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Wednesday, March 11, 2009

[chottala.com] Arab News

JEDDAH: The rising number of contagious diseases, such as hepatitis and Aids, has forced many customers to bring their own haircutting equipment to Jeddah's salons. The special haircut bags that customers carry contain combs, shaving equipment, electronic razors and other grooming apparatus.

Thamer Al-Saiari, a 25-year-old Saudi, said that the main reason behind him buying a haircut bag is a fear of catching AIDS and other contagious diseases. "It is scary to know that someone could suffer for the rest of his life because of the negligence and mistake of a barber. The haircut bag is a precaution to be on the safe side," he said.

"I know at least three of my friends who now have liver disease. They believe they caught the illness at hair salons," said Turki, a 22-year-old Saudi. "There is a lack of adherence to health and safety rules at most salons. However, there are a few places in Jeddah that follow strict health and safety measures. Barbers should not serve customers without gloves. Now if you go to all barber shops, I bet 95 percent of them do not wear them," he added.

What Turki mentions may perhaps be true. In a previous report, Dr. Qassim Al-Qasabi, chief executive officer at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, said, "Liver disease has become a national issue since 5 to 10 percent of Saudi population suffer from viral hepatitis, and liver cancer ranks among the top three most common solid organ tumors among males."

Waleed Al-Tuwaie said he asks his barber to clean his equipment in front of him. "Before he combs my hair he makes sure it is clean and before he shaves I make sure he has sterilized the blade with a flame in front of me. That will, in my opinion, reduce the risk of catching anything," he said.

Al-Qasmi Hasan, a Moroccan barber, said there has been a rise in the number of people bringing their own haircutting equipment. "There is more awareness nowadays about liver diseases and AIDS because newspapers keep writing about them. The municipality obliges us to use disposable razors to prevent diseases from spreading," he said. "Many barbers think it's great that customers leave their haircutting bags inside their shops as this ensures customers return," he added.

Muhammad Zaher, a barber, said haircutting equipment has been instrumental in the spread of hepatitis and other liver diseases. "We're more concerned about our safety than our customers are concerned about theirs," he said, adding that only a few barbers wear gloves and most clean their equipment.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 80 percent of hepatitis patients do not take serious steps to treat their condition until it becomes chronic, with 20 percent of them developing cirrhosis.

From:

Habib, Jeddah

 



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[chottala.com] Alleged Nazi camp guard charged 29,000 time

 
 
Alleged Nazi camp guard charged 29,000 time
AFP/File – Germany has issued an arrest warrant for John Demjanjuk, seen here in 1992. The alleged Nazi war criminal …
Alleged Nazi camp guard charged 29,000 times

BERLIN (AP) — Retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk was charged Wednesday with 29,000 counts of acting as an accessory to murder while working as a guard at a Nazi death camp in occupied Poland. The arrest warrant could move the 30-year global legal battle over his fate closer to conclusion.

The warrant by a Munich court seeks the deportation or extradition of Demjanjuk, who lives in a Cleveland suburb and denies involvement in the deaths at Sobibor. His family says he is too sick to travel.

The U.S. Justice Department says Demjanjuk, 88, was a Nazi guard and can be deported for falsifying information on his entry and citizenship applications in the 1950s.

The U.S. Supreme Court chose last year not to consider Demjanjuk's appeal against deportation, clearing the way for his removal. But it had been unclear until Wednesday which country would take him — his native Ukraine, Poland or Germany.

German Justice Ministry spokeswoman Eva Schmierer said it was not clear if the U.S. would automatically deport Demjanjuk, or whether Germany would have to formally seek his extradition.

The case that led to Wednesday's arrest warrant is based partly on recently obtained transport lists of Jewish prisoners who arrived by train at Sobibor during Demjanjuk's tenure at the camp from March to September 1943.

"In this capacity, he participated in the accessory to murder of at least 29,000 people of the Jewish faith," said the Munich prosecutor's office, which is handling the case because Demjanjuk spent time at a refugee camp in the area after the war.

His son, John Demjanjuk Jr., said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that his father is innocent, and is suffering from a blood disorder and acute kidney failure that makes him unfit for international travel.

"Whatever the Germans decide to do, we will continue to fight for justice in this sad case as there has never been any credible evidence of his personal involvement in even one murder, let alone thousands," Demjanjuk Jr. said. "He has never hurt anyone — before, during or after the war. He is a good person as his family, grandchildren, friends and neighbors have always maintained."

Demjanjuk has said he served in the Soviet army and became a prisoner of war when he was captured by Germany in 1942.

He emigrated to the U.S. in 1952 and gained citizenship in 1958 but was extradited to Israel in 1986 after the U.S. Justice Department said it believed he was a sadistic Nazi guard at the Treblinka death camp known as Ivan the Terrible.

