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      <title>Afghan Mullah Marries, Kills 8-Year-Old Girl on Wedding Night</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 14:42:22 -0400</pubDate>
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The 8-years-old girl whose story you'll read in coming lines did not make it to the 2nd night of her wedding nor did she make it to her 9th or 10th birthday.

Her name unknown, my source telephoned me last week at 9:30 pm to tell me her story. At the first I thought it's just going to be a short conversation but later it was unveiled that the story is different.
The story came from a village in Khashrood district of Nimruz province in Afghanistan. A medical doctor assigned in the main hospital in Zaranj city, the capital of the province, who wished to remain unnamed confirmed that he  was &quot;made aware&quot; of the incident and that it was &quot;too late to do anything for her&quot; as well the &quot;remote area didn't allow them to do anything&quot;.

The girl was one of the several daughters of a man in his late 30s. For an unknown reason he gave his daughter to the Mullah of their village for a big amount of money. It is also common in  Afghanistan's rural areas or 3rd level provinces/cities to marry young girls to old men, and trading their daughters for their debts or other items. The mullah is in his late 50s and is the mosque guy of the village where this incident happened. The mullah is already married and has many children too.

The two families hold a tribal meeting, agree on the price that the groom's family pay to the bride's family, and they set a date for wedding. In rural areas like this here there are no engagements or any ceremonies beforehand like there are some in the metropolitan and urban areas. The two families planned a wedding party, the wedding and Nekah (The religious process in which a woman is officially married to a man) took place and the 8-years-old bride became the 50-years-old Mullah's 2nd wife.

The celebration party was over and the sun downed - the time to have sex (not make love) with the 8-year-old bride. Naturally, she started to bleed in a very bad amount, but the mullah was too annoyed for not being able to have sex with her, to care for what he did or her bleeding or her wounds that he gave her. The girl had her scarf stuffed in her mouth, crying and trying to not raise her voice because others were there in the room adjacent to or outside. The girl was bleeding and there was nobody to help her, neither could the Mullah ask for help as it was a shame for him. Our 8-year-old bride bled and went into traumatic shock from blood loss and early in the morning around 5 when the sun was about to rise, she passed away. The close friend of mullah, who knew everything, was very upset and shared the story with my source that then called me and told me the story.

This story reached to me was told the exact way as it happened by the Mullah to a very close friend of him after the girl's dead body was buried. According to the Mullah, he had a &quot;bad conscience&quot; about it.

Mustafa Kazemi
War Correspondent
Afghanistan

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      <title>8-Year-Old 'Bride' Bleeds to Death on Wedding Night</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 18:02:12 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>The 8-years-old girl whose story you'll read in coming lines did not make it to the 2nd night of her wedding nor did she make it to her 9th or 10th birthday.

Her name unknown, my source telephoned me last week at 9:30 pm to tell me her story. At the first I thought it's just going to be a short conversation but later it was unveiled that the story is different.

The story came from a village in Khashrood district of Nimruz province in Afghanistan.

A medical doctor assigned in the main hospital in Zaranj city, the capital of the province, who wished to remain unnamed confirmed that he was &quot;made aware&quot; of the incident and that it was &quot;too late to do anything for her&quot; as well the &quot;remote area didn't allow them to do anything&quot;.

The girl was one of the several daughters of a man in his late 30s. For an unknown reason he gave his daughter to the Mullah of their village for a big amount of money. It is also common in Afghanistan's rural areas or 3rd level provinces/cities to marry young girls to old men, and trading their daughters for their debts or other items.

The mullah is in his late 50s and is the mosque guy of the village where this incident happened.

The mullah is already married and has many children too.
The two families hold a tribal meeting, agree on the price that the groom's family pay to the bride's family, and they set a date for wedding.

In rural areas like this here there are no engagements or any ceremonies beforehand like there are some in the metropolitan and urban areas.

The two families planned a wedding party, the wedding and Nekah (The religious process in which a woman is officially married to a man) took place and the 8-years-old bride became the 50-years-old Mullah's 2nd wife.

The celebration party was over and the sun downed - the time to have sex (not make love) with the 8-years-old bride.

The girl was just 8 years old and everybody understands the fact that she knows nothing about sex or wedding or making love or virginity or sexual related topics; not even at a basic level for two reasons, one being that she's just a child - not even a teenager and that in that part of the country, nobody knows anything about these things nor they are given trainings or education about a healthy sexual life.

