Last week, an article in the Washington Post explained how decisions of the Bush administration with regard to detention policies have been overturned by the Supreme Court. The tone of the article is interesting. It’s title is “White House Dismissed Legal Advice On Detainees”.* The “advice” in question came from…
Earlier this year, Jane’s Information Group ranked Afghanistan as one of the world’s most unstable countries, following the Palestinian territories and Somalia. Last month, Foreign Policy magazine ranked Afghanistan at number eight on its failed states index. Violence in Afghanistan has grown steadily over the years, so that it is…
The Bush administration has been frustrated in its policies of detaining prisoners in the “war on terrorism” by a number of court decisions recently. On June 12, the Supreme Court ruled that detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention facility had a right to challenge their incarceration with writs of habeas corpus,…
The so-called “cease-fire” between Israel and Hamas which began on June 19 is officially holding, with both sides saying they are sticking to it, but the facts on the ground tell a different story. Israel assassinated a leader of Islamic Jihad on June 24 in the West Bank. The group…
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