The 18-year-old son of the leader of a mosque in San Francisco was shot and killed after driving to Monster Park, possibly to meet someone, authorities said Thursday.
Ali Sayed Ahmed Shahin, 18, of San Francisco was shot several times in the head about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday at Giants Drive and Ingerson Avenue. His car was left at the scene.
"We don't know if it's a robbery, an attempted carjacking or something else," said San Francisco police Lt. John Murphy.
Murphy said investigators have no evidence that Shahin was the victim of a hate crime. He said family members have no idea why anyone would target or attack the teenager.
However, based on the brutality of the attack, it appeared to be a targeted act, officials said.
X-rays at link.
Doctors in China have discovered 26 sewing needles embedded in the body of a 31-year-old woman. They think they were inserted into Luo Cuifen's body when she was a baby by grandparents upset she was not a boy.
Some of these needles have penetrated vital organs, such as the lungs, liver and kidneys. One has even broken into three pieces in the woman's brain.
The needles were discovered only when Ms Luo went to hospital complaining of blood in her urine. She was given a routine X-ray, which revealed the needles. Up until then she had been in good health.
A team of 23 doctors, including five from the United States and Canada, are debating how best to remove the needles at the Richland International Hospital in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province. Xu Mei, the chief doctor at the hospital, told the BBC that removing the needles would be a long, complicated procedure requiring several operations.
Personally I'd leave them alone unless they're impinging on something important.
The first of those is expected to take place next week when seven needles will be removed. The hospital is doing the first operation, which will cost 170,000 yuan ($22,500, £11,200), for free.
But Ms Luo, from rural Songming County in Yunnan Province, will have to raise money to fund the other operations.
Doctors believe the needles were inserted into the woman when she was just a few days old by her grandparents, whom they believe were disappointed that she was not a boy. But there is no way to confirm this theory, as the grandparents are now dead.
I think I saw this in "On the Waterfront"...
Tulkarem Ma'an An eighteen-year-old Palestinian, Muhammad Ghanim, from the northern West Bank town of Deir Al-Ghusun, was killed by a falling container in the town of Silat Al-Thahir, near Jenin. Okay. Little more...little more...little to the right...
Ma'an's correspondent reported that the young man was inside a taxi, parked near a shop, when the driver and another occupant stepped out to buy something. Yeah, Muhammad. We'll be...right back.
A container fell off the crane of a truck which was emptying its load. The young man was crushed inside the car. Al-Muldoon! Bring the big sponges...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese woman is suing her former employer after falling victim to the company policy of firing staff who contradict their boss three times, local media reported on Thursday. Boy I wouldn't last 10 minutes in this joint.
HWA-1 Enterprise Co Ltd, a light industrial manufacturer based in China's southeastern port city of Xiamen, sacked a woman surnamed Ni for refusing to pay fines she incurred for talking back to superiors, Xinhua news agency said, citing a local newspaper. Oh great, the company can FINE you as well.
The company's policy held that a "first contradiction of superiors" would incur a fine of 30 yuan ($4), a second would incur 100 yuan, and a third would warrant dismissal, the agency said. How enlightened.
Ni incurred a 30 yuan fine after taking umbrage with her factory supervisor for reprimanding her for not filling in a form. I'm sure that the factory ground to a halt without that form, Mr. Boss-man.
"The factory head told me that, according to company rules, no matter whether management is right or wrong, employees are not allowed to contradict them and must obey," Xinhua quoted Ni as saying. Scratch that, I wouldn't last FIVE minutes in here- I'd be laughing too hard.
Ni was then threatened with a 100 yuan fine for refusing to pay the first fine, and was sacked after she threatened to report her supervisor to the company's human resource's department. Nice domino effect there.
The factory's supervisor, surnamed Cao, said it was his legal right to sack Ni. Hiding behind the law, are we Mr. How-Now-Brown-Cao?
"The company can terminate the contract of employees who seriously breach labor discipline or the company's rules," Xinhua quoted Cao as saying. Yeah, that form not being filled out was about as serious as you can get, wasn't it Mr. How-Now-Brown-Cao? Why, I bet dozens of workers lost their lives because that form wasn't on file. You're a hero man, really.
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"The factory head told me that, according to company rules, no matter whether management is right or wrong, employees are not allowed to contradict them and must obey"
Which is why "Made in China" is a synonym for "Quality". And "Not at all deadly".
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Some of the most ardent antiCommunists I know are Chinese women who got fed up with that system and somehow managed to get to the States.
Every one of them naturalized here as soon as they were eligible, vote regularly and detest the totalitarian systems. (Won't print what they think of Hillary and Pelosi.)
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Once there was newly married couple who had just bought a new mule. They were walking it down the street when the mule trips over a stone. The husband says, That's one! They walk some more, when the mule trips over a stone again and the husband says, That's two! Then the mule trips over a stone again. The husband says, That's three, and shoots the donkey! The wife gets so mad and start's cursing at the husband and saying, That was our only donkey! You were an idiot to shoot it! The husband says to his wife, that's ONE!
Mississippi Man Mistakenly Calls 91l, leads Cops to His Meth Lab Yet another product of The Nanny State
ESCATAWPA, Miss. A man trying to call a news station to complain about not getting a FEMA trailer after Hurricane Katrina accidentally dialed 911 and was charged with making methamphetamine after police arrived, authorities said.
Curtiss Randall Coleman was trying to get the number for Biloxi's WLOX-TV on Wednesday just before the 6 p.m. newscast, investigators said. He misdialed when trying to reach directory information and called 911 instead of 411.
