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Julian Ku, Hofstra University School of Law:"Strangely enough, the war on terrorism is providing a slight boost for plaintiffs lawyers specializing in tort suits alleging violations of international law. This week, the UK released four men who had previously been...

Mamdouh Habib , an Australian who has been held for the last 3 years at the terror suspect detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, returned home to Australia Friday. Habib was arrested in Pakistan in 2001,...

The four British citizens released from Guantanamo Bay who arrived in the UK Tuesday and were later released from custody by British police still pose a terrorist threat, according to US officials....

US House Committee on the Judiciary chairman James Sensenbrenner, Jr. introduced legislation Wednesday that contains provisions restricting terrorist travel that were dropped from the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 , which...

The Senate Judiciary Committee has just voted 10-8 to approve President Bush's nomination of Alberto Gonzales as US Attorney General. The nomination now goes to the full Senate. AP has a background story on this morning's committee meeting here....

In Wednesday's international brief, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens says that no prosecutions will proceed against the four Britons released from Guantanamo Bay based on material gathered by UK MI5 investigators who made...

UK Home Secretary Charles Clarke announced Wednesday that foreign terror suspects currently being detained in British prisons will be set free and will either be deported or will be subject to "control orders." At one end of...

Twenty-three terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay tried to kill or harm themselves as part of a "coordinated effort to disrupt camp operations" in August 2003, US Southern Command officials confirmed Monday. Only two of the incidents...

In Monday's international brief, US lawmakers from the House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa who met with Sudanese government officials and displaced Sudanese refugees in Chad over the weekend are expected to announce that they will urge...

Britain's Law Society , which represents lawyers in England and Wales, has called for the nine foreign terror suspects who have been detained in the UK since December 2001 to be tried or released....