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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (50672)	9/19/2005 1:35:54 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

ANY OPINIONS ON THIS? ------Is Corporate Fraud Really Worse than Rape? Part-Time Pundit ^ \| 9/19/05 \| John Bambenek Two Tyco execs were just sentenced to 25 years for their corruption and embezzlement of corporate funds. Ebbers, for his WorldCom fraud also got 25 years. The sentence calls to mind the magnitude of corporate criminals compared to other more heinous crimes. Take the case of Joesph Edward Duncan III who raped and tortured a 14 year old boy at gunpoint and received a 20 year sentence, 5 years shorter than the Tyco execs. How about John Wesley, who after being convicted in 2004 for child molestation while out on probation is back in jail for harassing a 7 and 8 year old girl. Or Mary Letourneau who served only a 7 year sentence for raping a 13 year-old child while she was his teacher. Can someone explain the rationale for sentencing someone who defrauded stock holders harsher than rapists? Is there anyone out there who would care to argue that corporate corruption is worse than rape? There are those that think even life without parole is too much for murders, rapists and the like, but no punishment seems to be enough for corporate criminals. Why is this? It is part of the rich-poor class warfare stoked by the left. If you are rich, you should be punished. Instead of simply having more modest sentences with hefty restitution and fines, they get sentences harder than the ACLU would ever stand for a rapist to be sentenced for.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (50672)	9/19/2005 1:47:58 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Suicide Bomber Says He Was Kidnapped AP ^ \| September 19th, 2005 \| TAREK EL-TABLAWY BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A suicide bomber captured before he could blow himself up in a Shiite mosque claimed he was kidnapped, beaten and drugged by insurgents who forced him to take on the mission. The U.S. military said its medical tests indicated the man was telling the truth. Mohammed Ali, who claimed to be Saudi-born and appeared to be in his 20s, said he managed to flee after another suicide attacker set off his bomb, killing at least 12 worshippers Friday as they left a mosque in the northern city of Tuz Khormato. In confession broadcast on state television later that day, Ali told Iraqi interrogators he did not want to bomb the mosque and hoped to go home. Results from medical tests on Ali were "consistent with his story and characterization of his treatment," Col. Billy J. Buckner, a U.S. military spokesman said Sunday. Ali said insurgents kidnapped him from a field near his home earlier this month, then drugged and beat him. His story was similar to those recounted by other captured militants. The captives routinely claim they were either coerced or fooled by insurgent leaders who promised them a role in the holy war against the U.S. military, only to find themselves as would-be suicide bombers sent to attack civilians. Musab Aqil al-Khayal, a 19-year-old Syrian, was shown on state television Saturday confessing to his aborted involvement in a bombing earlier in the week in which a companion exploded his car bomb in the midst of day laborers assembled to find work. The Wednesday attack killed 112 people and wounded 250. Al-Khayal said handlers from the al-Qaida in Iraq terror group had duped him. "Those dogs fooled me," he told Iraqi interrogators. Televised interrogations and confessions are becoming increasingly common as Iraqi and American officials capture more militants and use their confessions in an attempt to undercut support for militants. Ali, who also holds Iraqi citizenship, said he strapped on a crude suicide vest and was led to a second mosque in Tuz Khormato, about 130 miles north of Baghdad, "where he was told he would become a good Muslim and go to heaven if he carried out the attack," the U.S. military statement said. Forced to enter the mosque, he waited until the others were distracted, ran out of the building and was arrested just minutes after the first attack, the statement said. The kidnapping demonstrates the desperation of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his ability to execute his strategy," said Buckner. "He knows that he can't win against Iraqi security and coalition forces, and is therefore willing to use innocent Iraqi citizens to further his cause to disrupt the election process and prevent a free and democratic Iraq," he said.