Mahmoud Hawi,witnesses place Hawi at Sydney International Airport killing.

Comanchero boss struck rival Hells Angel

By Lisa Davies
The Daily Telegraph
May 01, 2009 04:00pm

COMANCHERO boss Mick Hawi was seen attacking the brother of a rival bikie three times with a metal bollard during a fatal brawl at Sydney airport, police will claim.

It has also been alleged that Hawi was seen making a “verbal threat” to Peter Zervas from the Hells Angels - and the brother of Anthony Zervas, who died in the violence – as he fled the scene.

The evidence emerged as Hawi, one of six Comanchero arrested after the melee, applied for bail in a Sydney court.

The court heard how a witness has told police of seeing Hawi “wielding a bollard and hitting Mr Anthony Zervas" while he was lying on the ground, three times above his waist.

Another witness has also told of seeing Hawi “bent at the waist” near the same man on the ground, and once he moved away “this witness noticed that there was blood on the ground in the area of the man’s head.”

The pregnant wife of Hawi was in court today to give evidence to help plead for her husband's freedom.

However, she was not called before proceedings ended this afternoon.

Hawi and five other Comanchero members are charged with affray following the attack.

Hawi, 28, of Bexley, has been in custody on a charge of affray since his arrest on April 6.

The charge stems from a March 22 brawl at Sydney airport that resulted in the death of 29-year-old Anthony Zervas, whose brother Peter is a Hells Angel.

Hawi's lawyer John Korn has argued the affray charge relates only to an incident that occurred shortly after Hawi and his associates disembarked a flight, and not the subsequent brawl that killed Mr Zervas.

But police also allege Hawi held Mr Zervas down while he was hit in the head with a bollard. "You can't ask for bail to be refused by putting before a court material on which he has not been charged,'' Mr Korn told Sydney's Central Local Court today.

"To strike someone with a metal bollard ... and cause a pool of blood about the size of a plate to come from a victim's face - it doesn't take much to understand that's capable of becoming another charge.''

Magistrate David Armati said the injuries Mr Zervas suffered, and his subsequent death, should be considered as part of Hawi's bail application.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will provide 170 witness statements to Hawi's legal team on Tuesday, May 5, with an unknown number of statements still outstanding.

The DPP continues to oppose bail for Hawi, but Mr Korn urged the court to consider bail options such as Hawi being placed under house arrest at his Bexley home.

Islamic Sociopaths Inc.Afghanistan Father regains Honour by Killing Daughter & Boyfriend

Afghani kills daughter, boyfriend

From correspondents in Mazar-I-Sharif
May 01, 2009 05:03am

AN Afghan man shot dead his adult daughter and her boyfriend, who were both engaged to other people, after finding them in bed together, police said overnight.

The first cousins were found together on Wednesday after the 21-year-old man entered the 20-year-old woman's bedroom in the northern province of Baghlan, a police spokesman said.

"The two were under the blanket, but still in their clothes, when the girl's angry father walked in with an AK-47 machine gun and shot them both dead," spokesman Jawaid Basharat said.

A medical examination showed the pair had not had sex, he said.

He fired about six bullets into the man and four into his daughter, Mr Basharat said.

"The father confessed that he killed them both after he found them in bed," said provincial police chief Abdul Rehmand Sayedkhaili.

The motive for the murders was likely to protect family "honour". Similar killings are common in rural Afghanistan but rarely reported.

Islam and Afghan culture do not forbid marriage between first cousins but invoke severe punishment, including death, for adultery and extra-marital sex.

Islam must be respected, after all it IS a "Religion of Peace" and indeed one of the "Worlds Great Religions"

Islam IS what Islam DOES

Dubai "It's just not safe there" Australian Nurse.

Dubai deports rude Aussie driver after he flipped the bird

By Michelle Cazzulino
The Daily Telegraph
May 01, 2009 12:00am

IT was a gesture many Australians have been guilty of making at the end of a long, frustrating day.

