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To: Alighieri who wrote (329949)	3/22/2007 6:50:22 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576007

I bet you wouldn't feel that way if you were the target of the investigation. Then you'd lose the bet. I'm not saying that I wouldn't feel bad, or perhaps even feel that an injustice had been perpetrated against me. But even if I felt that, and even if the feeling was based on truth rather then just my bias for myself, it wouldn't have anything to do with obstruction of justice. If you got stabbed you would be hurt, perhaps even killed, most likely the stabbing would be an injustice against you. But if you tried to argue "I've been shot", or "I've been run over by a truck" you would be wrong (unless those things also happened). Similarly I might be upset and hurt if a malicious prosecution occurred against me. But feeling hurt, even legitimately feeling hurt, doesn't mean any accusation I made against the person who hurt me would be true. Getting back to the actual case rather then hypothetical, apparently there was no prosecution, but if there was its far from clear that it would have been an unjust malicious prosecution. It may have been a fully justified prosecution. More likely it was a borderline case.

To: Alighieri who wrote (329949)	3/22/2007 6:53:01 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576007

Muslim pupils kill (Christian) teacher. News.com Australia ^ \| March 22, 2007 news.com.au MUSLIM pupils at a secondary school in northeastern Nigeria beat a teacher to death today after accusing her of desecrating the Koran. Oluwatoyin Olusase, a Christian, was adjudicating an Islamic Religious Knowledge exam at the school in Gombe state when the incident occurred. The students attacked her outside the school compound after the exam and killed her, witnesses said. It was not clear exactly what Olusase had done that angered the students. Police confirmed the killing and said their intervention had prevented the incident from turning into a riot. "We have received information that a female teacher has been lynched by her students. We are investigating the report," Gombe state police commissioner Joseph Ibi said. At least five people were killed and several churches burned down in February 2006 in the neighbouring state of Bauchi by Muslims infuriated that a Christian teacher in a secondary school had tried to confiscate a Koran from a student who was reading it during class. Word got out into the streets that the teacher had desecrated the Koran, infuriating Muslims who went on the rampage. At least 15,000 people have died in religious, communal and political violence in Africa's most populous country since 1999, when Nigeria returned to democracy after 30 years of almost unbroken military rule. (Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ....