And I, too, am worried about ever committing the United States military to an engagement in that part of the world.
Mr. Durbon, whose father also coached at South San, said that none of his other players had ever committed the level of violence displayed by Mr. Limon.
New York is a multiracial city, but judging from the faces in cramped courtrooms, one would think that whites scarcely ever commit the petty offenses that lead to the more than 500,000 summonses issued in the city every year.
But she said she rejected the notion of life imprisonment because she believed that had Mr. Bout not been ensnared in a sting operation, "there's no reason to believe that Bout would have ever committed the charged crimes".
The Lockerbie bombing remains the deadliest act of terrorism ever committed in the UK and until the attacks of 9/11 it was also responsible for the biggest single loss of American lives in such an attack.
In 1944, after the deportation of the Jews from Hungary, when the specifics of the extermination camps were still largely unknown, he wrote that the Nazis' war on the Jews would turn out to be "probably the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world".
The contest, launched three weeks ago, was an effort by the festival's organizers to locate "the wittiest tweet ever committed to the Twittersphere".
"Today we allege what many have long feared: The CityTime project was corrupted to its core by one of the largest and most brazen frauds ever committed against the City of New York," Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for Manhattan, said at a news conference.
The bodies of almost 600 victims from one of the worst atrocities ever committed by the Isis militant group have been exhumed from sites in northern Iraq, officials have said.