Demjanjuk spent seven years in custody before the Israeli high court received evidence that the Nazi guard was in fact another Ukrainian, and freed him.

Demjanjuk's U.S. citizenship was restored in 1998, but the U.S. Justice Department renewed its case, saying he had indeed been a Nazi guard and could be deported for falsifying information on his U.S. immigration paperwork.

A U.S. court ruled in December 2005 that he could be deported to Ukraine or to Germany or Poland. Demjanjuk spent several years challenging that ruling, until the Supreme Court decision last year.

"We hope that the process can be expedited to ensure that this Holocaust perpetrator will finally be appropriately punished," Efraim Zuroff, the top Nazi hunter at Israel's Simon Wiesenthal Center Zuroff told the AP by phone from Jerusalem. "We're on our way to a victory for justice today."

Munich prosecutors said Demjanjuk will be formally charged in front of a judge once he is extradited to Germany.

In this Feb. 28, 2005 file photo, John Demjanjuk arrives at the federal building in Cleveland for an immigration hearing. German prosecutors said Wednesday March 11, 2009 they have charged retired Ohio auto worker John Demjanjuk with more than 29,000 counts of accessory to murder for his time as a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, and will seek his extradition from the U.S. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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The new charges are just the latest in a long legal saga centered on Demjanjuk. Originally from Ukraine, Demjanjuk claimed that he served in the Soviet army during the war and was captured by German troops in 1942 and interned in a prisoner of war camp. He gained citizenship in the US in 1958, but was extradited to Israel in the mid-1980s and convicted of being the infamous camp guard at Treblinka known as Ivan the Terrible.

He was freed in the early 1990s after it became clear that he was not, in fact, Ivan the Terrible and returned to the US. It wasn't long, however, before additional evidence arose implicating Demjanjuk for having been one of some 5,000 so-called Trawnikis, foreign volunteers who helped out the Nazis with the slaughter of the Jews in the death camps. He fought for years against a US court ruling allowing his deportation, but the US Supreme Court affirmed that decision by rejecting an appeals petition last year.

Of particular importance for Wednesday's charges is Demjanjuk's ID with the number 1393. After extensive investigation involving comparing the document with other contemporary IDs, public prosecutors determined that it is, in fact, authentic.

Demjanjuk's son told SPIEGEL ONLINE recently that his father is "very frail" and suffers from a "blood and bone marrow disorder." His neighbor, however, said that, despite his advanced years, Demjanjuk shovelled snow from his driveway this winter and that he is frequently to be seen on his knees in his garden.

The public prosecutor's office in Munich said that further steps to bring Demjanjuk to Germany will be taken after close consultation with the government in Berlin. As soon as he arrives, he will be officially charged before the court.

cgh -- with wire reports

With reporting by Jan Friedmann and Cordula Meyer

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[FutureOfBangladesh] Some Thoughts About The BDR Massacare

First of all, I pray for the departed souls who lost their lives during this BDR event.
 
At the same time, I can't but mention the following points:
 
1.  Who is going to talk about the corruption of Army during care taker Government?  I know from my personal contacts that many Army officers did sky high corruption during that time.  Please keep in mind that Army is such a force who does huge corruption, BUT nobody can catch them at any time.  On the other hand they are gifted with MP nomination and eventually become minister as soon as they retire.  This is the first time in BD that some Army officers had to give lives (except the Army killing by Ziaur Rahman in late '70s).
 
2.  Anybody who has little bit of sense will understand that the BDR event was planned by experts who has clear knowledge about war planning.  And in BD only two forces can do that -- one is Jamaat and the other is Army.  
 
3.  Was the helicopter crash just an accident?  A Major General died and why is Army so quite?  The helicopter was bought only three years back, isn't it unlikely to have an accident now??
 
4.  The person who was allegedly driving the APC (so called bullet proof car) in Pilkhana committed suicide within custody?  Is this just another accident?
 
5.  Now come to the audio --  Army is trained for crisis management and war time situation.  But the way the officers were talking to Sk Hasina, that was extremely emotional, immature and childlike.  I can expect this from people like us, but NOT from Army officers.  Why they were finger pointing and doing emotional blackmailing?  Is this just sympathy or something else???
 
6.  Why the officers put their hands on DAD Tauhid's mouth when he was trying to say something to the media ???
 
So, we can never rull out Army's involvement in the whole event.  As we have seen before, the main criminals will never be identified and some poor BDR folks (may be some DADs, jawans will be hanged).
 
Sorry if I hurt anybody by any chance ............ ..
 
Regards.
 
-Mr. Abul



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[chottala.com] Some Killers have identified!

There are some criminals identified as per Col. Faruk Khan's claim. We may able to see who were behind the scene!
 
 
 
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