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News Jordan al-Qaida prisoners protest sentences with hunger strike
Jordan al-Qaida prisoners protest sentences with hunger strike
Holly Manges Jones
July 17, 2005 03:50:00 pm

A Jordan Public Security Department spokesman said Sunday that five suspected al-Qaida prisoners started a hunger strike on Tuesday to protest sentences handed down by Jordan's State Security Court in 2000. The prisoners are being...

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News Senators working on bill to define rules for wartime prisoners
Senators working on bill to define rules for wartime prisoners
Holly Manges Jones
July 17, 2005 03:03:00 pm

Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Warner (R-VA) are drafting a bill which would provide clear and uniform rules for detention, interrogation and prosecution of prisoners during wartime, according to a new...

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News Iraqi court official says Saddam trial date still not set
Iraqi court official says Saddam trial date still not set
Holly Manges Jones
July 16, 2005 11:37:00 am

An official from the Iraqi Special Tribunal established to try Saddam Hussein said Saturday that no date has been set for the former dictator's trial, despite a report earlier this week that the date...

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US soldiers charged with assaulting suspect insurgents in Baghdad
Holly Manges Jones
July 16, 2005 11:27:00 am

The US military command in Iraq Saturday announced charges against eleven US soldiers for violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice by assaulting several suspected insurgents. The charges were filed Wednesday and came after another soldier...

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News Oil-for-food investigators uncover "gross mismanagement"
Oil-for-food investigators uncover "gross mismanagement"
Holly Manges Jones
July 16, 2005 11:10:00 am

Iraq's deputy UN ambassador Fesial al-Istrabadi said Friday that independent investigators have found evidence of "gross mismanagement" and potential corruption in the UN Oil-for-Food program related to currency exchange rates with the fluctuating dinar. Independent Inquiry...

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US lawyer wrongly accused in Madrid bombings alleges privacy violations
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July 16, 2005 10:38:00 am

Gerry Spence , the lawyer for Brandon Mayfield, the Muslim-convert Portland attorney arrested and accused of involvement in Madrid's 2004 terrorist bombings, said in court Friday that FBI agents intentionally withheld information from a judge...

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Court says US not obliged to regulate global warming gases
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July 16, 2005 09:55:00 am

The US DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was correct in denying a nonprofit group's petition to regulate industrial gases and automobile emission pollutants that contribute...

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BREAKING NEWS ~ Rehnquist denies retirement rumors
Holly Manges Jones
July 14, 2005 09:25:00 pm

AP is reporting that US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist is spurning rumors of his retirement after admission to the hospital this week for a fever, saying he will serve as long as his health allows...

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Senators urge legislation to define Gitmo prisoner status
Holly Manges Jones
July 14, 2005 08:44:00 pm

US Senators said Thursday at a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing that Congress should enact legislation to define the legal status of prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, while the Pentagon called such a plan too...

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Female senators call on O’Connor to reconsider resignation
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July 14, 2005 07:32:00 pm

Four leading women in the US Senate Thursday asked Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to reconsider her resignation if Justice William Rehnquist makes the decision to retire. The request from Senators Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Barbara Boxer...

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Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes

On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.

Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.

Massachusetts enacted Vietnam antiwar bill

On April 2, 1970, the Governor of Massachusetts signed into law an anti-Vietnam War bill providing that no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that had not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the United States Constitution.

Supporters of the legislation hoped that the US Supreme Court would seize on the obvious conflict that the bill created between state and federal law and would rule on the constitutionality of the Vietnam War itself, but the Court refused to exercise original jurisdiction, forcing the case into the lower federal courts. See Anthony D'Amato, Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War [PDF], 4 Journal of Law Reform (1970).

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