Word: writs
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...which is as early as the logistics of moving U.S. armed forces into the region will permit - he has only a matter of weeks to secure the requisite political decisions. And the Iraqi dictator is doing his best to slow things down, proclaiming his intention to abide by UN writ in order to deny the U.S. a "trigger...
...Bush's repeated references to the credibility of the UN being on the line were clearly aimed at shaming the international body into enforcing its own writ. But that goal may be beyond the reach of an administration openly disdainful of international consensus on so many other issues. The administration's stance on issues ranging from the Kyoto protocol to the International Criminal Court have led even NATO allies to view the Bush Administration as a delinquent global citizen, and pro-Western Arab governments make the argument that when the unconventionally-armed country defying U.N. resolutions is Israel...
...situations like this. It's called habeas corpus, and it's designed to force the government to bring a prisoner before a judge; the prosecution must make the case for holding the prisoner or let him go. On June 12, Newman submitted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to Judge Mukasey, and that day he appointed a co-counsel to help Newman handle the workload: Andrew Patel, 50, a genial veteran with a hearty laugh who is no stranger to controversial clients. In 1997 he defended El Sayyid Nosair, a convicted assassin suspected of masterminding the 1993 World...
...need for action against Iraq, see a U.N. ultimatum as a means of legitimizing an armed response should Iraq refuse to comply. It also allows the Bush administration to challenge the naysayers among its European and Arab allies to come up with an alternative means of enforcing the U.N. writ on Iraq's weapons program, as opposed to the current situation in which most allies perceive the U.S. as the would-be initiator of an unpopular aggression...
...International Security Assistance Force composed primarily of European troops (currently led by Turkey). And the reluctance of the U.S. to sanction any expansion of the peacekeeping mission beyond the 4,000 ISAF troops currently in the capital has earned Karzai the unkind nickname "Mayor of Kabul," since his writ doesn't run much beyond the city limits. Even there, some U.S. foreign policy experts believe he's in danger both from the Pansjiris and from the increasingly confident anti-Karzai jihadis...