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 He had no doubt her condition was genuine.

“If she is bunging-on this illness, it is the cleverest deception that a psychiatrist will ever see,” Dr Phillips told Seven.

Dr Phillips said the best option would be to have Corby transferred as a prisoner to Australia and

treated in a secure hospital setting.

But that is unlikely to occur while long-running negotiations between Indonesia and Australia over a prisoner transfer deal remain stalled.

Corby’s sister Mercedes said Dr Phillips’ 20-page report was “terrifying” for the family, who plan to send it to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and other political leaders.

“We hope it might finally spur the Australian Government into action,” she said.

“We have to get proper treatment for Schapelle, outside a jail environment and preferably in Australia, or she will die.

“That’s what the doctor says and, sadly, I know it’s true because Schapelle has already harmed herself twice.”

It no longer matters if Schapelle is innocent or guilty, Mercedes said.

“This is about basic humanity. It’s a matter of life and death. I’m begging Mr Rudd and anybody else who has the power to help - please bring Schapelle home so she can get well again.”

SCHAPELLE Corby’s family has renewed its fight to have the convicted drug smuggler returned to Australia after a top psychiatrist warned she will not survive her sentence if she remains in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison.

Associate Professor Jonathan Phillips spent a week with Corby in prison earlier this month and said the former beauty student was “hanging on by a thread”.

Dr Phillips, former president of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, said the 32-year-old would continue to deteriorate unless she is moved.

“She is now helpless, hopeless, feels useless, she feels alienated, she feels removed from the rest of humanity,” Dr Phillips told the Seven Network tonight.

Thousands of people fled the fire-striken areas, many on foot. But government spokesman Evangelos Antonaros said the number of people involved in state-organized evacuations was “limited” and most have now returned to their homes.

Antonaros on Monday defended the government’s response.

“A massive effort is underway to contain these fires,” Antonaros said. “From the first moment, (we had) the presence of (fire fighting) personnel on a large scale.”

Up to 2,000 firefighters, soldiers and volunteers are involved in fighting fires stretching more than 30 miles (50 kilometers) northeast of Athens. Aircraft have been sent from France, Italy and Cyprus, with more help expected from other countries.

Fires raged, meanwhile, at the coastal town of Nea Makri and nearby Marathon — site of one of ancient history’s most famous battlegrounds — to the northeast of the capital, and at Vilia to the northwest.

At Nea Makri, a blaze was tearing down a hillside toward houses, and a dozen nuns were rescued from a nearby Christian Orthodox convent threatened by fire. Volunteers, clutching branches and with water-soaked towels wrapped around their necks, beat back the flames as the evacuation took place.

At least five people were being treated for burns and several dozen had reported breathing problems, but no injuries were serious, Health Ministry officials said.

At first light Monday, 17 water-dropping planes and helicopters swooped over flames near populated areas, trying to knock down the fire before the stronger winds expected later in the day.

“There are some signs of optimism but no letting up of the firefighting effort. We have a chance to contain this nightmare that has burned the city’s main forest area,” Athens regional governor Yiannis Sgouros said. “After this, we will assess the extent of this catastrophe — how many homes were destroyed, and how much damage was done.”

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis toured the affected area on Sunday, amid criticism of his government’s response to the emergency. The mayor of Marathon, Spyros Zagaris, was among several local leaders who accused the government of having no coherent plan to fight the fire.

ATHENS, Greece – Fire crews outside Athens scrambled Monday to exploit a lull in high winds, but the flames spread further and a dozen nuns had to be rescued from a convent threatened by one blaze.

The massive wildfires broke out Friday and have razed about 58 square miles (37,000 acres or 15,000 hectares) of forest and brush, damaged or destroyed scores of homes and forced thousands to flee outlying areas of the Greek capital.

Six major fires were burning Monday across Greece, including blazes on the islands of Evia and Skyros in the Aegean Sea and Zakynthos in the west. But the most dangerous was the fire near Athens, which started north of the Marathon plain and spread over Mount Penteli on the northern of Athens.

All civilian employees of the government, including those at the C.I.A., were required to comply with guidelines for interrogations detailed in a series of legal opinions written by the Justice Department. Those opinions, since abandoned by the Obama administration, were the central focus of the Justice Department’s internal inquiry.

It has been known that the Justice Department ethics report had criticized the authors of the legal opinions and, in some cases, would recommend referrals to local bar associations for discipline.

But the internal inquiry also examined how the opinions were carried out and how referrals of possible violations were made — a process that led ethics investigators to find misconduct serious enough to warrant renewed criminal investigation.

The Justice Department’s report, the most important since Mr. Holder took office, was submitted by Mary Patrice Brown, a veteran Washington federal prosecutor picked by Mr. Holder to lead the Office of Professional Responsibility earlier this year after its longtime chief, H. Marshall Jarrett, moved to another job in the Justice Department.

There has never been any public explanation of why the Justice Department decided not to bring charges in nearly two dozen abuse cases known to be referred to a team of federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Va., and in some instances not even the details of the cases have been made public.

Former government lawyers said that while some detainees died and others suffered serious abuses, prosecutors decided they would be unlikely to prevail because of problems with mishandled evidence and, in some cases, the inability to locate witnesses or even those said to be the victims.

 “I just couldn’t believe that something like that would happen on your wedding night,” Julie told KOMO. “That was hard … that was hard.”

The couple’s finances made the theft even worse.

Julie lost her job as a waitress three months ago. Her husband is a mechanic.

The newlyweds are raising five kids from previous relationships and struggle to make ends meet. Family members paid for the small wedding ceremony. And now, almost everything has been taken from their home.

“They took a whole piggy bank of our money and all our blankets, all the clothes in our closet,” one of their sons, Gabe, told KOMO. “We looked in the closet. Nothing was there.”

Even an urn with the ashes of Corp’s grandmother was stolen.

The bride had planned to release the ashes during the couple’s planned honeymoon to the Virgin Islands. The couple were forced to cancel the trip.

“It was my honeymoon, and she couldn’t be there for the wedding,” Julie said of her grandma. “Just little things like that — things you can’t get back no matter what.”

Meanwhile, forecasters said Tropical Storm Hilda formed far out in the Pacific on Saturday but was not threatening land. It had maximum sustained winds near 40 mph and was not expected to strengthen.

On Saturday evening, it was about 1,930 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and 1,225 miles east-southeast of Hilo, Hawaii.

Associated Press Writers Bruce Shipkowski in Trenton, N.J.; Karen Testa in Hull, Mass.; Jay Lindsay in Boston; Jennifer Peltz in New York; Amanda Dale in Hamilton, Bermuda; Rob Gillies in Toronto and Gillian Gaynair in Washington contributed to this report.

“This is only for experienced surfers,” Aluise said.

The stormy conditions were expected to last through the weekend.

“It takes a while for the ocean to relax” after strong storms, said Gary Conte, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “Until it does, riptides will make dangerous sport” for surfers and swimmers.

Hurricane Bill moved past Bermuda earlier Saturday, leaving behind sunny skies, debris and flooding, but no casualties.

The storm mostly spared the pink-sand shores, though it cut power to about 3,700 customers and flooded some roads along the northern coast. The airport was closed overnight and expected to reopen Saturday afternoon. All ferry service was canceled until Sunday.

Bermudians and tourists awoke to some water on the roads, rain and gusting winds.

“It was something to behold. I’ve never been in a hurricane before,” said ESPN sportscaster Kenny Mayne, who hoped to return to the U.S. on Sunday.

A government spokeswoman said the British territory’s hospitals had no storm-related patients.