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Ben Walters

Manhunt blamed for UK murder - News at GameSpot - 0 views

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Manhunt murder teenager death Gaming tragedy Rockstar

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  • n the UK, the parents of a teenage murder victim have blamed the crime on the Rockstar game Manhunt.
  • The parents of Stefan Pakeerah, 14, said their son was lured to a park by a 17-year-old player of the game, who stabbed and beat their son to death with a knife and claw hammer.
  • "When one looks at what Warren did to Stephan and looks at the brutality and viciousness of the game, one can see links,"
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  • "Stefan's murder compares to how the game is set out, using weapons like hammers and knives. If games like this influence kids, they should be taken off the shelves."
  • The uproar has prompted the UK's biggest retailer to do exactly that.
  • Rockstar also defended itself by stating, "We reject any suggestion or association between the tragic events and the sale of Manhunt." However, the publisher/developer did offer its condolences to the victim's family.
  • As was to be expected, erroneous news reports in the wake of the murder have reignited the controversy that surrounded Manhunt when it was first released.
  • However, the madman/snuff-filmmaker who has kidnapped the convict does offer him rewards based on the grisliness of his killings, albeit in a very unglamorous fashion.
  • the BBC also talked to a child psychologist about whether or not there is a link between violent games and violent behavior in children. "There's been no longitudinal research, following adolescents over a long period, looking at how gaming violence might affect their behavior," said Professor Mark Griffiths of Nottingham Trent University, who called for more research.
  • The BBC also pointed out that Manhunt has an 18 certificate--the equivalent of an "M" rating--and shouldn't be played by minors at all.
Ben Walters

Ohio teenager Daniel Petric killed mother over Halo 3 video game | News.com.au - 0 views

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Addiction Obsession Death Murder Games Teenager Psychology

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  • Teen not allowed to play Halo 3 Gets gun, says he "has a surprise" Shoots both of his parents in the head
  • A TEENAGER obsessed with a video game has been found guilty of murdering his mother and injuring his father after they took the game away from him.
  • Daniel Petric, 17, planned to kill his parents because he was angry that his father would not allow him to play Halo 3.
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  • On the night of the murder, the Ohio teenager used his father's key to open a box and remove the game, plus a 9mm handgun, the Associated Press reported.
  • "Would you close your eyes? I have a surprise for you."
  • Petric's father, Mark, said he was expecting a nice surprise. Instead, his head went numb from the gunshot, the Associated Press reported.
  • Mark Petric survived the shooting. Petric's mother, Susan, died of a gunshot wound to the head.
  • Petric took the Halo 3 game with him when he fled the scene.
  • udge James Burge said his obsession with Halo 3 may have warped his sense of reality, but rejected the defence lawyer's plea of insanity.
  • I firmly believe that Daniel Petric had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents they would be dead forever," Judge Burge said.
  • he planned the crime for weeks
  • The teenager was found guilty of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and other charges
  • Petric faces a maximum possible penalty of life in prison without parole as he has been tried as an adult.
krpa savlani

AMW | Feature | Zodiac Killer Meet The Prime Suspects - 0 views

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killer zodiac primary suspects

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  • US Navy;
  • He can be placed near the scene
  • Jack Tarrance is not a name is often associated with the Zodiac murders
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  • Dennis became convinced that Jack Tarrance is the Zodiac.
  • his stepson,
  • publicly stated that he has proof that Larry Kane is the Zodiac killer and has spent years building a case against Kane.
  • e was reportedly diagnosed with a mental disorder in which he was "losing control of his self-gratification."
  • Navy;
  • Navy;
  • not a lot of evidence that supports the theories
  • Former Manson Family Member
  • convicted killer
  • Allen spent a lot of time alone, driving in nearby rural areas -- such as Lake Herman Road
  • Throughout the past four decades, police have investigated the murder cases and the extensive collection of communications from the self-named Zodiac. But 2,500 suspects later, the Zodiac's identity remains an intriguing mystery.
  • About a month after the murder, typewritten confession letters were mailed to a local paper and to police.
  • Royal typewriter with Elite type from the home of Arthur Leigh Allen.
  • US Air Force; Navy;
  • Navy;
  • Navy;
  • Navy;
  • Navy;
  • Navy;
  • Kane can only be linked to one of Zodiac's confirmed victims -- Darlene Ferrin.
krpa savlani