But "flipping the bird" to another driver landed Australian nurse Darren O'Mullane 24 days in jail and a life ban from the United Arab Emirates.

Mr O'Mullane was deported from Dubai last Thursday after being convicted of making a rude gesture to another motorist, who happened to be a UAE official,last October.

Now he is back living at his parents' North Coast home.

He told The Daily Telegraph yesterday his wife Marie had been forced to leave her job in Dubai, along with the couple's home, cars and pet cat, following his sentence.

While he admitted he had done the wrong thing, Mr O'Mullane said he had been tired and stressed out after a 13-hour shift in the intensive care unit of Dubai's American Hospital.

"We'd had a local Emirate man suffering alcohol withdrawal who was aggressive and violent and a schizophrenic woman who was in quite a bad state when she arrived," he said.

"I just wanted to get home and there was a clown in front of me who was all over the road, talking on his mobile and I ended up having to overtake him to get past him. Out of frustration I flipped him the bird. I know it was wrong but it was completely impulsive. I was just like, 'You idiot'."

Mr O'Mullane said the other driver then tailgated him, overtook his car, slammed on his brakes and followed him to his apartment where a short altercation took place, with the other driver then reporting him to police.

Despite making a full confession and offering several apologies to the Dubai man, he spent 24 days in jail and was then immediately deported.

Mr O'Mullane said he engaged a lawyer to appeal against the sentence, but was unsuccessful. He and his wife approached the Australian consulate but were told staff "could not be seen to be showing bias" by helping him.

Mr O'Mullane said his experience was a warning to other Australians to be vigilant overseas, especially in countries ruled under Sharia law.

"I don't want anyone to go through what my wife and I have been through," he said.

"They make up the rules as they go along. People are being imprisoned for crazy things like kissing in public - the punishment doesn't fit the crime.

"It's just not safe there."

Why do Australian / Western men and women go and work in these Godless barbarous Middle Eastern Islamic dictatorships..?

Rudds Australia: Digger eaten alive by MICE in Nursing Home

'He was being eaten alive'

SMH
Christine Kellett
April 30, 2009 - 12:23PM

Queensland Health has rostered on extra staff to conduct pest control at a Darling Downs hospital after an 89-year-old nursing home resident had his ears gnawed by mice.

The LNP member for Condamine, Ray Hopper, raised the alarm yesterday after staff at Dalby Hospital's nursing home, Karingal, found the man covered in blood on Anzac Day.

The man, a war veteran, was in a distressed state and had injuries from severe mouse bites, Mr Hopper told brisbanetimes.com.au.

"I'm told by his daughter that the poor old fellow [had] been trying to brush the mice away as they continued chewing his ears, head and neck," Mr Hopper said.

"He was so stressed that doctors put him on morphine to calm him down. He nearly died on Saturday night. He was being eaten alive."

A Queensland Health spokeswoman told brisbanetimes.com.au this morning that extra staff had been rostered on at the nursing home to deal with the infestation and mouse traps were being set.

Mr Hopper said he had written to Health Minister Paul Lucas over the incident and demanded the Environmental Protection Agency begin pest control urgently.

"I'm told there's a hold-up in getting approval from the Government's Environmental agency for poison to be used on land adjoining the hospital.

"Mice plagues are a fact of life for the Darling Downs and we need to be able to control them with whatever we can … traps and poisons ... and we don't need to be denied access to effective poisons because some bureaucrats at head office are sitting on their hands.

"Patients being bitten by mice is unacceptable … it's worse than Third World and the minister needs to stop the nonsense that poisoning is not an option."

Federal Ageing Minister Justine Elliot could not be contacted for comment, but earlier told the ABC she would consider evacuating the facility if pest control measures were not effective.

"There has been action taken in terms of the eradication measures that are in place - we are closely monitoring it," she said.

"If we ever do find a situation where we do find it's required to evacuate people, we do that very, very swiftly - that's our main concern but we are closely monitoring the situation."

Mr Hopper described the situation at Karingal as "disgusting".

