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...Gaza one year after my parents were expelled from their town," he answered. "From the day I opened my eyes, I faced Israeli threats all the time." Like most Palestinian men of his generation, he spent his formative years in Israel's prisons: eight years in an Ashkelon jail, two in a solitary cell underground. And like most of those exiled to the miseries of Gaza, he said he would never give up the right to return to his home village of al-Jayeh near Ashkelon. "If we fear Israel," he said, "that will leave them in our place. That...
...suspected of poaching the prized Patagonian toothfish from Australian waters was escorted back to Australia after armed fisheries officials boarded the ship following a three-week chase. The trawler has 85 tons of fish aboard; its crew could be fined up to $350,000 and spend 12 months in jail. MEANWHILE IN FRANCE ... Almost Poached President George W. Bush's personal chef, Walter Scheib, got steamed when jokers from a French TV show - disguised as President Chirac's wife Bernadette and her secretary - tempted him to quit the White House for a job in Chirac's kitchens. The fake first...
...unfolds when Hoon gives evidence this week; he'll have to explain why Kelly's name was leaked. But the main event is Thursday's appearance by Blair. Could this crisis bring down Blair? Unlikely. This is an inquiry, not a trial, so no one is heading for jail. But Blair is losing ground in the court of public opinion. A Guardian/ICM poll last week found that 6% of those surveyed trusted the government to tell the truth (34% said they trusted the BBC) and 50% believed the government deliberately embellished the dossier. It will take all of Blair...
Another possibility mentioned by Okhotin and Sonnenberg, which they said could still happen after Wednesday’s events, was that the judge would declare Okhotin “conditionally guilty”—freeing him for the time being, but holding the promise of jail if he committed any acts of smuggling in the future. Such a verdict would leave Okhotin still technically guilty of a crime he adamantly says he did not commit...
Though relieved he would most likely not face jail time, Okhotin said yesterday that he was still hopeful he would be found not guilty and concerned over the fate...