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A LEADING Russian conductor yesterday called for an investigation into civilian deaths in the Caucasus, the latest festival artist to weigh into the conflict. Valery Gergiev, director of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, said there were large numbers of casualties sustained in South Ossetia, near where he grew up, in the first hours of the fighting. Citing reports that 1,600 bodies were found after early attacks by Georgian forces, he asked: "Do you know how many more were burned alive?" Gergiev, who works with orchestras from Rotterdam to New York, conducts three major concerts in the Edinburgh International Festival this weekend...

Eleven elderly people accused of being witches have been burned to death by a mob in the west of Kenya, police say. A security operation has been launched to hunt down villagers suspected of killing them in Kisii District. The BBC's Muliro Telewa in the region says the gang had a list of the victims and picked them out individually. The area has witnessed similar attacks in the past when people suspected of engaging in witchcraft have been killed or ostracised. But our reporter says that this is a surprisingly large number of people to be attacked at the same...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A Hutchinson man is on trial this week on charges he put his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son in a hot clothes dryer. In a videotaped interview with detectives shown in court Wednesday, Aron Pritchard said he put the children in the dryer to show them they could have a good time without much money. An hour later, the dryer had become hot and the boy had second-degree burns.

"Al Qaeda's latest display of terror has made its way onto the Internet, showing horrifying images of what appear to be prisoners in Iraq being doused with an inflammatory liquid and then burned alive." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330810,00.html

Charlotte native Staff Sgt. Antonio Ellison, a medic with the 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1st National Police Division training team, chats with Yousef Kasim, an Iraqi boy who had suffered from severe burns, in front of the boy’s home in the "Five Farms" area of southern Baghdad, Dec. 20. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Timmons, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. BAGHDAD — For Yousef Kasim, living in the “Five Farms� area of Baghdad is a challenge. His family lives in a mud brick home, with no running water or electricity, in a place where, until recently, al-Qaida...

Capt. Keri Mullens (left), brigade surgeon, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga., begins treatment on 5-year-old Dhuha Khalid Abed's legs. Dhuha was brought to Patrol Base Murray by her father Khalid Abed (pictured on right) Dec. 4 to receive treatment for second and third degree burns she suffered while playing with her brother around a pot of boiling water. Photo by 2BCT, 3rd Inf. Div. PATROL BASE MURRAY — The day after treating 307 local residents at a coordinated medical engagement in Al Buaytha, U.S. Army medics were back on the job again at Patrol Base...

A Syracuse man was charged with assault after he tortured his girlfriend by burning his name into her back with a heated knife blade, according to police. Marcel Tirado, 23, of 501 Seymour St., was charged with assault and unlawful imprisonment, both felonies, and a misdemeanor charge of criminal possession of a weapon, said Sgt. Tom Connellan, a police spokesman. "It's incredibly cruel," Connellan said. "It's beyond imagination what this woman was going through." The woman, whom police did not identify, also had scars she told police were from earlier encounters with Tirado, Connellan said. Police gave this account: Tirado...

"Pazin said. He called the crime "barbaric," saying the heat from the fire was so intense, the plastic zip-ties around Avina's feet had melted into her flesh. "She was bound and literally left for dead," Pazin said. Investigators believe the suspects in the case tied Avina at her hands and feet, placed a bag over her head and sometime early Wednesday morning drove her to a location on South Avenue in the Ballico area, between Pepper Street and Ballico Avenue."

<p>French police are investigating a car crash involving a billionaire Russian parliamentarian who was critically injured when his Ferrari slammed into a tree on the Mediterranean seafront in Nice.</p> <p>Suleyman Kerimov, 40, a far rightwing member of the State Duma from Dagestan, was said by police to have lost control of the car as he sped on Saturday in rain along the Promenade des Anglais, the Riviera’s most celebrated thoroughfare.</p>

Yesterday there were two incidents that I wrote about involving the use of enemy propagandists by our MSM. Now take a look at the latest "all hell is breaking loose" report on Iraq, from the AP of course: BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen broke into two Shiite homes and killed 21 men in front of their relatives in an Iraqi village, police said Saturday, as Vice President Dick Cheney sought Saudi Arabia's help in calmingIraq after an especially violent week of sectarian violence. U.S. and Iraqi forces also killed 58 insurgents during fighting north of the capital, they said.Baghdad remained under...

