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With President-elect Barack Obama mulling when and how to shut down the controversial detention center, recent court decisions have highlighted the legal challenges in transferring, releasing or holding Guantánamo Bay's 250 inmates...
...confront their accuser and review all evidence against them. That may not fly with top terrorism hunters, who rely on informants and classified evidence. Because some of the evidence looks to have been gathered during harsh interrogations that may now be regarded as illegal and therefore inadmissible in court, building criminal cases against some detainees may be impossible. That raises the danger of avowed terrorists walking away from U.S. custody on a technicality. "These are enormously complicated problems," says Benjamin Wittes, a Brookings Institution fellow. "It's very easy to say, 'Put everybody on trial.' But we still haven...
...face of his financial and legal battles, Jackson has reportedly made moves to find peace by converting to Islam, according to British tabloid the Sun. It reports that ahead of the court case last week, Jackson went through the shahada, the Muslim declaration of belief, in the Hollywood Hills home of Steve Porcaro, the man who composed music on Jackson's Thriller album. Jackson has reportedly taken the name of Mikaeel, one of Allah's angels...
Some Yale students congregated on a tennis court, ate meat kebabs and danced to music from DJ GirlTalk. They were, for the most part, less than impressed by Harvard’s tailgate...
...percent and you’d be left with us 10 percent,” he said, according to the affidavit. Turner was arraigned on Friday and released on a $50,000 bond the same day, according to news reports. He is due to appear before the court in December for a probable cause hearing. Turner faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for attempted extortion under color of official rights, and up to 5 years and $250,000 for making false statements to federal agents. “People have a right to expect...