Word: confessionalism
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It's one thing to expect someone to die; it's another to look forward to that day, not secretly, guiltily, but openly, eagerly, a morbid jubilee. Osama bin Laden's casually pitiless confession, released by the Pentagon just as U.S. forces seemed to have him cornered, meant that at...
From the little that is known about Walker's case so far, legal experts say it is unlikely that he will face treason charges, for which the Constitution applies a maximum penalty of death. That's partly because the framers, mindful of how abusively treason had been applied in England...
Try him for treason, scream the pundits. Hang him! Rip his limbs from his body! While the charge sounds suitably dramatic, legally, treason is a pretty tricky crime to prove (and is punishable by death). Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution reads, "Treason against the United States, shall consist...
FOILED SEPT. 13, 2001 PARIS AND BRUSSELS Evidence of plots to bomb the U.S. embassy in Paris, and possibly also NATO headquarters in Brussels, was uncovered after the earlier confession of Djamel Beghal. The information, despite being partially retracted, led to arrests.
When questioned by federal agents that year, Zaki told them that he met al-Zawahiri through two men he knew casually from the mosque, Ali Mohamed and Khalid Abu-al-Dahab. Both have since confessed to Egyptian authorities that they were terrorist operatives. In 1999 Abu-al-Dahab was tried...