When he hung up on the emergency dispatcher, the Jackson County Sheriff's Department was sent to the home to see if anyone was in need of assistance.
Gee, they never come to my house to see if I need assistance. Wonder what Curt said to them?
Deputies said that when they arrived at Coleman's house, no one answered the door. Officers broke in and allegedly found a methamphetamine lab. Coleman, 53, and four others were arrested, including Coleman's son, Christopher, 30. A fifth suspect remains at large.
"It was a calamity of errors on Mr. Coleman's part," said Sgt. Curtis Spears, commander of the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County. Along with the Colemans, narcotics agents also arrested Erin Paula Oliver, 35, of Moss Point, and Leslie Renee McMahon, 27, of Ocean Springs. All four were charged with conspiracy to manufacture meth.
A person who answered the phone at the Jackson County jail declined to say whether Coleman and the others had attorneys.
If they haven't retained any yet (or more likely been assigned them at taxpayer expense) then how are the journalists supposed to start the campaign of outraged quotes at their treatment? HMMMMM????? Let's get this show on the road, folks.
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When he hung up on the emergency dispatcher, the Jackson County Sheriff's Department was sent to the home to see if anyone was in need of assistance.
That's SOP. If a caller inexplicably hangs up on 911, it might be because someone in need of help tried to call, and a bad guy snatched the phone away from them. The 911 dispatcher doesn't know, so to be safe they send someone to take a look.
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ima trying to get my head around what this bozo would say to the TV action-on-the-scene-talking head that would make any sense: " Yessir, Ah've been waitin nigh onto 23 months fo' mahy new trailer, cuz me and Billy-Bob's been forced to keep on brewing this- heah meth in a CONDEMNED trailer! FEMA keeps on a-promisin' an' a-promisin, but ah ain't seed nuttin' yet? What's a po' boy to do????
A senior Chinese parliamentarian who blew up his young mistress to silence her demands for money and marriage was executed yesterday, along with his policeman nephew, who helped him to murder the woman, the Times of London reported on Thursday. Duan Yihe, 61, was the latest victim
Victim?
of a crackdown on Communist officials corruption and extramarital affairs. Duan was a former chairman of the Standing Committee of the Peoples Congress, or parliament, of Jinan, the capital of eastern Shandong province. He had admitted asking his nephew, Chen Zhi, a Jinan policeman, to help him to arrange a road accident to eliminate the young woman, Liu Haiping.
Chen and the head of a car repair shop planted explosives in Lius car. They detonated the bomb by remote control as she drove down a busy road in Jinan on July 9. The blast was so powerful that her Honda sedan was ripped apart, her lower body was destroyed and her torso landed 30 metres away. Two bystanders were injured.
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He had admitted asking his nephew, Chen Zhi, a Jinan policeman, to help him to arrange a road accident to eliminate the young woman, Liu Haiping. Police reported Duan's original plan was accompany Liu and drive the Honda off of a Jinan wooden bridge and into a canal and swim away. He later dropped the plan due to a conflicting communist party speaking engagment.
A fatwa issued by Darul-uloom Deoband in Saharanpur district banning photography for Muslims has created a flutter in the community and beyond.
It's not nearly as big a flutter as the one banning fire - too Zoroastrian - was.
Somehow they never manage to ban AK-47s even though those were also created by infidels.
The fatwa has called photographs unlawful and against Shariat. Interestingly, the Islamic seminary has made it compulsory for students to afix their photographs in admission forms. It has also not taken into account that photographs are mandatory all over the world for those applying for Haj pilgrimage and passports.
The fatwa was issued in response to a query on photography by an Assam-based NGO by four senior clerics of Darul Ifta (fatwa section) of the seminary. The clerics are Mufti Habib-ur-Rehman, Mufti Zain-Ul-Islam, Mufti Mehmood and Mufti Zafiruddin. They stated that photography, which includes taking pictures or posing for picture, was completely against Shariat. Mufti Arifuddin, a senior faculty member at the Darul-uloom Deoband (Waqf) in Saharanpur, told TOI, "Taking photographs is completely proscribed under Shariat.''
They seem to lack the gene to feel shame when they say or do stoopid things, don't they?
Asked about the seminary's directive to students to affix their photos in admission forms, Mufti Arif said photographs were allowed only when mandatory. "The ban applies on photography during marriages and other social functions or for commercial use,'' he said. Asked about passports particularly for Haj pilgrimage, he said since Islam gives importance to intentions, photographs clicked for such purposes can be permitted. "But even such photographs must not be distributed or kept with oneself with the intention of showing it to others or for the heck of it,'' said Maulana Khalid Rasheed, member of the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board and Imam of Aishbagh Eidgah in Lucknow.
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The fatwa has called photographs unlawful and against Shariat. Interestingly, the Islamic seminary has made it compulsory for students to afix their photographs in admission forms. It has also not taken into account that photographs are mandatory all over the world for those applying for Haj pilgrimage and passports.
So, do the photos of women applicants show them veiled or unveiled? Oh, I forgot. No women are allowed in an Islamic Inseminary.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Mississippi Man Mistakenly Calls 91l, leads Cops to His Meth Lab
A senior Chinese parliamentarian who blew up his young mistress to silence her demands for money and marriage was executed yesterday, along with his policeman nephew, who helped him to murder the woman, the Times of London reported on Thursday. Duan Yihe, 61, was the latest victim 
