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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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News Bolivia votes on constitutional reform assembly
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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News Pentagon releases declassified Church report on detainee interrogations
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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News Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal judges arrive in Cambodia
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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THIS DAY @ LAW

President Johnson signed law against burning draft cards

On August 31, 1965, President Johnson signed a law making the burning of draft cards a federal offense subject to a five-year prison sentence and $1000 fine. In response to the law and in protest of the war in Vietnam, the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States on October 15, 1965. The constitutionality of the federal law was upheld in 1968 by the US Supreme Court in US v. O'Brien.

Gdansk Agreement reached

On August 31, 1980, the communist government of Poland and labor leaders settled the Gdansk Agreement. The accord settled a summer of labor strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland. With the Agreement, Poland became the first communist country to allow the creation of an independent labor union, which was called Solidarity. Solidarity then became the driving force that ended communism in Poland. Learn more about the history of Solidarity.

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