MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
VOA News, Jan. 3, 2015
A suspected Libyan al-Qaida member has died just days before he was to go on trial in New York for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa. The lawyer for Abu Anas al-Libi said his client, who had hepatitis C and advanced liver cancer, died Friday at a hospital in the New York area/ Libi and Khalid al-Fawwaz, a Saudi, were due to stand trial on January 12 for the attacks in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 200 people [....]
Comments
The article ignores that the defendant was denied needed treatment for his condition from early August to December, so I guess that delayed operation couldn't stem the cancer.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/01/03/anas-al-libi-dies-of-cancer-before-trial/
But we tried! (Mission Accomplished - high fives - another civilian trial avoided.)
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 01/05/2015 - 5:12am