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...October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Townsend acknowledged that the jailbreak is "of enormous concern to us, especially given the capabilities and the expertise of the people who were there." All 13 had been housed together, she said, and "we are disappointed that their restrictions in prison weren't more stringent." When asked why the U.S. wasn't keeping closer tabs on how the Al Qaeda prisoners were being incarcerated in Yemen, a U.S. law enforcement official said, "that assumes the Yemenis care what we think...
Five days later, I was released from the prison cells of Harare, after days of interrogations lasting up to six hours each, after sleeping on the floor in cells infested with ticks, after listening to the hungry cries of infants who had not seen the sun for weeks. While some of their mothers would be released in several days after paying fines for loitering, others awaited a seven-year sentence for crimes like having attempted an abortion. Their infants would join them in jail and grow up as prisoners...
...bold move has prompted a backlash from conservative Christians who support the administration's opposition to the Kyoto accords. Last week, 22 evangelicals, including James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, and Charles Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship ministries, wrote the National Association of Evangelicals, an umbrella group that represents 30 million Christians, demanding that it back off from supporting measures to curb global warming...
According to court records, Pellegrini also served time in prison in June 2005 after being charged with assault and battery—“small charges,” he said yesterday...
...year-old Cambridge man arrested for attempting to rob an undergraduate outside Kirkland House last month appeared in court for the first time yesterday, maintaining his innocence at a pre-trial hearing in which he faces up to five years in prison...