Word: raid
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...trial finally got under way Wednesday with the men entering a not guilty plea, and offering a list of individuals connected with various Palestinian splinter groups as suspects. But the focus of the current trial is on proving the allegation that the two Libyan agents carried out the raid, rather than on whose orders they may have acted...
...practice may be a lot easier. And that could be a problem for the Clinton administration and its candidates come November. The Navy on Monday moved three ships into position off the Navy's gunnery range on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, amid reports of an imminent federal raid to evict protesters squatting on the Camp Garcia range. President Clinton ordered the facility reopened in January, after concluding a deal with Puerto Rico's governor, Pedro Rosello, in which Washington promised $40 million in exchange for the right to conduct operations using dummy bombs this spring and agreed...
Watching the constant replay of the raid on the networks, the staff members back in Reno's office were troubled at the image of the child cowering in the closet and crying in the agent's arms--but they had no regrets. "It was a very sad thing to see," said Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder. "I was disappointed that people who indicated they cared most for the boy were unable to do the simple things that would have prevented what happened from occurring...
...maintain some order while allowing angry residents to express their fury at the sudden turn. Some vented their anger on police, after they heard that an assistant police chief was sitting in the passenger seat of the INS van that took Elian away. In the minutes after the raid, Mayor Joe Carollo had made it plain that he had no advance warning whatever. Late in the afternoon he gave a press conference and denounced the government's actions. "What they did was a crime," he said. "These are atheists. They don't believe...
...Miami and in Washington, most parties agreed on one point: this was not over yet. The court case could drag on for months, and there is no telling where it will end. One of Elian's Miami relatives, Lillian Santiago, who had arrived at the house just as the raid was concluding, had these words to calm the growing crowd of protesters. "The boy will be back," she told them. "The courts will return him to us." But even if that were to happen, which most legal experts doubt, Juan Miguel won't be leaving his side...