[Emirates 24/7] A Saudi woman said to be haunted by jinn (spirits) beat and tortured herself with fire until she fell unconscious and died later at hospital.
The 40-year-old woman was admitted with severe burns and injuries to King Fahd hospital in the western town of Madina and doctors said they tried in vain to save her life.
"We have determined that the woman beat herself up and tortured herself with fire because she is gripped by jinn," police front man Colonel Abdullah Al Sarani told the Saudi Arabic language daily Okaz.
"Investigation showed the other members of her family are also controlled by jinn...we closed the case as no criminal act is involved."
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Anyone want to bet that the jinn gave the family members damaged knuckles and singed clothes?
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Well, when you kick out or drive underground all the jews, all the christians (at least the ones who aren't foreigners hired for their skills), ban all expression of christianity including the bible... any expression of any religion other than Islam...
I think it would stand to reason that if this is coincident with a flood of reports of hostile supernatural entities...
that they're not living their lives right, and their 'choice' (or lack thereof) of religion is a part of the problem.
[An Nahar] Anita Ekberg, the curvaceous star of "La Dolce Vita", is hard-up and homeless and has asked for money from the foundation of the cult film's director Federico Fellini, La Stampa reported on Friday. I thought she was dead by now...
The 80-year-old Swedish-born actress, Lotsa people that age are dead, y'know...
famous for frolicking in the Trevi fountain with Marcello Mastroianni in an iconic piece of film history, is in an old people's home near Rome after her house was set on fire in a burglary. She used to have a really nice birthday suit...
She is also in a wheelchair after breaking her femur and spends the days mostly on her own working on a memoir, with occasional visits from her former neighbors in Genzano just south of Rome and volunteers from social services.
"It's not elegant to say it but Mrs. Ekberg's real problem is a lack of liquidity," Massimo Morais, a court-appointed administrator who has written to the Fellini fund to ask for money on her behalf, was quoted as saying.
"The Fellini Foundation has not replied yet but I am confident of solidarity from anyone who wants to share with other benefactors in helping out, however modestly, a good actress who really deserves it," he said.
A former Miss Sweden and 1950s pin-up model, Ekberg began her acting career in Hollywood in films starring Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and John Wayne. Whoa! I'da liked to have seen that movie!
Her greatest role, however, was in Fellini's 1960 masterpiece "La Dolce Vita" which captures Italian exuberance during an economic boom time.
She was married to British actor Anthony Steel from 1956 to 1959 and to American actor Rik Van Nutter from 1963 to 1975 but had no children.
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Wow, now those are some gazongas right there. The age before plastic surgery, we hardly knew ye.
A federal watchdog took a bite out of military hospitals this month, warning it is impossible to tell if some doctors are licensed, properly trained and evaluated in their specialties.
"Army oversight and physician credentialing and privileging requirements were not sufficient to assure that MTFs (Medical Treatment Facilities) fully complied with existing requirements or completely documented information needed to support credentialing and privileging decisions," said the new General Accountability Office report.
This involves a lot more than Hasan. Most military docs come in from outside the military: they do medical school as civilians and join later, or they take a military scholarship in med school and then payback their time after they complete their basic training.
Hasan was military all the way from medical school to residency to assignment. So the licensing and credentialing was never an issue.
In some cases the military had failed to check properly on the legitimacy of doctors' licenses to practice medicine, the report alleged.
Congress called for the report in the aftermath of the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting in November 2009, for which an Army psychiatrist is charged with 13 murders.
Congress and the military have examined how Maj. Nidal Hasan was trained, evaluated and promoted as a military physician. Nine military officials, including doctors, were disciplined for their actions or failures in the Hasan case. He faces a court-martial, with a possible death penalty, in March.
The GAO report cast a wider net and urged the Defense Department to speed up its efforts to revise and standardize reviews of doctors' credentials.
That's a good thing to do and should have been done even without the prompting that the Hasan situation elicited.
And it singles out the Army for problems at its facilities.
"Based on our review of 150 credentials files at the five Army MTFs we selected for our review, we found that none of the five Army MTFs fully complied with certain Army physician credentialing and privileging requirements," the GAO report said.
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Wonder how many of these officers being investigated for disciplinary action will claim that being cashiered or disciplined for "islamophobia" hurts them, while making Hasan bulletproof. So to speak.
And Hasan was part of the WH transition team, leaving the justifiable impression he had a rabbi. So to speak.
I don't know if it would be possible to duck discipline by making the case that the Army actual system, as opposed to the one in the regs, made this inevitable and the officers in question were not in a position to do anything except hurt their careers.
You could say that sacrificing a career in order to force improvements is the right thing to do. See Billy Mitchell.
In this case, however, there would have been no, zero, nada, jacksquat, zilch possibility of improvement. Only of reinforcing the power of the "islamophobia" accusation.
