Graphic video appeared on Edmonton-based website days before body parts were mailed
BY GLEN MCGREGOR, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN MAY 30, 2012 11:00 PM

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WARNING: The following story contains graphic content that may be disturbing to some readers.

A horrifying and graphic video believed to show the aftermath of a death linked to the body parts case was posted on an Alberta-based website four days before a severed hand and foot were sent through Canada Post to political party offices in Ottawa.

The video, titled “1 lunatic 1 ice pick”, depicts a person committing gross indignities to a naked body.

The assailant wears a black hoodie throughout the clip and cannot be identified. The victim is Asian and appears be in his 20s or 30s.

Toronto-based Daughters for Life foundation awarded female students from the Islamic University in Gaza were: Eman Farrag, Esra Qawash, Reem Safi, Shireen Qasem, and Zaina Muhaisen.

July – 17 – 2011
Dr. Abuelaish received a warm welcome from Prof. Dr. Rustom, Vice President of the Islamic University for Foreign Relations and Information Technology, on July 17, 2011. Once again, the Daughters for Life foundation awarded smart young women who achieved academic brilliance. The awardees of the Islamic University in Gaza were: Eman Farrag, Esra Qawash, Reem Safi, Shireen Qasem, and Zaina Muhaisen.
Dr. Khozondar, Coordinator of the External Relations Office of the Vice President for External Relations, and Prof. Ayesh, Deputy Director of Public Relations, also attended the ceremony.

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Shatha, left, and Dalal Abuelaish lost three of their sisters when Israeli tank shells ripped through their Gaza apartment in 2009. RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR

Toronto family honours fallen loved ones by helping others fulfill their dreams
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Shatha, left, and Dalal Abuelaish lost three of their sisters when Israeli tank shells ripped through their Gaza apartment in 2009.
RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR
Jayme Poisson
Staff Reporter

It has been more than three years since two Israeli tank shells ripped through Dalal and Shatha Abuelaish’s third-floor Gaza apartment, killing three of their sisters.

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Back then, the family’s wrenching story gripped the globe as frenzied pleas for help from their father, a well-regarded Palestinian doctor who had long advocated for peace, were played live over Israeli television. For many, the Abuelaishes plight became a central symbol of the invasion, which killed 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.

Sitting a world away in the living room of their North Toronto home on Tuesday, the young women, both computer engineering students at the University of Toronto, talk of honouring their siblings’ memories.

Police have named Magnotta a suspect in the shocking case where dismembered body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including the headquarters of the governing Conservative party.

Rocco Luka Magnotta wanted in connection with body parts found in Montreal, Ottawa
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Police have named Magnotta a suspect in the shocking case where dismembered body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including the headquarters of the governing Conservative party.
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Tonda MacCharles
Ottawa Bureau

OTTAWA—Police have named a suspect in the shocking case where dismembered body parts were mailed to Ottawa, including the headquarters of the governing Conservative party.

Montreal police said Wednesday that 29-year-old Rocco Luka Magnotta is wanted in connection with a grisly homicide and dismemberment that some news reports said was videotaped.

A man by that same name has a huge presence on the Internet — as a low-budget adult film actor and for controversial videos he has posted online in the past.

A nationwide warrant has been issued for Magnotta, whom police say also goes by the names Eric Clinton Newman and Vladimir Romanov. He is white, 1.78 metres tall, and weighs 61 kilos. He has black hair and blue eyes, they said.

Peel Regional Police Inspector George Koekkoek, the officer in charge of Homicide and Missing Persons Bureau, talks about the discovery of the remains of 27-year-old Poonam Litt, who was reported missing from Brampton in 2009, during a news conference at Peel Regional Police Headquarters in Brampton, Ontario Thursday April 12, 2012.

Brother-in-law charged in slaying of Brampton mother
Megan O’Toole May 30, 2012 – 1:10 PM ET | Last Updated: May 30, 2012 1:26 PM ET
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Peel Regional Police Inspector George Koekkoek, the officer in charge of Homicide and Missing Persons Bureau, talks about the discovery of the remains of 27-year-old Poonam Litt, who was reported missing from Brampton in 2009, during a news conference at Peel Regional Police Headquarters in Brampton, Ontario Thursday April 12, 2012.

Another relative has been charged in the 2009 slaying of Brampton mother Poonam Litt.

Skinder Punia, 42, the victim’s brother-in-law, faces a charge of accessory after the fact to murder, Peel police announced Wednesday.

His arrest comes more than a month after Mr. Punia’s wife, Mandeep Punia, was charged with second-degree murder in the crime and the victim’s father-in-law, Kulwant Singh Litt, was accused of being an accessory after the fact.

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Police found Ms. Litt’s skeletal remains in February after the 27-year-old woman disappeared three years earlier, leaving behind a young daughter.

Investigators allege Ms. Punia killed Ms. Litt on Feb. 4, 2009, a day before the victim failed to report for work at a local dentist’s office.

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