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Is a pie in the face a terrorist act? Newfoundland Liberal MP wants Ottawa to investigate attack on Fisheries Minister means PETA is ‘acting as a terrorist organization’
January 27, 2010 – 5:15 pm | No Comment
Is a pie in the face a terrorist act? Newfoundland Liberal MP wants Ottawa to investigate attack on Fisheries Minister means PETA is ‘acting as a terrorist organization’

By John Lewandowski
Halifax — A Liberal MP thinks the federal government should investigate a U.S.-based animal rights group under Canada’s anti-terrorism laws after a pie was pushed into the face of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea.
Gerry …

Zahir v. Bush (D.D.C. Oct. 28, 2009) – Discovery issues in GTMO habeas
November 5, 2009 – 2:18 pm | No Comment
Zahir v. Bush (D.D.C. Oct. 28, 2009) – Discovery issues in GTMO habeas

Judge Roberts has published a detailed, 15-page decision granting in part and denying in part Zahir’s motion for permission to propound various interrogatories in this habeas proceeding.
The opinion contains extended discussion of what facts will …

The CIA’s Silent War in Pakistan
May 24, 2009 – 11:34 am | No Comment
The CIA’s Silent War in Pakistan

By Bobby Ghosh and Mark Thompson
The wilds of Waziristan, the tribal belt along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, make an unlikely showcase for the future of warfare. This is a land stuck in the past: there …

Iraq court reduces sentence of shoe-throwing journalist
April 8, 2009 – 7:10 am | No Comment
Iraq court reduces sentence of shoe-throwing journalist

By Safiya Boucaud, JURIST
A federal appeals court in Baghdad on Tuesday reduced the sentence for the Iraqi journalist accused of throwing his shoe at former US president George W. Bush from three years to one …

EDITORIAL TheStar.com – Reaching out to Muslims
April 8, 2009 – 4:30 am | No Comment
EDITORIAL TheStar.com – Reaching out to Muslims

Barack Hussein Obama isn’t the first U.S. president to deliver an upbeat speech in a Muslim nation. In his travels abroad, George W. Bush mouthed all the right platitudes about Islam as a religion of …

Americans Favor Probe of ‘War on Terror’ Excesses
February 13, 2009 – 7:22 pm | No Comment
Americans Favor Probe of ‘War on Terror’ Excesses

WASHINGTON – Two-thirds of Americans favor investigating whether the George W. Bush administration overstepped legal boundaries in its “war on terror,” according to a poll released Thursday by USA Today and Gallup.
A majority of respondents …