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...London Verdict for Liquid Bombers Three of the eight men accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic commercial flights using liquid explosives hidden in plastic soft-drink bottles were found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, but the jury failed to reach verdicts on four of the men (one was acquitted of all charges)--and even on whether the cell had actually targeted aircraft. Prosecutors said the suspects' early arrests made it difficult to collect enough evidence to convince the jury of an imminent threat. Meanwhile, restrictions on carrying liquids aboard planes--measures sparked by the 2006 plot--remain...
Zardari always had a reputation for wheeling and dealing. When he was Investment Minister during Bhutto's second term, his alleged involvement in kickback scandals earned him the sobriquet "Mr. 10%." He spent 11 years in prison on charges of corruption, extortion and the murder of Bhutto's brother (a political rival), although he has never been convicted. In April he was finally acquitted of the murder charge. Pakistani governments led by both Bhutto's rival, Sharif, and Musharraf pursued money-laundering and corruption cases against Zardari in Britain, Spain and Switzerland. All charges were dropped last fall after...
Nobody can accuse the band of cowardice. The opening song on the album, Flowers and Football Tops, is inspired by the racist 2004 murder of a 15-year-old, while Go Square Go captures the pounding, fearful heart of a school fight - all delivered with Allan's uncompromising accent that makes the Proclaimers' broad Edinburgh brogue sound like plummy royalty...
...there very quickly," Ward said. "I think there were people in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office who looked at the big board and thought 'look, we can't bring this girl back, sad as it is, she's dead. Moi doesn't want this to be a murder. Let's support Moi.' And that's what they did," he said...
...Nearly a year after her death, Kenyan police, with the help of investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard, undertook a murder inquiry that let to the trial and acquittal of two men. The report criticizes that investigation as "inadequately resourced, completed with unseemly haste and superficial." (Another investigation in 1998 led to the trial of a third Kenyan, who was also acquitted...