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DOJ appeals ruling allowing NSA wiretapping lawsuit to proceed

DOJ appeals ruling allowing NSA wiretapping lawsuit to proceed

August 1, 2006 09:43:00 am

Lawyers from the US Department of Justice on Monday appealed a federal court decision that allowed a challenge to the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program to go forward, arguing to the...

Pinochet questioned by Chile judge in ex-army chief assassination probe

Pinochet questioned by Chile judge in ex-army chief assassination probe

August 1, 2006 09:02:00 am

Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was questioned Monday by Judge Alejandro Solis about the assassination of General Carlos Prats shortly after Pinochet came to power following a 1973 coup [BBC...

Guantanamo Bay detainees attacked guards hundreds of times: DOD records

Guantanamo Bay detainees attacked guards hundreds of times: DOD records

August 1, 2006 08:00:00 am

Detainees at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay have used items found in their cells to attack military guards hundreds of times, according to Pentagon memos released through a Freedom of Information Act...

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On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by British and French forces against the Germans. Learn more about early efforts by the Red Cross to ban chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare.

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