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News ‘Chemical Ali’ denies Anfal chemical weapons use
‘Chemical Ali’ denies Anfal chemical weapons use
Jeannie Shawl
May 11, 2007 09:54:00 am

Ali Hassan al-Majid, known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali" , told the Iraqi High Tribunal Thursday that he did not use or issue an order to use chemical weapons against Kurdish rebels in the late 1980s....

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News Marine commander says staff failed to warn on potential illegality of Haditha killings
Marine commander says staff failed to warn on potential illegality of Haditha killings
Jeannie Shawl
May 11, 2007 09:21:00 am

Maj. Gen. Richard A. Huck, commander of the US Second Marine Division in Iraq when 24 Iraqi civilians were killed at Haditha in November 2005, told a military panel Thursday that his staff failed...

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News Jury selection begins in Guantanamo names court-martial
Jury selection begins in Guantanamo names court-martial
Jeannie Shawl
May 9, 2007 08:46:00 am

Jury selection is expected to begin Wednesday in the court-martial of US Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew M. Diaz, charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Espionage Act with leaking secret national...

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Indonesia prosecutors appeal Newmont Mining pollution acquittal
Jeannie Shawl
May 7, 2007 11:52:00 am

Indonesian prosecutors registered their appeal Monday against the acquittal of American Richard Ness , the regional chief executive of Denver-based Newmont Mining Corporation , and Newmont's local subsidiary on...

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Pakistan high court halts disciplinary inquiry into suspended chief justice
Jeannie Shawl
May 7, 2007 10:31:00 am

The Pakistan Supreme Court on Monday suspended an investigation into misconduct charges against Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry . Pakistan's Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) has been conducting an inquiry into Chaudhry's...

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Taylor defense witnesses refusing to testify in fear of UN sanctions: lawyer
Jeannie Shawl
May 7, 2007 09:54:00 am

A defense lawyer for former Liberian President Charles Taylor told the Special Court for Sierra Leone Monday that potential defense witnesses are refusing to testify for the defense because they fear the...

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Turkish lawmakers debate constitutional change after second failed presidential vote
Jeannie Shawl
May 7, 2007 08:35:00 am

The Turkish parliament opened debate Monday on an amendment to the Turkish constitution that would see the country's president elected by a popular vote rather than by members of parliament, as is current practice. The move comes the...

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Iraq tribunal hears defense closing in Anfal genocide trial
Jeannie Shawl
May 6, 2007 11:13:00 pm

The Iraqi High Tribunal heard closing arguments Sunday from defense lawyers in the genocide trial of Ali Hassan al-Majid and other former officials in the Saddam Hussein [JURIST...

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Ex-Deputy AG says fired US Attorneys performed well
Jeannie Shawl
May 4, 2007 10:22:00 am

Former US Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified Thursday that seven of eight prosecutors at the center of the US Attorney firing scandal were performing their jobs well before being dismissed, and that the...

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Australia to strengthen bribery laws after oil-for-food scandal
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May 3, 2007 09:43:00 am

Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock said Thursday that the government plans to strengthen foreign bribery laws after a government commission concluded that the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) corporate website] paid roughly $220 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's former...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Bank of England granted political independence

On May 6, 1997, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced that the Bank of England would be granted political independence for the first time in the three-hundred year history of the Bank. This policy was statutized in the subsequent Bank of England Act of 1998 gave the Bank independent control of British monetary policy effective June 1, 1998. Read the Bank of England Act of 1998.

Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States and prohibiting courts from bestowing US citizenship on Chinese. Connecticut Senator Joseph Hawley spoke out against the Act in these words: Let the proposed statue be read 100 years hence, dug out of the dust of ages and forgotten as it will be except for a line of sneer by some historian, and ask the young man not well read in the history of this country what was the reason for excluding these men and he would not be able to find it in the law. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its successors were abolished in 1943 at the insistence of President Franklin Roosevelt.

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