Rest in Peace, Matthew Wallace.

Soldier in need of prayer.

I saw Chris Matthews say something the other night... that we might be the 'bad guys'. So I reached for the closest 'bad guys' clip I could find (guess what? I didn't have to reach far), and merged his statement with old school Nirvana and some sickos. The last minute or so is left black so you can absorb what you've seen. Enjoy. Or not. I don't. I caution you: this is not pretty (but I urge you to watch): http://youtube.com/watch?v=vJ4-5viZxO0 Chris Matthews: "We can't win, is a good reason"

A man suspected of burning and stabbing a pit bull puppy that later died was arrested early Thursday, according to reports. Deshann Brown, 21, was arrested shortly after midnight in Corinth, a community in Denton County, and charged with animal cruelty, according to a report from NBC 5. The 10-month-old puppy, named Mercy, died Sunday despite efforts to save her from extensive injuries. She had been cut, stabbed, doused with gasoline and set afire. At one point last week, her caretakers said she had experienced a comfortable night and was eating. Mercy was found about two weeks ago in a...

This week’s tensions over immigration reform literally caught fire in the East Valley on Thursday when students raised a Mexican flag over Apache Junction High School — and then other students yanked it down and burned it. “I know (they) shouldn’t have burned the Mexican flag,” said Jacob Stewart, a 16-year-old sophomore. “I heard it was raised above the American flag and that just irked me.” He said the turbulence was tied to the newsmaking debates in the state Legislature and in Congress, where ideas from offering illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship to making them felons are being considered....

FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Paul Kuschel would have been better off naked _ like many of the folks at Sunnier Palms Nudist Park. Instead, he was wearing a pair of nylon shorts Sunday when a generator he was working on backfired and sprayed him with starter fluid, setting him ablaze. "I would have been better off wearing nothing on at all," Kuschel told Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers. The fire seared his shorts to his backside. "It's a good thing I wasn't wearing a shirt," he said. Kuschel, 43, suffered second-degree and third-degree burns. He was taken to a hospital with...

THE ESSENTIAL NEED FOR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT by Timothy Rollins, Editor and Publisher March 3, 2006 WARNING: This DOUBLE-LENGTH article contains material that is brutally and even horrifically graphic. This is not recommended reading for children, those with weak stomachs, or those whose sensitivities may be destroyed by so doing. Neither this author nor The American Partisan will be considered liable for either the contents of this article or the reaction of its readers to viewing, reading or hearing it. Think it over VERY CAREFULLY before deciding to proceed past this point.If there was ever a case begging for capital punishment-despite...

Muslim Mob Targets Western Businesses in Pakistan Tuesday, February 14, 2006 LAHORE, Pakistan — Thousands of protesters rampaged through two cities Tuesday, storming into a diplomatic district and torching Western businesses and a provincial assembly in Pakistan's worst violence against the Prophet Muhammad drawings, officials said. At least two people were killed and 11 injured. Security forces fired into the air as they struggled to contain the unrest in the eastern city of Lahore, where protesters burned down four buildings housing a hotel, two banks, a KFC restaurant and the office of a Norwegian cell phone company, Telenor. U.S. and...

BOLIGEE, Ala. — Fires damaged or destroyed four more Baptist churches across the Alabama countryside Tuesday, less than a week after a string of five blazes that were ruled arson. Church member Johnny Archibald said smoke was pouring from Morning Star Baptist in Boligee when he arrived around daybreak. "They had kicked the door in," he said. "Evidently they had set the pulpit on fire and went out the front door." Tuesday's fires took place at churches off rural roads, about 10 to 20 miles apart. They were in a cluster of three counties, about 60 miles from the Bibb...

