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...Before this verdict, the Omagh families had failed time and time again in their attempts to bring the perpetrators of Ireland's bloodiest terrorist attack to justice. It wasn't until 2007 that someone finally stood trial in Northern Ireland for the August 1998 attack that killed 29 and injured 250 when a bomb hidden in a stolen car parked on the busy High Street exploded. But the accused, Sean Hoey, was found not guilty of 29 counts of murder and other charges relating to the attack. (See pictures of new hope for Belfast...
...judge at Hoey's trial strongly criticized the police's handling of forensic evidence, and a subsequent report by Northern Ireland's police ombudsman claimed that the police had failed to act on intelligence reports regarding a possible bomb attack in the town. Even Sir Hugh Orde, chief constable of the police service of Northern Ireland, admitted after Hoey's acquittal that it was "highly unlikely" that anyone would be successfully prosecuted for the Omagh bombing. Prior to that, Colm Murphy - one of the five accused in the families' civil case - was sentenced to 14 years in jail...
...minister did not say when the trial would begin, but he did say law requires the government to produce the doctors in court once a month during their detention. He also said there was legal provision with the constitution allowing the detention to be challenged at the country's Supreme Court...
...week to ask a federal judge to toss out California's Proposition 8, one might have expected longtime gay-marriage advocates to welcome the move with open arms. After all, not only is Olson, 69, one of the preeminent members of the Supreme Court bar and Boies an acclaimed trial lawyer who famously squared off with Olson in 2000 when they took opposing sides in the Supreme Court's landmark Bush v. Gore election case. But perhaps even more important symbolically, Olson is a former top lawyer in the George W. Bush and Reagan administrations, the epitome of a mainstream...
Instead of standing trial, as human-rights groups are demanding, Shamanov will continue to serve as a super-hawk at a time when Russia has been making efforts to assert its place on the world stage though aggressive military actions. Just last week Shamanov said that "airborne troops proved during the five-day war [with Georgia] that they ... remain the backbone of Russia's conventional forces," according to Russian news agency RIA-Novosti. Previously head of the Ministry of Defense's combat training command, Shamanov ordered a change in training last year to prepare Russia's military to fight...