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Until Air Force Colonel Morris Davis resigned in protest last fall, he was the gung-ho chief military prosecutor in charge of all cases at Guantánamo Bay. But before the end of April, Davis will be on the witness stand, testifying in defense of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's onetime driver. Davis will swear, according to court papers, that top Pentagon officials interfered in planned detainee trials, subverting the judicial process for political reasons...
...advertising career in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, where he worked at various ad agencies as an illustrator until he was 36. "If you're trained in advertising you can't have a blurry composition because you have to get the message across with a minimum of effort," says Hamdan Omar, an art-school chum of Zakii's who worked alongside him in the Kuala Lumpur ad world. As a consequence, Zakii's polished paintings sometimes appear unattractive to collectors looking for more frisson - a characteristic of the Indonesian Masriadi's work, for instance. "Zakii's very good at composition," says...
...necessary precisely because the country is divided and angry, and because of fear that the hostility between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims in Iraq could spread to Lebanon. "This is a critical moment in Lebanese history, and in a region that is boiling from Baghdad to Gaza," said Ali Hamdan, a spokesman for the Amal Movement, a Shi'ite party allied with Hizballah. "It would be helpful for Lebanon to face these challenges with one heart...
...celebrations were taking place last Tuesday as the executive branch rejoiced over its success in its long-running battle for control over the treatment of terrorists by the use of military commissions. June of this year had brought a bitter defeat for the administration in the Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which rejected the legitimacy of military tribunals and their suspension of constitutional rights. But the new Military Commissions Act now hands the president even more power than he held before this summer’s hiccup, and paves the way for more extreme behaviors, all in the name...
...Tortured Negotiations White House officials, potentially vulnerable to prosecution in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision, break out the big guns in a battle over detainees