Afghan Girls, Scarred by Acid, Defy Terror, Embracing School

A 17- year old girl ( Shamsia Husseini) from KANDAHAR, Afghanistan was approached by a man one morning with a surprisingly normal question, "Are you going to school?''. Out of nowhere the man grabbed Shamsia and snatched her burqa from her head and sprayed her face with burning acid. Her burns were so bad she had to get urgent medical care from doctors. Doctors told her she would have to get plastic surgery if she ever wanted all the scares on her face to be completely gone. Since the accident it hard for her to read because her vision sometimes becomes blurry. Shamisa and 14 other girls were terrorized and burned, for one purpose only. Men in Afghanistan believe women should stay home and clean and always be covered with their garments from head to toe. The attack on Shamisa was meant to keep her from attending school but that just made her and other young girls want to and still attend school. She attends Mirwais School for Girls. There are about 1,300 girls who attend her school. The girl's parents stated that Shamisa should always attend school even if she is killed. Unfortunately many of the girls have to walk 1-2 miles just to attend school. But Mirwais has no regular electricity, no running water, no paved. On Nov.12th three men with motorcycle's circled the school and began spraying acids from the bottles on the teachers and students , they also had water guns and jars. Eleven students and 4 teachers were hit but 6 had to go the hospital. Shamisa had got the worse of the blows. Taliban are being accused of this attack but they deny any part of the attack. People have yet to find out who has really been attacking these girls.

El Cajon police ask public's help to solve Iraqi woman's beating death

Shaima Alawadi was a Iraqi immigrant who was fount unconscious in her dining room. Her 17 year old daughter was the first one to find her and call police. The Alawadi family say that the husband left earlier to take their youngest children to school. Near this perfectly healthy 32 year old women had a warning note laying next to her. Officials would not show the note to the public, instead the family came out and said the note said "Go back to where you came from". The family said they received another note the day before saying the same thing but the family took it as a prank from teenagers or something. She was taken to the hospital and her family were told she was diagnosed as brain dead. Her family decided it was best to take her off life support. The puzzling question is why was this women murdered and who wrote the note left next to her body as she laid brain dead.The immigrant community in eastern San Diego County is in shock over the killing. They are devastated to have lost one of their people. Hanif Mohebi, executive director of the San Diego has estimated about 330,000 to 40,000 immigrants from Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries have moved to El Cajon. Alawadi and her husband, Kassim Alhimidi, immigrated to the United States in the mid-1990s. They have 2 sons and 3 daughters from ages 7-18. Police Officials and the Alawadi family are concerned that this terrorist act on this innocent women is a hate crime. Hopefully they will get to bottom of this and stop other  attacks like this from happening to other families.

Two Phildelphia firefighters die battling Kensington warehouse blaze

A old Thomas W. Buck hosiery building took up nearly a full block in Kinsington and was suppose to be turned into 81 apartment buildings several years ago. but instead it was sat vacant. People on the block complained they about the dangerous conditions, stating that the building would burn down one day. The people who owned the building were from New York and took up unpaid tax bills and ignored code violations. In February the city tried to put the property up for sheriff sale, which would possibly take months. Even though precaution's were made in the end it was just to late to prevent an avoidable situation. A fire started in this building taking the lives of two firemen. This happened on a Monday morning and a call was made about 5 am claiming the fire was completely out of control. But the warehouse fire alarm went out about 3:15 am. 3 firefighters where trapped in the building because something had fell on them. The firefighters were injured but were reported to be okay. The two fire fighters who were reported to be dead were ages 25 and 60. Flames ripped through out the buildings windows and multi floors. Police had to bang on doors to get near by neighbors out of harm. No one was reported to be injured or dead that lived on the Kensington block. 5 fighters were in the building when it collapsed, it took hours to get them all out safely. I think this is an ironic event and i feel bad for the families of two fire men who died to prevent a fire from over taking the Kensington Neighborhood.