By Calvin Palmer
The second in command of al-Qaeda greeted President-elect Barack Obama on a militant Web site today with a racial slur.
Ayman al-Zawahri’s message aims to show that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policy and referred to Obama as “the direct opposite of honorable black Americans like Malcolm X.”
He also calls the president-elect [...]
November 19, 2008
Indicted high school cheerleaders could face jail if convicted of hazing
By Calvin Palmer
Seven Morton Ranch High School cheerleaders, from Katy, Texas, have been indicted by a Harris County grand jury on charges accusing them of illegally hazing other cheerleaders.
The misdemeanor indictments were issued today, accusing the cheerleaders of restraining several junior varsity cheerleaders, blindfolding them, binding their hands and pushing them into a swimming pool [...]
November 19, 2008
Man decapitated himself with chainsaw in ‘carefully thought through suicide’
By Calvin Palmer
A man committed suicide by rigging up a chainsaw to sever his head because he was “irrationally opposed” to leaving his repossessed home, an inquest heard today.
David Phyall, 50, tied the Black & Decker power tool to a leg of a snooker table in his living room with string, taped up the on [...]
