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Analysis: Should YouTube censor al-Qaida?VIA UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (Hat Tip: Slashdot)
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., called Monday for YouTube to take down al-Qaida videos that users had posted, but the site said most of the videos his office had flagged did not contain material that violated their guidelines and rejected his request that they act to remove all material from U.S. designated terror groups. (LINK)
Posted @ 6:54 PM | Free Speech | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Talks for a ban on cluster bombs open in DublinVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Ireland convened diplomats from more than 100 countries Monday in hopes of negotiating a treaty banning cluster bombs, which have littered battlefields worldwide with potentially deadly "duds." (LINK) Posted @ 4:56 PM | International Tribunals | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Germany Plans New Security AuthorityVIA DEUTSCHE WELLE (Hat Tip Terrorism Research Center)
Germany may set up a new authority to combine its various eavesdropping operations in a purpose-built headquarters near Cologne, news organizations reported.
The combined police and espionage center would be modeled on the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States or the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Britain. (LINK) Posted @ 12:40 PM | Intelligence Gathering | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks France admits contacts with HamasVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
France confirmed on Monday that it has had contacts with the leaders of Hamas for several months to try to better understand the positions of the radical Islamic group that is running Gaza.
Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner emphasized that there were no negotiations with Hamas, labeled a terrorist group by both the United States and the European Union. (LINK)
Posted @ 12:19 PM | Middle East Peace Process | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks U.S. holding more than 500 juveniles as enemy combatantsVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
The U.S. military is holding more than 500 juveniles suspected of being "unlawful enemy combatants" in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained at the U.S. base at Bagram, Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.
Since 2002, 2,500 youths under the age of 18 have been detained, almost all in Iraq, for periods up to more than a year under the anti-terrorism campaign of President George W. Bush, the United States reported last week to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. (LINK) Posted @ 10:37 AM | Arrests and Detentions | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Police arrest 10 men in three countries in Europe in terror investigationVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Ten men of Turkish origin were arrested Friday in three European countries as part of a French investigation into what a judge said was a financial-support network tied to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, a terrorist group with links to Al Qaeda.
Eight men were detained in France - in the suburbs of Mulhouse in the Alsace region and in the Rhone valley - and one each in Germany and the Netherlands. (LINK) Posted @ 1:53 PM | Arrests and Detentions | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Italian 'rendition' trial begins with torture testimonyVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
A long-delayed trial of CIA operatives and former top Italian intelligence officials moved forward here on Wednesday, as a judge ruled that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could be called to testify about the abduction of a radical Muslim cleric here in 2003. (LINK)
Posted @ 6:51 PM | Rendition | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Online game teaches immigrant kids about rights of due processVIA BOINGBOING.NET
Human Rights Organization Breakthrough has released ICED ("I Can End Deportation"), a video game designed to teach children about immigration laws and their intersection with human rights and due process. (LINK) Posted @ 11:06 PM | Immigration | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Guantanamo drives prisoners insane, lawyers sayVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Next month, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who was once a driver for Osama bin Laden, could become the first detainee to be tried for war crimes in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. By now, he should be busily working on his defense.
But his lawyers say he cannot. They say Hamdan, already the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, has essentially been driven insane by solitary confinement in a tiny cell where he spends at least 22 hours a day, goes to the bathroom and eats all his meals. (LINK) Posted @ 11:08 AM | Arrests and Detentions | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Amnesty ad condemns waterboardingVIA GUARDIAN.UK (Hat Tip BoingBoing)
Amnesty International is launching a new ad featuring a hard-hitting torture scene showing simulated "waterboarding" in a campaign to outlaw the controversial interrogation practice.
The ad, created by advertising agency Drugstore, is set to run in cinemas nationwide from May 9 and is being released online this week. (LINK) (VIDEO) Posted @ 1:03 AM | Torture | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks FBI Concerned About Implications of Counterfeit Cisco GearVIA SLASHDOT
An FBI PowerPoint presentation provides details about a criminal investigation into counterfeit CISCO hardware originating from China, and sold by Gold/Silver partners to numerous US government, military, and intelligence agencies. The concern of the article's author and the FBI is that the counterfeit equipment may be state-sponsored to aid in accessing otherwise secure systems. (LINK) Posted @ 11:07 AM | Intelligence Gathering | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Oil industry works to soften terrorism victim lawVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
One by one, top executives of American oil companies met privately over the last year with Libya's leader, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, often in his signature Bedouin tent, as they lined up contracts allowing them to tap into the country's oil reserves.