Personnel at the 249th General Hospital developed a close bond with the infant, badly burned on her face and head at two days old when a kerosene lamp exploded in her home. BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, Feb. 7, 2006 — Soldiers from 249th General Hospital, Task Force Strength visited Zargona, a special Afghan girl who, in the first five months of her life, received inpatient care for life-threatening injuries. Zargona, like many Afghans, has only one name and was badly burned on her face and head at two days old when a kerosene lamp exploded in her home in May. "She's...

Arnold Schwarzenegger's selection of archliberal Susan Kennedy, a former Cabinet secretary to Gray Davis, as his new chief of staff "is the last straw for a lot of grassroots California Republicans," says California Republican Assembly president Mike Spence to TAS. Spence describes the appointment as the equivalent of "George Bush appointing Howard Dean to be his chief of staff." Even the jaw of George Skelton (the Los Angeles Times columnist who has spent much of his career telling the California GOP to move left) dropped after the appointment of Kennedy, who is one of the state's leading abortion proponents, a...

PARIS - The French Cabinet approved a bill Monday to extend the country's state of emergency for three months, while youths set schools ablaze and waged other scattered arson attacks across France. Though the unrest is abating, the bill, if approved by parliament as expected, would allow a 12-day state of emergency to be prolonged until mid-February if needed. The emergency measures empower regions to impose curfews on minors, conduct house searches and take other steps to prevent unrest. "It is a measure of protection and precaution," President Jacques Chirac said. Chirac stressed that the measure was "temporary" and that...

Two Pakistan Churches Burned Saturday, November 12, 2005 LAHORE , Pakistan — Hundreds of Muslims attacked and burned two churches in Pakistan on Saturday after reports that a Christian man had desecrated Islam's holy book. No one was injured in the blazes. A school, student hostel and the home of a priest were also torched by the crowd of about 1,500 Muslims near the town of Sangla Hill, about 80 miles northeast of Lahore, said police official Ali Asghar Dogar. The attacks were being investigated. About two dozen people had been arrested, Dogar said. The fires came a day after...

So if you're a soldier, fighting a battle against the 2nd tier perpetrators of 9/11, and you've got a couple of dead Taliban on your hands, what do you do? Spend hours digging 6-foot deep graves with your E-tool? I don't think so. They burned the bodies. And the headline? Stench Prompted U.S. Troops to Burn Corpses The desecration of Taliban dead prompts outrage in Afghanistan Yes, those Afghans are angry, because bodies are only to be burned in hell, they say. Yes, those Afghans are angry, because the evil Americans have desecrated the dead. They're angry, and you know...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US soldiers burned the bodies of two Taliban fighters in Afghanistan because villagers had not claimed them a day after they were killed and the bodies "were bloated and they stank," a US magazine reported, citing soldiers who were present at the incident. Australian television reported on Wednesday that soldiers had burned the bodies of two suspected Taliban militants and afterwards used the incident to insult villagers and try to provoke them into attacking US-led coalition troops. The incident has prompted a US military investigation into the alleged desecration of the corpses, which is in violation of...

SYDNEY, Australia - The U.S. military said Wednesday it was investigating a report carried on an Australian television network that claimed American soldiers in Afghanistan burned the bodies of two Taliban fighters and then used the action to taunt other Islamic militants. The SBS television network broadcast video footage that purportedly showed U.S. soldiers burning the bodies of the suspected Taliban fighters in the hills outside the southern village of Gonbaz, near the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. The network said the footage was taken by a freelance journalist, Stephen Dupont, who told The Associated Press he was embedded with...

SAN JOSE -- A San Jose woman was burned over 50 percent of her body early today when electricity surged through her after she apparently broke into a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. control box, authorities said. The 41-year-old woman was being treated at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center for burns she suffered at 3 a.m. at Meridian and Foxworthy avenues in San Jose, police Sgt. Nick Muyo said. The woman, who was not identified, was "apparently attempting to access the control box in order to remove copper wire,'' PG&E spokesman Jeff Smith said. Smith said that PG&E copper wire...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Police have arrested two people after a woman returned home to find her home burglarized and her dog burned to death in the oven. Angela DeLettre returned home Thursday afternoon to find her back door open, items missing and kitchen sink overflowing with water. She was able to find one of her dogs, a 6-year-old shi tzu named Pepper. But she was unable to find her other dog, a 1-year-old rat terrier. Police later found the dog burned to death in the oven, which had been set to 400 degrees. Alexander Davis, 19 and Evelyn Jeanette Williams,...

