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...other men in question are in very different circumstances from Walker Lindh. One, 21-year-old Yaser Esam Hamdi, was captured in Afghanistan and brought to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After authorities discovered he was born in Louisiana, Hamdi was transferred to a naval base in Norfolk, VA. Hamdi lacks the homegrown factor that may have helped Lindh; he has lived with his family in Saudi Arabia for much of his life. He has been held without access to an attorney since his capture earlier this year. The second domestic terrorist, Jose Padilla, is under arrest for allegedly conspiring with...
...ALCAZAR, 26, a Panamanian boxer, of a brain injury 36 hours after he lost his World Boxing Organization junior bantamweight title fight; in Las Vegas. Alcazar showed no signs of injury immediately after the bout, before suddenly collapsing. DIED. MILES FRANCIS STAPLETON FITZALAN-HOWARD, 86, the 17th Duke of Norfolk; in Henley-on-Thames, England. As holder of the office of earl marshal, the duke was the country's senior nobleman. His duties included organizing the annual state opening of Parliament by the Queen. DIED. PIERRE WERNER, 88, the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg who in 1970 conceived the idea...
...experts, who say the Administration appears to be making up the rules as it goes along. American Taliban John Walker Lindh and foreign suspects Zacarias Moussaoui and Richard Reid all face federal trial, but Yasser Hamdi, the Louisiana-born Saudi captured last December in Afghanistan, is being held in Norfolk as an enemy combatant. Now Padilla is being held as a combatant as well--though the Administration says it has no plans to try him before a tribunal. "The real test case is Padilla," says Duke professor Scott Silliman, who specializes in national-security law. Silliman argues the courts need...
...Because fewer people want to fly, cruise lines are bringing their ships Stateside and offering departures from new ports, including Baltimore, Md., and Norfolk, Va. They're also offering shorter cruises, to such familiar spots as the Caribbean, Alaska and Hawaii...
...been weak and frail since Christmas, when she contracted a chest infection at Sandringham, the royal retreat in Norfolk. She was dependent on a wheelchair and still had a worrying cough in early February, when her second daughter, Margaret, died in London at age 71 after a series of strokes. Nevertheless, the Queen Mother insisted on attending the Princess's funeral at Windsor. The Archbishop of Canterbury recalled that at the St. George's Chapel service, she stood in tribute as Margaret's coffin passed...