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...punish Osama Bin Laden leaves a hole in our sense of justice. From the day they indicted Zacarias Moussaoui, the only al-Qaeda conspirator to be tried in the U.S. , prosecutors were determined to start patching that hole with a conviction, and a death sentence. He signed his guilty plea "the 20th hijacker," suggesting that he was meant to be onboard Flight 93, the plane with only four terrorists, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field. Having been ruled eligible for the death penalty, Moussaoui now begins his sentencing phase, which invites us once again to ask: how do we want...
...regimes. "The Sudanese and Libyans sounded very afraid to their Egyptian and other interlocutors," the cable says. The Sudanese ambassador "had a quivering voice" in a call to the Egyptian ministry of foreign affairs, the cable says, and Sudanese president Bashir's message to Mubarak "was more an urgent plea for help than a reasoned discussion.... The Sudanese still seemed to believe themselves a likely target...
...classroom, at her home and in the back of her SUV. Last month charges were dropped in Marion County, where the SUV incident is said to have occurred, because the boy's family did not want him dragged through a tawdry trial. They had worked out a plea agreement in Hillsborough County that sentences Lafave to three years of house arrest, seven years of probation and lifetime registration as a sex offender who cannot work with or near children. "We only hope, in the next few weeks, Debbie will fade to a footnote," her lawyer, John Fitzgibbons, told the Tampa...
...MARCH 2006, WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.: In a plea agreement, music teacher Carol Flannigan, 51, began serving a five-year prison sentence (to be followed by 10 years of sex-offender probation) for lewd and lascivious molestation of a student that began when the boy was 11. The relationship lasted 19 months, say police...
...AUGUST 2005, MCMINNVILLE, TENN.: Elementary-school phys-ed teacher Pamela Rogers, 28--another bombshell blond--received a nine-month jail sentence in a plea deal, plus eight years' probation, for four counts of sexual battery by an authority figure. She had a 2 1/2-month relationship with a student...