CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- An Iranian immigrant accused of using a three-pound hammer to beat his wife, sister-in-law and mother-in-law to death and then repeatedly stabbing them told police that the women had "disrespected" him, authorities said Monday. Really? Well, I guess we shoul let him go then!
After the attack, Daryoush Ebrahimi, 55, struck himself several times on the head with the same hammer in an apparent attempt to kill himself, said Police Cmdr. Thomas Byrne. Police also found a 12-inch knife investigators believe was used in the attacks. No word on any damage to the hammer from hitting his own head with it?
"It was a very difficult scene, and that would be indicative of that type of anger," Byrne said of the two apartments where the bodies were found Saturday on the city's far North Side. Exactly what type of anger?
Ebrahimi told investigators after the attacks that "the women had disrespected him and told him he was not a man," Assistant State's Attorney Sanju Oommen said. How could anyone remain calm?
Police found cell phone video messages and a letter that Ebrahimi left at one of the apartments, Byrne said. The FBI was helping translate the messages and letter, which are in Farsi. Let me take a swipe at about what it had to say.
"Right now I wouldn't say it's a suicide note ... but it's more about, again, how he feels disrespected, and that's pretty much a (recurring) theme in the note," Byrne said. That's all he knows how to think about. It's a tribal thingy.
Ebrahimi told police at the scene and hospital officials that he had killed the women, authorities said. Like they couldn't figure it out.
A phone call to the public defender's office Monday afternoon went unanswered. Better go see if he's dead, too. Coulda disrespected him, you know. Maybe scratched his ear or blew his nose in front of him or something.
Ebrahimi was charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of his wife/cousin/granddaughter, Karmin Koshabeh, 44; his sister-in-law, Karolin Khooshabeh, 40; and his 60-year-old mother-in-law, Ileshvah Eyvazimooshabad. He appeared in court Monday afternoon and a judge denied a request for bail. That's disrespectful!
Koshabeh and Khooshabeh were found in an apartment in the city's West Rogers Park neighborhood, and Eyvazimooshabad was found in an apartment around the corner. I'll be our names sound funny to them, too!
Detectives believe Ebrahimi killed his wife around 2 a.m. Saturday, then called and "lured" his sister-in-law to the same apartment around 6 a.m., Byrne said. He then went to his mother-in-law's apartment and attacked her, returning to the bodies of his wife and sister-in-law to call 911, Byrne said. All done in a fit of rage, of course. It can go for generations.
Ebrahimi also called another family member, who notified police, Byrne said. "It ain't like home, they're not going to like this I tell you!"
Ebrahimi and his wife and daughter arrived in the United States on November 29, 2006 from Iran and are refugees of Assyrian descent, said Chicago Police Cmdr. David Sobczyk. Refugees from what, for God's sake? Would have been safer to stay put!
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Something must be done to prevent future incidents involving "Hammers". Why isn't there a government agency that monitors Hammer sales, perhaps by issuing a Hammer Owners Identification (HOID) card.
Were nails purchased along with the hammer, or was this hammer purchased by a legal loophole at an unregulated "hammershow"? Shouldn't we "protect the children" by regulating who can carry and conceal hammers?
Don't even get me started on automatic hammers.
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In-laws. Can't live with them. Can't beat them to death with a hammer.
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Gee, I had a patient once who tried to do the same thing to himself with an electric can opener. Once he sobered up, he admitted it was a really stupid thing to do.
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Any former physics grad assistant who has labored mightily to grade several hundred papers a week, none of which ever had the right answer and all of which had to be assessed for "partial credit", will tell you that such gallows humor is not nearly as funny as the students thought at the time.
Somebody bought a country house on 15 acres in Portugal. After moving in, they discover an old barn back in the trees. The lock is old and rusty, and there's no key anyway, so out comes the hacksaw. Inside the barn are a few nifty old cars. . . . like, say, about a hundred.
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I think thisn the same link 'moosey had a few days back.
First guess is Russ Mafia owner offed leaving estate of hot cars.
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Real estate purchase doesn't usually include personal property like cars unless specifically in the contract. I'm guessing this will be more of a headache than a blessing to the buyer.
Yet an another feel-good story from south Africa, HT African crisis.
JOHANNESBURG Some rape victims died of Aids before the 261-count sexual offences trial began in the Johannesburg High Court.
Many of those testifying are HIV-positive. Most do not know if they contracted the disease before or after being raped.
As far as is known Mongezi Samuel Jingxela, 28, of Meadowlands, alleged to be one of South Africas worst serial sex offenders, does not have the disease. Other witnesses still to testify have said they falsely claimed to have Aids in trying to scare off the attacker. But they were still raped.
