The resolution was the result of five straight days of emergency meetings on the crisis in Georgia, and State Department sources say that the wording was watered down from what the United States sought.
There were reasons, if the story is true, for all of the parties to have been involved in the yearlong planning that went into rescuing Ingrid Bettancourt and other prisoners from the grasp of the FARC rebels.
The trial of Michel Fourniret -- who reportedly enlisted his wife's help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill -- began March 27, 2008.
In 2007, a trio of neo-Nazi vandals ages 16-21 painted swastikas and other slogans on 52 of the Notre Dame de Lorette cemetery's Muslim graves, which are gathered in one area and face Mecca. They all got jail sentences. A year later, vandals struck again.
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