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KASSEL, Germany (Reuters) - A German man has confessed in court to killing and eating a willing victim, saying it had felt like a religious act to eat human flesh. Offering a full account of the killing that has gained him worldwide notoriety as "The Cannibal of Rotenburg", Armin Meiwes said there were "hundreds, thousands" of people seeking to fulfil their desires to eat humans or be eaten via Internet adverts in forums called "Cannibal Cafe," "Guy Cannibals" and "Torturenet". The trial of Meiwes, 42, started on Wednesday in the central German city of Kassel, in a case that has...

A self-confessed cannibal went on trial in Germany accused of murdering a victim who was apparently willing to be killed, carved up and eaten in front of a running video camera. Armin Meiwes, a 42-year-old computer technician, was pictured laughing and chatting easily to his lawyer moments before the case opened in the central city of Kassel. It is the first time Meiwes, dressed smartly in a jacket and tie, has been shown in public since he was arrested a year ago. The macabre case is unprecedented in German legal history, not only because it concerns cannibalism -- which Meiwes...

Last Updated: Sunday, 23 November, 2003, 11:59 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version German 'cannibal' tells of regret Meiwes said Brandes agreed to be eaten A German accused of killing and eating a man he met on a website for cannibals has expressed regret for his actions. Armin Meiwes, who is awaiting trial, told a German newspaper he wants to deter other people from copying him. Mr Meiwes, from Rotenburg, says his victim was a willing participant who ate part of his own body before Mr Meiwes stabbed him to death and stored his remains in a freezer....

Ten years ago this month, Alamosa police found Peter Green's torso in a closet, his legs in a trash bin and his flesh in a crockpot. The pot belonged to the artist's girlfriend, Carolyn Gloria Blanton, who killed Green, then cooked and ate chunks of his body. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity and landed in the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo. Now hospital officials say she's ready to be released. A psychiatrist who examined Blanton a decade ago says Colorado mental health officials are probably right. Most people found not guilty by reason of insanity...

Amin’s Neighbors Remember the Man They Knew Salah Fareed • Special to Arab News JEDDAH, 19 August 2003 — While reactions to the death of Uganda’s former dictator Idi Amin were mixed in Uganda, residents of the Al-Safa district here responded with sadness to the passing of a popular neighbor whom they remember as a good man. Amin, who died in Jeddah where he sought exile after his government was ousted in 1979, was perhaps the most famous resident of the neighborhood. Saad Al-Harthy had been living next door to the former strongman for the last five years. “He was...

Fox is quoting AP as saying that Idi Amin has died.

JEDDAH (Reuters) - Former dictator Idi Amin, blamed for the murder of tens of thousands of Ugandans in the 1970s, died on Saturday in a Saudi hospital where he had been critically ill for weeks, a senior medical source said "We can confirm that Mr Idi Amin has died from complications due to multiple organ failure," the source at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

A plane carrying news anchor Dan Rather, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, NPR reporter Cokie Roberts, and a Navy SEAL crashed in the jungle. After burying the pilot who was killed in the crash, the group hiked through the jungle trying to find civilization. Suddenly, they were captured by cannibals. They were tied up, led to the cannibal's village, and brought before the chief. The chief said, "I am familiar with your western custom of granting the condemned a last wish. Before we kill and eat you, do you have any last requests?" Rather said, "Well, I'm a Texan; so I'd...

"Amnesty International? Try Travesty International Instead" Posted by Doc Farmer Saturday, May 31, 2003 Here's a newsflash. Amnesty International, that lib/dem/soc/commie group of pantywaists who complain about torture but do nothing to stop it, have declared that the U.S. has made the world more dangerous because of our war against terrorism. Their grasp of logic even weaker than the Venus de Milo's grasp of a basketball, ain't it? Amnesty International's latest drift into the realm of fantasy is entombed in their latest release, (http://web.amnesty.org/report2003/index-eng) which states that, shock of shocks, it's All America's Fault. Our war against terrorism, our war...

Cannibal dinosaurs revealed by tooth marks 19:00 02 April 03 Jeff Hecht The marks on the bones match the serrations on Majungatholus teeth (Image: Raymond Rogers, Macalester College) When the going got tough, some hungry meat-eating dinosaurs turned cannibal, suggest tooth marks found on fossil bones from Madagascar. These indicate that a nine-metre long predator called Majungatholus sometimes ate its own kind. "If you gotta eat, you gotta eat," Ray Rogers of Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota, told New Scientist. The evidence, discovered by Rogers and colleagues, is the best yet of cannibalism among dinosaurs. Dinosaur teeth were better...

Dinosaur Cannibal: Fossil Evidence Found in Africa John Roachfor National Geographic News April 2, 2003 View a Dinosaur Cannibal Photo Gallery: Go>> "Eat or be eaten" may have been the mantra for Majungatholus atopus, a large, two-footed carnivorous dinosaur with a bump on its head that roamed Madagascar, the island off the southeast coast of Africa, about 65 million years ago. Analysis of bones scored by tooth marks suggests Majungatholus was a cannibal that regularly dined on members of its own species and other dinosaurs. The rare, tooth-marked bones are the best evidence to date for a behavior probably...

UN confirms reports of cannibal soldiers UN investigators have found credible evidence to support reports Congolese rebel troops have killed and eaten Pygmies in northeastern Congo. During the past week, UN human rights investigators have been studying reports of cannibal soldiers eating the jungle dwellers' sexual organs in Ituri province. Forces of the rebel Congolese Liberation Movement, or MLC, are accused of killing and eating the pygmies' organs in a bid to gain strength. "The UN is taking these accusations very seriously and has sent a team of six officials to investigate the accusations and other human rights abuses in...

FORT WORTH - A man who beat his elderly mother to death, sliced her open and ate some of her heart was sentenced today to 30 years in prison. Joseph Frank "Joey" Cala II pleaded guilty Monday to murder in the 2001 death of Lydia M. Cala, 79, a retired teacher who volunteered for her church and the county registrar's office. After a three-hour hearing today, state District Judge George Gallagher chose the maximum of the 20- to 30-year sentence range contained in a plea agreement. "My goal is to make sure Mr. Cala is never allowed out again," said...

A man has confessed to murdering and eating another man who allegedly volunteered to be killed, in a case that has shocked Germany. The 41-year-old - who was remanded in custody on Wednesday - videotaped the murder, prosecutors said. The victim, also in his 40s, was chopped into pieces at the killer's home in the central German town of Rotenburg, near Kassel. Prosecutors in Kassel said the accused and the victim were apparently homosexuals who shared cannibalistic tendencies. The German daily Bild reports that the victim, from Berlin, had seen an advertisement on the internet which said: "Seeking young, well-built...

Police Scan Alleged Internet Sex Cannibal's Videos By David Crossland BERLIN (Reuters) - German police are watching home videos made by an alleged sex cannibal who reportedly shared a last meal of flambeed penis with his willing victim before carving him up and freezing the man's remaining body parts to eat later. Prosecutors in Kassel said Thursday that the 41-year-old suspect, who has confessed, was not being treated as insane. Germany's more sensational newspapers were packed with lurid details. Police arrested the man after he posted an Internet ad seeking another male volunteer to satisfy his appetites. "We're watching...