Word: firebombings
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...grip of election fever. A group of young vigilantes chanting slogans in support of President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party told the lanky 22-year-old that she had to come with them. She says they chased her home, jumped her fence, and threatened to firebomb her house unless she came out. Finally, her uncle told her to go. She was taken to a youth camp outside Bulawayo; she could tell by the ZANU-PF T shirts some in the camp wore that it was run by the government. That night, she says, the boys came into...
...close to hell down there." SOUTH KOREAN FIRE FIGHTER, after emerging from the scene of a firebomb attack on a Daegu subway. Officials say 133 people died and 300 remain missing...
FRANCE Synagogue Arson A series of attacks on Jewish places of worship, cemeteries and shops in France and Belgium was blamed on the worsening Middle East crisis. After a firebomb attack on a Marseilles synagogue, similar assaults were made in Lyons and Montpellier. Near Strasbourg, a bomb was found in a cemetery where arsonists had earlier damaged a pavilion. In the Belgian cities of Brussels and Antwerp, synagogues were also attacked. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin warned that the "passions that flare up in the Middle East must not flare up" in France, home to 4 million Muslims and around...
...Monday, the Daily News wrote a story saying Dershowitz had joined the defense team for a New York liquor store owner who was convicted last fall of hiring men to firebomb two rival stores. After his conviction, the owner claimed his lawyer was incompetent and hired a new attorney, one named Dershowitz...
...latest case involves William Peterson, proprietor of Crazy Billy’s Park Liquors in Long Island. In 1995, Peterson hired two men to firebomb two of his rivals, Bottles & Cases and Bottle Bargains. Last fall a jury found Peterson guilty but a judge has yet to hand down sentence in the case...