But now, the new allies are working Capitol Hill, trying to weaken a law that threatens those deals. The Libyan government, once a pariah, and the American oil industry have hired high-profile lobbyists, buttonholed lawmakers and enlisted help from the Bush administration, all in an effort to win an exemption from a law that Congress passed in January that is intended to ensure that victims of terror attacks are compensated. (LINK) Posted @ 7:48 PM | Legislative Initiatives | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Jakarta court deems JI a terrorist groupVIA SBS (Hat Tip Terrorism Research Center)
An Indonesian court has declared Jemaah Islamiah a "forbidden corporation" for the first time, in a move analysts say will have huge implications for the fight against terrorism.
South Jakarta District Court found the lethal regional terror network guilty of being an organisation that permits terrorism, and fined it 10 million rupiah. (LINK) Posted @ 9:16 AM | Status of Terrorists | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Six guilty of terrorism supportVIA BBC NEWS (Hat Tip: Terrorism Research Center)
Muslim preacher Abu Izzadeen was among six men convicted of supporting terrorism in London speeches in 2004.
The Kingston Crown Court jury failed to reach a verdict on a charge against Izzadeen of encouraging terrorism.
Shah Jalal Hussain, guilty of terrorist fund-raising, remains missing after failing to appear at court on 8 April. (LINK) Posted @ 2:06 PM | Al Qaeda | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks US/Italy: Italian Court Challenges CIA Rendition ProgramVIA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
The alleged kidnappers of an Egyptian cleric in 2003 will go on trial in Milan on April 16 in what is the first ever legal challenge to the CIA’s controversial rendition program, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged the newly-elected Italian government to seek the extradition of 26 American CIA agents implicated in the abduction. (LINK) Posted @ 6:33 AM | Rendition | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks The New E-spionageVIA BUSINESSWEEK (Hat Tip: Slashdot)
The e-mail message addressed to a Booz Allen Hamilton executive was mundane—a shopping list sent over by the Pentagon of weaponry India wanted to buy. But the missive turned out to be a brilliant fake. Lurking beneath the description of aircraft, engines, and radar equipment was an insidious piece of computer code known as "Poison Ivy" designed to suck sensitive data out of the $4 billion consulting firm's computer network. (LINK) Posted @ 7:31 PM | Attacks | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks British trials offer insights into terror casesVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
In the first case of its kind since the London bombings of July 2005, prosecutors Thursday accused three British Muslims of helping the bombers with a preparatory mission seven months before the attacks. The prosecution asserted that the three men reconnoitered a number of tourist attractions, including the London Eye Ferris wheel overlooking the River Thames. (LINK) Posted @ 1:22 PM | Status of Terrorists | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks United Kingdom: Appeals Court Blocks National Security DeportationsVIA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
A British appeals court has dealt a serious blow to the government’s plan to deport national security suspects in reliance on assurances of humane treatment and fair trial on return, Human Rights Watch said today. (LINK) Posted @ 11:07 AM | Civil Liberties | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks US/Jordan: Stop Renditions to TortureVIA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) transferred at least 14 terrorist suspects to Jordanian custody for interrogation and torture since the September 11, 2001 attacks, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
The 36-page report, “Double Jeopardy: CIA Renditions to Jordan,” documents how Jordan’s General Intelligence Department (GID) served as a proxy jailer and interrogator for the CIA from 2001 until at least 2004. While a handful of countries received persons rendered by the United States during this period, no other country is believed to have held as many as Jordan. (LINK) Posted @ 1:57 PM | Rendition | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Private security takes to the seaVIA ISN.ORG:
"With violent maritime piracy and the risk of waterborne terrorism on the rise, states and non-state actors turn to private security, Patrick Cullen writes for ISN Security Watch." LINK
Posted @ 9:19 AM | Commentary | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Army Initiates First Court-Martial of a Civilian ContractorVIA NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORS:
"The Army has charged the first civilian for trial by court-martial since the the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces struck down the exercise of such jurisdiction in 1970. The charge against a contractor in Iraq accused of aggravated assault in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice is based on a resurrection of this jurisdiction resulting from an amendment to the UCMJ enacted by Congress in October 2006. This amendment expressly established jurisdiction over civilians accompanying the armed forces in the field during not only declared wars, but during any other contingency operation approved by the Secretary of Defense." LINK Posted @ 9:13 AM | Civil Liberties | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks The Green LightVANITY FAIR:
As the first anniversary of 9/11 approached, and a prized Guantánamo detainee wouldn’t talk, the Bush administration’s highest-ranking lawyers argued for extreme interrogation techniques, circumventing international law, the Geneva Conventions, and the army’s own Field Manual. The attorneys would even fly to Guantánamo to ratchet up the pressure—then blame abuses on the military. Philippe Sands follows the torture trail, and holds out the possibility of war crimes charges.
