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...Still, Singh and the Congress Party have lived to fight another day. The confidence vote was called to resolve a bitter dispute over the administration's support for a civilian nuclear-technology agreement between India and the U.S. India's two main leftist parties pulled out of Singh's coalition government over the pact, which they say makes India subservient to U.S. strategic interests. Singh, who argued nuclear power is needed for continued economic development, can now push ahead with the deal, which still needs the approval of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.S. Congress...
...military tribunals of terror suspects at Guantánamo suffered a serious legal setback this week - this time, not at the hands of any civilian judges but by the ruling of one of the military's own jurists. Navy Judge Captain Keith Allred, hearing the first U.S. military commission trial since World War II, tossed out statements by Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, because he believes they were obtained under "highly coercive" conditions. That doesn't bode well for future tribunals in cases where U.S. interrogators used even harsher techniques - such as the waterboarding used on confessed...
...Allred's ruling is significant because of the flexibility available to military commissions in accepting evidence. The commission's rules, unlike those used in civilian trials, allow the admission of pre-2005 testimony gleaned during "cruel" and "inhuman" interrogations, so long as the judge deems that evidence relevant and reliable. The rules also permit hearsay evidence. The judge said he would not bar statements Hamdan made after arriving at Guantánamo, where the trial's opening arguments took place Tuesday. But he insisted that prosecutors present the interrogators involved to explain the conditions under which Hamdan made those statements...
...thought it was an accident, but then he kept going in a zig-zag down the slope of King David, overturned a car and hit a few cars. The whole thing happened very quickly." The driver, identified as Rassan Abu Tir, 22, was shot and wounded by an armed civilian, but kept on driving until he was killed by shots from a Border Police officer. His bulldozer careened to a halt within sight of the King David hotel...
ISRAEL'S DANGEROUS EXPORT TO CHINA Washington -- The Clinton Administration is lobbying the Israeli government and an Israeli company to halt the sale to China of an advanced fiber-optics telecommunications system containing U.S.-made microchips. Although the system is for civilian use, intelligence officials fear the sale would give China the potential to build a sophisticated military command-and-control system that would be almost impossible to monitor. The trouble is that liberalized post- cold war U.S. export laws leave officials largely powerless to stop the transaction. Israel has agreed to halt the sale temporarily while the U.S. studies...