Colombian President Alvaro Uribe restricted the power of the DAS secret police agency to carry out wiretaps in the wake of the surveillance scandal, as his government petitions Washington for more military aid.
Iraqi-born Dutch citizen Wesam al-Delaema pleaded guilty in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to a charge of conspiracy to murder US nationals outside the United States.
Lawyers for Canadian detainee Omar Khadr were blocked from attending a meeting with Khadr at Guantánamo Bay, as officials have launched an investigation into the ethics of the defense team.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court upheld a ruling that bars former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office based on his conviction for “hijacking”—that is, attempting to thwart the 1999 military coup.
Some 50,000 US troops likely to remain in Iraq after President Obama fulfills his pledge to “withdraw combat troops” would still have a combat role, unnamed Pentagon officials told the New York Times.
The Special Court for Sierra Leone found three former RUF guerrilla leaders guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their roles in the country’s civil war.
Former Serbian President Milan Milutinovic was acquitted of war crimes charges by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia—although five co-defendants were convicted.
A Lebanese judge granted bail to three men suspected in the February 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri—days before the planned start-up of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that two former Israeli lobbyists may use classified documents in their defense against charges under the 1917 Espionage Act.
US Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has called for a review of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace immigration raid that occurred in Bellingham, WA.
US Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed the Obama administration’s intention to close Guantánamo Bay in 2010 despite his belief that the facility is now well-run and that detainees are not abused.
A US Green Beret was found not guilty at court-martial of murder and mutilating a dead body in connection with the March 2008 killing of an Afghan man near Hyderabad, Afghanistan.
