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...letter to N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper, Nifong asked that a special prosecutor be assigned to the case, which has its next scheduled hearing on Feb. 5. On Saturday, Cooper said he has asked Jim Coman and Mary Winstead, of his special prosecutions office, to be the primary attorneys in the case...
...calculated to inflame sectarian tensions. The cell phone video of Saddam’s hanging is as shocking for the taunting and chaos of the gallows as it is for the gruesome climax. As the noose was tied around Saddam’s neck, the Iraqi judge and prosecutor, present to ensure order, lost control. The guards began chanting “Moktada,” referring to Moktada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric responsible for inciting much of Iraq’s sectarian violence. The guards then proceeded to dance around Saddam’s dead body...
Nine Scotland Yard detectives were in Moscow last week, trying to talk to Lugovoy. But the interview kept getting postponed for "technical reasons." Cooperation between the Londoners and the Russian authorities has been frosty. Russian prosecutors insisted that they conduct all the interviews, with the British merely suggesting questions. Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said no Russian citizens would ever be extradited to Britain in connection with the case, while his office suggested that Russia would open its own criminal investigation in London. Lugovoy and Kovtun were said to be in the hospital with radiation poisoning, but there was no independent...
...Britain, horrified that a foe of the Kremlin could be murdered with a radioactive isotope that has left traces all over London, has vowed to pursue the Litvinenko investigation wherever "the police take it," regardless of diplomatic sensitivities. However, once the men from Scotland Yard landed in Moscow, Russian prosecutor-general Yuri Chaika bluntly spelled out the limits of the British inquiry: It's the Russians who ask questions - the British just sit tight and watch. And should any Russians be discovered to have been involved, he said, they would not be extradited...
...similar suit was brought in Germany in 2005 and dismissed after prosecutors ruled that the U.S. still had jurisdiction and was pursuing those responsible. The civil rights activists who brought the Rumsfeld suit claim that the basis for that decision is no longer valid, since only lower-level figures have been convicted in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. The German federal prosecutor Monika Harms will likely make her decision officially early in the new year. "At best it's an uphill struggle," said Zimmermann...