Dhiren Barot , a British man who pleaded guilty to planning a series of bombs on US and British targets, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday. Barot was accused of planning several attacks, including the "Gas Limo Project" to blow up three limousines filled with explosives in underground parking garages in Britain. Justice Butterfield [...]
The Iraqi government's DeBaathification Commission plans to submit a proposal to Iraq's parliament that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath Party to be reinstated to public life, the commission's executive director said Tuesday. The commission was set up with the approval of the US-run Coalition Provisional Authority in 2003 and its early [...]
UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland called Tuesday for a freeze on the use of controversial cluster munitions at the outset of the Third Review Conference in Geneva on the 1983 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons , which already bans or limits the use of incendiary weapons, mines and booby-traps, blinding laser weapons [...]
Former Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for allegedly attempting to incite a military mutiny in November 2000 after rebel Counter Revolutionary Warfare soldiers attempted to remove military leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama , leading to a gun battle that resulted in the deaths of eight servicemen. Bainimarama had taken control [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Ilya Somin of the George Mason University School of Law says that while political ignorance among voters is more the byproduct of rational calculation than laziness or stupidity, one way to address the problem is to reduce the size and complexity of government… Nancy Pelosi may soon become the new Speaker of [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Geoffrey S. Corn, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.) and former Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Law of War Matters, now a professor at South Texas College of Law, says that Americans going to the polls with the Iraq war on their minds might reflect on how they would think [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that the Dujail crimes against humanity trial of Saddam Hussein before the Iraqi High Tribunal was hardly perfect, but it was nonetheless a step forward for the rule of law in the [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Lawrence Douglas, Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College, says the trial of Saddam Hussein had little didactic value in Iraq for various reasons, but it could ironically have more impact in America on the eve of mid-term elections… President Bush hailed the verdict condemning Saddam Hussein to death [...]
US District Judge Nancy Edmunds Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by US House Democrats challenging the validity of a $39 billion deficit-reduction bill. The plaintiffs argued that the measure was invalid since the Senate and House approved two different versions. The version approved by the Senate indicated that Medicare would be able to rent certain [...]
US Marine Lance Cpl. Tyler Jackson on Monday pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with the April 26 death of Iraqi civilian Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania . In accordance with his plea agreement , Jackson testified Monday that Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III devised the plot to kidnap and [...]