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My Paper Boat is the story of a little boy, we keep meeting somewhere or rather everywhere in the heart of India. He lost his play space due to the drought. He is now confused on where to leave his paper boat. So …
Article Archive for November 2009
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November 27, 2009 # 1:38 pm # Human Rights # No CommentAre the 9/11 defendants mentally competent to stand trial?
November 27, 2009 # 1:20 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, International Law, Supreme Court # No CommentJess Bravin writes in the Wall Street Journal:
When five defendants are brought before a New York federal judge to face charges for the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the first question may be whether some of them are competent to stand trial at all.Military lawyers for Ramzi Binalshibh, an accused organizer of the 9/11 plot, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, the …
Video: US Ambassador June Carter Perry discusses Sierra Leone and the “diamond issue”– Is she too positive?
November 25, 2009 # 8:18 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentInteresting. But is she too positive about the Kimberley Process? What about recent reports that Kimberly seems to be faltering?
Transcript: Hearing of Erin Conaton to be Under Secretary of the Air Force
November 25, 2009 # 4:30 pm # Human Rights # No CommentErin Conaton at her confirmation hearing last week
A previous post reported on the nomination of Erin Conaton to be the Under Secretary of the Air Force. In case you missed it, her confirmation hearing was held on the 19th of November before the Senate Armed Service Committee. The webcast of the hearing can be found here. The transcript of the …
Brazil and Iran
November 23, 2009 # 12:48 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, International Law, International Organizations # No CommentTroubling.
The New York Times reports:
As leaders from Brazil and Iran met here on Monday, the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, defended his decision to play host to the Iranian president at a moment of rising tension over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
In his national radio show, Mr. da Silva said that “you don’t move forward by leaving Iran isolated.”
“If Iran …
Federal Judge Gladys Kessler orders detainee Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed to be released
November 22, 2009 # 1:55 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, Intelligence, International Law, Supreme Court # No CommentIn case you missed this, the Miami Hearld reports:
A federal judge Friday ordered the Obama administration to free a long-held Guantánamo captive who fled his native Algeria years ago and kicked around Europe as a construction worker for a decade before his capture in Pakistan.
Judge Gladys Kessler’s order to free Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, 48, raised to 31 the number …
Video: President Obama discusses his Asian trip
November 21, 2009 # 4:32 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights # No CommentFormer Bush Administration Justice Department officials on Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and others in federal court
November 20, 2009 # 4:42 pm # Armed Conflict, Foreign Policy, Human Rights, International Law, International Organizations, Supreme Court # No CommentFormer Justice Department officials James Comey and Jack Goldsmith have a very thoughtful op ed in today’s Washington Post. The write:
Reasonable minds can disagree about Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged Sept. 11 perpetrators in a Manhattan federal court. But some prominent criticisms are exaggerated, and others place undue faith in military …
