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Spain's supreme court acquits four over Madrid bombings
7 hours ago
MADRID (AFP) - Spain's supreme court Thursday overturned the guilty verdicts on four of the 21 people convicted over the Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people in 2004.
It also upheld a lower court's decision to acquit one of the alleged masterminds of the Al Qaeda-inspired attacks, Rabei Ousmane Sayed Ahmed, known as "Mohammed the ( Read more... ) -
Another bogus terror case folds
Terrorism charges filed against detained British resident
1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Pentagon announced war crimes charges Tuesday against a British resident alleged to have conspired with al-Qaeda to launch bomb attacks on apartment buildings and gas stations in the United States.
Binyan Mohammed, an electrical engineer born in Ethiopia, was ( Read more... ) -
Extreme Prosecution
In Search of Black Enemies
Wednesday, 07 May 2008
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
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Is a federal prosecutor seeking justice or trying to save face in a Miami terrorism case?
A Trial Too Far
Friday, May 2, 2008; A20
ASOUTH FLORIDA courtroom was the setting for a remarkable scene last week. After failing to win a single conviction in two lengthy trials, a Miami federal prosecutor announced that he would put on trial -- for a third time -- six defendants charged with offering material support to al-Qaeda.
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Probe of USS Cole Bombing Unravels: Plotters Freed
Some shitty little state did it.
Plotters Freed in Yemen; U.S. Efforts Frustrated
By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, May 4, 2008; A01
ADEN, Yemen -- Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from ( Read more... ) -
Finally after 4 years a judge tells the feds to shove their phony bioterror case
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Prosecutor’s Holy Grail: Another Scalp
By William Fisher
After a four-year legal battle, a Federal judge has dismissed all charges against an avant-garde artist who public officials condemned as a bio-terrorist in a case critics are calling “a persecution, not a prosecution.”
The artist is Dr. Steven Kurtz, a professor of Visual ( Read more... )
