Verbatim: Dec. 15, 2003

"Without a firearm, machete or any physical weapon, you caused the death of thousands of innocent civilians." NAVANATHEM PILLAY, presiding judge of a U.N. tribunal that convicted Ferdinand Nahimana of using his Rwanda radio broadcasts to incite the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi minority

"I am certain they will achieve nothing. The people of Russia will not allow it." VLADIMIR PUTIN, Russian President, on a suicide attack on a commuter train that killed at least 42 people and appears to have been the work of Chechen rebels

"Seventy boys and 70 girls were going to be made into superpeople. They were...

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