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...during the trial, Saeed's defense lawyers argued that in the 7 p.m. darkness and from 15 meters away, it would have been impossible for the cabbie to distinguish one bearded Pakistani from another. "The taxi driver also happens to be a police constable," says Saeed's lawyer Abdul Waheed Katpar, who is appealing his defendant's conviction next month in the Supreme Court. "We think his superiors leaned on him to tailor his testimony." Police deny this allegation...
...their way to the Saddam shopping complex or take a look at the half-built Saddam Mosque. Less so in the south, where hardly any shops bother to hang the president's portrait. But people are still cautious. Even in Karbala, the heart of the majority Shia community, Abdul Sahib Naser Nasrulla, the chief of the biggest mosque, gripes about America's lust of Iraq's oil. "Will Americans accept it if Saddam Hussein wants to change their president?" he says. "Who gave the Americans the right to tell Iraqis that their President is not good...
SENTENCED. MOHAMMED AFZAL, 31, SYED ABDUL RAHMAN GEELANI, 40, and SHAUKAT HUSSAIN GURU, 35, three Kashmiri Muslims; to death under India's tough new Prevention of Terrorism Act, for helping to plot the December 2001 suicide attack on the Indian Parliament; in New Delhi. India accused Pakistan of being behind the attack, in which a five-man suicide squad killed nine people before being gunned down, nearly pushing the two countries to war. Indian human-rights activists have criticized the conviction, saying that the evidence, mainly phone transcripts, was not strong enough...
...Indonesia that left 19 dead over Christmas 2000, in which Samudra said he played an instrumental role, three of the attackers died when their devices exploded prematurely. Even more telling is the story of the last bomber Samudra personally sent out on a mission before Bali: the hapless Taufik Abdul Halim. According to his own court testimony, Taufik was dispatched to a Jakarta shopping mall in August 2001 with a bomb concealed in a plastic bag. He reached the target, but the bomb went off before he could escape, blowing off part...
After Karzai was elected president, he announced a permanent government that included Defense Minister Muhammad Qasim Fahim, Haji Abdul Qadir, and Kharim Khalili, all of whom are warlords suspected to be responsible for countless acts of brutalities under the former Taliban rule. Chief Justice Shinwari, who publicly has called for full support of sharia or Islamic law, was reappointed. The majority of the Judicial Commission, which is responsible for reconciling Islamic law with other legal traditions, was educated in religious schools...