This is a significant victory, '' said U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft , whose views on the Microsoft case, which started during the Clinton Administration, have been something of a mystery.

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Mystery still surrounds many aspects of this case, says the BBC's Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem, where Mr Zygier is still referred to as Prisoner X in Israeli government documents.

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How that fee came about is something of a mystery, as well as the subject of claims made by seven state legislators in an attempt to intervene in the case.

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