"It's absolutely pathetic, while the Premier is using the Mexican pig flu as another media opportunity, no one wants to do anything to protect sick people from disease-carrying vermin in a local hospital, or nursing home,'' he said.

The Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister / Dear Leader, Kevin Rudd is maintaining it's appalling treatment of serving and returned service men, if they are not white anting our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan they are feeding WW2 Veterans to Mice.

Our Troops in Afghanistan are been fed SLOPS whilst our Dear Leader demands three course meals for a 30 minute plane ride between Sydney and Canberra.

This Australian WW2 Veteran,eaten alive by Mice in is bed was NOT an illegal immigrant.

Dear Leaders priorities:

Rudds Australia: Illegal Immigrants reach Paradise and Australian taxpayers will PAY

Pauline dudded of urgent treatment

Rudd's Australia: More illegals arrive at Barrow Island

Australia's Dear Leader can always find taxpayers money for what he and his supporters describe as "Australia's international responsibilities"... pity he and they have no sense of responsibility towards Australians.

Kevin Rudd blows up over special VIP jet meal

EXCLUSIVE by Steve Lewis and Ian McPhedran
The Daily Telegraph
April 03, 2009 07:20am

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd was forced to apologise mid-flight to an RAAF cabin attendant on a VIP jet after he berated her because his "special" meal went missing.

The 23-year-old air force staffer wept and reported the matter to the senior cabin attendant after Mr Rudd reacted "strongly" when told his meal request could not be met.

An official report was filed by 84 Wing and the VIP Fleet Group commander Captain Peter Wood, detailing the behaviour of "VIP No. 1", Mr Rudd.

"The crew were distressed but later in-flight apologies were made by all," the report said.

The attendant later composed herself and continued with the service.

Trim and terrific: Mrs Rudd looking good for the G20 summit

The incident occurred as Mr Rudd, Treasurer Wayne Swan and other senior officials boarded the VIP jet to Canberra after attending the Pacific Islands Forum in Port Moresby in January. Mr Rudd has been losing weight and is on a non-red meat and fruit-only for dessert diet.

According to the report, cabin crew on board the taxpayer-funded Boeing 737 VIP aircraft from the RAAF's number 34 Squadron were not even aware of the meal request that caused the blow up.


Australian Diggers fighting diet of tasteless gruel

Ian McPhedran
Herald Sun
April 27, 2009 12:00am

AUSTRALIAN Diggers risking all on the deadly battlefields of Afghanistan are fighting on a diet of tasteless gruel.

Soldiers bombarded Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon with complaints when he made a secret Anzac Day visit to Oruzgan Province on Friday, prompting him

to pledge to fix the problem.

Senior officers have conceded the poor diet is affecting morale and soldiers' health, and have ordered a study into the nutritional value of the food.

The Herald Sun took the taste test on Friday at the Dutch-run mess at Tarin Kowt military base after learning of complaints about food quality.

The tasteless slab of roast pork was submerged in a sea of equally flavour-challenged gravy, and the pumpkin had long since morphed from a solid vegetable

to liquid gruel.

The other choice was an equally inedible turkey slice.

As Diggers from the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force confront a limited daily diet, just up the road their comrades from the Special Operations Task

Group (SOTG) enjoy fresh vegetables and quality cooking.

The difference was obvious at an Anzac Day breakfast hosted by SOTG, as our exclusive images show.

Mr Fitzgibbon heard plenty of complaints about the food and vowed to act.

Numerous soldiers and senior officers told him the "kings versus paupers" attitude was divisive and unfair.

Special forces troops eat in a mess that is financed and run separately from the normal army channels.

The "special" mess employs qualified cooks and uses only fresh ingredients.

For the troops of the MRTF, it is Dutch gruel or a hamburger.

The issue is bigger than just the Diggers complaining to their partners at home.

Commanding officer Lt-Col Shane Gabriel said the difference in food had affected both nutrition and morale.

He has commissioned a study into the nutritional value of the MRTF food.

The SOTG runs its own tight supply lines and team of cooks, while the Dutch mess runs at half capacity and is forced to import prepared meals.

