All of Boston stopped to watch the Boston Marathon bomber trial verdicts roll in.
Last Wednesday, the Boston Bomber trial began with a startling admission: Lead defense attorney Judy Clarke, speaking on the behalf of her client, 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, used her opening statement to clear the air and lay out her intentions.
Mikhail Trepashkin, an ex-FSB agent and lawyer representing two of the bombings' victims, who was planning to voice his own suspicions about the FSB's role at the bombers' trial last autumn, was jailed a week before the trial started.Big Brother is watchingWhat is also worrying many people is that the whole federal apparatus has become bigger and more intrusive.
Our putative peace partners in the "Arab Spring" movement in Tripoli say Gaddafi was wrong to give up the Libyan bomber for trial in the United Kingdom in the first instance.
The high court on Friday rejected John Downey's attempt to avoid extradition, clearing the way for the alleged bomber to face trial in Belfast for the murder of two soldiers from the Ulster Defence Regiment a decade before the London bombing.
As Faisal Shahzad, the 2010 would-be "Times Square bomber," testified at his trial: "Until the hour the U.S.... stops the occupation of Muslim lands, and stops killing the Muslims... we will be attacking U.S., and I plead guilty to that".
Marc Fucarile, 36, testifying in the sentencing phase of convicted bomber Dzhokahar Tsarnaev's trial, said he had been standing in front of a restaurant near the 2013 race's finish line, saw an explosion to his left and worried that a second would follow.
As Babar, who turned supergrass against the fertiliser bombers, admitted at the trial, the US arm of al-Muhajiroun was a key component in its success.
Notwithstanding the convictions for conspiracy, no actual bomber was ever brought to trial, "and no lawyerly explanation could ever make a conspiracy trial without the main perpetrator in the conspiracy seem completely legitimate".
He was the imam of the Finsbury Park mosque in North London, which became a magnet for militants, including Richard Reid, the so-called shoe bomber, and Zacarias Moussaoui, now on trial in the United States in connection with the attacks.
According to a 2005 profile in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, he had to assess on his first day at the Justice Department how the FBI misplaced files in the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
