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The defendants, all Islamic fundamentalists, stood as still as wax figures in the Tunis courtroom while Judge Hachemi Zammel forcefully read out each verdict and sentence. Their trademark beards had been shaved off when they were jailed in a series of roundups earlier this year, but their piety remained intact...
The sentences seemed stiff by Western standards. But in Tunisia there was general relief at the court's relative leniency. The prosecutor had asked for the death penalty for all 90 defendants, which would have provided the , fundamentalists with a large crop of martyrs and further energized their attacks on...
"The irreparable has been avoided," said Ahmed Mestiri, an opposition leader and former Defense Minister. "The execution of the leaders of the Islamic movement would have created a very grave situation." Tunisian moderates were especially relieved that the court had spared the life of Rachid Ghannouchi, 47, head of the...
While Washington officials pondered what to do with the men they delicately termed "detainees" rather than "prisoners," the Iranians were transferred from the Jarrett to the La Salle. Dressed in fresh La Salle T shirts and oversize jeans, the sailors were bound by the wrists with plastic handcuffs, their ankles...
The coexistence of irrational ends and rational means is an enduring source of astonishment. It should not be. Once you decide to murder every Jew in Europe, Auschwitz follows logically. Once you have decided that the city is parasitic on the countryside (Khieu Samphan, leader of the Khmer Rouge, decided...