The grievance industry went into overdrive last month when burned Korans were reportedly discovered at a local mosque in southwest Virginia. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations issued an immediate press release on June 16 calling for "Americans of all faiths to obtain and read the Quran after burned copies of Islam's revealed text were found" in a shopping bag at the front door of the Islamic Center of Blacksburg. Repent, all ye infidels! Incensed CAIR officials contacted the FBI and pressured authorities to treat the incident as possibly "bias-related." CAIR-MD/VA Director of Civil Rights Shama Farooq lectured that "A...

Although the California Constitution requires a balanced budget by June 15, the state Legislature almost certainly will not meet that deadline. Once again the Legislature has frittered away its time - even as the state budget crisis continues. Instead it again has introduced hundreds of bills, few of which are relevant to the budget discussion ... Here are some of the bills that are most damaging to freedom or simply frivolous. --snip-- Driver's licenses:SB 60 is by Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles. ... But people from other countries already can use their own driver's licenses here and get car insurance....

A man is recovering from burns after lighting a cigarette in a portable outhouse in Monongalia County, West Virginia, causing the outhouse to explode. The incident occurred Tuesday morning in Blacksville, West Virginia. The man's name and condition aren't being released, but emergency officials say he wasn't severely hurt and even drove himself to a clinic. A spokeswoman for Monongalia Emergency Medical Services said the explosion was caused because there was a build-up of methane gases inside the outhouse. She said the methane didn't "take too kindly" to the lit cigarette.

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - A Princeton economics professor and former presidential adviser lay in critical condition after being burned while carrying a blazing Christmas tree from his home. David Bradford, who served as a top economic adviser to former President Bush, suffered third-degree burns over half his body early Tuesday, police said. He was being treated at a hospital in Philadelphia. The fire was caused by one of about 10 lit candles on the tree, which had been in the house since December, police said. Bradford was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1991 to 1993.

List of Vandalized, Burned Churches during February 13-17'98 Riots Pamanukan District, Subang Municipality, West Java Province The riot occurred on Friday, February 13, 1998. Around 9:00 Western Indonesia Times (WIT) the police officers from Pamanukan sector urged the stores to be close immediately. The mob started to show up at 9:30 WIT. From the West side, the mob came by motorcycles, in a group of three per motorcycle. They wore black uniforms, with black head bands. The mob probably came from Ciasem. From the East side, the mob came by trucks. The two groups met on the crossroad between Jakarta-Cirebon...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gunmen angry over Yasser Arafat's overhaul of his security forces burned down Palestinian Authority offices in Gaza on Sunday. In the West Bank city of Ramallah, Arafat met with his prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, to discuss the political crisis that erupted over continuing violence in Gaza and Qureia's attempt to resign as head of the Palestinian government. "I totally reject your resignation and consider it nonexistent," Arafat told Qureia at a meeting Sunday, according to Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat. Qureia told his Cabinet on Saturday he was firm in his decision to quit. Dozens of...

This weekend has started the grilling season. It's all about family, BBQ, and mosquitoes. The challenge is to create the official Freeper grill menu. Have a red, white, and blue cake recipe that you want to share? A Freeper burger that would cause the average liberal to shake in their boots? How about some great "W" T-Bone recipes? Share them and have your recipe rated by other Freepers. I would like to have a panel of Freepers sign up for the judging....lets decide who gets the "Patriot" creative menu. May the best Freeper win.

Army Spc. Aaron Coates' cheeks are scarred, and bandages swathe his partially amputated fingers. Skin grafts cover his shoulders and hands. Much of his ears are burned away. But his smile was as broad as ever when the soldier wounded in Iraq walked off a plane at Meadows Field on Friday into the arms of his family and friends, who will now care for him as his battle wounds heal. Doctors and physical therapists will be a daily part of his holiday break in Bakersfield. But it is his loved ones who will nurture him back to health. Coates suffered...

