San Francisco, California (CNN) -- It was prom night, May 2009, and Linda Rivera of Las Vegas, Nevada, was making goodies for her twin sons' party.

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The day after his sentencing, Wiederhorn rented two Hummer limousines to ferry partygoers for his sons' sixteenth birthday party.

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When the dinner-party episode was read in class, my sons found it hilarious, which is why they were taunting me.

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While half the convoy escaped, Staff Sgt Cullingworth, who was married with two sons, and Sapper Allsopp were taken to a local Baath party headquarters and then to an Iraqi intelligence base, where they were shot dead.

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He was the second of six sons fathered by a rural schoolteacher and apparatchik of the conservative Christian Democratic Party, Copei.

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The leader of Israel's left-wing opposition party Meretz -- Yossi Sarid -- also described Husseini as one of the "best sons" of the Palestinian people.

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