Called to testify yesterday by advocate Louisa Loots, prosecuting, an elegantly dressed mother of two, who may not be named, broke down in the witness box and cried. She told the court her life had come to a standstill since she was kidnapped, assaulted, robbed and raped.
She had been eager to find out more about a job offer in a sportswear factory, and accompanied a person identified by the witness as the accused Jingxela. En route she was attacked and raped. He had an old rusty knife and threatened to call his friends to finish me off if I made a noise. It was a bushy area and I couldnt see if there were others, so I screamed.
After the rape the attacker told her to voetsek and robbed her of her possessions. On that day, dressed in a black skirt and black jacket, she had to make her way to the police station without underwear. The attacker had also robbed her of her handbag into which she had stuffed her panties.
At her medical examination she was asked if he had used a condom, And I said no he did not use a condom, he was raping me. She was given a five-day course of anti-retrovirals, and she and her partner received counselling. When I was checked it was discovered that I had this HIV-disease. I was told at the clinic that I did not contract this disease from the accused. It was already in my blood.
I suppose if this had not happened I would not have found out I had the disease.
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Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson - had they been allowed to be involved - could have taken care of this bastard in the beginning and saved the South Africans a lot of time and money pain.
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Cologne - Carnival parades accompanied by the shrieks of crowds and the thump of loud music drew crowds of an estimated 3 million people to three of Germany's western cities Monday, but there were also complaints at crude humour by float designers.
A Muslim leader criticized a float in the city of Dusseldorf that satirically suggested Islam was not peaceful.
The float carried two identical cartoon-style papier-mache figures, each wearing a suicide-bomber's belt and carrying a dagger and a pistol. The first was labelled 'the cliche,' the second was labelled 'the reality.' Heh.
Both scowling figures were labelled 'mullahs,' a term used to describe both Shiite and Sunni clergy. The float was part of a carnival parade watched by more than half a million people in the western city of Dusseldorf.
'This hasn't got anything to do with humour,' said Aiman A Mazyek, general secretary of the National Council of Muslims in Germany. 'The message it gives me is: 'We love our prejudices, we'll stand up for them, even if they are flagrantly untrue.'' "And we'll kill you and enslave your family if you say otherwise, kufrs!"
However 'as a born-and-bred "Rhinelander", I wouldn't get too upset about it,' said Mazyek. 'I'm sure most of the revellers don't want to spread anti-Islam cynicism.' "I mean, come on, they're germans, they don't have a sense of humor, it must be a mistake".
Mockery and rule-breaking is a key element in carnival, which is celebrated mainly in Germany's heavily populated Rhineland where Catholics form a majority. The floats, built by clubs of amateurs for the Dusseldorf parade, often have crude messages.
Another float showed Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler with his pants off and represented a far-right-wing German party as his bodily waste. How brave.
In Mainz, a float depicted US President George W Bush being held down and spanked by the Statue of Liberty. Did the muzzies complain?
The biggest parade of carnival floats, bands and clowns, in Cologne, was too long to fit on the 6.5-kilometre route.
The head of the procession reached the dispersal zone before the tail of the parade had departed from the marshalling area.
Sigrid Krebs, an organizer of the Cologne parade, said it comprised 99 floats, 124 bands, 440 horses and about 10,000 people who were occupied during the parade throwing gifts of flowers, chocolates and sweets to the crowds.
The festivities climax on Monday, known in German as Rosenmontag. The event has its origins as a prelude to the Catholic fasting season of Lent, which begins in 2007 on Wednesday, but many area Protestants and Muslims attend the parades.
Many of the revellers in the three cities dressed as pirates, reflecting the popularity in Germany of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Clearly, this is an attack against the Prophet™ and his Defensive Jihad™ against loot-carrying caravans. Obviously, they must be killed, or else.
In an apparent bid to blunt the campaign by militants, the Pakistan military has sought a religious edict whether soldiers laying down their lives in the war on terror or fighting against sectarian terror could be called martyrs or not.
The General Headquarters (GHQ) has approached the constitutional panel, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) to issue a decree, or fatwa, stating whether a soldier killed in Pakistan while fighting terrorists or pre-empting sectarianism is a martyr. Militants fighting Pakistan Army in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan used clerics to issue the edict (fatwa) that a soldier supporting American crusade in the name of war on terror was committing an un-Islamic act and his death could not be called martyrdom.
Health workers in a Pakistani tribal area on Monday announced a boycott of a polio vaccination drive to protest the killing of one of their colleagues last week. Abdul Ghani Marwat, who headed the governments vaccination campaign in Bajaur near the Afghan border, was returning after meeting a local religious leader when his vehicle was hit by a bomb, killing him and injuring three others. The blast came amidst rumours the vaccination drive was a US plot to sterilise Muslim children.
