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[Pretty Fly Guy]

man I hate Tabloids

[LionDen]

wow an interesting story kurt, nice find. That deer would have been famous back in the day when they had freaks at carnivals etc. It would have made a tiny penny lol

[scorpionf]

That deer looks so sweet, and he is probably wondering what all the fuss is about!

Thanks for the story!

[Black Widow]

He is just 14, too young to have any facial hair but old enough to kill.
His name is Shakirullah and he's one of the youngest Taliban prisoners being held by Afghan intelligence.

We are given rare access to him by Afghan intelligence, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), at the interrogation cells in the capital, Kabul.

The agents ponder for some minutes over whether to bring him to us handcuffed and decide against it.

Shakirullah walks in with the awkward gait of a teenager, unsure of his audience or the reception he's going to get.

Two intelligence minders are in the room with us. We are not allowed to film them or identify them but they are well known to the young boy.

There are constant interjections from them as he stumbles and mumbles his way through his story.

He says he had been studying at a madrassa, a religious school, in Pakistan for about six months.

He is from the tribal region of south Waziristan and his family are farmers. This was his first experience of education.

"I was in the madrassa," he told Sky News.

"And after I'd been studying the Koran for some time, the mullah (religious teacher) came to me and told me it was time to go to Afghanistan and be a suicide bomber.

"I didn't want to do it but they told me I had to.

"They said I couldn't stay with them any more and if I didn't, they would take me by force."

He said he was taken to Miramshah on the Pakistan border and then three men smuggled him across and into Khost in eastern Afghanistan.

The night before he was due to carry out the attack in a busy market area in Khost, the men took him for driving lessons.

He said they were spotted by police as they were leaving and the explosives were found.

"They told me when I came back (after the attack), they would give me some money and find me a woman to marry but that I would come back and not die," the boy said with astonishing naivety.

"I just want to be free. I miss my mother."

A few miles away from the intelligence cells is another 14-year-old without a mother.

She is Noorya and her mother was killed by a suicide bomber as she went to work for the Ministry of Interior on one of the buses packed with Government employees.

Qandi Gul was a cook at the Government offices and the main breadwinner in her family.

Her wage supported her husband and her daughter and two sons.

She earned 2,300 Afghani per month (about £24) but it was enough to give the family a secure living.

"I miss my mother a lot," said Noorya. "When she was alive she wouldn't let me do any housework.

"She wanted me to study. She said you are the future of your country so you should keep your eyes on your books.

"As for the 14-year-old suicide bomber who has been caught, I feel sorry for him. He is just a child and only 14.

"He cannot have had a proper education so he was set on the wrong path. I just feel sorry for him," she said with a maturity beyond her years.

Her father Mohammed Raheem is a lot more bitter.

"There were no explosions in Taliban times," he said. "But only explosions in Mr Karzai's Government.

"There are no jobs in Afghanistan now. My sons have had to go to Iran to find work and our economic situation is very desperate now."


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[JohnCenaFan28]

OMG, what a story, thanks.

[Black Widow]

The wife of Austria cellar rapist Josef Fritzl has visited the underground dungeon where her daughter was held captive for 24 years for the first time.

Rosemarie Fritzl returned to the family home and reportedly collected toys and other belongings from the underground rooms.

Fritzl's wife has told police she knew nothing of the horror occurring under the house in Amstetten, Austria.

Her husband fathered seven children with their daughter, Elisabeth, who he said had run away and joined a cult.

Three of the children lived upstairs as the Fritzl's "grandchildren" after Fritzl told his wife they had been abandoned on their doorstep by their supposedly missing daughter.

Three others remained locked up with their mother in the cellar and another child died soon after birth.

The children, along with their mother and grandmother, are being cared for by psychiatrists at a nearby medical facility.

Reports say Rosemarie spent about an hour at the house and loaded up a vehicle with several suitcases before returning to the clinic.

Rosemarie has said she never wants to live in the "tainted" house again, according to reports.

Last week, the eldest child Kerstin, 19, awoke from a coma and doctors said she was recovering well.

Her admittance to hospital on April 19 brought the horrific saga to light.


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[JohnCenaFan28]

Thanks for the news.

[scorpionf]

I don't understand how anyone could be so cruel and sadistic... He should be made to live as he made his daughter live.

I feel bad for his wife, but a small part of me thinks she is really dumb to have not suspected something, when 3 of her grandkids appeared from nowhere on their doorstep...

[Black Widow]

A father and two young children who were found dead in a car on a remote road in a Welsh beauty spot have been named.

The three were Brian Philcox, 52, and Amy, seven and three-year-old Owen. All had died from carbon monoxide poisoning after inhaling car fumes.

A bomb disposal unit was called to examine the Land Rover Freelander after police found a "device" at Mr Philcox's home in Runcorn, Cheshire.

Four teddy bears along with bouquets of flowers have been tied to the railings outside the address.

Police said the children lived with their mother in Cheshire and Mr Philcox was with their son and daughter under an access arrangement.

A member of the public had raised the alarm after coming across their Land Rover.

Cheshire police said the mother of the children had reported them missing after they failed to return from a Father's Day outing.

The hillside road near Llanrwst in the Snowdonia National Park remains taped off today.

Police said the incident was being treated as suspicious, but were not looking for other suspects.

The bodies were found not far from where Mike Todd, chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, was discovered dead earlier this year.

A worker from a bed and breakfast not far from where the Land Rover was parked, said: "The place where it happened is off one of the narrow roads crossing the country.

"It's in the middle of fields with only a few houses nearby, it's very isolated.

"It is one of the prettiest parts of the country. I am more sorry for the children. I think it is a selfish act taking the children away."

The deaths appear to echo the case of Keith Young, 38, who killed himself and his four sons in March 2003 in Llangollen, North Wales.


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[JohnCenaFan28]

Thanks for the story.