Binyam Mohamed intelligence sharing ruling [UK HC] News
Binyam Mohamed intelligence sharing ruling [UK HC]

The Queen on the Application of Binyam Mohamed v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, UK High Court of Justice, February 4, 2009 [revealing that the US government threatened to reconsider and possibly end its intelligence sharing operations with the UK if a summary of the alleged torture of Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed was made public by the court]. Read the full text of the judgment here [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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On January 16, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution came into effect as scheduled one year after ratification, marking the beginning of Prohibition. Learn more about Temperance and Prohibition from Professor K. Austin Kerr of the Ohio State University Department of History.

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