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...betrayed powerful people with long reaches. All that stands between them and a hit man's bullet is the Justice Department, and defense lawyers will try to rattle their credibility by arguing that they will say anything to protect themselves. Of course the U.S. hopes their compelling evidence will convict the four men currently on trial. But the real target is still bin Laden, indicted in November 1998 on 238 counts of conspiracy and still out there, masterminding the unending Jihadist threat of terror. Investigators know from the details piling up in New York how his organization works. But what...
...southwestern Scotland for every scrap of debris from Pan Am Flight 103, which blew up on Dec. 21, 1988 and crashed in a horrific fireball on the town of Lockerbie. The evidence-10,232 pages of testimony, 235 witnesses-was enough for the court to convict Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, 48, for the murder of 270 people and sentence him to life imprisonment in a Scottish jail. His co-defendant, Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, 44, was found not guilty...
...actually believes Ray will pounce as soon as the moving van pulls away from the White House. Clinton prefers to take his chances fighting, as he has so many times before. One reason is that an overwhelmingly Democratic Washington jury is not likely to convict him (remember, even a Republican Senate didn't). But there's a more compelling, unspoken reason he doesn't want Bush's get-out-of-jail-free card. A pardon is the one thing you can't weasel out of. It carries with it the unmistakable implication of guilt, yet there's no precedent...
...with about 24 hours left in Clinton's term apparently realized that getting a jury to convict an ex-president with 65 percent job approval ratings of perjury and obstruction of justice in a civil suit was going to be a fruitless enterprise. So he and Clinton struck a deal, which was then leaked to the media Friday morning, sans details. Friday afternoon, in the middle of George W. Bush's three-day inaugural festivities, Clinton filled his end of the bargain - with press secretary Jake Siewert mouthing the words...
...state legislator, he advocated a pro-death penalty stance. He described his attitude towards criminals as: "Catch him, convict him and throw away...