The mullah takes off the bride's clothes as well as his owns and with apparent so much happiness approaches her for sexual intercourse with the 8-years-old bride.
Because of the Mullah's huge physique which gave him a big penis, he threw himself on her and started to penetrate the girl's vagina.

After several tries that led him to failure to penetrate her vagina, the Mullah was frustrated.

He failed because the 8-years-old girl who was about to die was physically thin and had a very tight vagina opening.

Sourced from the Mullah's animal behavior, he took out the sharp knife that he always carried with himself in his pocket and tore apart the girl's vagina from the clitoris side upwards as well as tore it downwards towards her anus in order to make the vagina larger enough so he can enter his penis into her vagina.

Naturally, she started to bleed in a very bad amount, but the mullah was too annoyed for not being able to have sex with her, to care for what he did or her bleeding or her wounds that he gave her.

The girl had her scarf stuffed in her mouth, crying and trying to not raise her voice because others were there in the room adjacent to or outside.

It is a rule in some of the areas in Afghanistan that the groom brings out a piece of cloth that he cleaned his wife's hymen blood with it as a proof that the girl was virgin.

Mullah entered his penis into the girl's severely bleeding vagina and had sexual intercourse with her on a blood-covered bed, and then got up and cleaned himself with a cloth.

The girl, who now has lost everything, was bleeding and there was nobody to help her neither could the Mullah ask for help as it was a shame for him and the girl's family (who were sitting over a cup of tea in the other room, would kill him).

Our 8-years-old bride bled and went into a traumatic shock because of both forced sex as well as severe bleeding. She had lost so much blood, this I can tell for certain.

She bled and bled as herself was in trauma shock until morning and early in the morning around 5 when the sun was about to rise, she passed away.

According to the Mullah, she was pale and her eyes were open when she died. The bed, as he described, was all red with her blood and she was lying in her blood only. No cloth beneath her was recognizable and everything was in dried blood because a whole night had passed on the blood.

She was pale because she had lost all her body's blood. Her eyes were open as she was shivering when she died and her hands were tied in a praying position, saying her death time prayer.

The Mullah called in the same person and asked him to clean up the mess around and prepare a reason to tell the others for her death. Because the man was a close friend or family of the mullah, he did whatever he could, including every piece of cloth that was bloody.

They wrapped her in a piece of white clothes and called the others that she has passed away.

That morning her family mourned her death in the saddest manner without looking for proper explanation about her death, and then took her to wash her body as a religious ritual.

Because the Mullah had a great influence on the village, none of the women who washed the girl's body dared to ask or seek the reason for the wounds around her vagina.

By 10 am or so they rallied the now-dead 8-years-old bride to the graveyard and buried her.

Her life ended.

The close friend of mullah, who knew everything, was very upset and shared the story with my source that then called me and told me the story.

Another doctor that I asked in Zaranj said that he wasn't aware of the case, but he remembers that he used to treat the now-dead bride when she was 4 or 5 years old.

This doctor also asked me to not name him anywhere but only said that he was &quot;deeply saddened that incidents like that still happen in Afghanistan&quot;.

He called it one of the reasons of Afghanistan no going forward: People's idiocy and uncivilized behaviors and traditions.

This story reached to me was told the exact way as it happened by the Mullah to a very close friend of him after the girl's dead body was buried. According to the Mullah, he had a &quot;bad conscience&quot; about it.

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      <title> &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Downed&lt;/span&gt; rescue helicopter crew Vietnam 1967 Buried Arlington cemetery </title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 07:38:05 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Larry Duthie remembers studying his dog tags as he waited to be captured in the forest 20 miles south of Hanoi. He knew he was to give the enemy only his name, rank and serial number, and he wanted to do it correctly.A 24-year-old Navy pilot, he had just ejected from his damaged jet, smashing his right knee, and enemy gunfire had driven off the helicopter that was trying to rescue him.






 

(Courtesy of the Jackson Family) - William B. Jackson, one of four who died in a downed Navy helicopter rescue crew in July 1967. Their remains were buried in Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday.A few days later, Glenn W. Jackson remembers, he was at home near San Diego when the car pulled up with the pastor. He was 9, and his mother sent him outside while she learned of his father's death in Vietnam.It was July 1967.On Thursday the two, who had never met, were together at  Arlington National Cemetery , with dozens of others, separated by events of 45 years but linked by four men who were killed in a battle that, one way or another, had touched them all.They were four sailors, the crew of a Navy rescue helicopter, who were shot down during a brutal two-day battle to retrieve Duthie and another Navy pilot who had been brought down trying to bomb a bridge.





