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[Stamkos]

(CNN) -- Six people were killed, including two children, and another three children wounded in a shooting Monday in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said.

Memphis Fire Department spokeswoman Melanie Young said firefighters responded to a 911 call at a home at 6:11 p.m. Monday when the bodies and wounded children were found.

The wounded children -- a 7-year-old boy, a 10-month-old girl and a 4-year-old whose gender wasn't immediately known -- were transported to Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center.

[Darth Fozzy]

Goddam, you never EVER expect it to be kids, why would anyone want to hurt a child, I can never understand people who would willingly want to hurt a child, assclowns!!

[Stamkos]

*Sigh*. It seems like everyday now when I turn on the news or go on the internet, I hear something about someone dying in the US due to guns. It seems like it's happening more than ever.

[OMEN]

KILLER: Colin Norris has been found guilty of murdering four elderly patients using lethal doses of the diabetes drug insulin, whilst he was working at two hospitals in Leeds.
A 32-year-old male nurse has been found guilty of murdering four elderly patients with lethal doses of the diabetes drug insulin.

Colin Norris administered the drugs to four women during his time at two hospitals in Leeds, Newcastle Crown Court heard.

He was also found guilty of the attempted murder of another patient.

Police said on Monday after the case that Norris had picked on "frail, elderly women, generally confused and helpless" who were in his hands.

"Whilst other people at those hospitals were duly caring for the patients, Colin Norris was doing the opposite. He was looking for opportunities to poison them by insulin," said Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Gregg of West Yorkshire Police.

"He was selecting his patients carefully."

It was not clear what motivated Norris, but Gregg said he believed the defendant had been abusing the power available to him.

"I think it was clearly just having the control and the power to do that," Gregg added.

"He had helpless individuals in his hands. They were vulnerable in his care and he took advantage of that.

"And it seems to be that if they irritated him, caused him any degree of nuisance in his eyes then he resorted to the means available to him."

He paid tribute to Dr Emma Ward, who ordered tests for insulin on one of the women who had entered an unexpected coma.

"If it were not for her prompt actions and recognising that a criminal may be at work on the ward that she was operating in, then I think a serial killer would still be at large here."

Norris was described during police interviews as "exceptionally arrogant, almost aggressive".

He had shown no emotion or remorse during the trial.

The jury heard that suspicions were raised when Norris predicted the death of Ethel Hall, a patient who later slipped into a fatal coma.

Hall, 86, from Calverley, Leeds, was recovering after hip surgery at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) at the time of her death. Tests later showed about 12 times the normal level of insulin in her blood.

Similar cases were found including, Doris Ludlum, 80, of Pudsey, Bridget Bourke, 88 - whose body was exhumed for tests - and Irene Crooks, 79, of Leeds.

Norris was found guilty of all four murders. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of Vera Wilby, 90, of Rawdon.

Norris, who lives in Glasgow, had denied the charges.

Sentencing will take place on Tuesday local time

Reuters

[Stamkos]

And some people wonder why others are afraid of going to the hospital or the doctor. This is just crazy. My father has diabetes and I'd be furious if his doctor ever did this to him. It's kind of scary.

[JohnCenaFan28]

That's terrible... You can't trust anyone these days...

[OMEN]

A spate of suicide attacks by Islamist militants could spark a war of revenge among ethnic Pashtun tribesmen in Pakistan's northwest just as moderate, secular political parties appear poised for power, analysts say.

The region is already regarded as the main battleground in the fight against the Taliban and al Qaeda, and the stakes are raised because of Pakistan's status as a nuclear-armed state.

The militants want to destabilize President Pervez Musharraf, and convince Pakistanis his alliance with the United States is the root cause of conflict in the area.

For their part, Pakistan's Western allies want its new prime minister and government, once they emerge from the hung parliament returned by voters in an election on February 18, to provide the democratic legitimacy for the war on terrorism that Musharraf has been unable to engender.

"You may not question President Pervez Musharraf's policy on terrorism, you may say it's all right but the point is nobody is ready to own this policy," said Talat Masood, a former general and security analyst.

"The greatest advantage of the civilian government will be that the policy will be owned by the people of Pakistan."

Well over 500 people have been killed in militant-related violence so far this year, but the campaign of suicide attacks began after troops stormed the Red Mosque in Islamabad to put down a militant student movement in the heart of the capital.

While the remote Waziristan region has seen the worst of the violence over the past few years, in recent months hitherto dormant tribal areas have erupted in violence.

At least 40 people were killed on Friday in a suicide attack in the Swat district of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) during the funeral of a policeman hours after he was killed in a roadside attack.