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - Last month's wildfires burned more acreage and damaged more buildings than any others in California history, state officials said.</p> <p>New statistics from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection show that the Cedar Fire in San Diego County scorched about 273,000 acres, eclipsing a record set in 1932 by the Matilija Fire in Ventura County, which burned about 220,000 acres.</p>

Today: September 16, 2003 at 3:48:35 PDT Sept. 11 Memorial Flag in Colo. Burned ASSOCIATED PRESS FRISCO, Colo. (AP) - An American flag placed atop a mountain peak in a national forest as a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks was torched, authorities said. Summit County deputies were investigating a report that a hiker found a note on the 13,589-foot snowcapped summit claiming responsibility for the fire, sheriff's spokeswoman Jill Berman said Monday. The burned flag was found Sunday. The FBI was notified because the flag was in the White River National Forest, Berman said. The flag...

Yellowstone National Park-- A five-year-old girl was burned after she fell into 160-degree water while playing with her brother near a geyser in Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone superintendent Suzanne Lewis says the Tucson, Arizona girl suffered minor burns to her legs and back when she fell from a boardwalk late yesterday afternoon. Lewis says the water was less than two inches deep but extremely hot. Her parents and an eyewitness administered first aid before the girl was treated and released from the Lake Clinic.

African-American Children Allegedly Chemically Burned By Hotel Management POSTED: 5:12 p.m. CDT June 17, 2003 UPDATED: 5:55 p.m. CDT June 17, 2003 (School Principal) CHICAGO -- NBC5's Jennifer Mitchell reported on Tuesday about a school outing to an Ohio amusement park and the unfortunate lessons students learned while there. A group of African-American students had "a bitter lesson in racism," Mitchell said. They left Chicago last Monday for a weeklong trip to Huron, Ohio. They had raised funds in order to visit a popular amusement park to celebrate the end of the school year. But, they say they were not...

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremy Strebeck of DeSoto was anxiously awaiting his homecoming from the Persian Gulf region when he found out he had no home left. A fire caused by a storm destroyed his DeSoto home May 3. His wife was at work when the blaze started. Nearly all their possessions were ruined, and their two cats and pet rabbit were killed. Their dog was not injured. Donations Donations for Marine Reserve Lance Cpl. Jeremy Strebeck and his wife, Mary, are being handled by VFW Post 8235, 5333 White Settlement Road, Fort Worth, TX 76114. Contact Roger Perry or...

Friends lost during frantic escape Eight of Robin Petrarca's friends are on the list of people missing from the club. 02/23/2003 BY KATE BRAMSON Journal Staff Writer WEST WARWICK -- There's no doubt in Robin Petrarca's mind that she got out of The Station because she knows the building. She's one of the regulars who frequented the club. About a dozen or 18 of them would sit at the same section of the bar each time -- where they had a view of the stage. Petrarca, a 44-year-old Warwick resident, knew exactly where the club's four exits were. She and...

<p>Technology not taxation!</p> <p>That's the battle cry of the Canadian computer industry in a war of words being waged among groups representing the nation's music, technology and retail industries.</p> <p>The dispute centers around fees collected from technology companies to reimburse the music industry for losses incurred by music copying and swapping.</p>

Grizzly Gulch Fire grows to 6,200 acres By Denise Ross, Journal Staff Writer LEAD-- A combined 684 federal, state and local personnel continued to fight the two-day-old Grizzly Gulch Fire Monday, as a federal Type 1 Interagency Management Team took command of the fire. Federal fire information officer Maj. Mark Johnston said the fire grew to 6,200 acres overnight and was 10 percent contained by mid-day Monday. The fire remains the Rocky Mountain Region's number one priority, Johnston said. Three homes have been destroyed by the fire but the occupants were not injured, Lawrence County Sheriff Rick Mowell told the...