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...messengers go, Seanna Walsh certainly had street cred. The I.R.A. veteran had spent 21 years in prison for a series of offenses, including bombmaking, before he delivered a statement last week formally ending the organization's 36-year armed campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland. But skeptics noted that the group had made promises in the past without ever fully giving up violence--or the intimidation of witnesses to foil prosecutions. To address the doubters, Cabinet members in London and Dublin asked a watchdog agency to report next January on whether the I.R.A. is sticking...
...SENTENCED. MUHAMMAD BOUYERI, 27, Islamic radical who confessed to the November 2004 murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh; to life in prison without the possibility of parole; in Amsterdam. Bouyeri, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent, said he killed van Gogh, a fervent critic of Islam, for insulting the religion and the Prophet Muhammad. Bouyeri remained unrepentant at his sentencing, telling van Gogh's mother, "I don't feel your pain...
...SENTENCED. SHER BAHADUR DEUBA, 59, former Prime Minister of Nepal; to two years in prison for embezzlement; in Kathmandu. After Nepal's King Gyanendra seized power this February, he established a controversial corruption commission that charged Deuba with involvement in a $5.3 million fraudulent deal to award a road construction contract. Deuba has denounced the verdict as "political assassination" and has vowed to fight his conviction. He is the highest-ranking Nepalese leader ever to be found guilty of corruption...
...Angers. The four-month trial, the largest pedophile case in French history, horrified the nation and cast doubt over the effectiveness of local authorities, who had been monitoring all but two of the families involved. The convicted will face between six months and 28 years in prison. See: Heavy Sentences for Angers Abusers Sentenced. Muhammad bouyeri, 27, Islamic radical who confessed to the November 2004 murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh; to life in prison without the possibility of parole; in Amsterdam. Bouyeri, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent, said he had killed van Gogh, a fervent critic...
SENTENCED. AHMED RESSAM, 38, the so-called millennium bomber who plotted to attack Los Angeles International Airport on the eve of the new century; to 22 years in prison; in Seattle. During the sentencing hearing, Judge John Coughenour rebuked the Bush Administration, noting that "we did not need to use a secret military tribunal, detain the defendant indefinitely as an enemy combatant or deny [him] the right to counsel...