After several complaints back home, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Defence Force chiefs are also now involved and want the problem fixed.

Saudi Arabia: 8 year Old Girl granted divorce from 50 year old man

Girl, 8, granted divorce - report

News.com.au
April 30, 2009 07:40pm

AN eight-year-old Saudi girl who was sold into marriage by her father has been given a divorce after an international outcry over the case, Saudi media reports.

The marriage of the girl to a man reportedly in his 50s was annulled on Wednesday in out-of-court settlement overseen by a new judge in the city of Onaiza, after the original judge in the case refused to bend to pressure to grant the divorce, several newspapers reported.

Riyadh newspaper said the settlement was reached after the intervention in the case by an unidentified "important personality".

The girl's father had sold her last year to the man in exchange for a dowry.

When her mother found out, she petitioned the court for a divorce for the girl.

The judge twice rejected her case - though he stipulated that the marriage could only be consummated after the girl attained puberty.

An appeals court sent the case back to the judge suggesting he reconsider, but he ruled again last week against divorce.

The case garnered strong criticism from international rights groups and foreign diplomats raised the issue quietly with the Saudi government, according to AFP sources.

UN Children's Fund executive director Anne Veneman said earlier this month that the child's rights were being violated.

"UNICEF joins many in voicing concern that child marriage contravenes accepted international standards of human rights," she said.

You see it IS one of the worlds "Great Religions" not only can an eight year old girl be SOLD to a 50 year old man, It also allows their mothers to petition the Court against it if they find out about the sale,and the civilized world has the opportunity to protest about it, so hey what was all the fuss about?

Miss Universe Australia "Body Image" Fracas

Stephanie Naumoska is she TOO Skinny?

Unintended Consequences of Kangaroo Cull

From the Cute & Cuddly File

Dutch Royal Family in "Car attack"

BBC
1 5 09

A car has crashed into a crowd watching a parade involving Dutch Queen Beatrix and her family, killing four people and seriously injuring several others.

The car eventually careered into a monument, narrowly missing an open-topped bus carrying the royals.

No members of the royal family were hurt in the incident, in Apeldoorn, about 90km (56 miles) from Amsterdam.

Dutch officials said the driver, who was seriously hurt in the crash, appeared to have acted deliberately.

But after searching the car and his home, investigators have ruled out terrorism as a motive.

They have not named the man, but said he was a Dutch national aged 38.

Apeldoorn mayor Fred de Graaf told a news conference that four people had been killed in the incident and 13 injured - five of them seriously.

'Royal shock'

Cynthia Boll, a photographer at the scene, told the BBC the car was already badly damaged before it slammed into the crowds at high speed.

"There were people everywhere, you could definitely see that it was serious because everywhere was blood and shoes ripped off and all the people giving CPR," she said.

The crowds were celebrating Queen's Day - a national holiday in the Netherlands when thousands of people take to the streets to mark the queen's official birthday.

Officials said flags are at half mast on government buildings across the country and all planned celebrations have been called off.

Witnesses said the streets of Apeldoorn are now empty.

In a statement from the royal family, the queen gave her condolences to the victims of the crash.

"Her majesty the queen, on behalf of other members of the royal family, expresses her shock at the incident," the statement said.

Rudds Australia: Illegal Immigrants reach Paradise and Australian taxpayers will PAY

Asylum-seekers on Christmas Island receive payments

By Andrea Hayward
News.com.au
April 29, 2009 11:43pm

A FAMILY of four asylum-seekers living on Christmas Island in community detention receives up to $1000 a fortnight from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC).
DIAC spokesman Sandi Logan said 33 asylum-seekers who had undergone health and security checks were living in houses in the community while awaiting outcomes of their visa applications.

A further 40 asylum-seekers, mostly family groups, women, children and those with special needs, are in alternative detention while 193 single men are detained at the Christmas Island Detention Centre.

Women and children are not housed in the detention centre itself, and instead live in alternative detention called the construction camp near the Poon Saan neighbourhood on the island.

