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...exactly what happened five years ago in Omagh. Three months after voters across Ireland overwhelmingly endorsed the 1998 Good Friday peace settlement, dissidents slipped a massive car bomb past security forces. The bomb deepened the resolve to make the peace process work, but left lingering worries that the accord hadn't really delivered the hoped-for end to violence. "The further away you are from Omagh, the closer you are to another atrocity," says Michael Gallagher, whose 21-year-old son Aidan was killed in the blast. "They don't need much money, they don't need many people...
Donatos E. Lallos, Yadav’s court-appointed attorney, said Yadav had “reached accord and satisfaction” with the Lampoon, having agreed to apologize and pay for the broken window. Lallos had made the case that Yadav is a rising Harvard junior without a criminal record...
...Although the government hailed the arrests as a major strike against the network, Interior Minister Prince Nayef warned there was still a threat of terrorism. It's Over Already SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE A bloodless army coup ended as President Fradique de Menezes returned from Nigeria after signing an accord granting amnesty to the troops who toppled him a week earlier. Under the deal, de Menezes will stay on as President, but has promised to replace the government. Coup leader Major Fernando Pereira, who said the takeover was meant to highlight the island nation's impoverished state, warned the military...
...outstanding Holocaust-related slave-labor claims in exchange for legal immunity from restitution demands. Indeed, the German ambassador in Washington, Wolfgang Ischinger, in January wrote to the New Jersey judge who is considering Principe's suit in the U.S., urging him to dismiss that case. It should, according to the ambassador, be subsumed by the 2000 agreement. Principe's lawyers filed an angry rebuttal, saying the ambassador's letter "inexcusably" failed to disclose the German government's own "substantial pecuniary interest" in the case. Behind the scenes, the German Foreign Ministry has been trying to convince the Bush Administration...
...report Tuesday, "remains an early end to the military occupation through the formation of an internationally recognized, representative government." Achieving that objective is also, of course, the exit strategy that many on Capitol Hill are demanding, suggesting that despite the prewar tensions, the U.S. and UN may yet reach accord on, and in Iraq. And that news, together with the killing of the brothers Hussein, will be welcomed by most Iraqis...