life without her,” Heba tells mourners who flock to the family’s house to show solidarity.

“Her laugh echo in my ears and I can see her in every inch of the house.”

Ayyad’s forced absence is leaving a huge vacuum.

“How would we spend the rest of Ramadan? Who will wake us up for suhur and Fajr,” cried her daughter.

“Who would play with the kids and buy them new clothes for `Eid?”

`Eid Al-Fitr, one of the two main religious festivals on the Islamic calendar, marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.

“Why did they kill her?” Heba says gazing at her mom’s picture on the wall.

White terrorists kill displaced family of 8

Winning hearts and minds as usual….

Early this morning US forces surrounded a home in a small village near the Iraqi town of Tikrit and destroyed it with an air strike, killing eight people. According to Iraqi police and neighbors, all those killed were civilians. One of the neighbors reported his home was also raided during the operation and that American forces “ordered people not to leave their homes” during the attack.

Large crowds of angry Iraqis reportedly marched through the streets after morning prayers, condemning the attacks and chanting “America is the enemy of God”. The new civilian deaths are likely to further complicate the already stalled Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq. The Iraqis have insisted on jurisdiction over US contractors and military personnel largely because of the number of civilians being killed by the forces.

The US forces issued a statement after the incident, and as is so often the case their story contradicts the reports from the scene. According to the US the raid targeted a “suspected al-Qaeda operative,” and he and three other militants were killed, along with three women. They also claimed to have rescued a child from the rubble.

The US said the deaths of the women they killed in the air strike were further proof of al-Qaeda’s willingness to “repeatedly risk the lives of innocent women and children to further their evil work”.