CONTINUED Posted @ 8:45 AM | Torture | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Torture Memo Released and availableVIA CONCURRING OPINIONS
Deven Desai at Concurring Opinions links to the torture memos and an assortment of analysis. (LINK) Posted @ 11:50 AM | Torture | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks FBI: Eco-Terrorism Remains No. 1 Domestic ThreatVIA FOX NEWS (Hat Tip Terrorism Research Center)
For nearly seven years, the nation has turned its terror focus on Al Qaeda and the hunt for Usama bin Laden. But there is a domestic terror threat that federal officials still consider priority No. 1 — eco-terrorism. (LINK)
Posted @ 8:40 AM | Status of Terrorists | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Guantanamo detainee faces war crimes chargesVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Military prosecutors filed war crimes charges on Monday against a Guantánamo detainee accused of helping plan the 1998 bombing of the United States embassy in Tanzania, an attack for which he was indicted 10 years ago by U.S. prosecutors in New York. (LINK)
Posted @ 7:48 AM | Al Qaeda | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks U.S. Supreme Court ducks battle on legality of searchesVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
The Supreme Court refused Monday to step into a legal fight between the Justice Department and a member of Congress who has been indicted on bribery charges.
The court declined to review an appeals court ruling that the FBI reviewed legislative documents in the office of Representative William Jefferson, Democrat of Louisiana, in violation of the Constitution. (LINK) Posted @ 4:14 PM | Judicial Review | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks The Hamas Dilemma: A Debate on Alternative StrategiesVIA WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
Robert Satloff and Robert Malley address a Policy Forum at the Washington Institute address the options available to policymakers in dealing with Hamas in the peace process.(LINK) Posted @ 6:49 PM | Middle East Peace Process | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Italy judge clears way for CIA rendition trialVIA TERRORISM RESEARCH CENTER
An Italian judge on Wednesday ordered the resumption of a trial against U.S. and Italian spies accused of abducting a terrorism suspect, in a blow to efforts to halt a case that Rome says violates state secrecy rules. (LINK)
Posted @ 11:02 AM | Rendition | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks International cyber-cop unit girds for uphill battlesVIA NETWORKWORLD (Hat Tip: Slashdot)
An group of international cyber cops is ramping up plans to fight online crime across borders.
The unit, known as the Strategic Alliance Cyber Crime Working Group, met this month in London and is made up of high-level online law enforcement representatives from the FBI, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. (LINK) Posted @ 12:34 AM | Intelligence Gathering | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Time magazine invents facts to claim that Americans support Bush's domestic spying abusesVIA SALON (Hat Tip: Slashdot)
Salon.com writer Glenn Greenwald refutes claims in Time Magazine that Americans don't care about exchanging privacy for security. (LINK) Posted @ 9:55 AM | Opinion Pieces | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Do Americans Care About Big Brother?VIA TIME MAGAZINE (Hat Tip: Slashdot)
Massimo Calabresi argues that Americans are ambivalent to diminished privacy in exchange for increased security. (LINK) Posted @ 9:52 AM | Opinion Pieces | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks US adapts Cold War idea to fight terrorismVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
In the days immediately after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, members of President George W. Bush's war cabinet declared that it would be impossible to deter the most fervent extremists from carrying out even more deadly terrorist missions with biological, chemical or nuclear weapons.
