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Federal judge allowing USS Cole lawsuit against Sudan to go to trial
US District Judge Robert G. Doumar has said that he will not grant the Sudanese government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of sailors killed in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole [Wikipedia backgrounder; US DOD inquiry report]. A (More)
Bush signs Military Commissions Act
President George W. Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 [PDF text; S 3930 summary] Tuesday. The US Congress approved the bill late last month after leaders of the House of Representatives decided to forego the process of reconciling sl (More)
Rice, Cheney feuded over secret CIA prisons: WashPost
President Bush's recent acknowledgement of secret CIA prisons for important terror detainees was motivated by the personal urgings of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to release all British prisoners, and from pleas to close the sites from other US (More)
Bush confirms existence of secret CIA prisons for high-value terror detainees
US President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged that the US Central Intelligence Agency has operated secret prisons outside the US where high-value terror suspects were detained, and said that 14 of those suspects have now been transferred to the De (More)
Sudan appeals USS Cole ruling allowing families to sue
A lawyer for the government of Sudan urged the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the 17 sailors killed in the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole [Wikipedia backgrounder; US DOD inqui (More)
UK terror trial begins for Muslim cleric Abu Hamza
The trial of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri , charged under the UK Terrorism Act 2000 for inciting racial hatred, began in London on Monday. Hamza was arrested last May on a US extradition warrant, and was later charged in the UK on 16 co (More)
International brief ~ Security Council warns about cease-fire violations in Darfur
Leading Thursday's international brief, the current president of the UN Security Council , Philippine Ambassador Lauro Baja condemned the renewed violence in the Darfur region of Sudan , and warned that the Security Council was seriously conce (More)
Families of USS Cole dead can sue Sudan
A US federal judge has ruled that there is enough evidence for families of the 17 sailors who died in the 2000 terror attack [Wikipedia backgrounder; US DOD inquiry report] in Yemen on the USS Cole to pursue their lawsuit against the Sudanese gover (More)
Yemeni court upholds death sentence in USS Cole case
A Yemeni appeals court Saturday upheld a death sentence against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , a Saudi militant suspected of being a close associate of Osama Bin Laden. Nashiri and fellow militant Jamal al-Badawi had received death penalties for their ro (More)
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