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KUALA LUMPUR, 11 May 2012 (mathaba)
"The five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered a guilty verdict against former United States President George W. Bush and his associates at the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal hearing that had started on Monday, May 7th.
On the charge of Crime of Torture and War Crimes, the tribunal finds the accused persons former U.S. President George W. Bush and his associates namely Richard Cheney, former U.S. Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld, former Defence Secretary, Alberto Gonzales, then Counsel to President Bush, David Addington, then General Counsel to the Vice-President, William Haynes II, then General Counsel to Secretary of Defence, Jay Bybee, then Assistant Attorney General, and John Choon Yoo, former Deputy Assistant Attorney-General guilty as charged and convicted as war criminals for Torture and Cruel, Inhumane and Degrading Treatment of the Complainant War Crime Victims."KUALA LUMPUR, 11 May 2012 (mathaba)
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The Pentagon official in charge of prosecutions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, dismissed war crimes charges Tuesday against five detainees, the latest setback to the government's military commission system.
The official, Susan Crawford, has broad power over the military commission tribunals, including the power to dismiss charges, but she does not have to provide public explanations for her decisions and did not Tuesday.
But a statement from her office said that the charges against the five were dismissed without prejudice, which means "the government can raise the charges again at a later time."
After the decision was announced, Colonel Lawrence Morris, the chief military prosecutor, said that supervising lawyers in his office had asked Crawford to withdraw the charges. He said all five would be resubmitted after a review of their files, which had been handled by a prosecutor who left the office after questioning the judicial fairness at the U.S. prison at Guantánamo.The Pentagon official in charge of prosecutions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,... more
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A 41-year-old Bosnian who's now a Norwegian citizen pleaded not guilty in Oslo on Wednesday to charges that he tortured and raped civilian Serbs during the war in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
The man later came as a refugee to Norway and now is at the center of the country's first war crimes trial since World War II.
The 41-year-old, who in accordance with local press practice isn't expected to be publicly identified until a verdict is reached, is charged with serious abuse of 18 civilian Serbs in the early 1990s, including the rape of a Serbian woman after he raided her home 1992.
She couldn't endure the trauma of testifying during the trial, however, and hasn't traveled to Norway. Other alleged victims of the defendant are expected to testify, also via video links.
The charges against the 41-year-old are detailed in a seven-page indictment. Much of the alleged torture is believed to have taken place at the prison camp Dretelj south of Mostar.
It's believed that as many as 100 persons now living in Norway are suspected of war crimes in the former Jugoslavia. In this case, the defendant came to Norway in 1993, living first in Gjøvik and then in Oslo. He has lived a quiet life with a wife and two children, who now are teenagers. He has worked as a teacher and received Norwegian citizenship before his history in the Croatian Defence Forces became known. He was arrested by Norwegian police in May 2007.
His defense attorney, Heidi Bache-Wiig, told the judge that her client acknowledges parts of the facts presented in the case against him, regarding the seizures of some of his alleged victims. She has argued, however, that the case should be dismissed since laws applying to it weren't in effect in 1992.
She also notes that her client wasn't a Norwegian citizen in 1992, contending that the alleged offenses were carried out by a foreigner in a foreign country.
The case is being heard in the largest courtroom in the Oslo city court house (Tingrett) and is expected to go on for eight weeks. A professor from the University of Oslo is due to give an overview of the war in the Balkans, and then prosecutors will present their case against the defendant. He's expected to testify on September 3 and witness testimony is due to begin in mid-September.
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"A U.S. military jury sentenced Osama bin Laden's driver Thursday to just 5 1/2 years in prison, a surprise rebuke to Pentagon prosecutors who portrayed him as a member of the al-Qaida leader's inner circle worthy of a life sentence."
What total crap. Proved he had no more connection with Al-Qaida then being a chauffeur, his sentence is set at timed served, and the pentagon still threatens to keep him locked away for life! But I suppose if I were them I'd be pissed too. For the first war crime trial since WW2 and the trial that is to set the tone for the others to come it didn't really go the way they were hoping it would.
Injustice has been served."A U.S. military jury sentenced Osama bin Laden's driver Thursday to just 5... more
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A jury of six military officers at Guantanamo Bay reached a split verdict Wednesday in the war crimes trial of a former driver for Osama bin Laden, clearing him of some charges but convicting him of others that could send him to prison for life.A jury of six military officers at Guantanamo Bay reached a split verdict Wednesday in... more
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The first Guantanamo war crimes trial began Monday with a not guilty plea from a former driver and alleged bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.The first Guantanamo war crimes trial began Monday with a not guilty plea from a... more
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