Since then, however, administration, military and intelligence officials assigned to counterterrorism have begun to change their view. (LINK) Posted @ 6:16 AM | Al Qaeda | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks High Al Qaeda figure captured, Pentago saysVIA TERRORISM RESEARCH CENTER
A high-level Al Qaeda operative who helped Osama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001 during the U.S. military operation has been captured and sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon and CIA said Friday. Muhammad Rahim, an Afghani, was captured last July in Lahore, Pakistan, by Pakistani authorities, who quickly handed him over to the CIA, according to sources familiar with Rahim's detention. (LINK) Posted @ 6:42 AM | Arrests and Detentions | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks U.S. lawmakers vote reject immunity for phone firms involved in eavesdroppingLINKVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
After its first secret session in a quarter-century, the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected retroactive immunity for the phone companies that took part in the National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping program after the Sept. 11 attacks, and it voted to place greater restrictions on the government's wiretapping powers. () Posted @ 3:04 PM | Legislative Initiatives | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks 1 in 300 US residents are terrorists, according to gubmintVIA BOINGBOING.NET
According to the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program, U.S. watch lists will contain a million records by July. The ACLU has a counter to show the latest number. (LINK) Posted @ 1:56 PM | Civil Liberties | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Bush warns House not to pass surveillance billVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
With the House poised to vote on electronic surveillance legislation that the White House has said falls far short of its requirements, President George W. Bush warned legislators strongly Thursday against passing what he called "a partisan bill that will undermine American security."
In clear defiance of the White House, the proposal from House Democratic leaders would not give retroactive legal protection to the phone companies that helped in the National Security Agency program of warrantless wiretapping. Bush also threatened to veto any such measure, should it reach his desk. (LINK) Posted @ 1:52 PM | Legislative Initiatives | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks NSA's Domestic Spying Grows As Agency Sweeps Up DataVIA THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (Hat Tip: Concurring Opinions)
Five years ago, Congress killed an experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic data about people in the U.S. to search for suspicious patterns. Opponents called it too broad an intrusion on Americans' privacy, even after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
But the data-sifting effort didn't disappear. The National Security Agency, once confined to foreign surveillance, has been building essentially the same system. (LINK) Posted @ 2:32 PM | Intelligence Gathering | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Bush's veto of bill on CIA tactics affirms his legacyVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
President George W. Bush on Saturday further cemented his legacy of fighting for strong executive powers, using his veto to shut down a congressional effort to limit the Central Intelligence Agency's latitude to subject terrorism suspects to harsh interrogation techniques. (LINK) Posted @ 4:21 AM | Torture | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks National Dragnet Is a Click AwayVIA THE WASHINGTON POST (Hat Tip Concurring Opinions)
Several thousand law enforcement agencies are creating the foundation of a domestic intelligence system through computer networks that analyze vast amounts of police information to fight crime and root out terror plots.
As federal authorities struggled to meet information-sharing mandates after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, police agencies from Alaska and California to the Washington region poured millions of criminal and investigative records into shared digital repositories called data warehouses, giving investigators and analysts new power to discern links among people, patterns of behavior and other hidden clues. (LINK) Posted @ 2:42 PM | Intelligence Gathering | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Bicyclist sought in Times Square bombingVIA CNN
Authorities are searching for a man on a bicycle as a possible suspect in the Thursday bombing at a military recruiting station in Times Square, investigators said.
The blast, around 3:45 a.m., caused no injuries, officials said. (LINK)
Posted @ 11:03 AM | Status of Terrorists | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks FBI report will show improper use of subpoenas, director saysVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
The FBI improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday.
Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the privacy breach by FBI agents and lawyers occurred a year before the bureau enacted sweeping new reforms to prevent future lapses. (LINK) Posted @ 12:55 PM | Intelligence Gathering | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Confrontation on Iranian nuclear activities is reignitedVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Last Monday, the chief United Nations nuclear inspector gathered ambassadors and experts from dozens of nations in a boardroom high above the Danube in Vienna and laid out a trove of evidence that he said raised new questions about whether Iran had tried to design an atom bomb. (LINK) Posted @ 7:02 PM | Weapons of Mass Destruction | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Abbas suspends contacts with IsraelVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Israeli-Palestinian violence spilled over from Gaza to the West Bank on Sunday, and a spokesman for the Western-backed Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, said contacts with Israel had been temporarily suspended "in the light of the Israeli aggression." (LINK) Posted @ 1:03 PM | Middle East Peace Process | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Teen Hacker Is Blind, Brash, and in the Crosshairs of the FBIVIA WIRED
The FBI thinks it has discovered the identity of "Li'l Hacker", an underage phone "swatter" who engages in prank phone calls to police departments. (LINK) Posted @ 6:54 PM | US Courts | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks U.S. Financial Pressure on Terrorists and Rogue RegimesVIA WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
Patrick O'Brien, assistant secretary of the Treasury, addressed a Washington Institute Policy Forum on February 27, 2008. Read the prepared text of his remarks. (LINK) Posted @ 7:18 PM | Status of Terrorists | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Wife of failed UK suicide bomber on trialVIA TERRORISM RESEARCH CENTER
The wife of a failed British suicide bomber had prior knowledge of a July 2005 plot which could have caused "carnage and mass murder" in London, the jury at her trial was told on Wednesday. Yeshiemebet Girma was the wife of Hussein Osman, one of four men who tried unsuccessfully to detonate rucksack bombs on three London underground trains and a bus on July 21. (LINK) Posted @ 7:14 PM | Arrests and Detentions | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks German court limits cyber spyingVIA BBC (Hat Tip Terrorism Research Center)
Germany's highest court has restricted the right of the security services to spy on the computers of suspected criminals and terrorists.
