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...cases, like the one against Drummond, rely on a law that dates back to 1789 known as the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATC). The law was originally intended to deal with piracy, as well as to provide a way for foreigners, such as an ambassador posted in Washington, to seek legal redress for injury in the U.S. before it triggered an international incident. The statute lay virtually dormant for generations until Paraguayan Dolly Filartiga, whose 17-year-old brother Joelito was tortured to death by local policemen, found out that the police chief at the time, Américo Norberto...
...Where they're building [them] is right in our battle space," says Grigsby. "We know that." Because of the time taken to acquire and assemble bomb parts, his men seek to interdict bomb materiel and maintain pressure on the militants, to put them on the defensive in the hopes of disrupting their offensive plans. Capt. Richard Thompson, 35, explains the thinking: "If we don't kill or capture a bad guy that [particular], night the message to him is still, you are not safe...
...Pazzta's fate, in fact, will likely reveal less about its owners' culinary skills or business savvy than about the kind of rapport 21st century Barcelonans seek with their food. Ripoll is optimistic. "The Boqueria is about more than food," he says. "It's about health, about quality of life, today as well as in the past...
Some explanations produced groans in the hearing room; others begged credulity. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, wrapped up his questioning of Gonzales by dropping a strong hint that lawmakers might seek a special prosecutor--someone independent of Gonzales and the White House--to look into the sudden firing of U.S. Attorneys last year. Which may mean Gonzales' time under fire will not be over soon...
...Under the new leadership, all Iraqi citizens who worked for or cooperated with the current, coalition-backed government would be arrested. A "reconciliation council", drawn in large part from the ranks of the armed insurgency, would then draw up plans for a permanent "technocratic" government ? which would immediately seek criminal charges and file civil suits against the U.S. government and major American war supporters in international court...