Mr Logan said adults in community detention were given $100 cash and $360 in store credit, which can be used at one of two local stores, a fortnight to buy food and other items.

A family of two adults and two children would receive $300 cash and $766 store credit each fortnight, which is administered by the Red Cross.

There were no figures available for the number of families on the island.

Those under the age of 18 who were deemed unaccompanied minors in community detention receive $50 a week and each household consisting of up to five minors, who are looked after by a carer, is given $900 a week for food and supplies.

Mr Logan said those on community detention had to cook and buy their own food.

"We can't put them out in community detention and let them starve," he said.

Some chose to save their money and buy luxury items including sunglasses and MP3 players, and were entitled to do so, Mr Logan said.

Inside the detention centre, detainees have 20 internet terminals.

"There is also a telephone available in each of the (eight) compounds and they are issued with a phone card each week to make phone calls, it could be to their representatives, to friends or to others ...," Mr Logan said.

The calls are unrestricted and include international calls.

Mr Logan said the detainees are encouraged to participate in activities and are rewarded for attending English classes and helping out in the detention centre.

The reward system has been in place for some time in Australian detention centres, Mr Logan said.

Detainees are free to move around the inside of the detention centre, often playing cricket and soccer on the oval, but have a night-time curfew when they go back to their single rooms.

The centre was built by the Howard government at a cost of $400 million and is located on the remote corner of Christmas Island, an Australian territory 2,600km northwest of Perth.

More than 200 people including 38 DIAC staff are on the island to support the centre.

More than 130 asylum-seekers picked up in the interception of four boats since Saturday, including two today, will also be taken to Christmas Island. It is not known when they will arrive on the island.

Anything Rudd's illegal Muslims want or demand,but NOTHING for Australians in need.

Pauline dudded of urgent treatment

Rudd's Australia:More Illegals arrive at Barrow Island

Australia: Hilel Merhi Good Riddence to Middle Eastern Rubbish

Violent thug Hilel Merhi lived and died by the gun

By Kara Lawrence
The Daily Telegraph
April 28, 2009 12:00am

HILEL Merhi was a loud-mouthed young man with a penchant for extreme violence.

Armed with a pistol, he had robbed liquor and video stores and petrol stations, and had his driver's licence disqualified because he was a danger on the roads.

As the Sydney criminal world was speculating yesterday about who ambushed Merhi, pumping five rounds into him at close range at a party at the weekend, the 25-year-old's family and friends were in mourning as his funeral was held.

A former prisoner who met Merhi in jail said yesterday: "He was a very confident character and was very outspoken - in other words he was a smart arse"

Merhi's shooting at a 21st birthday party in Merrylands on Saturday night was breathtaking in its audacity. Two hooded men walked through a gate of the Davies St property towards an outdoor carport where people were dancing, talking and laughing.

One of the men walked up to Merhi, who was an uninvited guest at the party, and fired repeatedly.

Then the men fled, pursued by some partygoers, down the street and around the corner into Price St, where they jumped into a late-model Commodore and fled.

Police confirmed yesterday they believed Merhi's criminal activities were linked to his shooting.

Merhi's criminal record dates back to 2002 when he was charged with driving recklessly at Casula, had his licence suspended and was given a good behaviour bond.

He graduated quickly to more violent crime.

In late 2003, he went on a gun spree. In October of that year he allegedly pulled a pistol on fellow students at Miller College of TAFE.

Students fled for safety to the nearby Liverpool Catholic Club, but when police arrested Merhi later that night he claimed the gun was a cigarette lighter.

Days later, while armed with a silver pistol, he forced a female employee of Video Ezy Moorebank to hand over $250.

His next two armed robberies in the next two months netted him $1300 from Prestons Village Liquor and $500 cash and 32 packets of cigarettes from BP Moorebank.

He was sent to jail for maximum two years and eight months and ordered to undergo drug and alcohol rehabilitation.

He was released from another stint in jail in the middle of last year after serving time for driving offences.

