Absent Minded Killers

Grounding Syria s Killers

Beating the Child Killers

Are they brutal killers or patriotic defenders?

But, uh oh, the killers are within the camps.

I don't know. Maybe they think that, uh, killers don't plan ahead?

It's where they send the serial killers and the people who can't help themselves.

One fifth the rate of colon and breast cancer, big killers here in America.

And in fact this is probably why mostly men, boys, are psychopathic killers, or are very aggressive.

But then my mother said to me, I hear you've been going around talking about psychopathic killers.

Without information on the killers, without justice, the meeting to discuss security, says Ibarra, is of little use.

So only in Broadmoor would not wanting to hang out with serial killers be a sign of madness.

Anti personnel mines are silent killers and should continue to deserve the collective attention of the international community.

We have to ask ourselves, what now? What do we do going forward as a country and as citizens in relationship to the world's worst places, the world's worst suffering, killers, and the kinds of killers that could come home to roost sometime in the future?

And it all grew out of one of my colleagues asking me to analyze a bunch of brains of psychopathic killers.

This works out fine in the cases of minor ailments treatable with ordinary medicines such as pain killers and generic antibiotics etc.

Sometimes, the killers appear to lack any excuse at all, as in the case of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who in 1999 shot 12 fellow students and a teacher at their high school in Columbine, Colorado. In that case, people blamed the sadistic video games and movies that the killers had been watching.

So, how seriously must we take the ideological reasons that killers like Breivik and the September 11 terrorists invoke to justify their murders?

Just as Israel has frequently been attacked by rockets fired from across its border with Gaza, India has suffered repeated assaults by killers trained, equipped, financed, and directed by elements based next door in Pakistan. When President George W. Bush s press secretary equated members of Hamas with the Mumbai killers, her comments were widely circulated in India.

To call these killers monsters, as some were quick to do, sheds little light on the problem. They were not monsters they were young men.

As with most of the thousands of murders tied to drug trafficking and organized crime each year, the killers of journalists are rarely brought to justice.

French troops are now set to return home. But, with thousands of fundamentalist killers in the desert, now poorly motorized but still armed, should they do so?

Those who view Islamic extremism as the problem also tend to hold up young killers like Merah as examples of failed integration. They never became sufficiently French.

Genocide is a crime of characterization, an interpretation. Rather than parse killers motives, we better affirm our own values by denying that any reasons could ever justify such acts.

I worry that my children have hate in their hearts, and when they want to grow up, they want to fight again the killers of their father and their brother.

Who knows what the Columbine killers thought they were doing. But the reasons why they killed lie within them, and cannot be principally attributed to the entertainment or other materials that they consumed.

In fact, nine million people develop the active disease every year, and one in five will die. This places the tubercle bacillus second only to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on the list of top microbial killers.

But revolutionary breakthroughs in medicine were starting to turn the tide on these killers, and Indonesia s doctors were celebrated as heroes. I wanted to be a hero, too, so I studied hard and enrolled in medical school.

Obsession with doom and gloom scenarios distracts us from the real global threats. Poverty is one of the greatest killers of all, while easily curable diseases still claim 15 million lives every year 25 of all deaths.

Maybe then we'd spend less time worrying about serial killers and plane crashes, and more time concerned with the subtler and slower disasters we face the silent buildup of plaque in our arteries, the gradual changes in our climate.

Besides being unjust, this is deeply tragic. Having eluded killers like malaria and AIDS, one should not then be killed prematurely by cancer especially a form of cancer that could have been prevented with something as simple and as affordable as a vaccine.

(In fact, lung cancer kills one in ten smokers.) But the incidence of certain kinds of lung cancer continues to rise particularly in women making it one of the most prolific killers worldwide, despite the general decline of smoking over the last 30 years.

Targets depicting serial killers and drug dealers have mottos like Save a woman or Save a boy on them. In the middle of the wall is a target representing New York s World Trade Center being approached by an aircraft, with the inscription Save America.

But the greatest obstacle that must be confronted if Russia is to wage war on terror effectively is the rampant corruption in the security forces. It is well known, for example, that Basaev's fanatical killers paid off Russian militia to enter Budeonovsk in 1995 and kill hospital patients.

We did it with smallpox, which has now been eradicated, and we are doing it with polio (with less than 100 cases worldwide this year). The challenge now is to do the same with all of our life saving vaccines particularly those that target the biggest killers of children.

I'm Sergio, I'm a humanitarian, and I want to feed those well, I don't want to feed the killers but I want to feed the two million people who are with them, so we're going to go, we're going to set up camps, and we're going to supply humanitarian aid.

To its credit albeit under pressure from donor countries the Bengali authorities seem to sense that their country is drifting toward becoming a failed state and are making greater efforts to arrest Islamist killers, despite some of them being part of the ruling coalition. Two radical Islamist groups have also been banned.

Though the attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three members of his staff were murdered, may well have been planned, as the State Department has maintained, the killers clearly exploited the opportunity created by outrage at an anti Muslim film produced in the US.

GENEVA Ask most people to name the two biggest causes of death among children, and they will most likely say malaria and HIV. In fact, it is pneumonia and diarrhea the forgotten killers that are responsible for the highest death toll, claiming more than two million of the most vulnerable lives every year.

Psychopathic killers are the basis for some must watch TV, but what really makes them tick? Neuroscientist Jim Fallon talks about brain scans and genetic analysis that may uncover the rotten wiring in the nature of murderers. In a too strange for fiction twist, he shares a fascinating family history that makes his work chillingly personal.

The fact that Russia s Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, took over the investigation into Politkovskaya s killing, as he did with the murder of Kozlov, doesn t inspire hope, as such senior level involvement would in any real democracy. In fact, the involvement of the highest level of Russia s government is almost a guarantee that the killers will never be found.

The authorities overblown reaction and that of much of the press was all the odder for having occurred just as the US Senate was voting down a bill that would have made it harder for known killers and mentally disturbed people to buy guns, or for private individuals to acquire weapons normally used only in warfare.

The spreading phenomenon of terrorism, which deprives families of their fathers and sons, whether killers or killed, victims or perpetrators, with the resultant loss to families of their material and moral potential, leading to their disintegration, the loss of their natural status as a healthy environment for the inculcation of elevated values and principles and appropriate behaviour, and the disappearance of their contribution to the establishment of a stable, secure society.

The new United Nations tribunal that was formed nearly five decades after the final judgments were rendered at Nuremberg and Tokyo became the forerunner of ad hoc courts to prosecute perpetrators of Rwanda s genocide, Charles Taylor and his blood diamond butchers in Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge killers in Cambodia. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) also gave rise to the permanent International Criminal Court to try war criminals worldwide.