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...national prosecutor's office reinstituted charges that they mishandled funds prior to being forced from office in 1993; in Caracas. The couple now divide their time between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. GUILTY. Plea entered by MAMDOUH MAHMUD SALIM, 45, alleged al-Qaeda member charged with attempted murder for a November 2000 attack in which he stabbed a prison guard in the eye with a sharpened comb; in a Manhattan court. The incident occurred while Salim awaited trial on conspiracy charges for his alleged involvement in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa. RELEASED. TANAK JIGME SANGPO...
CANADA More Murders Police conducting an "inch-by-inch" search of a pig farm 32 km from Vancouver turned up more evidence in the murder case against Robert Pickton, who was already facing a double murder charge. The new evidence enabled police to bring an additional three counts of first-degree murder against Pickton, who is so far the only person charged in relation to the disappearances of up to 50 women from the east end area of downtown Vancouver since...
...people already dead in the worst intercommunal strife in a decade, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee belatedly visited the western state of Gujarat. The violence began in Godhra a month ago when a Muslim mob set fire to a train, killing 60 Hindu activists, provoking revenge attacks of murder, arson and looting. On the eve of the visit five Muslims died when their homes near Ahmedabad were torched. Vajpayee told victims that the failure of the local administration to prevent the violence would be investigated...
Engel was convicted in absentia in November 1999 by an Italian military court on 246 counts of murder. He was accused of three massacres of civilians, including 18 people he shot personally, according to eyewitness testimony. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Italian court, but Germany doesn't allow for its citizens to be extradited abroad. Meanwhile, Engel has insisted he is innocent of any crime. Speaking of the 59 people who were taken from Genoa's Marassi prison and shot in groups of six outside town, he said, "I want to stress that these 59 were martyrs...
...morning breeze, can Israelis possibly hope for peace? They are living side-by-side with a culture that has embraced self-immolation as a weapon of war, in the hopes that enough blood will buy them what negotiation could not. The Palestinian people have chosen martyrdom and murder over compromise; how, then, does one seek a compromise with them? How does one negotiate in hell...