The Zodiac Killer / Zodiac Murders - Full Story - The Zodiac Killer - Crime Library on ... - 0 views

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Zodiac Killer background

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  • This October, 1966 killing began a ghoulish series of murders that panicked the people of the San Francisco area
  • n 18-year-old student named Cheri Jo Bates was brutally murdered
krpa savlani

Who Is the Zodiac Killer? - 0 views

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forum zodiackiller suspects

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  • he Zodiac Killer, a serial murderer active in Northern California in the 1960s and 1970s, was notable not only for his killing spree and mysterious ciphers sent to news
  • outlets and police, but also for the fact that he got away with the murders, as his identity was never discovered
  • Arthur Leigh Allen, but his DNA, fingerprints, and handwriting did not match that left behind by the Zodiac Killer.
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  • While the Zodiac Killer claimed responsibility for 37 victims, only seven have been confirmed. All had been young couples except for cab driver Paul Stine,
  • ingerprints and handwriting did not match that of the Zodiac Killer and he was therefore never charged for the killings.
  • Jack Tarrance, whose stepson found a black hood resembling that of the Zodiac Killer, as well as undeveloped rolls of film that Tarrance's stepson says contain gruesome photos of the murders. None of the evidence has been substantiated, though the case is still open and active.
krpa savlani

Zodiac Killer Suspect - Arthur Allen - The Case Against Arthur Allen - Crime Library on... - 0 views

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ArthurAllen

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  • He was also a pedophile, and had lost jobs, alienated friends
  • with his interest in guns, law enforcement, and the criminal mind, might simply have been interested in the shocking local murder and brought the topic up one night with Cheney.
  • Allen had asked about how one could disguise one's own handwriting
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  • Allen allegedly stated that he could become a criminal instead, and would elude detection by committing murders that had no motive. 
  • disable a woman's car by removing the lug nuts from one of her wheels. 6 (This story is an obvious allusion to the abduction of Kathleen Johns
  • odiac's threat to kill "little darlings" - not even the Zodiac's actual phrase - which he linked with Allen's similar words
krpa savlani

The Arthur Leigh Allen File | Zodiac Killer | Zodiac Murders | The Zodiac Movie - 0 views

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leigh arthur zodiackiller zodiac

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  • The typewriter was identified as being a Royal model, with either Elite or Pica type.
  • Allen later hinted it was true, first claiming to have been "in the area" at the time, then telling people he was in nearby Pomona when he first heard of the Bates murder.
  • seized a Royal typewriter with Elite type from the home of Allen.
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  • At the time Bates was killed, Allen was 32 years old, and his permanent residence was 32 Fresno St. in Vallejo, Calif. (In 1970, Zodiac would create a cipher that contained 32 symbols.)
  • Allen was given a Zodiac watch as a Christmas gift from their mother in 1967. (Allen's estimation of when he received the watch was July or August 1969.)
  • call himself "Zodiac."
  • Allen is alleged to have made these claims to his friend
  • people would be more challenging to hunt than animals, since they "have intelligence."
  • ithin days it was solved and stated that killing man was "(sic) more fun than killing wild game in the forrest because man is the most dangeroue anamal of all to kill."
  • hunting a man "like an animal."
  • Additionally, Allen was known to use the same unusual spelling and phrasing as Zodiac later used, such as spelling "Mery Xmass" instead of Merry Xmas and saying "trigger mech" instead of trigger mechanism. Allen would intentionally misspell words to be funny.
  • "bussy work," which is jargon used by elementary-school teachers.
  • Allen wore size 10.5.
  • On Oct. 13, two days after killing Stine, Zodiac mailed a letter threatening school children.
  • Amazingly, the address Stine was headed when he encountered Zodiac was 500 9th Ave., the Allen Arms Apartments.)
  • he might have noticed that the issue date was Oct. 13.
  • n his basement, handwritten diagrams for bombs comprised of ammonium nitrate, fertilizer and gravel. Also found were mail-order catalogs for bombs, guns and booby traps.
krpa savlani

