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Murdered Cobb Family Had Sought Political Asylum
Copyright 2007 by WSBTV.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. ^ | 8/1/07

Posted on 08/04/2007 6:25:45 AM PDT by Sounder

Edited on 08/04/2007 6:54:37 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

POWDER SPRINGS -- A lawyer for a woman killed along with her two daughters in Cobb County says the family fled Kenya in 2001 because she feared the girls would have to undergo female circumcision.

Immigration attorney Charles H. Kuck said that Jane Kuria left Kenya in January 2001 after the death of her husband and the destruction of their home. Kuck said that according to her political asylum application, the couple was targeted in Kenya because of their opposition to female genital mutilation.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: politicalasylum; sought
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1 posted on 08/04/2007 6:25:48 AM PDT by Sounder
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To: Sounder

“the family fled Kenya in 2001 because she feared the girls would have to undergo female circumcision.”

“the couple was targeted in Kenya because of their opposition to female genital mutilation.”

“Investigators Do Not Believe Cobb County Murders Were Random”

Sounds like the ROP was involved in these killings.


2 posted on 08/04/2007 6:31:29 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

Could you please elaborate on “ROP”?


3 posted on 08/04/2007 6:33:53 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
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To: All

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875760/posts


4 posted on 08/04/2007 6:34:12 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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To: Brilliant

That does seem to be the direction that the investigation is heading.


5 posted on 08/04/2007 6:36:06 AM PDT by Sounder
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To: Brilliant
The 46-year-old Kuria and daughters, 19-year-old Isabela and 16-year-old Annabelle, were found dead Wednesday morning in their two-story Powder Springs home. Authorities say Kuria's seven-year-old son, Jeremy, and eight-year-old cousin Peter Thiande were both found unconscious.

No, who's money did they steal before leaving Kenya??? That was some expensive digs for an illegal with some bogus claim of political asylum.

6 posted on 08/04/2007 6:37:51 AM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: Ready4Freddy; ConservativeMind

Your article is better than this one, thanks.

ROP=Religion of Peace


7 posted on 08/04/2007 6:37:56 AM PDT by upchuck (Today there are 10,000 more illegal aliens in yer country than there were yesterday. 10,000! THINK!)
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To: ConservativeMind

Religion of Peace... a sarcastic comment on Islam.


8 posted on 08/04/2007 6:38:10 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: ConservativeMind

“Religion of Peace”

You know, the one where everyone loves one another and would never hurt anyone... except infidels.


9 posted on 08/04/2007 6:38:17 AM PDT by Bogey78O (Don't call them jihadis. Call them irhabis. Tick them off, don't entertain their delusion.)
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To: org.whodat

That was 6 years ago. Of course, it might have been someone trying to rob them.


10 posted on 08/04/2007 6:39:32 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: ConservativeMind

Religion of Peace=ROP


11 posted on 08/04/2007 6:40:29 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: ConservativeMind

ROP=Religion of Peace, aka Islam


12 posted on 08/04/2007 6:41:00 AM PDT by foolscap
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To: upchuck
It is a much better article I’m just surprised the Atlanta Journal Constitution mentioned it.
13 posted on 08/04/2007 6:44:00 AM PDT by Sounder
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To: ConservativeMind

Religion of Peace (adopted from George W. Bush’s statement about that murderous cult after 911). See Also, Religion of Pieces.


14 posted on 08/04/2007 6:44:11 AM PDT by indcons
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To: foolscap
ROP=Religion of Peace, aka Islam

It's Bush's fault.

15 posted on 08/04/2007 6:44:25 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn. - Tancredo or Hunter '08)
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To: Brilliant

Kenya is predominantly Christian.


16 posted on 08/04/2007 6:44:55 AM PDT by Ready4Freddy ("Everyone knows there's a difference between Muslims and terrorists. No one knows what it is, tho...)
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To: Sounder

There is no city and state mentioned in this piece. Where were they murdered? (A little pet peeve of mine, this info is read world wide and it’s easy to include the city and state where it is happening)


17 posted on 08/04/2007 6:47:54 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Sounder

I haven’t really been following this story much, but I thought they originally suspected a murder/suicide and it was because the mother was being denied asylum. Have they totally abandoned that theory?


18 posted on 08/04/2007 6:48:33 AM PDT by nuconvert ([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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To: org.whodat
&otNo, who's money did they steal before leaving Kenya???

Although many refugees are incredibly poor, there are rich ones, too.

Actual capital flows in these turd world hellholes are poorly documented and hard (for Americans) to understand.

I lived in Newton, MA in the 1980s, and it was fairly common for Russian Jews, who had had all of their property seized before they could leave, to show up at the first day of a real estate listing and buy the property with a suitcase of $100 bills, or even in some cases loose diamonds.

The "above water; assets of Africans are only a tiny fraction of what exists.

19 posted on 08/04/2007 6:49:02 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Trails of troubles, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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To: Brilliant
That was 6 years ago.

That was when they slipped into the country, still doesn't answer where they were getting the funds for the house and etc. Since the government had already ruled against her on the bogus claim. I think they were mostly stopping the mutilation practice around 1998 to 2000. And it was made illegal in Kenya around there, but I may have it confused with another one of those places.

20 posted on 08/04/2007 6:50:38 AM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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