Family of 11 killed during U.S. raid, Iraqi police say
VIA CNN
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Eleven people from an Iraqi family, including women and children, were killed Sunday during a raid involving U.S. troops, Iraqi police sources said.
The U.S. military said the deaths were caused by a suicide bomber, but the Iraqi police sources said it was not clear how the family died.
A U.S. military statement said troops entered a building in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul looking for a terrorist suspect.
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24,000 WWII-era spies revealed in U.S. documents
VIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
The famed chef Julia Child shared a secret with Justice Arthur Goldberg of the Supreme Court and the Chicago White Sox catcher Moe Berg at a time when the Nazis threatened the world.
They served in an international spy ring managed by the Office of Strategic Services, an early version of the CIA created in World War II by President Franklin Roosevelt. (LINK)
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Estonia, Google Help 'Cyberlocked' Georgia (Updated)
VIA WIRED.COM (Hat Tip: Infowar-Monitor.net)
Civil.ge, the Georgian news site, is "under permanent [cyber"> attack." So they've switched their operations to one of Google's Blogspot domains, to keep the information flowing about what's going on in their country.
The attacks against Civil.ge are part of a larger set of online assaults, originating in Russia, against Georgian websites. (LINK)
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Georgia reports new air attacks at military bases
AP STORY VIA YAHOO NEWS
DZHAVA, Georgia - Russia dispatched an armored column into the breakaway enclave of South Ossetia on Friday after Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, launched a surprise offensive to crush separatists. Witnesses said hundreds of civilians were killed. Fighting reportedly raged well into the night with Georgia's interior ministry saying early Saturday that warplanes attacked three Georgian military bases and key facilities for shipping oil to the West. (LINK)
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Military panel sentences bin Laden driver to a short term
VIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Rejecting a prosecution request for a severe sentence, a panel of military officers sentenced the convicted former driver for Osama bin Laden to five and a half years in prison on Thursday. The sentence means that the first detainee convicted after a war crimes trial here could complete his punishment by the end of this year. (LINK)
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Subplots on Guantanamo
VIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
The long legal story of the Bush administration's effort to prosecute detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, now has two fast-moving subplots. Either one could soon write something of a final chapter.
One plot will proceed in a federal courthouse in Washington, where lawyers for a detainee filed papers on Thursday seeking an injunction that, if granted, could be the death knell for the Bush administration's military commissions at Guantánamo. (LINK)
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Debate over Boumediene's meaning
VIA SCOTUSBLOG (Hat Tip: Robert Chesney)
Lawyers for the Pentagon and for detainees now held at Guantanamo Bay have already engaged in a debate — at least in summary form — over the meaning of the Supreme Court’s June 12 ruling in Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195). In short, the military lawyers contend that the detainees are now protected by only a single constitutional right, while the prisoners’ attorneys claim at least nine.
Mainly by coincidence, the constitutional dispute is playing out in the Pentagon’s war crimes case against a Yemeni national, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. He is the same detainee who won an earlier Supreme Court decision that the detainees had some legal right to challenge their detention — rights that Congress then moved to sharply curtail, an effort that the Supreme Court partly overturned in Boumediene. (LINK)
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