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Saddam lawyers say they have not yet received charges or documents
Krista-Ann Staley
June 10, 2005 10:40:00 am

A lawyer for Saddam Hussein said in a BBC interview broadcast Friday that his legal team had not yet received any list of formal charges, despite the Iraqi government's statement that the former Iraqi president's Saddam Hussein's...

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News US Senate confirms two more appeals court nominees
US Senate confirms two more appeals court nominees
Krista-Ann Staley
June 10, 2005 10:35:00 am

The US Senate confirmed Judges David McKeague and Richard Griffin to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Thursday by 96-0 and 95-0 votes, respectively. The confirmations came the...

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News Sunnis reject offer of 13 more seats on Iraq constitutional committee
Sunnis reject offer of 13 more seats on Iraq constitutional committee
Krista-Ann Staley
June 10, 2005 09:41:00 am

The leading Sunni Muslim political grouping in Iraq rejected the Shiite-led Iraqi government's offer of an additional 13 seats on the country's constitutional committee Friday, sticking to its demand for 25 seats and threatening to boycott negotiations...

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Spanish anti-terror judge criticizes US tactics
Krista-Ann Staley
June 10, 2005 09:03:00 am

In an apparent dig at the US, a veteran Spanish anti-terror judge emphasized the necessity of international cooperation, law and reason in the pursuit of terrorism Thursday in a special UN-sponsored meeting in New York . Baltasar Garzon...

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News DOJ report: FBI missed opportunities to prevent September 11 attacks
DOJ report: FBI missed opportunities to prevent September 11 attacks
Krista-Ann Staley
June 10, 2005 08:23:00 am

In a report on the FBI's handling of intelligence related to the September 11 attacks released Thursday, US Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine concluded that the FBI missed several opportunities to detect and prevent...

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Jordan appeals court reverses conviction of alleged al-Zarqawi funder
Krista-Ann Staley
June 7, 2005 11:38:00 am

A Jordanian appeals court has overturned the conviction of a Jordanian man for financing al Qaeda-linked terrorist Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi in an opinion obtained by the Associated Press Tuesday. According to the Court of Cassation [Jordian Judicial Branch...

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Rossi not appealing Washington gubernatorial ruling
Krista-Ann Staley
June 7, 2005 10:45:00 am

Washington state GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi announced late Monday that he would not appeal the ruling of a Washington state judge upholding the heavily disputed 2004 gubernatorial election of Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire [official...

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Bolivian president offers second resignation
Krista-Ann Staley
June 7, 2005 10:14:00 am

Bolivian President Carlos Mesa tendered his resignation late Monday for the second time in four months following weeks of protests throughout the country. The Bolivian Congress rejected his first attempt to...

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News Shiites balk at adding Sunni Arabs to Iraq constitutional process
Shiites balk at adding Sunni Arabs to Iraq constitutional process
Krista-Ann Staley
June 7, 2005 09:16:00 am

Majority Shiite members of the special parlimentary committee mandated to draft the charter for Iraq's constitution have balked at Sunni calls for greater representation in the constitutional process, with some urging that the body simply get on...

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Iraqi Special Tribunal denies exact schedule or charges set for Saddam trial
Krista-Ann Staley
June 7, 2005 08:49:00 am

The Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) has denied recent reports that the trial of Saddam Hussein is imminent, perhaps getting underway in the next two months with the first...

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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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