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U.S. judges rule Fort Hood suspect must shave beard


Google
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00 UTC
Nidal Hasan
© Agence France-Presse/Bell County Sheriff's DepartmentA clean-shaven Nidal Hasan in 2010
Washington - A panel of US Army judges ruled Thursday that a soldier accused of the Fort Hood massacre must appear in court clean-shaven, upholding a trial judge's earlier order.

Major Nidal Hasan, charged with the November 2009 shooting spree that left 13 dead at the Texas military base, had argued that he had a right to keep his beard as an expression of his Islamic faith, but the US Army Criminal Court of Appeals sided with the judge overseeing his court-martial.

The court concluded that the trial judge, Colonel Gregory Gross, was correct in finding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act "does not provide Hasan the right to wear a beard while in uniform during his upcoming court martial," according to a US Army statement.

The judges agreed that "Hasan did not prove his beard was an expression of a sincerely held religious belief," it said.

"Additionally, the court went on to say that even if Hasan did wear the beard for a sincere religious reason, compelling government interests also justified (judge) Gross's order requiring Hasan to comply with Army grooming standards," it said.
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Sheriff Arpaio's police state of Arizona under fire in U.S. 9th Cir. Court - San Francisco

Scott Huminski
indybay.org - San Francisco
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00 UTC
Arpaio's thugs take the Arizona police state to a new, very criminal, high.

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Sworn court papers have been filed in two cases pending before the high federal appellate court in San Francisco detailing Arizona law enforcement's willingness to engage in serious felonies to assist the Sheriff's friends and to silence Arpaio critics. Arizona police have issued threats against civil litigation to protect Arpaio's closest friend and top advisor (Justin Michael Nelson) from civil litigation - AKA Police Obstruction of Justice and Police Federal Civil Rights Crimes. (18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242) Arizona police have conspired with Dignity Health of San Francicso to silence a well-known critic of Arpaio via violence - YES, attempted murder to be exact, now being covered up by Arpaio police state stooges. Sensational stuff, but, all on the appellate record, sworn and undisputed.

Situation normal for Arizona, official felony crimes against the justice system and official crimes of violence to assist Arpaio and Arpaio's cronies by threatening critics and foisting police sponsored violence against those in the "cross-hairs" of Arpaio's Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO). Those with a knowledge of Arizona law enforcement and government should not be a surprised as to how the Arizona police state operates. The bold criminal conduct of police caught in these cases reveals the state of lawlessness existing in Arizona whereby law enforcement doesn't even bother to cover-up their crimes satisfactorily. It is truly anything goes concerning police misconduct and outright police crime in Arizona.

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People

Inside Boy Scouts' secret child abuse files

Jason Felch and Kim Christensen
Los Angeles Times
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 07:22 UTC

More than 1,200 files on suspected molesters in the Boy Scouts of America were made public Thursday, lifting the veil on decades of alleged abuse in one of the nation's oldest youth organizations.

Times investigative reporter Jason Felch and producer Ken Schwencke discussed the story and The Times database produced from the files in a Google+ Hangout this afternoon (see video above.)

The court-ordered release of the files offers a detailed view of how the Scouts handled suspected molestations from the early 1960s through 1985.
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Pistol

Canadian border guard shot near Vancouver


CBC News
Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:39 UTC
Driver of van with Washington plates shot officer, then killed himself.


A Canadian border services officer was shot and seriously wounded by a gunman who then fatally turned his weapon on himself at the Peace Arch crossing south of Vancouver, police say.

Const. Bert Paquet said at an RCMP news conference that the female border officer was breathing and conscious when airlifted to hospital. The RCMP said late Tuesday that her condition was "stable," but did not provide details.

Paquet told reporters that a man travelling alone in a white van with Washington licence plates pulled up to a kiosk and shot the border guard.

He said the suspect died from "what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound."

Video surveillance is being reviewed and witnesses are being interviewed, Paquet said.
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Arrow Up

Danish teen wakes from the "dead" just as doctors prepare to harvest her organs

Christine Hsu
Medical Daily
Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:37 UTC
Carina
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A teenage girl who had been stuck in a coma after a catastrophic car crash miraculously woke up just as doctors were about to declare her brain dead and harvest her organs.

Doctors had assessed Carina Melchior's chances of recovery as being very low and asked her family whether they would consider organ donation. Her parents agreed and the 19-year-old was taken off of her respirator.

However, after a few days when doctors were preparing her for organ donation, to the astonishment of the staff at the Aarhus University Hospital, in Denmark, Carina suddenly opened her eyes and started moving her legs.

The teenager is now recovering at a rehabilitation center and is now able to walk, talk and even ride her horse Mathilde.

However, her family is now suing the hospital for damages, claiming that doctors took her life support too soon because they were desperate to harvest her body parts.