Pauline Talty, Australia: Why Americans should think twice about Hussein's "Universal Health Care"

Pauline dudded of urgent treatment

Peter Dutton
News.com.au
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Pauline Talty – the woman surviving in Royal Prince Alfred as she fights for government assistance for a bowel transplant – has been badly let down by the health system that should be helping her.

Proud Australian's Pauline Talty and Leo Sayer.

Pauline has been treated just as Australians would expect to be treated by their Socialist Government, she has been ABONDONED.

When you have socialised medicine the Government works on the fact that many,many of those requireing treatment will DIE before they make it to the "list" yes LIST, not the fricking operating table the bloody LIST,either from their medical condition or age.

Unlike hundreds of Illegal Islamic "refugees" who wash up on Australia's shores almost daily now since the Socialist Rudd government came to power in 2007,Pauline Talty is NOT able to access ANY of the "TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS " for instance,that has miracousily appeared to treat Middle Eastern Illegal immigrants, after they were badly burnt, after they voluntarialy set fire to their boat so as to ensure they were picked up by the Royal Australian Navy and taken to Australia's mainland,and take a seat on the Australian Labor Party's Islam, Refugee friendly, life time social security gravy train.
No expense has been spared for these criminals in treating them or providing them their every want and need so as not to offend their "Religious and Cultural sensitivities"
Pauline Talty however is neither a "refugee" or a "Muslim" she is one of the Australian Labor Party's most despised and reviled, she is an Australian.

Comrade Rudd and his Beijing / Marxist worshipping underlings that are his partys (Australian Labor Party, ALP) financiers, The Australian Council of Trade Unions, ACTU, see themselves as Internationalists first second and third, and as such have no time for Australians, least of all unwell Australians.

Saving My Life one Dollar at a Time

Last week, more than five months after she first applied to the Medical Treatment Overseas Program to travel to America, MTOP funding was rejected for a second time.

Nicola Roxon’s health chiefs in Canberra say Pauline doesn’t qualify because transplant treatment is available at a hospital in Melbourne where, I might add, not one bowel transplant has yet been attempted.

The advice of four medical experts that Pauline should undergo a transplant in America has been discounted.

Pauline Talty has been dudded in this process.

The plain fact is she should have been approved for overseas treatment months ago and the health department’s own documents clearly show that.

Pauline first applied for help last October.

In November, the department officials were told that “intestinal transplantation is not” currently offered in Australia – which should have led to a positive decision for her.

In January the department was told again “no intestinal transplant has been performed…in Australia”, yet an initial decision,

confirmed last week, was made to reject her MTOP application.

It appears to have been made on the basis that transplants could be carried out here in the future; Pauline was in effect being told she would have to wait for that day to come, even though she might die in the meantime.

There appears to be significant inconsistencies in reports before the department.

I think it’s outrageous! Pauline Talty should already be receiving treatment in hospital in America.

Minister Roxon needs to show some gumption. Get involved and turn this decision around.

Rudd's Australia:More Illegals arrive at Barrow Island

Note ALL BLUE coloured TEXT represents the VIEWS of Aussie News & Views and NOT those of Peter Dutton, I have inserted the picture and the comments underneath the picture written in BLUE, Capisch?

Hilel Merhi, shot DEAD.

Hilel Merhi was shot dead like a gangland killing

By Adam Walters and Chelsea White
The Daily Telegraph
April 27, 2009 12:00am

GANG life was the theme of his MySpace page and "gangland" would be the style of Hilel Merhi's death at a friend's 21st party.

He was shot several times from close range with a handgun after two hooded men crashed the party at Merrylands.

Gallery: Scenes from the birthday party


Birthday girl Tania Merhi, who was not related to the victim, was among the stunned witnesses.

One said: "Three guys just walked in and shot him on the dance floor."

A woman who was among the 100 guests said there didn't appear to be any argument.

"They just shot him and ran out before everyone started screaming," she said.

The victim, 26, described himself on his MySpace page as a "straight, single and athletic hustler, earning $250,000 a year".