Lawrence Kane - ZodiacKillerTRUTH.com - 0 views

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Lawrence Kane

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  • "MY NAME KANE"
  • Harvey Hines, a retired law enforcement officer, believes that Lawrence Kane is the Zodiac Killer.
  • Kane was said to have been stalking Ferrin shortly before her murder.
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  • unable to control his urges for self-gratification
  • six block from the murder scene.
  • identified Kane as her abductor in the late 1980s.
Ari Kewalramani

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Case Study Female Infanticide India

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  • female infanticide reflects the low status accorded to women in most parts of the world
  • murdering girls is still sometimes believed to be a wiser course than raising them
  • that "Sons are called upon to provide the income; they are the ones who do most of the work in the fields.
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  • igh value given to males decreases the value given to females."
  • dowry and wedding
  • to more than a million rupees
  • average civil servant earns about 100,000 rupees
  • In many cases, of course, the women are not independent agents but merely victims of a dominant family ideology based on preference for male children."
  • 3,500 abortions of female fetuses annually
  • Rajasthan,
  • UNICEF
  • Bombay in 1984 on abortions after prenatal sex determination stated that 7,999 out of 8,000 of the aborted fetuses were females.
  • Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh [states], it is usual for girls and women to eat less than men and boys and to have their meal after the men and boys had finished eating.
  • it is usually boys who have preference in health care
  • clothing
  • morbidity.
  • Indian state governments have sometimes taken measures to diminish the slaughter of infant girls and abortions of female fetuses.
  • f one parent undergoes sterilization, the government will give the family [U.S.] \\$160 in aid per child.
  • tate with one or two daughters and no sons
  • The money will be paid in instalments as the girl goes through school. She will also get a small gold ring and on her 20th birthday, a lump sum of $650 to serve as her dowry or defray the expenses of higher education. Four thousand families enrolled in the first year," with 6,000 to 8,000 expected to join annually (as of 1994
  • suffer
Vikram Mohan

Mosque Near Ground Zero Clears Key Hurdle - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “It is not directly on ground zero, but it is a part of ground zero,” Mr. Moore said. After the commission voted, several members of the audience shouted “Shame on you!” and “Disgrace!” One woman carried a sign reading, “Don’t Glorify Murders of 3,000; No 9/11 Victory Mosque.”
Ingrid Sande

Underage Drinking & Alcohol Abuse - 0 views

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  • Alcohol abuse is a significant problem among young people and a solution needs to be found.
  • On national television programs, Califano reported horror stories of alcohol abuse among college students, associating it with assault, rape, and even murder
  • "60 percent of college women who have acquired sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS and genital herpes, were under the influence of alcohol at the time they had intercourse" "90 percent of all reported campus rapes occur when alcohol is being used by either the assailant or the victim" "The number of women who reported drinking to get drunk more than tripled between 1977 and 1993" "95 percent of violent crime on campus is alcohol-related"
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  • 98% have never been in trouble with a college administrator because of behavior resulting from drinking too much 93% have never received a lower grade because of drinking too much 93% have never come to class after having had several drinks 90% have never damaged property, pulled a false alarm, or engaged in similar inappropriate behavior because of drinking
Ben Walters

Were video games to blame for massacre? - Technology & science - Games - msnbc.com - 0 views

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Entertainment Brain Games Society Psychology Violence Aggression Jack Thompson

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  • The shooting on the Virginia Tech campus was only hours old, police hadn't even identified the gunman, and yet already the perpetrator had been fingered and was in the midst of being skewered in the media.
  • Video games. They were to blame for the dozens dead and wounded. They were behind the bloodiest massacre in U.S. history. Or so Jack Thompson told Fox News and, in the days that followed, would continue to tell anyone who'd listen.
  • But whether Seung-Hui Cho, the student who opened fire Monday, was an avid player of video games and whether he was a fan of "Counter-Strike" in particular remains, even now, uncertain at best.
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  • Meanwhile, in the aftermath of the school shootings and the finger-pointing that followed, game players and industry advocates say they're outraged that the brutal acts of a deeply disturbed and depressed loner with a history of mental illness would be blamed so quickly on video and computer games. They say this is perhaps the most flagrant case of anti-game crusaders using a tragedy to promote their own personal causes.
  • "It's so sad. These massacre chasers — they're worse than ambulance chasers — they're waiting for these things to happen so they can jump on their soapbox," said Jason Della Rocca,
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      Ben Walters on 14 Nov 10
       
