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To: longnshort who wrote (88856)	6/24/2012 12:13:09 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Man 'high on bath salts bashes elderly woman's head with shovel By Nina Golgowski 23 June 2012 dailymail.co.uk A 20-year-old man has been arrested and an elderly woman lucky to be alive after he allegedly hit her over the head with a shovel while high on bath salts. Robert William White of Glendale, California was apprehended by police after hitting the 77-year-old woman with the shovel after she saw him swinging it at birds. 'I hate you and I want to kill you today,' he told the woman when she asked him to stop, according to a neighbour speaking to the Glendale News. High: Robert William White, 20, was hand cuffed and carried out of an apartment building after allegedly getting high on bath salts and then hitting an elderly woman with a shovel (file photo) Police who responded to reports of the man trying to kill the woman at the apartment complex found White barricaded inside his apartment. 'He seemed completely out of sorts,' said Northwest Glendale Police Lt Bruce Fox speaking to the paper. More... The bath salts made me do it! Woman who urinated on $40m painting blames it on drug linked to zombie attacks White was holed up for nearly an hour before police were able to enter his apartment with a key and subdue him using a 40mm rubber bullet and Taser. Up until then a resident nearby, Abraham Cabrera, said that he had heard White screaming profanities and threatening to kill someone while glass broke. Drugs: White admitted to mixing a soda with the bath salts, that are now illegal in Los Angeles, before he was seen swinging at birds and then the woman's head Carried out of his apartment handcuffed, while strapped to a wheelchair, witnesses reported him yelling: 'God loves you all.' Police said White admitted to drinking a soda mixed with bath salts, while also saying he's an alien and is able to speak to Jesus Christ. The woman hit with the shovel was taken to an area hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries, police told the Glendale News. The victim's name has not been released. Emergency rooms in the U.S. are having to treat a wave of agitated, violent and psychotic patients high on a the synthetic drug containing a chemical derivative of methcathinone. Increasing violence from the abusers have in several instances gone as far as biting other people's flesh in attacks described as cannibalistic and resembling 'zombies.' Others, those biters included, have been seen running naked after stripping off all their clothes. Effects include agitation, paranoia, hallucinations, chest pain and suicidal thoughts. The drug is not addictive but causes acute toxicity. While not currently banned by Federal Law it is in many regions, including the city of Los Angeles since last Fall. Read more: dailymail.co.uk

To: longnshort who wrote (88856)	6/24/2012 4:40:15 PM
From: joseffy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

CAIR Runs the US Military Pannetta Fires Military Instructor who Taught US at War with islam Military instructor suspended over Islam course WASHINGTON \| Wed Jun 20, 2012 reuters.com (Reuters) - The instructor of a college course that taught top military officers the United States was at war with Islam has been relieved of teaching duties and the course ordered redesigned to reflect U.S. policy, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. The elective course at the National Defense University's Joint Forces Staff College included a slide that asserted "the United States is at war with Islam and we ought to just recognize that we are war with Islam," Pentagon officials said in April as they launched a review of the course. Colonel David Lapan, a spokesman for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Wednesday a review of the course found that "institutional failures and in oversight and judgment" led to the course being modified over time in a way "that portrayed Islam almost entirely in a negative way." "The inquiry recommends the course be redesigned to include aspects of U.S. policy and reduce its reliance on external instruction," Lapan said in a statement. It also recommended improving oversight of course curricula. "The elective course's military instructor has been relieved of his instructor duties until his permanent change of station, which was previously planned for 2012," Lapan said. The inquiry also recommended a review of actions by two civilian employees of the staff college to see if disciplinary action was warranted. A second military officer will receive administrative counseling, Lapan said. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, ordered the review of the course on Islam and military education in general after a soldier complained about the content of the course entitled "Perspectives on Islam and Islamite Radicalism" at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. Navy Captain John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, said in April that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was deeply concerned about some of the materials being taught in the course, such as the slide suggesting the United States was at war with Islam. "That's not at all what we believe to be the case. We're at war against terrorism, specifically al Qaeda, who has a warped view of the Islamic faith," Kirby said. Discovery of the course material embarrassed the military at a time when U.S. officials were trying to mend U.S. ties with the Muslim world following a spate of incidents in Afghanistan, including the burning of copies of the Koran and pictures showing U.S. soldiers posing with corpses of Afghans. (Reporting by David Alexander; Editing by Vicki Allen)