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...behavior followed patterns similar that of the actual hijackers: attending flight training school, inquiring into crop dusting procedures, and apparently receiving funding from Ramsey bin al-Shied, an international fugitive believed to have paid for numerous terrorist attacks. Damning coincidences, to be sure, but will they be enough to convict Moussaoui...
...years as a top corporate executive and a mastermind behind Time Inc.'s transformation into the world's No. 1 media company; in New York. Richard Parsons, the co-coo, will succeed Levin as the head of the company in May 2002. ARRESTED. CLAYTON LEE WAAGNER, 45, an escaped convict and one of the fbi's 10 Most Wanted fugitives, for allegedly mailing more than 550 hoax anthrax letters signed "Army of God" to about 280 abortion clinics; in Cincinnati, Ohio. Waagner, found with $8,986 in cash and a .40-caliber loaded semiautomatic pistol, had escaped from an Illinois...
...Michael Chertoff's appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week came, not surprisingly, when he was forced to defend the Bush Administration's embrace of military tribunals. How could the U.S. hold trials in which the judges are military officers, just a two-thirds vote is sufficient to convict, and there is no need for proof beyond a reasonable doubt? How could the Administration support legal proceedings that are held in secret--meaning a defendant can go from being charged to being put to death without the public ever finding out? "Whether you have a civilian tribunal...
Additionally, the tribunal would be able to both convict and impose sentences by a two-thirds majority of a jury of military officers, rather than the unanimous decision traditionally expected of juries for hundreds of years. And no matter what the outcome of their deliberations, the court’s actions could not be appealed to any court of the United States or of any state—in effect suspending the writ of habeas corpus that guarantees defendants their day in court...
...resources to prosecute cases of terrorism quickly and effectively, not mask its inability to do so by a process that saves the expense at the cost of fundamental rights. If our government has sufficient reasons to condemn a suspect in a military tribunal, it has sufficient evidence to convict that suspect in a court...