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...people in a 1987 arson case, Hobley--who had no previous convictions--insisted that police had beaten and suffocated him to get a confession. Years later, his lawyers claimed that crucial evidence had not been made available to them by prosecutors. Yet for all the outrage over Hobley's arrest and imprisonment, his release played only a bit part in the drama of Illinois Governor George Ryan's final hours in office. After granting a full pardon to Hobley and three others condemned to death, Ryan then commuted the death sentences of an additional 157 inmates. Death...
...RECORD Belgrade The U.S. told Serbia to arrest three notorious war criminals or risk losing tens of millions of dollars in American aid. Frankfurt German prosecutors charged an American, Astrid Eyzaguirre, and her German lover, Osman Petmezci, with planning to bomb a U.S. military base in Heidelberg. Medellin In Colombia, a car bomb placed near the office of a regional prosecutor killed at least four people and injured 30. Police blamed guerrillas. Moscow A court began hearing 61 lawsuits claiming $59 million in compensation for deaths and injuries caused by lethal gas used during the October theater siege. Harare Zimbabwe...
...nexus of a web of terror that stretches from Algeria to Afghanistan, Paris to the Pankisi Valley, London to Los Angeles. "Even the successful actions by antiterrorism officials confirm evidence that al-Qaeda's numbers are swelling," says independent French terror expert Roland Jacquard. "Each raid that involves the arrest of several known operatives also turns up names and pseudonyms of people investigators never heard of. These names, which have neither faces nor backgrounds, number in the hundreds now." Just how the suspects came to be apprehended last week has not been revealed. But information from French antiterrorist investigators confirms...
...Last month's arrests near Paris followed several sweeps in November, notably the arrest of Slimane Khalfaoui, a French citizen of Algerian origin. Like many suspects taken into custody at around the same time in France and Britain, Khalfaoui - a veteran of fighting in Bosnia and Afghanistan - had been linked to others accused of plotting terror strikes in Europe, such as the alleged plan to bomb Strasbourg Cathedral in December 2000. Recent suspected Islamic radicals arrested in Europe seem to have a number of factors in common: officials say virtually all trained in Afghanistan, the Caucasus or both; most...
...Berlusconi. But throughout the four hours of questioning, Giuffrè sat with his back to the camera - a security requirement. That left the three judges looking for other possible signs of sincerity in the man who says he decided to turn state's evidence two months after his April arrest because of Pope John Paul II's canonization of his religious idol, Padre Pio. While most took the religious confession with a grain of salt, some may have seen contrition in the video image of Giuffrè's slightly slouched posture, or anxiety in his constant twirling and clicking...