WASHINGTON The U.S. has issued sanctions against a United Nations special expert on the Palestinian territories, in the latest effort by the United States to punish critics of Israel's 21-month war in Gaza. The State Department's decision to impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, follows an unsuccessful U.S. pressure campaign to force the international body to remove her from her post. Albanese, an Italian human rights lawyer, has been