The North Vietnamese fought bitterly with missiles and antiaircraft guns to prevent the rescue. The Americans fought back, with jets and helicopters, to retrieve the men. Only Duthie was saved.And Navy Lt. Dennis Peterson, 28; Ensign Donald P. Frye, 23; and technicians William Jackson, 32, and Donald P. McGrane, 24, perished when their helicopter was brought down and blew up on impact.On Thursday, in a solemn ceremony, the Pentagon buried a single casket with remains that it said represented the four men as family, friends and veterans of the '67 fighting watched.



It was quiet except for the birds and the clatter of the horses pulling the caisson bearing the flag-draped coffin. A procession of mourners followed on foot. At one point,  a flight of Navy jets streaked across the clear blue sky in salute. &quot;They were very important guys, and unbelievably brave,&quot; Duthie, 70, who had traveled from Walla Walla, Wash., for the funeral, said Wednesday.



Glenn Jackson, 54, had traveled from Donald, Ore., &quot;to honor my dad, for one thing,&quot; he said Wednesday.&quot;Also to honor the other guys that are on this crew, too. All four were heroes. You think about what they did. For basically somebody that they really didn't know. . . . All they knew was that he was another Navy pilot and that he needed help.&quot;Some remains of Frye, Jackson and McGrane had been returned to the United States by the Vietnamese in 1982 and buried by their families.But the Pentagon said later searches in Vietnam in 1994 and 2000 produced dog tags, other artifacts and additional remains that were associated with all four men. Those commingled remains were buried Thursday.



Several present said they had been at the 1982 funerals, but felt they needed to attend this time, too.&quot;If they throw another funeral, we'll come,&quot; said Frye's older sister, Linda Kay Frye, who had come from Los Angeles. &quot;My brother was standing up for everybody all his life.&quot;The deaths of the four men came amid a brutal duel between the Americans and the North Vietnamese over a small bridge south of Hanoi.</description>
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      <title>Syrian Sunni Arab freedom fighters display the crew of another &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;downed&lt;/span&gt; assadist helicopter: Damascus governate</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 17:54:39 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Another assadist Mi-8 helicopter lays smashed, after it was engaged with large calibre machine guns.</description>
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      <title>Washington man damages 4 homes in bulldozer rampage</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 10:41:57 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>A man angry at his neighbors went on a rampage in a bulldozer Friday on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, damaging four homes, knocking one off its foundation and cutting power to thousands of people, authorities said.

Barry Alan Swegle was booked into the Clallam County Jail for investigation of malicious mischief following the incident in Port Angeles, 65 miles west of Seattle. A voice mail message left at a phone listing for the 51-year-old was not immediately returned.





&quot;This of course is above what we're normally used to and someone just snapped and jumped on a bulldozer and started taking out people's houses,&quot; Ron Peregrin, the county's undersheriff told Q13Fox.com.

Authorities said investigators were told that Swegle and his neighbors had a long-running dispute, but it's not clear over what. The rampage knocked over a utility pole and left a pickup truck destroyed, and the downed power lines were preventing authorities from fully evaluating the damage to the homes.

In just a few minutes, there was hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage, Q13Fox.com reported.

Authorities said the machine was an International Harvester TD-25, similar to a Caterpillar D-9. Investigators were looking into whether the man owned it.

Keith Haynes lives near one of the damaged homes and told the Peninsula Daily News  that the man &quot;just went nuts.&quot; Haynes said a woman inside one of the homes escaped unharmed.

&quot;He took a skidder and took out two houses,&quot; Haynes said. &quot;I mean demolished.&quot;

At one point thousands of people were without power, but within a few hours it had been restored to all but 200 customers, said Clallam County Public Utility District spokesman Mike Howe. He said power would remain out to those customers at least through early Saturday morning.

Swegle has a lengthy rap sheet that includes burglary, stalking and public indecency, the Q13Fox.com report said.

&quot;We all said one of these days Barry is going to take that dang cat and he's going to start tearing up people's property and that's what he did,&quot; Barbara Porter, a neighbor said.




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      <title>Assad &amp;quot;to declare war&amp;quot; on Israel following fresh airstrikes</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 19:33:31 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Reports suggest that Syria's embattled dictator, Bashar al-Assad, is shortly set to declare war on Israel after interventions against the regime
 

Following evidence of chemical warfare and an increasinly reticent US position, Israel has in recent days taken widely reported steps to neutralise threats emanating from within civil war-torn Syria.

