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...Neither side has fought by the Queensberry rules in the decades-old struggle between Israel and the Palestinians, and that may pose problems for Israeli officials on a European continent where enthusiasm for cross-border human-rights prosecutions has been aroused by the Pinochet and Milosevic indictments. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres maintains that the same principle could be applied against any Palestinian representative who had been involved in terrorist actions and wreak havoc with European efforts to engage with both sides. That argument may resonate with politicians engaged in trying to revive the peace process, but it?s unlikely...
...INDICTED. JORGE VIDELA, 75, former Argentine dictator, for participating with five other South American despots, including Chile's Augusto Pinochet, in a scheme to kill leftist opponents; in Buenos Aires. Videla's junta sized power in a 1976 coup, and from then until 1981 collaborated with the other governments to hunt political exiles in their own countries. His regime is linked to the deaths of up to 30,000. SENTENCED. KHALFAN KHAMIS MOHAMED, 27, to life in prison for making explosives used to bomb the U.S. embassy in Tanzania in 1998, killing 11 people; in New York. The same jury...
...There's no middle ground here, but they're trying to find a way to try Pinochet without having him tried, if that makes sense. He is ill, he forgets things here and there - it is questionable whether he is really unable to stand trial, but the fact is that he is very ill, and I guess this is a good compromise...
...ruling came after a weekend of rumors that Pinochet had died, said Edwards. "His family came forth promptly and said 'no, he's alive but very ill,'" said Edwards. "Some people are saying that those rumors were spread in anticipation of this ruling...
...Prosecutors said Monday that they would seek a reversal of the ruling, but the possibility of Pinochet's health improving enough to resume talk of a trial appears...