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  • Did Milosevic or His Accusers "Cheat Justice"? By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Show Trial That Went Wrong
    "It’s hard not to feel that by dying in his cell, Slobodan Milosevic finally succeeded in his determined effort to cheat justice."
    Thus the opening sentence of a New York Times editorial, Tuesday March 14. The editorial cited without comment Carla Del Ponte, the chief prosecutor of the United Nations tribunal, who told an Italian interviewer that "the death of Milosevic represents for me a total defeat."
    The editorial ended with words of praise for the (…)

  • High-ranking member of Saddam’s regime alleges abuse
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    High-ranking member of Saddam’s regime alleges abuse MATTHEW SCHOFIELD, Knight Ridder Newspapers
    March 13, 2006
    BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein’s former vice president testified Monday that U.S. troops kicked and beat him for two weeks after his arrest in August 2003, in an effort to force him to tell them where Saddam was hiding.
    Taha Yassin Ramadan, who’s being tried with Saddam and five others for murder and other crimes, said interrogators also forced him to walk continually, (…)

  • Gitmo Detainee Allegedly Tortured at 15 to Face Tribunal
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Catherine Komp, The NewStandard Omar Khadr, accused of committing war crimes at the age of 15, is slated to go before a military panel next month at Guantánamo in what his attorneys say is a violation of international youth rights.
    Mar. 13 - With the US military moving forward with the unprecedented trial of a prisoner captured at age 15, human rights lawyers are appealing to an (…)

  • Judge Issues Secret Ruling in Case of 2 at Mosque
    12 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    original link March 11, 2006 Judge Issues Secret Ruling in Case of 2 at Mosque By JULIA PRESTON A federal judge issued a highly unusual classified ruling yesterday, denying a motion for dismissal of a case against two leaders of an Albany mosque who are accused of laundering money in a federal terrorism sting operation.
    Because the ruling was classified, the defense lawyers were barred from reading why the judge decided that way.
    The defense (…)

  • Claims Of Poisoning Raise Stakes Of Milosevic Autopsy
    11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticl... http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm... Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic claimed the day before he was found dead that he was being poisoned.
    However, Milosevic’s lawyer, Zdenko Tomanovic, said that his client had feared that he might be (…)

  • SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE MUST HOLD HEARINGS TO INVESTIGATE THE ILLEGAL DOMESTIC WIRETAPS
    7 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    On March 7, the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a vote on whether to investigate the domestic wiretaps that the president has already admitted were performed in defiance of the FISA court.
    Bill Frist has now threatened to restructure the Senate Intelligence Committee itself to strip it of oversight responsibility if it even dares to investigate the president’s dictatorial violations of the law. It is critically important that we speak out now to make sure justice prevails in this (…)

  • US asks court to drop ex-detainees’ torture suit
    7 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    33 minutes ago
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal court on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit charging that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears responsibility for the torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    In its first substantive response to the lawsuit filed by two rights groups, the Justice Department said the suit against Rumsfeld should be dismissed based on the "absolute immunity" granted federal officials under 1988 legislation on civil (…)

  • Former DEA Agent Wants George H. Bush, Negroponte And Other Higher-Ups Held Accountable For Illegal
    6 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former DEA Agent Wants George H. Bush, Negroponte And Other Higher-Ups Held Accountable For Illegal Drug Smuggling
    Cele Castillo made headlines in the 1980’s for exposing illegal government-sponsored cocaine trafficking. Although the responsible parties were never brought to justice, Castillo is still speaking out loud and strong in order to save his country.
    5 Mar 2006
    By Greg Szymanski
    Cele Castillo played it tough with the "Big Boys" for a long time until the former DEA agent (…)

  • FSA Enforcement Lawyer Faces Law Society Investigation
    3 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ’Complinet’ article merely grazes fraudulent IEQ lawyers
    LONDON, ENGLAND — (OfficialWire) — 03/03/06 — In an article written by Caroline Atkinson and published by Complinet—a solutions provider to the international financial services industry—an unnamed ’spokesperson’ representing London law firm Marriott Harrison said: "This is the latest in a series of complaints against Adrian Murtagh and others involved in the lawsuit against IEQ, none of which have been upheld."
    Greg Lloyd (…)

  • Farce : The Saddam War Crimes Trial
    1 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Who should really have to answer to the Bar of Justice for war crimes conducted against the people of Iraq? 1) What about Democrat Zbigniew Brezinski ? As part of his genocidal doctrine to stir up "Islamic fundamentalism" ; a catspaw to counter the "Soviet Threat" , this war criminal was not only the key architect of of the Iran-Iraq War but it’s corrrelative madness , the Arab-Afghani war against the Soviet Union. 2 ) What about Democrat Madeline Albright ? Asked if the (…)