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Aicha el-Wafi, 59, says weeks of stress, a failing appetite and little sleep during the trial of her son Zacarias Moussaoui have left her a wreck. As his trial nears an end and she awaits word on whether he will be sentenced to death, Moussaoui's mother talked with TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley about her son's path to Islamic extremism and what she insists is a show trial intended to make him the scapegoat for 9/11. Excerpts from the interview...
...which he blamed Israel. Yet Hamas itself has refrained from such "acts of self-defense" over the past year, and indications are that it will continue to do so because a terror campaign would likely force economic and perhaps military measures by Israel and the donor community that would wreck its prospects as a government. The movement may be internally divided by the demands of its unexpected ascent to power, but its rivals - both Islamic Jihad, which took responsibility for Monday's attack, and also factions of the Fatah party of President Mahmoud Abbas - have sought to claim the mantle...
...spent force, and taking down the Hamas government means, effectively, destroying the Palestinian Authority itself. The resulting vacuum would force Israel to resume administrative control of an increasingly violent and chaotic West Bank and Gaza, territories over which Israel continues to maintain sovereign control. And that would wreck Olmert's plans to unilaterally redraw boundaries between Israel and the Palestinians on terms most favorable to Israel. Better to allow Palestinian infighting that will likely destroy any chance of creating a coherent Palestinian response to Olmert's plans. Then again, even if Israel doesn't bomb the PA, its economic stranglehold...
...Blair and Ahern both suggested the murder may have been a deliberate attempt to derail their plan to finish the job of establishing a peaceful Northern Ireland. "If there are people who are trying to wreck the political process by these appalling and barbaric acts of violence," Blair said, "the single best message is to say 'No, you're not going to succeed.'" That sounds good in theory, but as Donaldson's killing has shown once again, violence usually has the final say in Northern Ireland...
...plot reasons. Thinking back on the account of this Sturm und Drang in a teacup, I thought, Dude, count your blessings. The movie version of one of my novels had just run aground again, not in the Chesapeake but somewhere in the middle of that reef and wreck-strewn seascape known as Hollywood...