      'common sense tells me'
  • When Jack Thompson gets worked up, he refers to gamers as "knuckleheads." He calls video games "mental masturbation." When he's talking about himself and his crusade against violent games, he calls himself an "educator." He likes to use the word "pioneer."
  • On those rare occasions when a student opens fire on a school campus, Thompson is frequently the first and the loudest to declare games responsible. In recent years he's blamed games such as "Counter-Strike," "Doom" and "Grand Theft Auto III" for school shootings in Littleton, Colo., Red Lake, Minn. and Paducah, Ky.
  • He's blamed them for shootings beyond school grounds as well. In an attempt to hold game developers and publishers responsible for these spasms of violence, Thompson has launched several unsuccessful lawsuits.
  • "It disgusts me," said Isaiah Triforce Johnson, a longtime gamer and founder of a New York-based gaming advocacy group that, in response to the accusations, is now planning what is the first ever gamer-driven peace rally. 
  • Microsoft did not create "Counter Strike" but did publish a version of it for the Xbox.
  • authorities released a search warrant listing the items found in Cho's dorm room. Not a single video game, console or gaming gadget was on the list, though a computer was confiscated. And in an interview with Chris Matthews of "Hardball," Cho's university suite-mate said he had never seen Cho play video games.
  • "This is not rocket science. When a kid who has never killed anyone in his life goes on a rampage and looks like the Terminator, he's a video gamer,"
  • And in a letter sent to Bill Gates Wednesday, he wrote: "Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable (for) the harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that used to be in the Post, trained him to enjoy killing and how to kill."
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      Ben Walters on 14 Nov 10
       
      See how bad his research is, the only possibility of him ever playing a game was on his computer, yet he blames Microsoft, who created a game for the Xbox (which would be incompatible for a PC) for directly and massively influencing these events.
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      Ben Walters on 14 Nov 10
       
      Counter Strike, the game he blamed for these killings, has two objectives. Protect an objective from a bomb that the team of terrorists are going to try to plant, or to plant this bomb. Neither of these objectives have to include murder, or solo missions.
  • Fed up with the scapegoating and lack of understanding, gamer groups have begun to get increasingly organized in their attempts to change public perception of their favorite hobby.
  • While Thompson concedes that there are many elements that must have driven Cho to commit such a brutal act, he insists that without video games Cho wouldn't have had the skills to do what he did. "He might have killed somebody but he wouldn't have killed 32 if he hadn't rehearsed it and trained himself like a warrior on virtual reality. It can't be done. It just doesn't happen."
  • Dr. Karen Sternheimer, a sociologist at the University of Southern Calfornia and author of the book " Kids These Days: Facts and Fictions About Today's Youth," disagrees. She believes that it didn't require much skill for Cho to shoot as many people as he did. After all, eye witness accounts indicate many of the victims were shot at point-blank range.
  • And for all of Thompson's claims that violent video games are the cause of school shootings, Sternheimer points out that before this week's Virginia Tech massacre, the most deadly school shooting in history took place at the University of Texas in Austin… in 1966. Not even "Pong" had been invented at that time.
  • Sternheimer says the rush to blame video games in these situations is disingenuous for yet another reason. Although it remains unclear whether Cho played games, it seems nobody will be surprised if it turns out he did. After all, what 23-year-old man living in America hasn't played video games?
  • "Especially if you're talking about young males, the odds are pretty good that any young male in any context will have played video games at some point,"
  • "I think in our search to find some kind of answer as to why this happened, the video game explanation seems easy," she says. "It seems like there's an easy answer to preventing this from happening again and that feels good on some level."
  • The blame game
  • Jason Della Rocca agrees. "Everyone wants a simple solution for a massively complex problem. We want to get on with our lives."
  • As the leader of an organization that represents video game creators from all over the world, Della Rocca knows the routine all too well.
  • Someone opens fire on a school campus. Someone blames video games. His phone starts ringing. People start asking him questions like, "So how bad are these games anyway?"
  • Of course, he also knows that this is far from the first time in history that a young form of pop culture has been blamed for any number of society's ills. Rock and roll was the bad guy in the 1950s. Jazz was the bad guy in the 1930s. Movies, paintings, comic books, works of literature…they've all been there.
  • Still, Della Rocca believes that people like Thompson are "essentially feeding off the fears of those who don't understand games."
  • For those who didn't grow up playing video games, the appeal of a game like "Counter-Strike" can be hard to comprehend. It can be difficult to understand that the game promotes communication and team work. It can be hard fathom how players who love to run around gunning down their virtual enemies do not have even the slightest desire to shoot a person in real life.
  • "It's the thing they don't understand," Della Rocca says. "It's a thing that's scary."
  • "You cannot tell me — common sense tells you that if these kids are playing video games, where they're on a mass killing spree in a video game, it's glamorized on the big screen, it's become part of the fiber of our society. You take that and mix it with a psychopath, a sociopath or someone suffering from mental illness and add in a dose of rage, the suggestibility is too high. And we're going to have to start dealing with that."
  • the members of Empire Arcadia — a grassroots group dedicated to supporting the gaming community and culture — have been so incensed by the recent attempts to blame video games for the Virginia Tech shootings that they've begun planning a rally in New York City with the assistance of the ECA.
  • "There we will protest, mourn and show how real gamers play video games peacefully and responsibly," organizer Johnson wrote on the group's Web site. "This demonstration is to show that gamers will not take the blame of this tragic matter but we will do what we can to help put an end to terrible events like this." Johnson says that, ultimately, he hopes the rally — scheduled for May 5 — will help people better understand video game enthusiasts like him. "We are normal people," he says. "We just play games."
krpa savlani

