Italian Judge Caterina Interlandi issued indictments Friday for 31 US and Italian intelligence agents for their alleged role in the February 17, 2003 abduction and extraordinary rendition of alleged terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr in Milan. Prosecutor Armando Spataro has alleged that 25 Americans working for the Central Intelligence Agency, one United States Air [...]
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Executive Order on Trial of Alien Unlawful Enemy Combatants by Military Commission, President George W. Bush, February 14, 2007 . Read the full text of the order. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.
Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons is under investigation by the FBI for allegedly failing to report gifts and payments given by a defense technology company that received secret military contracts while Gibbons was still a US congressman, an anonymous FBI source confirmed to the AP Thursday. The investigation is focusing on allegations that Gibbons' longtime friend, [...]
Chief of the Russian Military General Staff Yuri Baluyevsky told Russian media Thursday that Russia might unilaterally opt out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty (INF) if the US continues efforts to establish missile defense systems in Central Europe. Baluyevsky has previously criticized the establishment of the missile defense bases in Central Europe. Just [...]
Canada's conservative government retreated Thursday from earlier statements that the government would ignore a bill (C-288) passed by the House of Commons Wednesday requiring the government to establish a plan within 60 days for greenhouse gas emission cuts mandated by the Kyoto Protocol . While Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper initially announced that he would [...]
The judiciary committee of the Montana Senate endorsed a bill Thursday that would abolish the death penalty . By an 8-4 margin, the committee voted to send the SB 306 to the full state senate for consideration. Similar legislation has been introduced in the past three Montana Senate legislative sessions without success. Montana has executed [...]
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) contacted Italian intelligence about the possibility of performing extraordinary renditions in the days following the September 11 attacks, according to testimony during Italian judicial proceedings against US and Italian agents on Thursday. The proceedings center around the alleged 2003 kidnapping and extraordinary rendition of Muslim cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan [...]
Egyptian police arrested 72 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday morning, according to security officials. The government accuses the organization of trying to create an Islamic theocracy, but the Brotherhood claims the crackdown is meant to quell opposition to constitutional amendments proposed by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last year. Human Rights Watch Middle [...]
US Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Thursday introduced a bill that would ban federal funds for the use, sale, or transfer of cluster munitions . The Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2007 would allow an exception for bombs to be used against "clearly defined military targets and not where civilians are [...]
Prosecutors in East Timor said Thursday they are seeking a seven-year jail term for Rogerio Lobato, former head of East Timor's Ministry of the Interior on charges of misappropriating public property, misuse of public funds, and the unauthorised importation or use of firearms to disturb public order. The charges stem from allegations that Lobato provided [...]