The opening screen is adorned with a sinister illustration of a pistol and a hotted-up car under the title of Gang Life.

He painted a picture of a young man in a hurry, updating his mood status on April 21 to "impatient".

Neighbours thought they were hearing fireworks when the gunshots echoed through Davies St late on Saturday night.

Those at the party said it was a mix of invited guests and gatecrashers.

One of the partygoers, who didn't want to be identified, said the victim had no chance.

"I just saw him lying there with holes in his upper body. He wasn't moving and it seemed to take forever for the ambulance to arrive," the witness said.

"The cops actually beat the ambulance here but there was nothing they could do."

Some of the party's guests attempted CPR but Hilel was later pronounced dead on arrival at Westmead Hospital.

"I'm so devastated. What's this world coming to? May God forgive his bad doing," friend Lexy Saleh said.

Neighbours said Tania's grandfather, who raised her from a young age, went to extraordinary lengths to ensure the safety of guests, hiring their own security for the party.

Sarah, oh Sarah!!!

Sarah Murdoch
Displays Bonds Ladies undergarments as only she can.
One of Sydney's Northern Beaches most beautiful exports to the world.
(Yes Rupert's daughter in law, Lachlan's wife)

Indonesia: Christian Minister & Wife Hacked to Death in the land of the "Religion of Peace"

Priest, wife hacked to death in Indonesia: police

YahooNews.com
April 27, 2009

JAKARTA (AFP) - An elderly Christian priest and his wife were hacked to death with machetes in Indonesia, police said.

Frans Koagow, 64, and his wife, Femy Kumendong, 73, were found in the priest's home in Manado city, North Sulawesi province, Saturday with deep slash wounds to their heads and necks, provincial police spokesman Benny
Bella said.

"The priest was cut from behind in the neck while his wife was cut in the head while she lay down sick with a stroke," Bella said.

"The priest had been squatting down to tie his shoes when he was attacked... there was no time for him to fight back."

Bella said police were looking for suspects but were unsure how many people were involved in the attack.

"We found a machete but we don't know if it was one that was used in the murder," he said.

North Sulawesi province is a stronghold of mostly Protestant Christianity in Indonesia, where Muslims make up roughly 90 percent of the national population.

Pakistani men beaten and shaved by Taliban for listening to music

Taliban militans shave four men as punishment for listening to music

From correspondents in Peshawar, Pakistan
News.com.au
April 26, 2009 05:38pm

TALIBAN militants in northwest Buner district shaved the heads and moustaches of four Pakistani men as punishment for listening to music, one of the men said.

Buner has been subject to huge US concern after hundreds of Taliban fighters advanced into the area from the neighbouring Swat, where the hardliners fought a brutal, nearly two-year insurgency to enforce Islamic law.

"I was with three other friends in my car, listening to music when armed Taliban stopped us and, after smashing cassettes and the cassette player, they shaved half our heads and moustaches,'' he said.

"The Taliban also beat us and asked us not to listen to music ever again,'' said the terrified man.

Local police said they had no information about the incident.

The victim said neither he nor his friends lodged a complaint with police, as this would have been "useless.''

"It might have annoyed the Taliban further and I fear for my life,'' the man said.

Residents in Mingora, the main town in Swat, said Taliban posters had been put up in streets and markets ordering women not to go shopping.

The posters had appeared after the Taliban's controversial agreement with the government to enforce Islamic law in the region.

"We will take action against women who go out shopping in the markets and any shopkeeper seen dealing with women shoppers will be dealt with severely,'' read the poster from the Swat branch of Tehreek-e-Taliban.

"The peace agreement does not mean that obscenity should be re-born,'' it added.

Hardline Islamists in the extremist Taliban consider it "obscene'' for women to leave their homes, and ban females from venturing out in public without an immediate male relative -- namely a father, brother, son or husband.

For years, Swat was a popular ski resort frequented by Westerners but the Pakistani government effectively lost control of the mountainous district after the violent Taliban campaign to enforce sharia law.