Zodiac Killer - the crimes, victims, and suspects - 0 views

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Background

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  • Betty Lou Jensen, 16, and David Arthur Faraday, 17
  • Darlene Elizabeth Ferrin, 22, and Michael Renault Mageau, 19
  • Cecelia Ann Shepard, 22, and Bryan Calvin Hartnell, 20
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  • Paul Lee Stine, 29
  • many as 37 people, investigators agree on only seven "canonical" victims
  • nearly identically written letters
  • three murders
  • cryptogram with a total of 408 characters in which, he claimed, was his identity
  • the Zodiac supplied a thirteen-character cipher that he claimed held his name; it has never been solved.
  • Michael Mageau, who briefly glimpsed the Zodiac's face after being shot in the face himself, picked Allen out of a police lineup as the man who shot him
  • he was labeled a sociopath who could beat the machine.
tuisku kolu

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    More than 1,400 criminal street gangs exist in Los Angeles County. Gang crimes - from graffiti and quality of life problems to murder and extortion - devastate a community's well-being and sense of security.
Anushka Gandhi

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Location of Osama?

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  • September 23. Bin Laden was believed by Pakistani officials to be on the Afghan-Pakistani border. He is said to have been keeping a low profile, with as little as ten men guarding him.
    • Anushka Gandhi
      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      Might be a true fact more than a rumor. This statement cannot be trusted completely, it is reliable to an extent.
    • Anushka Gandhi
      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      2005
  • June. Taliban leader Mullah Bakht Mohammed claimed "The latest proof that he is alive is that he sent me a letter of condolences after the martyrdom of my brother. He advised me to follow my brother's path."
    • Anushka Gandhi
      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      This might be very reliable, but to an extent, because: Firstly, this is a primary source, but we are not aware whether what this Taliban leader states is true or not. Secondly, the Taliban leader's brother had sacrificed while fighting for their cause. His brother might have been in the Al Qaeda movement and Osama encourages this Taliban leader, Mullah Bakht Mohammed to follow his brother's footsteps by becoming a member of the Al Qaeda.
    • Anushka Gandhi
      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      2007
  • July 12, Pakistan's Interior Minister states bin Laden is not in Pakistan. The TimesOnline reports that he is still hiding in Afghanistan; Kunar Province being not far from Tora Bora
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      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      2008: This goes back to the rumors stating that Osama has died somewhere near Tora Bora. This source, Pakistan's Interior Minister states that Osama is not in Pakistan, his hiding place is in Afghanistan somewhere around an area known as Tora Bora.
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      Anushka Gandhi on 14 Nov 10
       
      2009 and 2010 state recent reports of Osama's whereabouts, but might not be very reliable since every source, be it news, reports, primary sources, etc state different locations of Osama's hiding, while some other state he must have died of natural causes, murder or kidney problems.
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