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...accounts of the massacre of 58 tourists at the Hatsepshut temple emerged Tuesday, so did the culprits. The outlawed al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, or Islamic Group, claimed responsibility for the attack through faxes to Western news agencies. The group claimed it had been seeking the release of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman...
Libya did not immediately react to Hardie's offer. Representatives for the North African nation are scheduled to lay out their case Friday. Libya has refused to hand over Abdel Basset Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah despite crippling U.N. economic sanctions imposed...
...spend a lot of the day being interviewed." Among the offending disclosures: a Washington Post story by Bob Woodward and Brian Duffy that detailed U.S. intelligence intercepts of a covert Chinese-government scheme to funnel illicit money into political campaigns; revelations of plea-bargain negotiations between Justice and Hani Abdel Rahim Hussein al-Sayegh, a Saudi dissident nabbed in Canada and suspected of driving a lookout car for the truck bombers who killed 19 U.S. servicemen in Dhahran last June; reports that alleged CIA killer Mir Aimal Kansi gave a confession to FBI agents who snared him in Pakistan...
...Friedman--and also sadly far less notable to the world at large. She and her 12-year-old son Ephraim died almost a month ago, after having been gunned down in a drive-by shooting by Palestinian terrorists outside the Jewish settlement of Beit El. The two killers, Abdel Nasser Qaysi and Ibrahim Kam, were sentenced to life imprisonment by a secret Palestinian court a week later, convicted not of murder but of "betraying the security of the Palestinian people." Palestinian Authority Preventive Security Chief Jibril Rajoub, defending the convictions before indignant leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation...
...supporting Israel, even after its army shelled a United Nations compound in the Lebanese village of Qana last April, killing more than 100 civilians. Threats have also come from Egypt's Islamic Group, which has pledged to strike at the U.S. for imprisoning its spiritual leader, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric, was convicted last year of plotting to blow up the U.N. and several other New York landmarks. He is serving a life sentence in Springfield, Missouri. Speculation also surrounds the hard-line Palestinian group Hamas, which has vowed to attack the U.S. for agreeing...