A US military investigator considering the case against Marine lawyer Capt. Randy W. Stone has recommended that he not face court-martial for his failure to launch a probe into the November 2005 killings of 24 Iraqi civilians by a squad of US Marines at Haditha , according to Stone's defense attorney speaking Saturday. US Marine [...]
US Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) announced Friday that an anticipated floor debate on a resolution expressing the Senate's lack of confidence in beleaguered Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will take place Monday. The no-confidence resolution, which is non-binding, will require the support of 60 senators to limit debate and further amendments to come to a [...]
The US-led Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) said Saturday that six civilian detainees had been killed and at least 50 injured as the result of an "indirect fire" attack on the US-operated Camp Bucca detention facility. In April, the Washington Post reported that the there are approximately 18,000 detainees held at Camp Bucca and another large US-run [...]
The United Nations (UN) responded Friday to a class action lawsuit filed against the UN and the Netherlands earlier in the week by thousands of survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre , insisting it was immune under Article 2 Section 2 of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations , which [...]
A Pentagon spokesman said Friday that the it will seek a reconsideration of rulings by two US military judges earlier this week dismissing all charges against Canadian detainee Omar Khadr and Yemeni detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan . Both judges found that the detainees could not be tried as "unlawful enemy combatants" under the Military Commission [...]
Iran confirmed for the first time that it is detaining Iranian-American peace activist Ali Shakeri , the Iranian Students News Agency reported Friday. Shakeri, a founding member of the University of California, Irvine, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding , is the fourth dual US citizen Iran has detained in recent months. Sources say he planned to [...]
Ali Khan : "The Pakistan Supreme Court has asked the government lawyers to disclose the procedure under which the President has sent the reference against the Chief Justice to the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). The Court is particularly interested in determining the scope of "discretion" that the President may have in forming the "opinion" in [...]
The White House has increased the size of its legal team to deal with continued requests from Democratic congressmembers investigating the US attorney scandal , prewar intelligence, and other questions, according to Friday reports. White House counsel Fred Fielding , who replaced Harriet Miers in January, has created several new positions as well as filling [...]
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka stopped the forced eviction of ethnic Tamils from the capital city of Colombo Friday, calling the government "misguided" in its latest attempt to reduce attacks by the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) , or "Tamil Tigers." Later in the day, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse invited the [...]
The Attorney General of Afghanistan Abdul Jabbar Sabet Friday accused Army General Deen Mohammed Jurat and Jurat's numerous armed bodyguards of attacking him and his men. Sabet says his group, which included the mayor of Kabul and several members of parliament, were traveling north of Kabul when they stopped at a roadblock. Sabet said he [...]
