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To: Road Walker who wrote (274682)	2/15/2006 8:59:44 AM
From: Elroy	Respond to of 1570746

Michael Jordan sentences al-Zarqawi, 8 others to death Four receive penalty in absentia over plot to carry out chemical attack msnbc.msn.com AMMAN, Jordan - A military court sentenced nine men, including al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, to death Wednesday for a plot to carry out a chemical attack on the kingdom. Al-Zarqawi and three others received the death penalty in absentia. But the plot’s alleged mastermind, Azmi al-Jayousi, and four co-defendants were in the courtroom when the judge handed down the sentence for the 2004 plot. The court sentenced two of the 13 defendants to prison terms of between one and three years, and acquitted another two defendants.

To: Road Walker who wrote (274682)	2/15/2006 3:17:07 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570746

"Ideologically, Israelis have never been more dovish," said Ari Shavit, an essayist for the Haaretz newspaper. "But that dovishness is based on the condition that there is a partner we can trust. If so, people are ready to give back everything. The overwhelming majority is now for a two-state solution. But we have become sensible at the very moment that Palestinians have lost their senses." Maybe that's the response the Palestinians were looking for when "they lost their senses". As Farhat Assad, the local Hamas spokesman, remarked: "I thank the United States that they have given us this weapon of democracy. But there is no way to retreat now. It's not possible for the U.S. and the world to turn its back on an elected democracy." But Hamas will have its hands full managing the West Bank, where it doesn't have as many people or arms as Fatah. As the Israeli strategist Gidi Grinstein put it, Hamas "is like a snake that swallowed an elephant." It has a lot to digest before it can move sharply in any direction. I continue to believe that electoral credibility will change Hamas, and if they can bring the same reasonable efficiency they have shown when performing charitable functions, and yes, planning suicide bombings to governance, they may have a chance of whipping Palestine into a creditable state.