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CONVICTED. H. RAP BROWN, 58, 1960s radical, of killing a sheriff's deputy and wounding another in a 2000 shoot-out; in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta. Brown, a Black Panther turned Muslim cleric known as Jamil Adullah al-Amin, could face execution or life imprisonment...
...hunches are right. In 1999 a French court rebuked him by acquitting dozens of suspects in one of his terrorist investigations. Critics say Bruguiere, who constantly puffs on a pipe and has a fondness for the media, is a dictatorial egotist. They derisively call him le sheriff. But his contributions to the war on terrorism shouldn't be dismissed because of his personality; unlike other countries in Europe, France isn't a terrorist haven. Says a former colleague: "Whatever attention Bruguiere may get now has to be measured against the days, weeks and months he went unnoticed in the desert...
Stone County Sheriff Mike Ballard admits there was a two-or three-minute altercation and that Javed was stripped naked. But Ballard says the prisoners told him Javed incited the beatings by saying "F___ the United States. I'm glad they hit the World Trade Center." Javed admits he's not sure how long the beatings lasted--though it felt like half an hour--but he insists he'd have to be "a psycho" to say something like that in a prison. Javed is staying with an aunt in Houston while he awaits a Dec. 17 hearing on his immigration...
CHARGED. SIDNEY DORSEY, 61, former sheriff of De Kalb County, Ga.; with the December 2000 murder of his successor, Derwin Brown; in Decatur, Ga. Dorsey has denied involvement in the fatal shooting, investigated by TIME in February, saying the gunmen who ambushed Brown in his driveway should get the death penalty. Two weeks ago, a former Dorsey confidant and deputy revived the stalled investigation by cooperating with prosecutors...
Sept. 12 wasn't the best day to face charges of killing a cop. That's what lawyers for onetime Black Panther H. Rap Brown, now known as Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, figured when they got his trial, for shooting a Georgia deputy sheriff, pushed into next year. "To continue at such a time would be--well, I hate to say suicidal, given what happened on the 11th," says Al-Amin lawyer Jack Martin. "It would be ill advised...