Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, et al., US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, July 15, 2005 . Excerpt:Hamdan claims that AR 190-8 entitles him to have a "competent tribunal"...
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Appeals court rules Gitmo detainees may be tried by military commissions
AP is reporting that a US federal appeals court has ruled that Guantanamo detainees may be tried by military commissions. Read the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals opinion in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. JURIST's Paper Chase provides background...
US Army Gen. Geoffrey Miller has made contradictory statements regarding his interactions with high-level Pentagon officials on the Abu Ghraib scandal, according to Friday's Chicago Tribune. In May 2004 Miller, a former Guantamao commander later transferred to...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ellen O'Connell of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that when it comes to fighting terrorism, the experienced British, newly challenged in the recent London bombings, have the right idea... The British have shown...
Echoing earlier predictions , Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told a gathering of Shiite clerics Thursday that Iraq's new constitution "will be done on schedule". The constitutional commission charged with drafting the charter needs to...
Al-Quds al-Arabi , a London-based Arabic-language newspaper, reported Wednesday that Saddam Hussein turned down an offer from US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to take the death penalty off the table in his upcoming trial...
CORRECTED ~ Senior lawmaker assassinated by insurgents in Iraq
Insurgents struck the convoy of Dhari Ali al-Fayahd with a suicide car bomb on Tuesday, killing the senior member of Iraq's parliament along with his son and three bodyguards. Al-Fayahd, a Shiite in his 80s who was misidentified as...
In a White House press conference Friday with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari , President Bush reiterated his goal of sticking to the scheduled timetable for a permannet Iraqi constitution which contemplates completion of a a...
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the Senate Armed Services Committee in a heated hearing on Iraq Thursday that a delay in Iraq's adoption of a constitution would be "an enormous disservice" while...
Former President Bill Clinton said in a Financial Times interview published Monday that the US government should "close down or clean up" Guantanamo Bay prison . On the weekend leading GOP Senator John McCain also pressed for...
