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...days after Zhu's death, Fan Zhen posted her accusation on the Internet. Censors immediately removed it, but others soon offered their own commentary. "Looks like political murder," reads a typical posting on the People's Daily website. Chinese have seen this type of intrigue before. A Beijing vice mayor, Wang Baosen, committed suicide during a 1995 scandal that brought down a Politburo member and might have gone higher if Wang had lived. Likewise, Zhu's case will remain forever murky. To his widow, however, there is no doubt that he died at somebody else's hands. "My rage," says...
...CONVICTED. ARMIN MEIWES, 42, a German computer repairman who killed and ate another man; of manslaughter; in Kassel, Germany. Meiwes was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison. The court rejected a life sentence for murder sought by the prosecutors, ruling that the victim, Bernd-J?rgen Brandes, 43, was a willing participant in his own death...
...This is wonderful." ANNE LECLAIR, president and chief executive of the San Mateo (Calif.) County Convention and Visitors Bureau, talking to a reporter after learning that the murder trial of Scott Peterson had been moved to San Mateo County...
...adding to their already substantial arms caches. Local Turkomans, fearing domination by Kurds, have formed a new alliance with Kirkuk's Arabs. Aliya Chakmakchi, a Turkoman who works as a secretary for the U.S. Army in Kirkuk, voices a widespread fear: "If the U.S. leaves here, everyone will just murder each other." --By Philip Smucker/Kirkuk
When a Pakistani judge ordered the death penalty for Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh in July 2002 for the murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, the Islamic militant was defiant. In court Sheikh had his lawyer read a threat to Pakistan's President: "Let's see who dies first, me or Musharraf." Now, after two bomb attempts in December on President Pervez Musharraf's life, investigators are treating Sheikh's warning as more than just bravado. Most of the dozen or so plotters who twice placed bombs on Musharraf's motorcade route belonged to Jaish-e-Muhammad, an outlawed militant group...