Articles tagged with: Terrorism
New York Times
September 9, 2010
Nearly every Sept. 11 since Sept. 11, Hadidjatou Karamoko Traoré has made sure that her three children were dressed in their best clothes, and taken them from their tidy brick home …
By Faisal Kutty
The long awaited report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 is finally out today.
Confirming what many security experts have believed …
By Fareed Mahdy
ISTANBUL (IDN) – Terrorism and terrorists are two of the most widely and largely used terms now-a-days. But what is the definition of terrorism?
According to the U.S. State Department, no one definition of …
Justice McLachlin, who today marks one decade leading the Supreme Court of Canada, Told Canwest News Service she expects the most pressing legal issues facing the court in the coming years will be where to …
By Jawad Jafry
In case you didn’t hear the interview on NPR, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has stated that racial profiling is NOT effective in combatting terrorism.
This is a direct quote:
Mr. CHERTOFF: I think …
From CBC News
A prominent Edmonton lawyer raised concerns Tuesday that Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach is using his position to exert political influence over the judicial system and how it deals with Greenpeace activists.
After a Greenpeace …
By Pascale Combelles Siegel
Publisher: Jamestown Foundation
In his second speech of the year, the Amir of the al-Qaeda-allied Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, has …
United Nations Report:
Promotion and protection of human rights and freedoms while countering terrorism
Click Here to read the report. ( PDF 281 kb )
Jim Brown
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – The final act of a legal drama five years in the making is about to play out for Momin Khawaja.
The 29-year-old Ottawa software developer, convicted last fall on five counts …
By Faisal Kutty – One of the hijackers on board Indian Airlines flight 814 reportedly allowed a twelve year-old boy to play with his loaded gun. He then gave the child some man to man …
