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Fadwa Barghouti, wife of archterrorist Marwan Barghouti, has appealed directly to US President Donald Trump to intervene and help secure her husband’s release from Israeli prison, her son Arab told AFP. Barghouti, 66, has been serving multiple life sentences since 2002 for orchestrating murderous attacks against Israelis. He is widely believed to have planned the Second Intifada, which claimed thousands of Israeli lives from 2000 to 2005. Barghouti has continued inciting to terrorism from his jail cell. Despite his convictions, he is viewed by many Palestinian Arabs as a unifying figure and potential future leader. In a public statement, Fadwa...

After five weeks and a slate of witnesses that included a who’s who of Washington media and political insiders, a jury will now decide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s fate. The prosecution and defense gave their closing arguments this week, with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald taking one last opportunity to claim that Libby lied to the FBI regarding his knowledge about the identity of desk set CIA analyst Valerie Plame, and leaked this non-classified information to the media. Libby’s lead defense attorney, Theodore Wells, noted that Libby had a faulty memory, nothing more. Last week, six major Washington reporters all testified...