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Carlos the Jackal, caged but combative, on trial

Urban guerrilla \’Carlos the Jackal\’ smiled and flashed a clenched fist salute on Monday when he went on trial for deadly Paris bomb attacks he is accused of mounting at the height of his \”anti-imperialist campaign\” in the 1970s and 1980s.

Rudolph Kastner gets a new trial

Leave it to the artists and attorneys at Temple Israel of Hollywood (TIOH) to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day by introducing — or reintroducing — a man once considered to have been a Jewish antihero of World War II.

Cuba announces trial date for Alan Gross

A U.S. government contractor that the State Department says was assisting Cuban Jews will go on trial in Cuba next month. Alan Gross was charged on Feb. 4 with \”Acts against the independence and territorial integrity of the State.\” The charge carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence; he could have faced the death penalty according to Cuban law.

Accused Nazi dies before denaturalization trial

A retiree living near Seattle, Wash., accused of committing genocide and other crimes as a Nazi officer during World War II died a month before his denaturalization trial. Peter Egner, 88, died last week in an assisted-living community in Bellevue, Reuters reported Monday, citing a facility representative who did not give her name. Egner, a Yugoslavia native, is accused of joining in April 1941 the Nazi-controlled Security Police and Security Service in German-occupied Belgrade, a Nazi mobile killing unit that participated in the mass murder of more than 17,000 Serbian civilians during World War II.

Israeli soldiers go on trial

Two Israeli soldiers are on trial for allegedly using a Palestinian boy as a human shield during the Gaza war.

Subpoenas in AIPAC trial could reveal U.S. secrets

Subpoenas issued to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and other top Bush administration officials could end up shedding unprecedented light on the Bush administration\’s inner workings and the government\’s dealings with the pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

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