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...months leading up to Sept. 11, alongside Moussaoui's doings over a similar time frame. Their tracks were roughly parallel, but direct contact between Moussaoui and the 19 was never alleged. The government charged him with being guilty, like them, of conspiring to commit terrorist acts, to destroy aircraft and to murder federal workers, and related offenses, "with the result that thousands of people died on Sept...
...Moussaoui belonged in a military tribunal from the start. "But the rules led to some dramatic and absurd results in this case." Veteran Virginia defense lawyer Nina Ginsberg, on the other hand, says the system is working exactly as it should. Brinkema was right, she says, to "not totally destroy" a defendant's right to use exculpatory witnesses to get a fair trial...
...battle that we're in is a spiritual battle. Satan wants to destroy this nation, he wants to destroy us as a nation, and he wants to destroy us as a Christian army." LIEUT. GENERAL WILLIAM BOYKIN, new Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, characterizing the war on terrorism as a religious battle, in remarks to a church in June that drew fire after being reported last week, prompting Boykin to apologize...
...Manhattan Minerals project in a nonbinding referendum late last year. Many are fearful that the open-pit mine will corrupt their farmlands, even though Manhattan pledges not to sully or siphon off the area's precious irrigation canals and reservoirs. "We are not going to allow a mine to destroy our way of life," says Tambogrande Mayor Francisco Ojeda...
...1930s, the U.S. did not meddle in Stalin’s purges because Americans believed that factions within Soviet leadership would destroy each other (and Soviet socialism) through internecine fighting. Today, we cannot bank on such grand designs and must reassess our position vis-à-vis Russia’s “internal affairs.” (In fact, Putin already seems to be losing this battle as Greece has recently refused to extradite Gusinsky...