An Israeli woman was jailed for three years yesterday after pleading guilty to meeting one of the most wanted Palestinian militants and spending time in the West Bank town of Jenin. After a unusual prosecution Tali Fahima accepted a plea bargain deal from prosecutors and is expected to serve about 10 months in prison because she has already been in custody for more than a year. Fahima, 29, was arrested last year after repeated visits to Jenin refugee camp to meet Zakaria Zubeidi, the leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade responsible for suicide bombings and other attacks against Israelis. She was charged with offences including providing information to the enemy and assisting a terrorist organisation, which carry the death penalty. The prosecution said it would seek a life sentence. Shaul Mofaz, the defence minister, who signed the detention order, said Fahima "took part in planning a terrorist attack in Israel". ...
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 Idaho Man Charged With Murdering His 3 Kids Says He Didn't Want Them to Suffer Divorce |
A man accused of using poison to kill his three young children told police he "didn't want the kids to suffer through the divorce," according to court papers filed Thursday. Jim Junior Nice, 33, was charged Thursday with three counts of first-degree murder. He was ordered held without bail pending a preliminary hearing. Nice admitted the killings after he was taken into custody, and "appeared despondent over his recent divorce," according to a police affidavit. He also told police he had taken medications in an attempt to kill himself, the affidavit said. ...
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| Judge says he can't free Uighurs at Guantanamo |
A federal judge on Thursday ruled that he does not have authority to order the release of two ethnic Uighur prisoners from China detained at Guantanamo Bay, even though the U.S. military declared they are no longer "enemy combatants." U.S. District Judge James Robertson said he finds that "a federal court has no relief to offer" Abu Bakker Qassim and A'del Abdu Al-Hakim, who are being held at the U.S. military prison in Cuba while the United States searches for a country to take them in. "An order requiring their release into the United States, even into some kind of parole 'bubble,' some legal-fictional status in which they would be here but would not be 'admitted,' would have national security and diplomatic implications beyond the competence or the authority of this court," Robertson said in a 12-page ruling. The two men have been detained since June 2002 at Guantanamo Bay, where the United States hold suspects ...
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| DNA Tests Clear Two Men Convicted of Rape |
Gov. Mark R. Warner on Thursday pardoned two men wrongly convicted of sexual assault and recently cleared after a review of DNA evidence saved years ago by a meticulous forensic scientist. Prosecutors had asked Warner to grant the pardons after he exonerated both men last week. Both had previously been paroled after serving long prison sentences.Three other men have also been cleared by evidence saved by the late Mary Jane Burton. A review by an independent lab of all samples saved by Burton has been ordered.The governor's pardons were awarded to Phillip L. Thurman, 50, and Willie N. Davidson, 49....
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| Security incidents in Iraq, Dec 22 |
Following are security incidents in Iraq reported on Thursday, Dec. 22, as of 1745 GMT.U.S. and Iraqi forces are battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government in Baghdad.* Denotes a new or updated item.* BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed by an improvised bomb while on patrol in the capital, the U.S. military said.LATIFIYA - A former member of the governing council, Ahmed Shiyaa' al-Barak, survived an assassination attempt when gunmen attacked his motorcade in Latifiya, southwest of Baghdad. Police said two of his guards were killed and three wounded in the attack.BAGHDAD - Four policemen were killed and six wounded when gunmen attacked a checkpoint in the southern Dora district of Baghdad, police said.BAGHDAD - Three women employed in the Green Zone government and diplomatic compound were kidnapped along with their driver by gunmen in the south of the capital, police said....
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| Millions go to Iraqi, Afghan 'condolence' |
The U.S. government has spent scores of millions of dollars helping the civilian casualties of its military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Much of the assistance comes from a fund named in honor of a slain American aid worker who made recompense for the innocent victims of wars her life's work. Marla Ruzicka was 28 in April when she died at the hands of a suicide bomber in Baghdad. She had urged lawmakers to put money into the annual foreign operations spending bill in three consecutive years, providing a total of nearly $40 million for individuals and communities in Afghanistan and Iraq that suffered what the military calls collateral damage. In the latest bill, the civilian assistance program was named the Marla Ruzicka Iraqi War Victims Fund. An aide to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, one of the key lawmakers involved, said that about half the amount appropriated -- $25 million for Iraq and $13 million for Afghanistan -- has been distributed so far. ...
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