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...deputy director of the bureau, and Colonel Chen Hu-men, another Defense Ministry official, were each given 2½-year jail terms. The verdicts came ten days after the leader of Taiwan's powerful Bamboo Union Gang, Chen Chi-li, and his lieutenant, Wu Tun, were sentenced in a civilian court to life imprisonment for carrying out the murder...
...presentation opened with a documentary in Arabic which Elsarraj translated and narrated. The film graphically detailed the conditions of Palestinian refugee camps, depicting tanks driving through homes and violently disrupting civilian towns...
...Cylons, a race of robots created by mankind that can disguise themselves in human form. In an intriguing twist on the old series, the new Cylons have a religion and justify their genocide as punishment for humans' corruption. The humans must weigh fear vs. liberty and military vs. civilian authority. As a spacebound parable of the war on terrorism, this series hits eerily close to Earth...
...Iraqi city of Diwaniya killed a Bulgarian soldier, Gurdi Gurdev, whose patrol had stopped 150 m short of a U.S. checkpoint without realizing it was there. The Bulgarians, according to a letter posted on the Web by a "combat buddy" of the deceased, fired warning shots at a civilian Iraqi vehicle that was approaching them. "The Americans didn't know who fired the shots or why and so opened fire at the Bulgarian patrol," the letter said. In Bulgaria, the incident sparked new calls for the country to withdraw its 470 troops. Criticism intensified after the government failed to reveal...
...citizens are living under a cloud of blame. The state was born in an environment of tyranny, repression, exploitation, and bloodshed, and America still has not dropped one relic of this murky past. Where the rack, the ownership of persons, genocide, and the strategic killing of civilian populations have all been abandoned as means towards achieving the ends of the state, the death penalty remains...