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Former Kennedy School of Government student and pro-democracy activist Yang Jianli, imprisoned in China on espionage charges since April 2002, was found guilty and sentenced yesterday to five years in prison...
...challenges the imagination to believe that anything good could come out of an awful month in Iraq. But amid the rubble of Fallujah and the gruesome images from the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, a bad idea has died. That is something...
...that their own leaders had started disastrous wars. Elsewhere, however, the occupier's presumption of virtue is seldom affirmed by the occupied. And Iraq has proved no different. However extensive the goodwill toward the Americans for getting rid of Saddam, it has steadily eroded over the past year. The prison abuse photographs outraged Iraqis, but may not have surprised them as much as the Americans. Nor are Iraqis impressed by the Bush administration's explanation that these were the actions of a few bad apples. Which may be why some of the officers on the ground are saying...
...aggravated manslaughter; in Somerville, N.J. He was convicted on four lesser counts, including tampering with evidence to try to conceal the fatal 2002 shooting of limousine driver Costas (Gus) Christofi by a shotgun Williams was handling at his mansion. He could face as many as 13 years in prison...
...when terrorists killed 130 people, including 30 murdered in the memorable Passover massacre in Netanya. That spring, the Israeli army stormed into the West Bank, fought pitched battles with armed and not-so-armed Palestinians, and imposed draconian security measures--in effect, turning the Palestinian areas into a vast prison camp. "We also began to rebuild our intelligence networks in the West Bank," a retired intelligence officer told me. "You know how that works--money, money and more money. You buy collaborators. And cell by cell, we rolled up most of the West Bank terrorist networks. This...