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...former members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime, most of them officials in the disbanded mukhabarat, Iraq's ruthless intelligence service. A construction worker who declines to give his full name for fear of retribution, Jasim, 31, has scores to settle. In 1999, after he participated in the murder of three Baathist officials, the mukhabarat threw him into prison, where he says he was whipped and beaten and tortured with electric shocks to his penis. Released in a general amnesty Saddam granted just before the war, Jasim believes that his uncle sold him out to the authorities and intends...
...many Iraqis, the law will never provide the brand of swift justice they crave. And each revenge murder plants the seeds for another. Sitting in the family living room in al-Amiriya, Omar and Mohammed al-Douri show visitors photographs of their late father, recalling how, after retiring from the mukhabarat, he painted the rooms of the house and always ensured that the refrigerator was fully stocked. "He was the tent for our family," says Omar. Asked whether they hope to find his killers, the sons nod purposefully. "The blood of our father is on our necks," says Mohammed...
...could receive a prison term of up to 10 years. And Durst could soon be back in court to face a wrongful-death civil suit brought by Black's sister Gladys Saslaw, which would require a lighter burden of proof than the one he faced for Black's murder. For that, he may have to mount another extraordinary performance. --Reported by Cathy Booth Thomas/Dallas, Simon Crittle/New York and Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...CONVICTED. JOHN ALLEN MUHAMMAD, 42, of murder, terrorism, conspiracy and a firearms charge in the sniper killings that left 10 dead and terrorized Washington, D.C., last fall; in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Prosecutors said they didn't know why Muhammad became a killer, although one theory was that he was motivated by anger at his former wife. Muhammad faces the death penalty or life in prison, and the trial of his alleged accomplice, 18-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo, is in progress...
...Predatory transients" are what police call serial killers who strike across vast areas or move to places where they have a better chance of getting away with murder. They were rare in China a decade ago, when internal travel by citizens required official permission. Now, with the easing of residence permits and 120 million migrants already living in the cities, criminals and killers, too, have hit the road. In addition to detaining Ma, a native of Hunan province, police have in recent weeks held a man in Hebei province on suspicion of killing 65 people in four provinces, and another...