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...Spanish investigators, it was a chilling message from beyond. As they searched a bombed-out apartment building in the Madrid suburb of Leganés last week - trying to determine from the body parts exactly how many members of the March 11 train-bombing cell had made their last stand there - the investigators found a videotape in the rubble. On it, an intense man, flanked by two others brandishing Sterling submachine guns, warned of massacres to come. "The Brigades of al-Mufti and Ansar al-Qaeda" - or supporters of al-Qaeda - were in Spain, said Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet...
...more than 3,000 counts of murder, arguing that the court had been unable to consider possibly exculpatory evidence from alleged al-Qaeda member Ramzi Binalshibh, who is in American custody. Justice, however measured, may be less central to many Europeans' concerns these days than simple safety. As Leganés resident Juani Lopez waited for her bus last week, she was nervous. The previous day, a man had climbed aboard her bus well before it was due to leave and left a case by the driver. "The driver shouted at us all to get out immediately...
Webster vanished from the Eastern Air-lines baggage claim area at Legan Airport on November 28, 1981. She was returning from a Thanksgiving holiday with her family in Glen Ridge...
RICHARD L. LEGAN Chance...
Getty boasts an even longer pedigree for his Diana, tracing it to 1655 (Rubens died in 1640), when the Marquis de Leganés. Spanish Ambassador to Brussels and a friend of Rubens', listed the work in an inventory of his collection. Getty's Rubens expert, Columbia Professor John Held, argues that the Cleveland painting has the sort of minor details-the birds, the elaborate ironwork on Diana's lance, the foreground foliage-that "are not infrequently added by copyists to make their pictures more superficially interesting." In one matter Getty's canvas is more detailed...