Prosecutors in the trial of Osama bin Laden’s driver have unveiled a graphic video of the September 11 attacks, and other al-Qaeda operations, that is likely to play a repeated role in pending war crimes cases.
The video is entitled The al-Qaeda Plan - an echo of The Nazi Plan made by Oscar-winning director George Stevens as evidence in the Nuremberg war crimes trials of German leaders after World War 2. for more click here
BRITISH troops in southern Afghanistan are aping the Taleban’s propaganda techniques as part of an increasingly desperate battle to win support of the local people.
Psychological warfare soldiers are using a series of subtle – and not so subtle – leaflet campaigns to turn the insurgents’ messages against them. for more click here
Radovan Karadzic will appear before a United Nations tribunal in The Hague today on war crimes and genocide charges, after a pre-dawn extradition to the Netherlands yesterday.
The former Bosnian Serb leader accused of war crimes arrived in Rotterdam on a small Serbian government jet early yesterday. He was transferred by helicopter to the tribunal’s detention unit in Scheveningen near The Hague, which is home to 37 other war crime suspects. for more click here
At this pivotal moment in American history, the major U.S. news media is back to its old game of drawing sweeping character judgments about a presidential candidate based on misleading “quotes,” a sickening replay of other recent elections. for more click here
Gary McKinnon stands accused of becoming the most accomplished computer hacker in history by crashing the United States army network, but claims only to have been pursuing a fascination with aliens.
The 42-year-old unemployed systems analyst, who broke into US military computers from his bedroom in Wood Green, North London, faces at least ten years in a US jail. He has always claimed that he was seeking information on UFOs and aliens. for more click here
NZ business confidence worsened in the National Bank Business Outlook survey for July released, causing economists to argue for more interest rate cuts.
A net 43.2 percent of those surveyed expect worse times over the year ahead, which is a deterioration from the net 38.7 percent in last month’s survey. for more click here
Critics say the party has been trying to advance Islamist interests in officially secular Turkey. The verdict averts a political crisis. for more click here
The Law Lords have finally ruled on the Serious Fraud Office’s appeal againstthe High Court’s decision in April that the SFO acted unlawfully in endingits investigation into the Al-Yamamah arms deal. The House of Lords has overturned that decision and declared that the directorof the SFO acted lawfully and within his powers when he ended the inquiry. On the fact of it, this is disappointing. But the real issue is not whether theSFO acted unlawfully - it’s the political pressure apparently put on the SFOby ministers, and the reasons behind the decision to drop the investigation.That’s why we’re continuing to campaign for an independent inquiry into howand why the Serious Fraud Office’s investigation was ended. And there are some interesting comments from the Law Lords in this regard, asthe BBC reports. Baroness Hale said she would have liked to have been able touphold the decision because it was “extremely distasteful that an independentpublic official should feel himself obliged to give way to threats of anysort”. Lord Bingham, said the SFO director Robert Wardle “was confronted byan ugly and obviously unwelcome threat”. The nature and source of those threats still need to be exposed. You can read the BBC story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7532714.stmand the reaction of Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg athttp://tinyurl.com/56fxjd Best wishes,The Corruption is a Crime Team — CAMPAIGN WEBSITE: http://www.corruptionisacrime.comJOIN THE LIB DEMS: https://www.libdems.org.uk/support/join.html?ref=esu
UK house prices showed their biggest annual fall since the Nationwide began its housing survey in 1991.
The 8.1% annual decline came after house prices dropped by 1.7% in July, the building society said. for more click here
Hamas has threatened to repeat its military coup in Gaza last summer and take over Judea and Samaria from the rival Fatah terrorist party. for more click here