AP is reporting that a federal jury has found Ahmed Omar Abu Ali guilty of joining al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush . Abu Ali was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2003 and his trial began last month after US District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee denied Abu Ali's motion to suppress his confession, [...]

Leaders of Bosnia's three main ethnic groups Tuesday agreed to a deal on revisions to that country's constitution that would consolidate governmental power in a strong national government. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lauded the accord, saying it was the first step in the war-torn country rejoining the international community. On Monday, the United [...]

US v. Adham Amin Hassoun et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, November 17, 2005 . Read the full text of the indictment . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

Leading Tuesday's environmental law news, new water pollution standards designed to protect the Chesapeake Bay went into effect Monday. The Virginia regulations establish new limits on the levels of nitrogen and phosphorus that can be discharged by municipal sewage treatment plants and industrial facilities. The regulations were approved by the State Water Control Board and [...]

US Rep. Tom DeLay on Tuesday asked a Texas judge to dismiss the felony conspiracy charges against him. Senior Judge Pat Priest refused to make an immediate ruling on the case, saying he wanted to read the briefs from both parties before ruling on the pre-trial matter. Prosecutors argue that DeLay and his co-defendants solicited [...]

Following the latest delay in the Slobodan Milosevic war crimes trial, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ) said Tuesday that it has ordered a hearing on November 29 to hear arguments on splitting the trial. The ICTY asked the prosecution and defense to prepare submissions on whether the court should deal [...]

Leaders of the Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Tuesday unveiled a proposal to amend the military clause in the country's pacifist constitution in an effort to create armed forces that are assertive on an international level. Speaking to a crowd assembled to honor the party's 50th anniversary, Japanese Prime Minister and LDP leader [...]

Iraq Interior Minister Bayan Jabr has again denied that he controls death squads targeting Iraq's Sunni minority and ordered the torture of detainees in a secret prison . In a New York Times interview reported Tuesday, he dismissed the story of the secret prison, saying, "It's nonsense. Only a few detainees were punched and hit, [...]

Prison officials at Russia's Krasnokamensk penitentiary, which is holding jailed oil tycoon Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky , is deliberately hampering the work of his defense lawyers, according to a statement Tuesday on Khodorkovsky's defense website. According to Khodorkovsky's lawyers, prison officials have kept three lawyers from meeting with their client and have reduced their visitation hours [...]

An advisor to the European Union's highest court, the European Court of Justice , advised the body Tuesday that sharing airline passenger data with the US should be declared illegal . Advocate General Philippe Leger said the European Commission used the wrong legal basis when enacting the data-sharing law in May 2004 , relying on [...]