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...result merely signaled a brief pause in her ongoing struggle to ensure that those injured or bereaved by terrorism get not only justice, but also the recognition, assistance, and dignity they deserve to carry on with their lives. With the month-long Paris trial now over, Rudetzki and her SOS Attentats (SOS Attacks) association face a different sort of battle: finding the funding necessary to survive the costly litigation rising from the terror cases to which they are civil parties. "Victims' rights aren't respected if victims themselves aren't involved to insist that justice is done," Rudetzki notes. "That...
...operations like Sept. 11 only cost between $250,000 and $500,000. The keys to their success are organization and secrecy, not money." The Bensaïd trial may help investigators disrupt the al-Qaeda organization in Europe. But Françoise Rudetski - president of victims' defense association sos-Attentats, one of the civil parties in the Bensaïd case - stresses that everything experts and investigators may say about unfolding plots is of little import if they can't punish terrorists who have already acted. "Bensaïd's behavior inflicts additional wounds on his victims...
...waited several minutes and when nothing happened, he pushed the alarm button, which made a loud ringing sound in the elevator shaft. But thinking that passersby might find the sound routine, he decided to begin to ring the bell in a SOS pattern to attract attention...
...fragile woman decided to break her chains. Although her life as a woman largely ended the day of the acid attack, Fakhra, after the doctors surgically separated her fused lips, was able to talk, could still walk and, most importantly, found the will to live. Desperate, she sent an sos message to Durrani, whom she had once...
...getting cold out here. A formation of geese is hooting its way north, so that must be north. Dotcom companies are going south, so that's south. East is east, and west is over there. That's about as close as I can come to identifying our position. sos.? Mayday? Anne Tyler's new novel, Back When We Were Grownups, opens with this sentence: "Once upon a time there was a woman who discovered that she had turned into the wrong person." Anybody recognize this place...