On Sunday, another 40 people died and scores were wounded when a young bomber blew himself up as hundreds of tribesmen left a jirga, or council, that had discussed how to restore peace in Darra Adam Kheil, a tribal region near Peshawar, the NWFP capital.

The army has been fighting militants in Swat since October, and just last week had claimed it had cleared all but a few pockets of resistance.

But attacks like a roadside bomb that killed 13 members of a wedding party, including the bride, on February 22, again in Swat, demonstrated the insecurity ordinary families are encountering.

Analysts noted a "dangerous trend" towards attacks that struck at the heart of Pashtun society.

"These are direct attacks on Pashtun society," said Mahmood Shah, a former security chief for the tribal areas.

"All institutions, which represent Pashtun society, the mosque, a wedding, a funeral or a jirga, they have all been targeted.

"They want to bomb the entire Pashtun society into submission."

Pashtuns, whose lands straddle both sides of the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, live to a code of honor, commonly known as Pashtunwali, that calls on menfolk to take revenge if a family member is killed.

The attacks on the funeral and the jirga could trigger inter-tribal feuds, in a region where guns are commonly referred to as "Pashtun jewellery".

"This situation could ignite tribal enmities. This will create a very explosive and dangerous situation for the government," said Rahimullah Yusufzai, a newspaper editor and an expert on Pashtun affairs.

The escalating violence has raised concern among Western countries about the stability of the nuclear-armed state amid the growing unpopularity of US ally Musharraf.

The recent attacks came as winners of the February 18 elections were negotiating to cobble together a coalition government.

There have been a spate of attacks in the run-up to elections but polling day passed off with far less violence than feared.

The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) of Benazir Bhutto, the country's most liberal politician who was killed in an attack blamed on al Qaeda-linked militants on December 27, emerged as the largest group in the National Assembly, dealing a humiliating defeat to Musharraf's allies.

A moderate Pashtun party, the Awami National Party, won the most seats in the NWFP assembly by trouncing Islamist parties and is likely to lead the provincial government in a coalition with the PPP, but if they fail to quell the violence voters will soon become disenchanted, analysts said.

Reuters

[OMEN]

Fidel Castro is having a good chuckle at reactions in the United States and elsewhere to his decision to retire from the Cuban presidency, the communist country's foreign minister says.

Felipe Perez Roque also told the United Nations Human Rights Council that the old leader's younger brother Raul, who some outside commentators have said might introduce some liberal reforms, "is also Fidel".

"Back in Cuba, Fidel is enjoying the petty and pathetic reaction of those who thought that his authority stemmed from his office, who thought that if he was removed from office or assassinated that would be the magic formula for the defeat of the Cuban Revolution," Perez declared.

"But it turns out otherwise, that Fidel is the people, that his ideas are those of the people."

Raul Castro, 76, took over as president from Fidel last month, vowing to continue his communist revolution and consult him on important issues.

"Raul, with all the authority that his own life story gives him, is also Fidel in his loyalty to the fatherland, to the revolution, and to socialism," declared Perez, long a close aide to the elder Castro.

Castro, 81, stepped down from the presidency on February 24 after 49 years in power. He has not appeared in public since falling ill 19 months ago.

"At the end of the day, Fidel is every man and woman in the world who fights for justice and liberty for people everywhere," Perez said.

Reuters

[JohnCenaFan28]

Thanks for the read.

[Black Widow]

Two teenagers are facing jail terms after they admitted killing a promising graduate in a row over a chocolate bar wrapper.

Evren Anil, 23, died from serious head injuries after being threatened with a knife and punched to the ground.

He had gotten into an argument with the teenagers after the wrapper was thrown through his car window in Crystal Palace, south east London, last August.

Mr Anil had gotten out of the car to confront the pair.

His 26-year-old sister Elif was driving the car when the attack took place.

She told the Evening Standard: "Words can't describe the boy. He was an angel. He was my younger brother and my best friend.

"He was so generous. He was a very bright boy. I was so privileged to have a brother like him.

"I just miss him so much."

Mr Anil was a week into his first graduate job, as a programme developer for an IT company, when he died.

He was also a keen amateur footballer, who turned out for Croydon City, as well as an amateur actor.

He also tutored children at weekends.

A 16-year-old from Thornton Heath, south east London, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and knife possession as his trial was due to begin at the Old Bailey.

His plea could only be reported now after his 17-year-old co-defendant, from Tottenham, north London, also admitted the two charges.

Sentencing will take place at a later date after the judge hears legal argument about the precise version of events, which is disputed.

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