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News Iraq minorities worried about lack of religious freedom as constitutional deadline looms
Iraq minorities worried about lack of religious freedom as constitutional deadline looms
Tom Henry
July 15, 2005 11:24:00 am

Spokesmen for several of Iraq's religious minorites, including Chaldo/Assyrian Catholics , Iraqi Turkmen Muslims , and Mandaeans have expressed concern that new Iraqi constitution due out in a month may leave out any meaningful provisions...

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News BREAKING NEWS ~ Appeals court rules Gitmo detainees may be tried by military commissions
BREAKING NEWS ~ Appeals court rules Gitmo detainees may be tried by military commissions
Tom Henry
July 15, 2005 11:12:00 am

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...

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News UPDATE ~ Pakistan asks Supreme Court to rule on Islamic morals law
UPDATE ~ Pakistan asks Supreme Court to rule on Islamic morals law
Tom Henry
July 15, 2005 10:50:00 am

The Pakistan government Friday asked the Supreme Court of Pakistan to rule on a controversial Islamic law passed Thursday by the conservative Islamist legislature of the country's North West Frontier Province . President General...

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News Top JAGs challenged definition of torture, interrogation policy
Top JAGs challenged definition of torture, interrogation policy
Tom Henry
July 15, 2005 10:28:00 am

At a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing Thursday, three top military lawyers said they had lodged complaints about the definition of torture put forth by the US Department of Justice and...

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News US prison general contradicts Abu Ghraib testimony
US prison general contradicts Abu Ghraib testimony
Tom Henry
July 15, 2005 09:55:00 am

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...

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News Freed detainee points to racism, Iraq and Gitmo as motives for London bombings
Freed detainee points to racism, Iraq and Gitmo as motives for London bombings
Tom Henry
July 15, 2005 09:31:00 am

Moazamm Begg , a UK national formerly detained at Guantanamo Bay, has told the Associated Press that rampant racism in Britain, a lack of assimilation in certain communities, anger over US involvement in Iraq and...

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News Navy SEAL lawsuit against AP dismissed
Navy SEAL lawsuit against AP dismissed
Tom Henry
July 15, 2005 09:01:00 am

US District Court judge Jeffrey Miller has thrown out a lawsuit filed in March 2005 against the Associated Press and reporter Seth Hettena claiming that the news group violated privacy and copyright laws by publishing...

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News Mistaken Madrid bombings arrest of Portland lawyer goes to trial
Mistaken Madrid bombings arrest of Portland lawyer goes to trial
Tom Henry
July 15, 2005 08:30:00 am

Brandon Mayfield , a Portland lawyer and Muslim convert, returns to a federal courthouse in Portland Friday for a pretrial hearing in his civil lawsuit against the US government. A little over a year ago...

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News US court reverses ban on Canadian cattle imports
US court reverses ban on Canadian cattle imports
Tom Henry
July 15, 2005 08:01:00 am

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that that US meatpackers can resume Canadian cattle importation, ending a two-year ban put in place after Canada discovered its...

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News UN panel condemns US trial of Castro spies
UN panel condemns US trial of Castro spies
Tom Henry
July 14, 2005 03:15:00 pm

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Thursday condemned the 2001 Miami federal court conviction of five Cubans who spied on US anti-Castro groups , calling their long jail terms - including three...

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On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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