Some 1,500 health officials, including doctors, nurses and paramedical staff, on Monday wore black armbands and observed a complete strike in the region to protest against the killing, said a Health Department spokesman. The strike will be observed till Wednesday to protest against the lack of security for health workers in the region, the chairman of the doctors action committee, Daud Jan, told reporters. The health workers have also decided to boycott the three-day polio vaccination drive beginning from Tuesday and they will take out a protest rally in Khar, he said. Local health officials said that some 140,000 children could be affected by the action.
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When they get polio, no assistance. Spend the money and effort to seal the borders. Refuse admittance to any Pakistani, no matter how many passports he has.
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The sad thing is that it is not the mullahs, imams, and other religious leaders who will suffer. It will be largely innocent children.
Polio is a horrible disease, which has effects that last a lifetime, and it is entirely preventable.
A 1998 newspaper story about two Muslim children mistakenly buried on top of each other in Palmer left Ake Dobrova weak with outrage. One of the children had to be exhumed and reburied, a violation of Muslim beliefs. The cemetery mix-up caused anguish all around.
"I was feeling so bad about it," said Dobrova, a small-business owner from Albania. "What kind of people are we (that) we don't have no cemetery?" That year, he decided to make a cemetery himself. This year, what he started has become the first official Muslim resting place in Alaska.
Islamic teaching, or "sunnah," is strict and specific about the treatment of the dead. A body must be washed by the family, prayed over by the men, wrapped in a shroud and laid in the ground facing Mecca. Burial must occur quickly after death, and the grave must be located near those of other Muslims.
Some have paid thousands of dollars to have the bodies of loved ones sent back to their home countries because there was no Muslim cemetery in Alaska. Often there was trouble with paperwork and shipping. For many years, Muslims collected money to build a place to lay their family members to rest. "It's very hard to collect money, because everybody try to survive," said Dobrova, who came to the U.S. 23 years ago. "It's a nice country, but it's hard."
Dobrova paid to reserve 72 spaces at Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery downtown, behind the Sheraton Anchorage Hotel, in 1999. He told no one but Don Warden, the cemetery director. When Muslim families lost loves ones, Warden offered them a place where they could be buried with other Muslims.
Just recently, the Islamic Community Center of Anchorage, Alaska, the city's biggest mosque, discovered the reserved spaces. "I never tell them, but they found out," Dobrova said. With the money they'd raised, ICCAA added 40 more spots, creating Alaska's first official Muslim burial site. So far, 12 people have been buried there.
Laws and logistics still get in the way of some Muslim burial practices, though the cemeteries and funeral homes do their best to be accommodating, said Bob Ferrell, general manger of Witzleben Family Funeral Homes, who's been in the funeral business in Alaska for 30 years.
Ideally, a body should be buried within 24 hours and definitely within three days, Khan said. Sometimes the schedule of the funeral home and the cemetery can't accommodate people, Ferrell said. And in the winter, the ground can be opened only in a small section of the cemetery, located outside the reserved sections, Warden said. Traditionally, Muslim bodies are not buried in caskets, but the community has adapted, opting for simple wooden boxes to comply with cemetery regulations, Khan said.
The new Muslim section is just one more way the cemetery has changed to reflect the city's changing population. Over the years, the tombstones have sprouted family names from a greater span of countries, including Korea, the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia.
Warden has also seen a widening array of grief and burial traditions in recent years. On Memorial Day, large Samoan families gather there to sit vigil. A Hmong family recently brought a freshly sacrificed chicken, spreading blood on the casket before burial -- part of their tradition, he said. "The cemetery is where all of the community comes together," Warden said. "I think all cemeteries have a diverse culture."
The new designated section makes Anchorage a more attractive place for Muslims to settle, Khan said. "For the people that are going to live here, this is excellent news for them," he said. "They are saying that for us and our kids, we are going to stay here and get buried here."
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The new designated section makes Anchorage a more attractive place for Muslims to settle, Khan said. "For the people that are going to live here, this is excellent news for them," he said. "They are saying that for us and our kids, we are going to stay here and get buried here."
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Not me, GK, when I die, Ima heading north, back to the Kobuk River, though at least a 100 yards from my ex-wife's grave. I go by that cemetary all the time when I have business with a State client. I just keep my head down and whistle when I go by.
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Cologne - Carnival parades accompanied by the shrieks of crowds and the thump of loud music drew crowds of an estimated 3 million people to three of Germany's western cities Monday, but there were also complaints at crude humour by float designers. 
Health workers in a Pakistani tribal area on Monday announced a boycott of a polio vaccination drive to protest the killing of one of their colleagues last week. Abdul Ghani Marwat, who headed the governments vaccination campaign in Bajaur near the Afghan border, was returning after meeting a local religious leader when his vehicle was hit by a bomb, killing him and injuring three others. The blast came amidst rumours the vaccination drive was a US plot to sterilise Muslim children. 
