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...most immediate task for Thailand's new rulers is to bring the New Year's Eve bombers to justice. "Whether or not they can catch those who are responsible will be very important to the credibility of this government," says Professor Panitan. "As long as they can't arrest these people, the international community will not have confidence in Thailand." After such a tumultuous 2006, Thais can only hope that the new year restores some measure of stability-and safety...
...Mystery of the Double Cardiac Arrest Even surgical residents used to the heady rush of "codes" occasionally encounter emergencies that throw them for a total loop
...second Gulf War drove Saddam from Baghdad and power and into the spider hole. In the interim, his Baathist apparatus and military were dismantled. His family dispersed. His heirs, the despicable Uday and Qusay, were killed while fugitives in Iraq. Two years after his arrest, Saddam was put on trial for war crimes before the newly re-constituted Iraqi High Tribunal. In November he was convicted of genocide for ordering the executions of 148 men and boys in response to a 1982 assassination attempt in the town of Dujail. The Dujail trial introduced witnesses and an extensive document trail that...
...returned to the office to find the men awkwardly clutching mugs of tea in their shaking hands. They updated me on some of the people I had interviewed for the story: Three, including Lin Zuoyun, who was sitting in my office, had been brutally beaten. Two were under house arrest. A third - Sun Xuede, who had been elected with 85% of the vote - had disappeared. The four men were in Beijing to petition the central government for help. But their voyage proved ill-fated. Police from Qixia intercepted them at the petitions office and loaded them onto a train home...
...Those charges were not serious enough to warrant their arrest, and the two are now back in Long Island, says their lawyer. The charges carry a maximum sentence of four years, and such relatively short sentences are often commuted. Even though the two could theoretically be called to give more evidence from the U.S. under the two countries' Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, their lawyer makes it clear they won't be returning to Brazil...