Under the technique, software sent in an email enables the authorities to spy on a suspect's computer hard drive.
The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe said cyber spying violated individuals' right to privacy and could be used only in exceptional cases. (LINK)
Posted @ 8:02 AM | Intelligence Gathering | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Taliban issue ultimatum to Afghan mobile operatorsREUTERS STORY VIA REUTERS INDIA (Hat Tip Ars Technica)
Taliban insurgents on Monday gave Afghan mobile phone operators three days to shut down their networks at night or face attack, as the rebels said international forces used the cellphones to track them down.
The warning was issued after recent talks with representatives of the four mobile phone companies, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, a spokesman for the Taliban, told Reuters by mobile phone from an undisclosed location. (LINK) Posted @ 12:11 PM | Status of Terrorists | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks American Among FBI Most Wanted Terrorists Appears in Yemen Court, Walks FreeVIA TERRORISM RESEARCH CENTER
A Yemeni-American, one of the FBI's 26 "most wanted" for terrorism, appeared at a session of his trial in a Yemeni court Saturday with bodyguards and then walked free, apparently not subject to any form of incarceration, eyewitnesses said. (LINK) Posted @ 1:33 PM | Status of Terrorists | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks China criticizes US missile strikeVIA TERRORISM RESEARCH CENTER
The Chinese government objected Thursday to the American missile strike against a dying United States spy satellite over the Pacific Ocean, warning that the United States Navy's action could threaten security in outer space. (LINK) Posted @ 1:13 PM | Government Reports | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks U.S. missile strikes spy satelliteVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Just hours after a navy missile interceptor struck a dying spy satellite orbiting 130 miles over the Pacific Ocean, a senior military officer expressed high confidence early Thursday that a tank filled with toxic rocket fuel had been breached.
Video of the unusual operation showed the missile leaving a bright trail as it streaked toward the satellite, and then a flash, a fireball, a plume and a cloud as the interceptor, at a minimum, appeared to have found its target, a satellite that went dead shortly after being launched in 2006. (LINK) Posted @ 11:21 AM | Intelligence Gathering | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks CIA confirms secret 'rendition' flights refueled in British territoryVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
CIA Director Michael Hayden acknowledged Thursday that two rendition flights carrying terror suspects refueled on British territory, despite earlier U.S. claims that no such flights had used British airspace or soil since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Hayden told agency employees that information previously provided to the British "turned out to be wrong." (LINK) Posted @ 11:18 AM | Rendition | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Alternatives to Habeas and the Myth of Swain v. PressleyVIA NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORS:
"I've been staying rather mum on the Guantanamo cases and the Iraqi detention cases, partly because I've been busy and partly because I've been involved in both... that being said, I wanted to flag one issue that I explore in a new paper an early draft of which I just posted to SSRN--the idea of "adequate" and "effective" alternative remedies to habeas corpus." LINK Posted @ 8:49 AM | Commentary | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks EU: Big Brother at the bordersVIA ISN:
"A profound debate will soon unfold in Brussels' decision-making circles on policy choices that will shape the EU's frontiers - figuratively and literally - in ways unimaginable a generation ago. If enacted, these will pry yet another chunk of national authority away from one of basic characteristics that defines the nation-state: its borders." LINK Posted @ 8:47 AM | Civil Liberties | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Miliband admits US rendition flights stopped on UK soilVIA THE GUARDIAN:
"Britain today acknowledged for the first time that US planes on "extraordinary rendition" flights stopped on British soil at least twice." LINK Posted @ 8:44 AM | Government Reports | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Attack on Canadian convoy leaves up to 35 dead in AfghanistanVIA THE GUARDIAN:
"Up to 35 people were killed in Afghanistan today when a suicide car bomber attacked a Canadian military convoy. The blast comes a day after more than 100 people died in the country's single deadliest bombing since the fall of the Taliban." LINK Posted @ 8:24 AM | Attacks | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks F.B.I. Received Unauthorized E-Mail AccessVIA NEW YORK TIMES (Hat Tip Slashdot)
A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court as part of a national security investigation, according to an internal report of the 2006 episode.
