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...exceptions from legal protections claimed by the U.S. vis-à-vis its terror suspects are, by any measure, much more substantial than those taken by the British (the ones recently found to be untenable and unlawful). Although the U.K. “opted out” of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (which enshrines the right to liberty) in passing the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act, the U.S. has denied terror detainees, most notably at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, both rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the protections...
None of this is to say that the United States, Britain or any country should not take definite steps to protect itself from the specter of terror. But, as has been argued so frequently since the attacks on America of September 11, 2001, casting aside the very values, protections and rights that make America “great” in the name of national security ultimately causes two deleterious effects. First, it costs the U.S. credibility in a world where international opinion is already largely against U.S. policy and where, with the House of Lords rulings, there...
...even as President Bush claimed vindication for his Iraq strategy in the spectacle of millions of Iraqis braving terror and intimidation to go to the polls, the real author of Sunday's election -Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani - confined himself to a simply thanking voters for turning out, and expressing regret that his own Iranian birth prevented him from joining them. It may be easily forgotten in the post-election spin that Sunday's vote was not the Bush administration's idea-quite the contrary. The U.S. had never intended for Iraqis to democratically choose the body that would write their...
...life insurance policies worth just over j830,000. German federal prosecutor Kay Nehm said the money would have funded attacks in Iraq. Prosecutors also allege that one of the men tried to buy 48 g of enriched uranium in Luxembourg - not enough for a bomb but, as E.U. terror czar Gijs de Vries said, "a risk we must take seriously." Apprehending terror suspects is one thing; convicting them is another. That difficulty was highlighted last week in Milan when five Muslim men who had recruited fighters for Iraq were acquitted of terrorism charges. Judge Clementina Forleo noted that...
...Terror Tactics THE NETHERLANDS In a procedural hearing in the case against Mohammed Bouyeri, the alleged killer of controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh, judges were told that Bouyeri twice ignored Van Gogh's pleas for mercy. Prosecutors said that Bouyeri first shot Van Gogh dead, then slit his throat, and that the gruesome slaying was intended to terrify the Dutch population. Bouyeri, who faces charges ranging from murder to impeding democracy, waived his right to attend the court. His trial is expected to start before the summer...