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Already accused of a series of arson and cattle-killing incidents, the Mau Mau's dramatic daylight assassination of a prominent British loyalist from their own tribe stunned the colonial government into calling a state of emergency that lasted nearly eight years. British troops were brought in. More than 100,000 Africans were put into detention camps...
These organizations are a far cry from the shadowy Earth Liberation Front (E.L.F.), which claimed responsibility for an arson attack in January at a Ford dealership in Girard, Pa. Self-described E.L.F. members also slashed tires and splashed chemicals on some 30 SUVs parked on streets in Richmond, Va., last fall. Wendy and Alex condemn such vandalism. "That's ecoterrorism," says Alex. Slapping unwanted bumper stickers on SUVs, he claims, "is just fighting the good fight with a sense of humor...
...Hobley barely had time to change into the suit his wife had brought him before he was rushed out of the gate last week by Illinois officials, an exonerated man. Condemned to death for the murder of his first wife, baby son and five other 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...
PLEADED GUILTY. ALEX KING, 13, and DEREK KING, 14, Florida brothers convicted of the second-degree murder of their father last year; to arson and third-degree murder, after their original conviction was overturned by a judge last month; in Miami. Shelving the multi-decade sentences the boys would have faced, lawyers agreed on seven years in a prison for young offenders for Alex, eight for Derek...
...Fueling the unease is a spate of troublesome reports from the country's Muslim-dominated south. The region has been blighted this year by a series of bomb and arson attacks on schools and hotels and a rash of hits on local cops. Both government and intelligence agencies believe the violence is linked to the region's extortion and smuggling rackets, not international terrorists groups. But no one is taking any chances. While publicly dismissing the possibility of an imminent strike the government has at the same time bolstered security in some of the most popular tourist haunts, at airports...