(LINK) Posted @ 6:01 PM | Intelligence Gathering | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks 17 Convicted on Terror Charges in RussiaVIA TERRORISM RESEARCH CENTER
A court in central Russia has convicted 17 people on charges of planning a series of terrorist attacks, a Russian news agency reported Friday. The Supreme Court in Tatarstan, a predominantly Muslim province, on Thursday sentenced group leader Khafiz Rezakov to life in prison, the Interfax news agency said. Other defendants received prison terms ranging from three to 12 years.A court in central Russia has convicted 17 people on charges of planning a series of terrorist attacks, a Russian news agency reported Friday. (LINK) Posted @ 8:44 AM | Arrests and Detentions | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Cuts 'threaten UK intelligence'VIA BBC (Hat Tip Terrorism Research Center)
A reduction of 121 posts has been proposed for the Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) which analyses information from GCHQ, MI6 and the MoD.
John Morrison, former Deputy Chief of Defence Intelligence, said the losses would be "ludicrous" and mean giving up large areas of the DIS's work. (LINK) Posted @ 1:18 PM | Intelligence Gathering | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Students win appeal against cyberjihad convictionsVIA THE REGISTER (Hat Tip Slashdot)
Five British muslim students jailed for downloading extremist material from the internet were released today, after the Appeal Court ruled their convictions were unsafe.
The Lord Chief Justice said that although the evidence was clear that the five had accessed the jihadi websites and literature there was no proof of any terrorist intent, the BBC reports. (LINK) Posted @ 2:07 AM | Arrests and Detentions | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks U.S. Senate votes for expansion of spy powersVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
After more than a year of wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory on Tuesday by voting to broaden the government's spy powers and to give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President George W. Bush's program of eavesdropping without warrants. (LINK) Posted @ 6:19 AM | Legislative Initiatives | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks U.S. seeks death penalty for 6 in Sept. 11 attacksVIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
The Defense Department has charged six detainees at Guantánamo Bay with murder and war crimes in connection with the Sept. 11 terror attacks, and officials said Monday the United States would seek the death penalty.
(LINK) Posted @ 5:47 PM | Al Qaeda | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks FBI raids house in Chinese spy caseVIA TERRORISM RESEARCH CENTER
A Defense Department analyst and a former engineer for Boeing Co. were charged Monday in separate spy cases for allegedly selling military secrets to the Chinese government, the Justice Department said. Additionally, two Chinese immigrants accused of working with the defense analyst were arrested after an FBI raid Monday morning on a New Orleans home where one of them lived.
(LINK) Posted @ 5:45 PM | Intelligence Gathering | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Cyberterrorism, IncVIA ISN:
"A new report says that 2008 will see an expansion of economic espionage in which nation-states and companies will use cybertheft of data to gain economic advantage in multinational deals." LINK Posted @ 9:17 AM | Non-Governmental Organization Reports | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Six Guantanamo Detainees May Face Charges in September 11 AttacksVIA GLOBALSECURITY.ORG:
"U.S. officials say that as many as six detainees held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may face charges as early as this week related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks." LINK Posted @ 9:15 AM | Status of Terrorists | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Six killed in Pakistan suicide bomb blastVIA THE GUARDIAN:
"At least six supporters of an independent candidate for the February 18 elections were killed today in a suicide bomb attack in Pakistan, officials said.
Nisar Ali Khan was campaigning in Eidak near the Afghan border when the suicide bomber attacked. Six people died, with nine more supporters reportedly wounded. Khan escaped unhurt." LINK Posted @ 9:13 AM | Attacks | 0 Comments | 0 Trackbacks Israeli minister warns of army offensive against GazaVIA THE GUARDIAN:
"The Israeli defence minister warned today that armed forces were preparing for a broad offensive against Gaza in response to rocket attacks on southern Israeli towns.
The warning comes a day after the prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said he would resist calls for a ground attack."
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