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News Guantanamo commander says most detainees no longer questioned
Guantanamo commander says most detainees no longer questioned
Jaime Jansen
July 3, 2006 12:46:00 pm

Rear Admiral Harry Harris , commander of the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , said in remarks published Sunday that as many as 75 percent of Guantanamo inmates no longer provide the US with useful...

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News Israel to prosecute arrested Hamas leaders, but may release prisoners for soldier
Israel to prosecute arrested Hamas leaders, but may release prisoners for soldier
Jaime Jansen
July 3, 2006 11:42:00 am

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Sunday that some two dozen members of the Palestinian cabinet and legislature from the governing Hamas faction detained by Israeli forces in West Bank raids last week will...

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News Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal judges sworn in at Cambodia royal palace
Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal judges sworn in at Cambodia royal palace
Andrew Wood
July 3, 2006 10:21:00 am

Seventeen Cambodian judges and 10 others from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Japan, Poland, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, and the US who will serve on the Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal were sworn in Monday in...

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News Trial of six former Guantanamo detainees begins in France
Trial of six former Guantanamo detainees begins in France
Jaime Jansen
July 3, 2006 10:08:00 am

Six Frenchmen who were released from the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay went on trial Monday in Paris, where they stand accused of attending combat training at an al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. France freed...

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News UK parliament panel says 28-day terror detention limit may need extension
UK parliament panel says 28-day terror detention limit may need extension
Jaime Jansen
July 3, 2006 09:17:00 am

The UK parliament's Home Affairs Committee has warned that the 28-day limit for police to detain terror suspects without charge, mandated under the Terrorism Act 2006 , may need to be extended. In...

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News Gonzales, top Republicans anticipate law authorizing Gitmo military commissions
Gonzales, top Republicans anticipate law authorizing Gitmo military commissions
Jaime Jansen
July 3, 2006 07:59:00 am

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and several Republican US senators expressed optimism over the weekend that the administration and Congress will be able to strike an agreement on legislation to establish military commissions to try Guantanamo Bay...

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Bolivia votes on constitutional reform assembly
James M Yoch Jr
July 2, 2006 06:08:00 pm

Bolivians voted Sunday to elect 255 delegates to a special assembly that will rewrite the country’s constitution and decide whether to entrench greater power in the states or in the national government. The Movement Toward Socialism...

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News Hussein daughter, first wife named on Iraqi most-wanted list
Hussein daughter, first wife named on Iraqi most-wanted list
Brett Murphy
July 2, 2006 03:54:00 pm

Iraqi officials disclosed Sunday that Saddam Hussein's eldest daughter Raghad and first wife Sajida are named on its most-wanted list along with top Baathists and al Qaeda leaders. Iraqi authorities accuse the two of using...

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Pentagon releases declassified Church report on detainee interrogations
Brett Murphy
July 2, 2006 11:22:00 am

The Pentagon released a declassified version of a 2005 review of US prisoner interrogation practices on Friday. The review, conducted by Vice Adm. Albert T. Church , found that while "interrogation policy could have benefited from additional expertise...

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Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal judges arrive in Cambodia
James M Yoch Jr
July 2, 2006 10:59:00 am

Foreign judges who will preside over the trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders arrived in Cambodia on Sunday in preparation for the genocide tribunal that is slated to begin proceedings [JURIST...

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FDR proposed 'court-packing' plan

On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, frustrated with the US Supreme Court's treatment of some of his economic reforms, proposed a plan to add judges to that and other federal courts whenever a sitting judge reached the age of seventy but declined to retire. Critics accused Roosevelt of indulging in autocracy and "court-packing." Review the text of Roosevelt's "fireside chat" on the proposal from March 9, 1937. Roosevelt eventually dropped the initiative but was nonetheless able to fill seven vacancies on the Court over the next four years, achieving his goal indirectly.

Panamanian dictator Noriega indicted

On February 5, 1988, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was indicted on charges of drug smuggling and money laundering. The following year, he was extradited to the United States and later sentenced to 30 years in US federal prison. In 1999, the French government requested that Noriega be extradited to France, where he had been convicted of money laundering. In that same year, the government of Panama also requested the extradition of Noriega, as a result of his 1995 conviction in absentia on murder charges.

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