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August 28, 2004--More than 500 people assembled in New York's Martin Luther King, Jr. Auditorium concluded the War Crimes Tribunal with a resounding unanimous vote of guilty, declaring the Bush administration guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against peace. Declaring the Bush administration a criminal regime, this meeting, which drew speakers and participants from around the world, defended the right of GIs to resist illegal orders to fight against the people of Iraq, expressed solidarity with the Iraqi resistance and declared itself in solidarity with the upcoming Week of Resistance in New York City against the Republican...

Second of two parts SAN ANGELO — It was late March and David Hughey hadn't heard from his son Brandon in more than three weeks. No calls. No letters. Nothing. David Hughey, 51, a computer technician for a state agency in this West Texas town, feared there was a problem. And there was. His son, then 18 and a troubled Army private, wanted out of the service in a bad way. He had spent most of February AWOL from his unit at Fort Hood in Killeen. The young soldier had begun to question the reasons for America's invasion of and...

First of two parts. ST. CATHARINES, Ontario — Only a year removed from first-chair trumpet in the San Angelo Central High School marching band, Brandon Hughey now spends long, lonely days in self-exile, a fugitive from his own country and an enigma to a nation at war. In many ways, Hughey's life is indistinguishable from that of a typical 19-year-old. He stays up late surfing the Internet and playing video games. He sleeps late. He watches sports on television. He's always short of cash. He wants a girlfriend. But two months ago, on the eve of his unit's deployment from...