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Mental Health Experts Call Sniper Defendant Brainwashed By James Dao 12/11/03 Chesapeake, Va. "The experts have likened him to a child soldier and cult member. They said he was clinically depressed, even suicidal. They concluded he had lost touch with his identity and could not differentiate right from wrong. But was Lee Malvo, the younger defendant in the sniper attacks in the Washington area, legally insane when he took part in the rampage? A host of mental health experts for the defense have offered evidence that he was, asserting that Mr. Malvo was effectively brainwashed by John A. Muhammad, the convicted mastermind of the killings, into participating in the shootings. By trying to equate brainwashing with mental illness, Mr. Malvo's lawyers have pushed the boundaries of the insanity defense into a gray area where precedents are few and obstacles to winning an acquittal are high, legal experts said." http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/11/national/11MALV.html?ex=1072135248&ei=1&en=05aee7be14abbe4a
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AP: Iraq to Stop Counting Civilian Dead
Wed Dec 10, 2:17 PM ET By NIKO PRICE, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Health Ministry officials ordered a halt to a count of civilian casualties from the war and told workers not to release figures already compiled, the head of the ministry's statistics department told The Associated Press on Wednesday....
, the Health Ministry's civilian death toll count had been reported by news media as early as August, and the count was widely anticipated by human rights organizations. The ministry issued a preliminary figure of 1,764 deaths during the summer.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-12-10-cluster-bomb-cover_x.htm
Posted 12/10/2003 11:55 PMÂÂÂÂ Updated 12/11/2003 6:47 AM
Cluster bombs kill in Iraq, even after shooting ends By Paul Wiseman, USA TODAY
BAGHDAD â The little canisters dropped onto the city, white ribbons trailing behind. They clattered into streets, landed in lemon trees, rattled around on roofs, settled onto lawns.....
Cluster bomb: A bomb that contains dozens or hundreds of small explosives and is dropped by aircraft.....
A four-month examination by USA TODAY of how cluster bombs were used in the Iraq war found dozens of deaths that were unintended but predictable. Although U.S. forces sought to limit what they call "collateral damage" in the Iraq campaign, they defied international criticism and used nearly 10,800 cluster weapons; their British allies used almost 2,200. The bomblets packed inside these weapons wiped out Iraqi troop formations and silenced Iraqi artillery. They also killed civilians. These unintentional deaths added to the hostility that has complicated the U.S. occupation. One anti-war group calculates that cluster weapons killed as many as 372 Iraqi civilians. The numbers are impossible to verify: Iraqi hospital records are incomplete, and many Iraqi families buried their dead without reporting their deaths. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
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