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...with rampant smuggling of guns and laundered drug profits into Mexico, is just as responsible for the crisis. Obama is sending 500 new federal agents to the border this year to snare more weapons and money moving south, and last week he appointed a border-policy czar, former federal prosecutor Alan Bersin. The U.S. Administration also intends to put more emphasis on reducing demand by expanding programs like drug courts that mandate rehab...
...order to uphold the rule of law, President Obama must immediately appoint a special prosecutor to investigate violations of both American and international law. Shielding those who perpetrated this American torture regime from investigation and prosecution—or, in the case of Jay Bybee, currently serve on the federal bench—would be a grave miscarriage of justice...
...With the question of Qasab's age set aside, the prosecutor launched a full frontal attack on Pakistan - the unnamed but ever-present fourth defendant on trial in Mumbai. (Qasab's co-defendants are Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Sheikh, both Indians, who were arrested before the Mumbai attacks but are suspected of helping with some preliminary planning.) As he outlined the details of the case, Nikam focused his argument on the second charge of "waging war against the government of India." The attacks, he said, had "the definite target of capturing Kashmir." (Lashkar e Taiba, a jihadi group that...
...prosecutor, Ujwal Nikam, objected strenuously, arguing that according to the court's record - the confession submitted to a Mumbai magistrate, the jail's entry logs and the charge sheet against him - Qasab had given his date of birth as Sept. 13, 1987. The defense attorney said Qasab does not remember his exact birthday, only that he was less than 17 at the time of the attacks. To resolve the standoff, Tahiliani told Qasab, "Please stand up." Addressing the open court, Tahiliani concluded, "If one looks at Accused No. 1, it looks that he is definitely above 21." At that...
...before she hit the stage at a nightclub in Frankfurt, where she was due to give a solo concert. "Nadja Benaissa had unprotected sex with three men in 2004 and 2006, and although she knew that she herself was HIV positive, she didn't tell them," Ger Neuber, a prosecutor in the city of Darmstadt, near Frankfurt, tells TIME. "Her former lover filed charges against her last year. He is HIV positive and suspects that she is responsible. We arrested her and she's been remanded in custody because there is a danger that she might repeat this." (See pictures...