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Ex-Klansman granted bail in 1964 civil rights murder case

August 12, 2005 03:06:00 PM

Mississippi Judge Marcus Gordon on Friday granted bail to former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen , who, in June, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 1964 killings of three civil rights...

August 9, 2005 01:00:00 PM

A key suspect believed to be connected to the abduction and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl was brought before a civil court Tuesday in the city of Karachi, Pakistan. Mohammad Hashim Qadir was held in connection...

July 28, 2005 11:35:00 AM

Police in Pakistan said Thursday that a key suspect wanted in connection with the abduction and murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl has been arrested. Mohammad Hashim, known as Arif, was arrested earlier in the week in...

July 25, 2005 03:18:00 PM

An Italian court issued arrest warrants on Monday for six more CIA operatives in connection with the kidnapping of a radical Muslim in 2003 in Milan. Last month the court issued warrants for 13 members of...

July 21, 2005 02:11:00 PM

Iranian diplomats revealed plans on Thursday to file a lawsuit against anti-Syrian militia leader Samir Geagea for the kidnapping of four Iranian diplomats from Beirut who were subsequently delivered to Israel by the Christian Lebanese Forces...

July 20, 2005 09:24:00 AM

In the wake of an Italian judge's decision last month to issue warrants for 13 CIA operatives wanted in connection with the kidnapping of radical Muslim cleric Abu Omar off the streets of Milan...

July 19, 2005 08:05:00 AM

After his conviction for torture and hostage-taking Monday, Afghan warlord Faryadi Sarwar Zardad was sentenced Tuesday by a UK court to two concurrent 20-year prison terms. The jury sitting at London's Old Bailey found Zardad...

July 18, 2005 10:20:00 AM

A British court has convicted Afghan warlord Faryadi Sarwar Zardad of torture and the taking of hostages in Afghanistan in what may be the first conviction of an individual by a UK court for crimes committed abroad,...

July 14, 2005 01:50:00 PM

Leading Thursday's international brief, Pakistan's North West Frontier Province has passed a controversial law reminiscent of Afghan regulatons under the former Taliban regime that will allow the government to monitor individuals' compliance with Islamic...

July 14, 2005 01:10:00 PM

A federal jury in Vermont Thursday recommended the death penalty for Donald Fell, convicted in June of kidnapping and murdering a supermarket worker in 2000. Vermont hasn't executed a convict since 1954,...

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