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...charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. Moreno-Ocampo claims that Al-Bashir, who warned against the move during a Khartoum rally (above), "personally instructed" his forces to annihilate three ethnic groups in Darfur. "His motives were largely political," said Moreno-Ocampo. "His alibi was a counterinsurgency. His intent was genocide." Human-rights groups applauded. Others, including Western diplomats and governments in China and Africa, warned that the indictment risks prolonging, even exacerbating, the conflict in Sudan, which has already cost 200,000 lives and displaced 2.5 million people. Speaking for the African Union, Tanzanian Foreign...
...places where censorship reigns, Shakespeare can say what others cannot. Kuwaiti director Sulayman Al-Bassam uses him for subversive ends. "If you are an Arab theater maker looking to take a pop at authority, Shakespeare is your perfect bedmate, co-conspirator and alibi," he has said. Such is the yearning for catharsis in the Middle East that, when he took his Richard III to Egypt, it provoked a near riot among people who couldn't get tickets...
Volz has always insisted that he was two hours away in the capital Managua at the time of the murder, and provided cell phone and IM chat-log records to prove his alibi - evidence that was dismissed by the judge presiding over his murder trial. Rodriguez, however, found that alibi more compelling, despite other inconsistencies in the case. "It's better to have 100 guilty people on the street than one innocent person in jail," Rodriguez told TIME...
Twenty-two years ago, a young man named Marion Coakley was convicted of robbing and brutally raping a mother of five. But with eight witnesses and a priest corroborating Coakley's alibi, his South Bronx community believed in his innocence. Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, who had once worked together as public defenders in the Bronx, thought they could help him. The attorneys had just learned about a new technology being tested in England: DNA typing, which compared DNA sequences from crime scene evidence to sequences in the suspect's DNA. With this intriguing defense mechanism potentially available to them...
That was the theory. Instead, Iraq today is exporting less oil than it did under Saddam Hussein. And instead of offering the Saudis a model, Iraq has offered their rulers an alibi. Demand democracy, they can tell their restless subjects, and you'll get chaos instead...