Posted on 02/17/2009 4:58:47 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Beheading in New York Appears to Be Honor Killing, Experts Say
Tuesday , February 17, 2009 By Joshua Rhett Miller
The beheading of 37-year-old Aasiya Hassan has all the markings of an honor killing, psychologists and Islamic experts tell FOXNews.com, as the upstate New York woman's husband awaits a preliminary hearing on murder charges.
Muzzammil Hassan, 44, remains jailed after being charged with the second-degree murder of his wife, whose body was found Thursday at the office of Bridges TV, their television station in Orchard Park, near Buffalo.
Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz said Hassan has not confessed to the crime, despite media reports to the contrary.
"He came in and said his wife was dead," said Benz, who declined to elaborate on the particulars of his conversation with the suspect.
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***I called my sister up in Buffalo. She did not hear about it. It was crowded out by the plane crash.***
Yes, it was, to the point of non-existence, but yesterday or today one of the local radio hosts covered it well. ABOUT TIME.
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