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Another Muslim extremist beheading
The Taliban demonstrates what happens when they are in charge of an area.
More news for those insist that the War in Afghanistan impinges on the 'traditional ways of the people living there'.
Taliban militants have beheaded an old woman and her grandson accused of spying for the US military, officials said.
The shocking executions took place in Uruzgan's Dihrawud district, said provincial police chief, Juma Gul Himat. The militants accused the woman of spying for government and NATO forces.
Militants stopped the pair yesterday as they were walking to their home in south-central Uruzgan province, Himat told AFP.
"Our investigations and findings from the area say they were accused of spying and were shot in front of other people," he said, adding the boy was aged seven.
He said they had been accused of "spying for Americans."
One other account speaks of the doomed pair "being beheaded", but doesn't mention if it happened before or after they were killed.
Taliban hanging around waiting for another victim
There was no reported independent confirmation of the police account.
The incident came as a civilian car hit a freshly planted land mine in southern Afghanistan, killing six people and wounding six others.
The blast ripped through the car as it traveled on a road outside the town of Tirin Kot, in Uruzgan province, a ministry statement said.
"This mine was possibly planted by the enemy," it said. Afghan officials refer to the Taliban and other militants as "the enemy."
Militants usually attack foreign and Afghan troops with mines and other roadside bombs, but most of the victims in such attacks have been civilians.
The incidents follow a Monday roadside blast on a NATO convoy in eastern Afghanistan that killed two soldiers and wounded three others, the alliance said in a statement.
Some people say the 'ancient ways are best'.
Tell that to a grandmother and her 7-year-old grandson, their heads now separated from their bodies.
by Mondoreb
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Source: Taliban Behead Grandmother and Grandson, 7
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."--Albert Einstein
2-year-old Riley Sawyers was savagely and repeatedly beaten and tortured until she was dead. The punishment was inflicted on her by her alleged mother--the one person a defenseless toddler turns to for protection and comfort.
Kimberly Dawn Trenor and her accomplice/boyfriend/husband completed their vile deed and then stashed the little girl's body in a storage shed. After many days, they took a trip to buy their Wal-Mart version of Riley's casket: a cooler commonly used for picnics.
At that moment, Trenor's mothering instinct apparently asserted itself: Riley Sawyer's body was found wrapped in plastic and laid in her temporary resting place. It was set adrift in Galveston Bay, to be found on a sandbar by a fisherman.
It's a mystery why they treated Riley's body more gently after she was dead than when she was living through what must have been her last confused, hurting, terror-filled moments.
Her mother described to police how she "beat the child with leather belts and held her head under water in the bathtub. She said Zeigler picked the girl up by her hair and also threw her across the room, slamming her head into the tile floor."
Speculation
The charges currently against the pair consist of tampering with evidence and injuring the child. What additional charges they face is speculation at this moment.
The final scene described by Trenor is one where acts were committed that were devoid of any human emotion.
That would seem to rule out various "done in haste" or "in the heat of the moment" defenses. What the charges will be and what kind of defense will be offered, if any, is again speculation.
Zigler reportedly tried to end his life last week as the police closed in, leaving behind a note that "his wife was not responsible". He was less successful at ending his own life than that of his companion's 2-year-old.
Was that an attempt at achieving a nobility in death that was missing in his life?
The questions heard most often asked by readers who emailed or commented at this point: How could a mother do this to her baby? Why did it have to be so violent? Why not give the child to someone who loved her?
It's hard to say why little Riley death was so gruesome.
If the child was a bother, why not contact the grandmother in Ohio or the father?
Both made repeated efforts to contact Kimberly Dawn Trenor.
There has been talk of a custody struggle between the Kimberly Dawn Trenor and Riley's father.
The final sadistic acts committed on the person of Riley Sawyers are easier to understand if Riley isn't viewed as a human being; as a little, defenseless child.
Those acts are a little easier to understand if one sees her two-year-old daughter, Riley Sawyers, not as most would view her--a helpless toddler, crying out in fear and panic at her final treatment--but as Kimberly Dawn Trenor apparently saw her.
Not as a child, but as a pawn.
by Mondoreb
Sources:
Mother's Grim Tale of Abuse and Death
Toddler Tortured: Little Riley Never Had a Chance
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
When the Girl of Your Dreams needs dentures
British Woman, 102, Bares All For Miss November Charity Pin-Up Calendar
A 102-year-old British woman has decided she isn't too old to be a pinup — and a naked one at that.
Nora Hardwick is Miss November in a nude calendar done to raise money for the local football team, the Ancaster Athletic in Ancaster, Lincolnshire, England.
Don't worry: The 1905-born great-great grandma is swathed in a filmy petal pink scarf and is strategically positioned behind the beer taps at the Ermine Way pub in town, so it's almost impossible to tell she's standing there in the buff.
Click here to see a photo.
"They draped a bit of pink cloth around my shoulders, but at my age I just don't have the model body to be taking it all off," she told The Telegraph, a U.K. newspaper. "It was all very tastefully done. You couldn't see any of the bits or anything."
Hardwick said the football club asked her to pose in her birthday suit because she's the oldest person in the village.
Has anyone ever heard anyone who posed nude for pictures ever utter the words, "It was all sleazily done"?
It's just a bit of fun really," she told the Telegraph.
Her children, who are 80, 74 and 62 have been supportive of their mum baring all for a good cause, she said.
She has lived in Ancaster since 1933, and retired as the village's postmistress at age 72, after 35 years on the job, according to the newspaper.
One hopes having their mother pose nude is not the worry of too many 80-year-olds.
by Mondoreb
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