While strikes from Lebanese airspace this weekend are not thought to have been on chemical weapons caches, the recent Israeli intelligence regarding the use of such weaponry is thought to have spurred on a round of strikes, including the latest just hours ago.

The Syrian state news agency SANA, citing initial reports, said early Sunday that Israeli missiles struck a military research center near the capital Damascus.

Syrian state television has reported that a major strike on an ammunition depot in Qassiyoun mountain shook Damascus, while Hezbollah's Al-Manar station claimed the explosion may have been a downed Israeli jet.

Rumours are surfacing online that following the latest volley of attacks on the Syrian regime, President Bashar al-Assad will soon officially declare war on Israel, with speculators pointing to 5am local time for official confirmation. This information continues to persist despite the technical state of war that currently exists between the two states.

Many however, have been quick to dismiss these reports as strictly rumour, with various commentators claiming that such a move would be sure to end Assad's reign of terror in Syria &quot;within a week&quot;.

The news of an Israeli intervention in Syria has caught the Obama administration on the back foot, with the US president refusing to comment at length about the strike. Obama said, &quot;The Israelis, justifiably, have to guard against the transfer of advanced weaponry to terrorist organizations like Hezbollah.&quot;

The US president made no mention of supposed &quot;red lines&quot; being crossed, despite evidence of Syria's used of chemical weapons against rebel forces. Critics have hit out at Barack Obama in recent days for failing to put forward any coherent strategy to bring the violence in Syria to an end. The inaction, according to some, is another example of Obama's &quot;lead from behind&quot; strategy, the same tactic he employed during the intervention in Libya.

 UPDATE 03:15am GMT : 5am local time in Syria has passed without comment from military authorities or the Assad regime. Speculation continues about the nature of the attack with some insisting that Israel's weaponry was &quot;nuclear-like&quot;, that chemicals can be &quot;smelt&quot; in the air, and that the attack was co-ordinated by Israel with help from Syrian rebel forces.

 UPDATE: 04:36am GMT:  Sources suggest that Qassiyoun mountain was the home to many stationed Assad forces, with some projections claiming over 10,000 could have been stationed in and around the area.

 UPDATE: Sunday morning:  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to call a cabinet meeting for 3pm today to discuss the ongoing situation

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      <title>Dashcam video raises questions in Nez Perce fatal shooting.</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 16:34:00 -0400</pubDate>
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LEWISTON, Idaho - Newly-released
 police dashcam video raises questions about the deadly shooting of a 
drunk man at the hands of a Nez Perce Tribal Police Officer.The
 shooting happened on the evening of November 12th, 2011. Jeffrey Flinn 
was driving drunk when he crashed his car. Two hunters stopped to help 
him and Flinn stole their truck. He then led three separate law 
enforcement agencies - Idaho State Police, The Lewis County Sheriff's 
Office, and The Nez Perce Tribal Police - on a chase.Spike
 strips laid down by ISP eventually stopped the stolen car. Police 
dashcam video shows Flinn open the driver's side door, sit facing 
outward and fire one shot from a weapon at officers. Officers respond by
 firing more than two dozen shots at Flinn. Flinn then exits the vehicle
 unarmed and with his hands above his head and then, for reasons that 
remain unclear, officers fired several more shots, hitting Flinn, who 
died at the scene.As officers run up to the downed man in the video and are seen moving a 
weapon that was near Flinn to a location away from him. It was later 
determined that bullets from Tribal Officer Robert Wall killed Flinn.Despite
 the evidence in the dashcam video, the Idaho U.S. Attorney's Office 
declined to pursue charges against Wall. The Lewis County Prosecutor 
later charged Wall with Voluntary Manslaughter, but this week a 
magistrate judge ruled there was insufficient evidence for the case to 
move forward.</description>
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      <title>IDF shoots down enemy drone off Haifa coast</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:44:55 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Cleared for publication: Israeli F-16 fighter jets downed a drone off of Haifa's coastline at around 1:30 pm Thursday.

The unmanned aircraft, which was flying at an altitude of about 6,000 feet (1,800 meters), when it was downed, apparently entered Israel's airspace from the north and was heading south. Explosions were heard in the area.


Israel Navy vessels were searching for the wreckage. The drone was apparently sent by Hezbollah from Lebanon.

Israeli Air Force (IAF) warplanes were scrambled from the Ramat David airbase and reports of an Israeli flyovers in Lebanon followed the drone's interception.


