Carlos the Jackal aide acquitted of French attacks
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BERLIN, Aug 23  - An alleged lieutenant of Carlos the Jackal, legendary international terrorist mastermind through two decades, was acquitted here Monday of murder and bomb attacks in France more than 20 years ago.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe  - A court in Zimbabwe Friday  acquitted most of 70 suspected mercenaries charged with weapons  offenses in a suspected plot to topple the government of  Equatorial Guinea, but found their leader, Simon Mann, guilty.
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A German court acquitted the suspected right-hand man of international guerrilla &quot;Carlos the Jackal&quot; Monday of charges that he took part in deadly bomb attacks in France more than 20 years ago.
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Two British tourists accused over the hit-and-run killing of a Cypriot schoolboy last summer have been acquitted after a court in Cyprus ruled there was a lack of evidence.
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There is outrage in Venezuela as a man accused of torturing and raping a woman is acquitted.
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A French couple who failed to stop a friend driving home drunk after a dinner party were today cleared of criminal responsibility for the car crash in which he killed himself and four others.
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Three Danish journalists who published classified intelligence reports on Iraq's former weapons program were acquitted Monday on charges of endangering national security.
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A South African mercenary was today found guilty of leading the advance party in a failed coup plot in Equatorial Guinea that was allegedly bankrolled by Sir Mark Thatcher.
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The 19-year-old girlfriend of jailed former hockey player Mike Danton was acquitted by a jury on Monday of conspiring with him to murder his agent.
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An Egyptian who allegedly bragged that he masterminded the 2004 Madrid terror bombings that killed 191 people was acquitted of all charges Wednesday by a Spanish court. At least four others were convicted of murder, culminating a divisive trial over Europe's worst Islamic militant attack.
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A jury acquitted former paramilitary leader Louis-Jodel Chamblain of murder charges Tuesday after a secretive trial that began in the middle of the night, angering human rights groups who blamed the country's U.S.-backed government.
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One of seven Miami men accused of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower was acquitted Thursday, and a mistrial was declared for the six others after the federal jury deadlocked.
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All five defendants charged in the 1982 murder of Italian financier Roberto Calvi, nicknamed &quot;God&#39;s banker&quot; for his close ties to the Vatican, were acquitted Wednesday, the ANSA news agency reported.
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North Belfast loyalist William "Mo" Courtney is acquitted of murdering a former associate of UDA leader Johnny Adair.
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BERLIN Aug. 23, 2004 - A German court on Monday, citing insufficient evidence, acquitted an imprisoned aide of the terrorist Carlos the Jackal of involvement in a deadly series of bombings in France in the early 1980s.
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The owner of the bus that exploded and killed 23 people during the Hurricane Rita evacuation was acquitted Tuesday of one safety violation charge but was convicted on two lesser counts.
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One of seven men accused of conspiring to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower was acquitted Thursday, and a federal jury in Miami failed to reach a verdict on six others arrested in the alleged terror plot.