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US releases 80 Afghan detainees
The US Sunday released approximately 80 Afghan detainees from custody at Bagram airbase north of Kabul and delivered them to the Afghan Supreme Court, where officials put them on buses home. The detainees were taken in after the fall of the Taliban (More) |
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Afghan judge arrested for ties to Kabul car bombing
Afghan authorities have arrested an Afghan supreme court judge in connection with an August car bomb attack that killed ten people, including three Americans, outside a US security firm in Kabul. Judge Naqibullah, who like many Afghans goes by one n (More) |
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D'Amato [Northwestern]: Protecting the President from prosecution
Anthony D'Amato, Northwestern University Law School:"Although the N.Y. Times and Washington Post have been admirably accurate in reporting the standard legal issues, they have overlooked the single most telling point in the debate about Gon (More) |
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Anderson [American U.]: Does it matter who you are interrogating?
Kenneth Anderson, Washington College of Law American University:"One thing that is missing in the whole torture-interrogation debate is the question of who you are interrogating. Can you use a different level of interrogation on Zarqawi, for exa (More) |
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Afghan convicted of killing journalists
An Afghan court Saturday sentenced Reza Khan to death for the 2001 murder of four foreign journalists. The three-judge panel also found Khan guilty of raping one of the murdered journalists before she died as well as of the murder of his wife in Pak (More) |
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Associate of USS Cole bomber refuses to attend Gitmo status hearing
The suspected roommate of a USS Cole bomber and al-Quaida sympathizer Saturday refused to attend a hearing on his status conducted by the US military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detainee is accused of traveling to Afghanistan to join Taliban force (More) |
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Afghan hostage-takers focus on release of 26 prisoners
The Taliban-related group holding 3 UN workers hostage in Afghanistan has agreed to forego other demands relating to their release in exchange for the release of 26 prisoners, some believed to be held at Guantanamo Bay. A list was given to Afghan of (More) |
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Terror indictment again Ali al-Timini [VA]
US v. Ali al-Timini, September 23, 2004 . Read the indictment here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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The Common Plan to Violate the Geneva Conventions
JURIST Guest Columnist and international law scholar Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that recently-divulged White House and DOJ memos provide evidence of an illegal, unconstitutional and downright inept US plan to violate th (More) |
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Enemy combatants ruling [4th Circuit]
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, January 8, 2003 . Read the opinion here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
