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Buffalo Beheading Case Nets Second-Degree Murder Charge?

By David Lohr

Two days before Valentine's Day last month on Thursday, February 12, 2009, Orchard Park, New York businessman and television executive Muzzammil Hassan, 44, a prominent member of the local Muslim community, reported to the local police that his wife, Aasiya Hassan, 37, was dead.  Her body, the cops learned, was lying in a hallway inside a building that houses Bridges TV, which Hassan owns. Hassan started the television station in 2004, reportedly to help dispel anti-Islamic stereotypes that had gained momentum following 9-11, and he had hoped to show that Muslims are a peace-loving people. Apparently it was the first homicide that Orchard Park, an affluent suburb of Buffalo, has seen since 1986, and it was a gruesome one.  Many of the cops, including some investigators, were not mentally prepared for what they found...continue to full post

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