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International
kurdistan's Fatal Flames
Why are a growing numer of young women in this relatively safe corner of Iraq showing p in local hospital, dying of suspicious burns?
According to the Women's union of Kurdistan, there were about 95 cases in the first 6 months of 2007 and up to 15% since last year. 95% of these women are under 30 and half of them are between 16 and 21. 6 women went to the emergency room with major burns and all of them told very suspicios stories. Most of the survivors say that the burns are cooking burns but these burns seem to be very serious. The Women's rights advocates in Sulaimaniya believe that the majority of the burn cases are suicide attempts and the other killinga may be honor killings. Plus, one young teenage girl replied that the trend may be aggravated y a copycat efect among Kurdistan's teenagers and it becomes sort of a fashion. These women may use fire because fire is used as a prominent symbol. Burning is the way to die among the Kurdish people.
Opinion
This is very surprising. I don't understand why women would want to burn themselves in order to honor some god or whatever is that they are honoring this I think is dumb. I think that a person shouldn't hurt themselves in order to honor some god because supposibly if you are honoring a god that means its because you love that god and that god loves you. It is also very sad to see that some of these women are burning themselves because they are living a bad life. I think there are other options and other things that people can do when they are having a bad life besides killing themselves.

National
Car trying to win parking spot slams into store
A driver slammed into a department store on Friday night in order to beat someone else to a parking spot. While slamming into the store this driver injured a 14 year old girl who is now being treated at Overlake Hospital for scrapes and bruises. This 37 women was immediatly arrested for investigation of driving under the inflence. The police report that this woman stepped into the accelerator and just couldn't get herself stopped after that. The car came to stop 20 yards inside the store. This woman shows obvios signs of impairment but not from alcohol.
Opinion
I think that this women is crazy. Especially for putting a14 year old girl in the hospital just because she wanted to beat someone else for a parking spot. This woman shold spent alot of time in prison for what she did. I don't understand how it is impossible to take off your foot of the accelerator it is a very simple task to do.

National
Boy, 10, faces murder counts in Ohio house fire
A 10 year old is being accused for settig his house on fired which killed his mother, sister and 3 other children. The 10year old boy is charged with five delinquency counts of murder and one delinquency count of aggravated arson. The house fire killed the boy's mother, Chanan Palmer, 31, and her 8-year-old daughter, Kaysha, who is the boy's half-sister. Also the housemate children: Kayla Winans, 6; Je'Shawn Davis, 5; and Jasmine Davis, 3. The child's grandparents are going to represent him in court.
Opinion
This is very scary how can a 10 year old boy have set his oen hose on fire and why would he do that? especilly if his mother and stepsister are in there. It is surprising because this boy even confesed to the lawyer and if he confesed what he did then that means that he knows what he was doing. I think that this kid must have done this for a reason. I wonder what the judge woould do to this kid especially if this kid is being charged with 5 delinquency counts of murder and delinquency count of aggravated arson.