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The death of Malachi Ritscher was reported by a local television station as just another frustration for commuters driving into Chicago one morning when police were told that a statue was burning and slowing-up traffic along the Kennedy expressway.This was not how the anti-war activist had envisaged media coverage when on November 3, he set up a video-camera and a small sign reading “thou shalt not kill” next to Chicago’s Flame of the Millennium sculpture. He then doused his body in petrol and set himself on fire. Mr Ritscher, 52, had even written a lengthy “mission-statement” on one of his...

Fiery anti-war statement goes unseen, unheard ASHLEY M. HEHER Associated Press CHICAGO — Malachi Ritscher envisioned his death as one full of purpose. He carefully planned the details, mailed a copy of his apartment key to a friend, created to-do lists for his family. On his website, the 52-year-old experimental musician who'd fought with depression even penned his obituary. At 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 3 — four days before an election caused a seismic shift in Washington politics — Mr. Ritscher, a frequent anti-war protester, stood by an off-ramp in downtown Chicago near a statue of a giant flame, set...

A man runs past a burning car after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza April 27, 2006. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa Residents look at a burning car after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza April 27, 2006. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa Residents look at a burning car after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza April 27, 2006. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa Man look at car after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza April 27, 2006. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli missile strike killed a Palestinian militant and critically wounded another on Thursday in the Gaza Strip, medical officials said. Security sources...

A PLAN by a group of peace campaigners to travel by bus to Baghdad to offer themselves to Saddam Hussein as human shields has been threatened with collapse by the personal clashes, logistical chaos and the loss of their leader. One of the group’s three double-deckers has been abandoned in Italy with engine trouble and plans to travel through the Balkans were aborted as “too dangerous”. The head of the delegation, a former American marine, has been deported from Turkey for trying to enter the country with a “world citizen” passport after renouncing his United States citizenship. The second of...

Teen Suffers Burns After Setting Own Shorts On Fire ELGIN, Ill., 12:16 p.m. CDT September 23, 2002 - A Roselle teenager suffered second-degree burns during a game with two other boys where they would splash gasoline on their pants, set them on fire, then try to put them out. The DailyHerald.com reported Monday that the "game" took place in the back yard of an Elgin home. Elgin police said the boys took turns smearing their shorts with gasoline Saturday night. They would then take turns lighting each other's pants on fire, and the teen whose pants were set on fire...