The docs' first witness should be Gen. Casey, whose first public statement was that he hoped this wouldn't hurt diversity. IOW, next time you see a Muslim with appalling professional performance and spouting jihad, he doesn't want to hear about it. Message received five-by, general, sir.
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Typical bureaucratic inquiry. They are doing everything they can to ignore the 200 pound gorilla in the room. Whether he was competent or incompetent is not the issue. The issue is how did a jihadist manage to carry out such a deadly attack in a sensitive facility.
All jihadists are Muslim but not all Muslims are jihadists.
There has to be a system in place which can help identify them. Should the military investigate their own personnel? Probably not, too much internal politics. As Richard points out, someone like Gen Casey would probably kill the inquiry stone dead. Best to look for red flags then get the experts to "stress test" the case.
A situation like the article posted yesterday provides an excellent case study.
In spite of all the self-serving rationalisation being spouted by the jihadist, the facts were, as stated by Karen Loeffler, U.S. attorney in Alaska,
"The suggestion that this was planted in his mind is just false. ... He researched the means to select targets, and his looking for people to kill and how to kill them was well before law enforcement got involved,"
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So the licensing and credentialing was never an issue.
The receiving MTF(at least the for Navy) still has to privilege the provider (doctor, PA, nurse practitioner). That means checking credentials, licensing and security clearance of all providers, including those who went through USHS or med school on a military scholarship.
What I'd like to see is the GAO address the causes as to why the Army is not credentialing or keeping on unfit health care providers. I can think of a few.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] DR Congo police fired tear gas at supporters of opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi and banned his "swearing-in" ceremony on Friday, saying President Joseph Kabila was the legally elected head of state.
Police used tear gas to disperse opposition supporters who had gathered near Tshisekedi's residence in Kinshasa's Liemete district and made several arrests, an AFP journalist said.
Armoured vehicles of the Republican Guard and a large number of police had also taken up positions around the capital's main Martyrs Stadium where Tshisekedi had called on his supporters to attend his swearing-in. They also used tear gas at the stadium.
"It's banned. There is already an elected president who has been sworn in. We cannot have another swearing-in. It's an act of subversion," a source close to the head of the country's police said.
"Such a rally would be destabilising for the regime in place," he added.
The veteran opposition leader, 78, planned to be sworn in around 10am, Kinshasa time at the "Stade des Martyrs" but was prevented from leaving his house by security forces.
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[Dawn] Hundreds of Paks enraged at debilitating gas shortages set two armoured police vehicles alight and blocked the highway to Islamabad airport on Friday, witnesses said.
The crowd, who also pelted police with stones, gathered at the main highway connecting the international airport to the capital city and blocked it for several hours for the second time in a week.
"More than 300 people gathered on the highway and put two armoured vehicles of police and a shed on a bus stop on fire," an AFP photographer said.
"Police used the tear gas to disperse the protestors," he said.
The protestors had gathered on the same highway on Monday and set fire to tyres, threw stones at police and private vehicles over gas rationing that has left thousands of homes without heat for hours at a time.
Yawning energy shortfalls frequently trigger violent protests across Pakistain, where opposition parties are setting in motion campaigns designed to force elections earlier than scheduled in February 2013.
A police official said that the road remained closed for more than three hours.
"There were still some boys on the road but we have opened it for the traffic after majority of the protestors dispersed following the three hours blockade," Mirvais Niaz Khan, a bigwig of the traffic police told AFP.
"They burnt our two armoured vehicles, so tear gas was used to disperse them," he said.
Another police official said that the traffic remained gridlocked hours after the road was cleared because hundreds of vehicles had backed up on roads in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, which connected to the capital by road links.
Pakistain, with a population of 174 million, produces only 80 per cent of its electricity needs, starving industry that has slumped in the face of recession and years of al Qaeda and Taliban-linked bombings.
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hmmmm the same Paks that keep burning gas shipments to us in Afghanistan? At least they're consistent in their rustic stoopidity
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[Dawn] An Iranian news agency is reporting that the pilot and co-pilot of a police helicopter have been killed in a crash in southeast Iran.
The report by the semiofficial Fars agency says the helicopter crashed midday Friday noon after it hit a telecommunications tower. The craft was scheduled to land at the southeastern Iranian town of Khash in Sistan-Balochistan province.
The report said the tower was located on a base of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.
The area has been a scene of frequent festivities between Iranian forces and drug pushers as well as a Sunni turban group, Jundallah, which has waged a long insurgency in the remote province, which borders Pakistain and Afghanistan.
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Dang, dem Juices are good. Wonder how they got that telecommunications tower to jump out in front of that helicopter?
Or maybe it was an inside job, like all the explosions around the country lately?
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Hundreds of Paks enraged at debilitating gas shortages set two armoured police vehicles alight and blocked the highway to Islamabad airport on Friday, witnesses said.
