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There are also concrete, practical arguments against the death penalty and its application. Of the six countries that execute people for crimes committed as children--Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iran and the United States--the U.S. has executed more children than any of the others: 160 since 1973. This monstrosity occurs despite the fact that every major international human rights treaty expressly prohibits executing people for committing crimes before...
...terrorist" with a fat wallet and a big mouth. His followers were a loosely bound group of former Afghan freedom fighters called al Qaeda, meaning (military) base. But bin Laden was moving into the big leagues. Al Qaeda operatives or sympathizers are accused of attacking American soldiers in Somalia, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. They had plans to kidnap U.S. military personnel in the Persian Gulf, and they might have U.S.-made Stinger missiles left over from the Afghan war. Worse, intelligence officials discovered that by 1993 bin Laden had begun hunting for nuclear weapons. First on his shopping list...
BAGHDAD: After William Cohen's Gulf tour played to indifferent audiences, Saddam is putting his own band of envoys on the road. His deputy prime minister is in Morocco, his justice minister has reached Yemen, and his foreign minister is hitting Syria -- where President Assad is urging against any U.S. use of force. Not that he's likely to give Saddam rave reviews, either -- Assad is a longtime foe of Iraq...
...countries in the world that executes juvenile offenders: criminals whose alleged offenses were committed when they were under the age of 18. There are only six countries in the world that are known to have executed juvenile offenders in the '90s: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nigeria, Yemen--and the U.S. "We should be embarrassed to find ourselves in that company," says Hawkins. "Every one of those other countries is known for human-rights violations. Even China and Russia have banned the use of the death penalty against children...
...Yemen: Call it the Trespasser mission. Three Yemeni men are suing NASA, claiming that the plucky Sojourner robot has been doing wheelies all over their front lawn. "We inherited the planet from our ancestors 3,000 years ago," explained planetary landlords Adam Ismail, Mustafa Khalil and Abdullah al-Umari in court documents. "Sojourner and Pathfinder. . . began exploring it without informing us or seeking our approval...