"Those bandits in white coats gave up too quickly because they wanted an organ donor," Carina's father Kim told the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet.
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Arrow Up

Martin Sheen and Woody Harrelson set for 9/11 'truther' film September Morn

Rory Carroll
The Guardian, UK
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:19 UTC
Film's advance publicity says: 'We the people demand an independent investigation into the tragic events of 9/11'
911 Attacks
© ReutersManhattan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Hollywood is to court controversy with a film that will challenge the official version of the events of 9/11, a previously taboo topic for the industry mainstream. Martin Sheen, Woody Harrelson and Ed Asner, who have all supported conspiracy theories about the terrorist attacks, have signed up to the movie, which is entitled September Morn.

Styling itself as a drama in the tradition of Twelve Angry Men, the film's advance publicity note hints at a cover-up, saying: "We the people demand that the government revisit and initiates a thorough and independent investigation to the tragic events of 911."

Details of the film, which is to be directed by BJ Davis and written by Howard Cohen, are expected to be revealed at an American Film Market conference in Los Angeles next week, Deadline.com reported.

The production has been set up by Fleur de Lis Film Studios, which has also made the documentary A Noble Lie, about the Oklahoma City bombing, and Operation: Dark Heart, a feature based on an intelligence agent's memoirs.

Until now Hollywood has steered clear of claims that the Bush administration, or other elements in the government, may have been behind the 9/11 attacks, in which hijacked passenger planes crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennslyvania. The fourth plane was apparently en route to the Capitol.
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Bad Guys

Afghan woman beheaded after refusing prostitution


Raw Story
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:12 UTC
woman in burka
© Agence France-Presse
Afghan police have arrested four people who allegedly tried to force a woman into prostitution in western Afghanistan and beheaded her when she refused, officials said Wednesday.

Mah Gul, 20, was beheaded after her mother-in-law attempted to make her sleep with a man in her house in Herat province last week, provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada told AFP.

"We have arrested her mother-in-law, father-in-law, her husband and the man who killed her," he said.

Gul was married to her husband four months ago and her mother-in-law had tried to force her into prostitution several times in the past, Sayedzada said.

The suspect, Najibullah, was paraded by police at a press conference where he said the mother-in-law lured him into killing Gul by telling him that she was a prostitute.

"It was around 2:00 am when Gul's husband left for his bakery. I came down and with the help of her mother-in-law killed her with a knife," he said.
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Bad Guys

'Cult' rehab treatment cost man his leg, police say

Henrick Karoliszyn &
New York Daily News
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:29 UTC
Cult
© Jeff Bachner for Daily NewsSarah Youn, sister of Sung-Peel Youn, outside the 109th Precinct stationhouse Tuesday. Sung-Peel Youn was charged with assault along with his fiancee, Myung Chung.
A Queens woman and her fiancé bound her brother so tightly in duct tape to "help him recover" from drug addiction and mental illness that doctors had to amputate his leg, cops say.

But relatives believe Myung Chung, 27, and her fiancé, Sung-Peel Youn, 39, were only following orders from what family members called a Korean-American Christian cult when they tied up Seungick Chung in their Flushing church.

"The couple believed the pastor, who is a woman," said Sung-Peel Youn's sister, Sarah Youn, 42. "They say she's God."

No one came to the door Tuesday at Pastor Ok-Joo Shin's Parsons Blvd. church.
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Syringe

Gunmen kill polio vaccinator in Pakistan


Australian Associated Press
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:07 UTC
Unknown gunmen have killed a polio vaccinator in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Baluchistan, highlighting resistance to the country's immunisation campaign, officials say.

The shooting happened in the Killi Jeo area of provincial capital Quetta a day after a three-day campaign kicked off across the country, senior government official Tariq Mengal told AFP.

Baluchistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, is plagued by sectarian violence between the minority Shi'ite and majority Sunni community, as well as by Taliban attacks and a separatist insurgency.

The Taliban have banned immunisations in some areas, condemning the campaign as a cover for espionage since a Pakistani doctor was jailed after helping the CIA track down al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden using a hepatitis vaccination program.

In Tuesday's incident, a team of male and female vaccinators was engaged in a door-to-door campaign to administer polio drops to children below five years of age when unknown gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a male volunteer, Mengal said.
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London police Taser blind man after mistaking cane for samurai sword


Agence France-Presse
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:57 UTC
taser
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Police apologised on Wednesday after a blind man was tasered by an officer who mistook his white stick for a samurai sword.

The incident happened in the market town of Chorley in Lancashire on Friday after police received reports of a man walking through the town carrying a sword.

One policeman thought he had tracked down the offender and asked the blind man to stop. When he failed to do so, the officer stunned him with his Taser gun.

On realising the mistake, officers rushed the victim to a hospital where he was discharged after a check-up.
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