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Nearly all murderers are mentally ill: Swedish study

Tue May 10, 1:24 PM ET

STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Some 90 percent of murderers are mentally ill, a higher percentage than believed previously, according to a Swedish study.

For the study in the scientific magazine "Forskning och Framsteg" -- which has also been published by The American Journal of Psychiatry -- researchers examined the court psychiatry records and other medical evidence for 2,000 people found guilty of murder, attempted murder, manslaughter or attempted manslaughter between 1998 and 2001 in Sweden.

The certified psychiatric illnesses include schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety, post-traumatic stress and depression.

Many of the convicted people had two or more of these, and half had a history of substance abuse.

more:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050510/sc_afp/swedensciencemurderpsychiatry_050510172459

Bring home bin Laden's head, CIA told

From correspondents in Washington
May 04, 2005
From: Reuters

US spy chiefs ordered agents to deliver Osama bin Laden's severed head in a box of dry ice and hoist heads of other al-Qaeda leaders on pikes, a retired field officer has disclosed.
As the US reeled in shock days after the September 11 attacks in 2001, former CIA officer Gary Schroen was sent to Afghanistan to help the opposition Northern Alliance to topple bin Laden's hosts the Taliban.

He told National Public Radio (NPR) in an interview broadcast yesterday and today that he stopped by the office of then Director of the CIA counter-terrorism centre Cofer Black for final instructions.

He was told : "Your basic marching orders are to link up with the Northern Alliance and get their co-operation military and they will take on the Taliban."
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"When we break the Taliban, your job is to capture bin Laden, kill him and bring his head back in a box full of dry ice."

more:
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15175003-401,00.html