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[Rick Halperin]

March 23


INDIA:

5 Sentenced in Deadly Bombing of Shiite Shrine


A court convicted 5 Muslim militants in connection with a bombing that
killed 45 people at a Shiite shrine last year, a judge said. 2 of the
defendants were sentenced to death and the others to life in prison.

The men, all Pakistanis, were arrested two days after the March 19, 2005,
attack in Fatehpur, a remote town about 500 miles southwest of the
capital, Islamabad.

The bomb exploded after about 20,000 people, mostly Shiite Muslims but
also some Sunnis, gathered at the shrine of a 19th century Shiite saint.

(source: Los Angeles Times)