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...deal with insurgents on Feb. 16 that would implement a form of Islamic law in northwest Pakistan. The ruling will cover the Malakand region, which includes the Swat Valley, a onetime tourist spot and now home base for Taliban forces. While militants have agreed to a 10-day cease-fire, critics of the deal labeled the pact a dangerous concession to violent religious extremists...
Rocket docket n.--A rapid-fire courtroom schedule utilized by judges in special circumstances...
...year-old father, Lloyd Martin, didn't realize was that the blaze he and his wife Mary decided to battle was like nothing seen in in the area in living memory. "It was like a massive fireball," says Robbins, who was at her home in Melbourne during the fire. "People have explained it leapt across in giant bounds like huge balls of fires, and all the sprinklers in the world would not have been enough to stop it." Martin and his wife died. "The CFA (Country Fire Authority) should have told them this fireball was coming...
...reportedly seen sitting on the roof of his house at Churchill about 75 miles (120 km) east of Melbourne watching the flames tear into the hills above his town on Feb. 7. Five days later the 39-year-old, who had unsuccessfully tried several times to join the local fire brigade, was charged with arson causing death, lighting a bushfire and possession of child pornography...
...Soon after his arrest police shifted him from the country jail in the heart of the fire zone to Melbourne out of fear for his safety. A judge suppressed his name but he was soon outed on the Internet. Bloggers brayed for his execution and condemned him to burn in hell. He is now in solitary confinement...