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February 16, 2007

Healing or justice?

Ed Lasky
The New York Times headline on the opening of the Madrid Terror Trial is almost comic: "Hopes for Healing as Spain's Terror Triral Begins"

Even by Times standards, this is a delusional take on the trial of suspects in The Madrid train bombing that just started.

A trial is a healing process...  meant to what? Bring together Islamists and victims in some sort of judicial therapy session that will bring about reconciliation and peace?

Hopes for healing? -how about hopes for justice?