The IDF's Spokesperson's Unit issued a statement saying, &quot;Today the (army) thwarted the penetration of an unmanned aircraft into Israeli territory. Shortly after 1 pm a drone was identified as it was flying north to south along the Lebanese coastline. The air defense system tracked it for (several) minuteswhile it was still in Lebanese territory, and it was under surveillance throughout its flight until the interception.

&quot;IAF planes were scrambled, as were combat helicopters, after it was determined that the aircraft was not friendly, and certainly not (an Israeli) aircraft. The Air Force commander authorized the interception,&quot; the army said. 

The drone was downed over the sea, some eight to 10 kilometers (5-6.5 nautical miles) off Haifa's coastline after being identified by IAF radars at 13:30 pm. It was downed at exactly 13:40 pm by two F-16 fighter jets on the first attempt.

The army noted that the downed drone was relatively small, and it remains unclear whether it was carrying explosives, like other attack drones in Hezbollah's possession. The IDF does not know at this time what the drone's destination was, but said it was headed south along the Tyre-Zidon line.


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received an update on the attempted infiltration of Israeli airspace when he was on a flight to the country's north. The prime minister's helicopters landed for a short time, until the drone was shot down, and then continued on its way.

&quot;I see this attempt to cross into Israeli territory as a very serious issue. We will continue to do whatever is necessary to ensure the citizens of Israel remain safe,&quot; the PM said in a statement. 

 
Earlier, during a visit to the home of Sheikh Muhammad Tarif in the Druze village of Julis, Netanyahu addressed the general threat Israel faces from the north. &quot;We are anxiously and concernedly eyeing the developments in Syria and Lebanon. Syria is splitting and Lebanon is unstable. Both places present threats we cannot ignore.

&quot;Syria holds two direct threats to Israel: First, the spillage of advanced weaponry to terrorist organizations, and secondly, attempts by terrorists to penetrate our borders and fire at our communities,&quot; the PM said.

&quot;The State of Israel is prepared for any threat originating in Syria as well as Lebanon, be it from sea, air or land.&quot;


Word of the interception quickly spread in Haifa. Some residents witnessed the downing itself, while others in the Stella Maris neighborhood watched as Navy vessels were searching for the wreckage.


Ynet's military analyst Ron Ben-Yishai said that it can be safely assumed that the downed drone's point of departure was a Hezbollah base in the Lebanon Valley. It then flew southwest along the shoreline at a distance of six miles from the coast at an altitude of two kilometers (1.2 miles).

It is clear that the drone was quickly spotted thanks to the lessons learned from the previous drone penetration into Israel.

As part of these lessons, additional radars were placed in the north so that even the smallest of aircraft could be identified.


It is safe to assume that Hezbollah and the Iranian instructors aiding them in the RPV (remotely-piloted vehicle) and MRPV (mini remotely-piloted vehicle) field wanted to test anew their route into Israel as well as the IDF's alertness in wake of highly publicized reports of Patriot missile batteries being deployed in the Haifa region. The Patriot missiles come equipped with a special radar capable of spotting just such small drones.

It is also possible that Hezbollah and its patron's current attempt at penetrating a drone into Israeli airspace stemmed not just from their desire to test Israel's preparedness and interception abilities, but also from their desire to influence public conception.

Hezbollah's meddling in Lebanon is rising, and the heavy damage the Shiite group causes Lebanon has drawn a lot ofanger against the organization within Lebanon, leading even some prominent Hezbollah supporters from the Shiite sects toopenly slam its involvement in the Syrian civil war.

It is possible that the drone was sent in an attempt to divert public opinion back to Hezbollah's efforts to &quot;protect Lebanon from Israel.&quot;


In any case, it is safe to assume that the saga of the Iranian made RPVs and MRPVs operated by Hezbollah is far from over and we are likely to witness them again during an onslaught of missile fire from the north should another war break out.


On October 6, 2012 two F-16I fighter jets downed aHezbollah dronethat breached Israeli airspace. Remnants of the aircraft fell in open area in the Mount Hebron region.


A few days later, Hezbollah Chief SheikhHassan Nasrallahrevealed that the downed aircraft was an Iranian made drone and claimed that the drone managed to fly over &quot;a number of important IDF bases&quot; before being intercepted.


An IDF investigation of the event revealed that the drone had penetrated Israel through the Gaza Strip and began traveling east. According to the IDF, the drone was under IDF surveillance from the moment it entered Israel, but it was decided to shoot it down only when it reached the Mount Hebron area &quot;for military reasons.&quot;



 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4372464,00.html 


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