American citizen captured in Iraq designated "enemy combatant"
US Department of Defense spokesmen have said that US forces in Iraq are holding a man with joint US and Jordanian citizenship who is said to be a senior operative for terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi. The...
Federal judge says Bush plot suspect can be examined for signs of torture
US District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee ruled Wednesday that Ahmed Abu Ali, the man charged with plotting to assassinate President Bush , can be examined by doctors to determine whether there is any evidence that Abu Ali was...
Fifty-nine former US diplomats have sent a letter to US Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Richard Lugar, calling on the Senate to reject the nomination of John Bolton for US ambassador to the United Nations [US Mission...
US Army captain Rogelio Maynulet pleaded not-guilty to charges of murder Monday at his court-martial in Germany. Maynulet, a company commander in the 1st Armored Division , shot an Iraqi male after firing on the vehicle he was...
Lawyers for groups seeking to overturn California's new domestic partnership law argued their case in a state court Friday. The law went into effect January 1 and gives gay couples who register as domestic partners...
Washington court rejects defamation suit over TV news omissions
Washington's Supreme Court has ruled that a businessman cannot sue a TV reporter for defamation simply for omitting facts from a news report that could have made the plaintiff look better. KXLY-TV in Spokane, Washington ran a...
Ruling on local government liability in wireless tower case [US SC]
City of Rancho Palos Verdes v. Abrams, Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Scalia, March 22, 2005 [limiting the liability local governments face in fights over cell phone towers, holding that a small California town does not have to...
Jordan convicts 3 Iraqis for plot against US, Israeli targets
Jordan's State Security Court on Tuesday convicted three Iraqis for smuggling weapons into the country as part of a plan to attack US and Israeli targets. The three were charged with importing weapons including grenades, rockets and...
Jordan sentences absent Zarqawi to 15 years for embassy bombing plot
Jordan's state security court has sentenced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to 15 years in prison in absentia for a plot to attack the country's embassy in Iraq. Zarqawi, designated the most-wanted man in Iraq {AP report]...
Dutchman charged with genocide for supplying chemicals to Iraq
Businessman Frans van Anraat has been formally charged by Dutch prosecutors with complicity in genocide for selling chemicals to Iraq that were used to produce poison gas by Saddam Hussein's government against Kurds. Prosecutors said that van Anraat, the...
