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...Hall Columbiana, Alabama, U.S. The election in Iraq was a fraud. Many of the candidates and party platforms were secret. It was similar to the rigged 1967 election in South Vietnam that brought to power the corrupt President Nguyen Van Thieu. Roedy Green Victoria, Canada Although the Iraqis faced terrorist threats when voting, the election seems to have been a success. But that is not enough. And the government's future remains uncertain so long as violence continues. Deepak Kumar Vidhyarthi Muzaffar Nagar, India It will be a long time before a conclusion can be reached about the impact that...
...most grievous crime of all seems to have been her willingness to defend unpopular clients. Her list of clientele includes a Mafia hit man, a man accused of trying to kill police officers, and a blind Egyptian sheikh convicted of terrorist activities—Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. It is on his account that she has been accused and convicted of aiding terrorism...
...conviction also raises questions about post-9/11 trials. While Stewart was being tried for actions she committed during 2000—in the defense of a man not connected to 9/11 in any way—al Qaeda and the terrorist attacks were constantly brought up by the prosecutors. The trial occurred only two blocks from Ground Zero, and some of Osama bin Laden’s videos were shown to the jury. Playing on the post-9/11 fears of the jury is believed to have been one of the main reasons for Stewart’s conviction...
With hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees winning the right to a trial and many Americans being accused of terrorism, there will be a high demand for defense lawyers. But the government has sent a stern message to those lawyers willing to take up the challenge: defend an alleged terrorist, and you may find yourself accused of aiding terrorism, disbarred, and facing up to 30 years in prison...
...Syria has professed innocence and President Bashar al-Assad condemned Hariri's killing as a ?horrible terrorist act,? but that has not dimmed ire of Lebanese opposition groups and the Bush administration. Damascus had been hard at work in recent months maneuvering to maintain its fraying control over the fate of a neighboring country it has treated more like a restive province over the past three decades. Hariri, a one-time ally of Syria, had symbolized the best hope of a growing opposition movement in Lebanon to press for Syrian withdrawal. Although he had carefully nurtured his own relationship with...