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...Democratic committee has launched a series of advertisements questioning Taylor's banking activities in the U.S. and in Russia. In 2003, two long-time political associates of Taylor, Charles "Chig" Cagle and Hayes Martin, testified at a criminal trial that Taylor knew of fraudulent loans made to Cagle by Blue Ridge Savings, though Taylor has denied any knowledge of the loans...
...Jorge Julio Lopez, 77, a former torture victim and retired construction worker, was reported missing from his home on the last day of a trial in which he'd testified against his torturer, former police commissioner Miguel Etchecolatz, who ran clandestine detention centers during the dictatorship. His apparent abduction has sent a chill down the spines of many Argentines, unsettled by memories of the state of terror imposed by the military in the 1970s. Lopez's disappearance "has touched a sensitive nerve in society," said an editorial in Clarin, Argentina's largest-selling newspaper. "It revives fears...
...most popular politician in France, and that is an undeniable achievement. But come polling day, a miracle will be needed to prevent conservative Union for a Popular Movement candidate Nicolas Sarkozy from becoming the next French President. Plus ça change ... Karl H. Pagac Villeneuve-Loubet, France Torture on Trial Do critics really believe that the murderous terrorists of Al-Qaeda can be reasoned with? [Sept. 18] Appeasers apply the word illegal when evaluating the steps taken by the U.S. and Britain in Iraq. Let us be clear: Saddam Hussein was a butcher. Kofi Annan claims that the countries...
Nowhere has the trial brought more misery than in Dujail, a town of 84,000, most of them Shi'ites, in the middle of the Sunni triangle. Since the start of Saddam's trial, Dujail has been infiltrated by ex-Baathist hit squads. Residents believe they have been ordered by Saddam's former henchmen to take out the families of witnesses. A number of insurgent cells operating around Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, a mere 45-minute drive north of Dujail, have targeted relatives of witnesses, most of whom rarely leave the Green Zone. Abu Hamid, commander of a nationalist...
...Dujail who believe the current bloodshed is preferable to what preceded it. "Of course, now it is much better," says Ali, speaking by phone from Dujail. "Saddam's terrorism would go on forever if he were still in power." Ali's brother Ahmed, witness No. 1 in the Saddam trial, doesn't know when he will leave the Green Zone or what awaits him if he does. But after spending his high school years in prison and losing most of his brothers, he says he is willing to pay the ultimate price to see Saddam answer for his crimes...