Security Law Brief
"News, commentaries, and opinions from around the world related to national security law."
Author: Georgetown Law Center on National Security and the Law
Blawg Related Categories: International Law • Military Law • Georgetown University • Associate • Law Professor • Law Student
Recent Posts from Security Law Brief
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Army lacks guidelines to deal with jihadists in ranks
11/20/09: The Washington Times reports that the Army has guidelines on how to deal with racist views and actions within the ranks, but none on how to deal with Islamic jihadism, a former Army vice…
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ICJ decision on Kosovo to be vague
11/20/09: Balkan Insight reports that the President of the International Court of Justice, ICJ, Hisashi Owada, says that the Court’s advisory opinion on whether Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence went against international law will not…
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9/11 trial a death penalty test for New York City juries
11/20/09: The Miami Herald reports that New York juries are often loath to impose the death penalty, even for terrorists; a jury spared the lives of two Osama bin Laden followers a month after Sept.…
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Army general defends rules for detainees
11/20/09: CNN reports that the military released 77,000 of about 87,000 detainees locked up during the Iraq war because there was not enough evidence to hold them.
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A shift in terrorist strategy threatens Italian national security
11/20/09: Global Terrorism Analysis reports that the Italian Home Minister, Roberto Maroni, recently stated: “We believe that terrorist cells fundraise and train to carry out attacks in our country. It is not yet a homegrown…
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Legal issues surrounding military commissions
11/20/09: War on Terrorism reports that the role of military commissions in adjudicating the cases of suspected terrorist detainees at Guantanamo and elsewhere was critically examined in two House Judiciary Subcommittee hearings last July, the…
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Al-Qaida suspect promises NY trial boycott
11/20/09: The San Francisco Chronicle reports that a US-trained scientist accused of shooting at FBI agents and helping al-Qaida vowed Thursday to boycott her January trial. Aafia Siddiqui interrupted lawyers at her pretrial hearing in…
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Arrests in Chicago drive home global nature of terrorism threat
11/20/09: The Washington Post reports that David C. Headley, a peripatetic Chicagoan accused of scouting potential terrorism targets in India and plotting to kill two Danish journalists, was not always David C. Headley. Until 2006,…
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Hearing begins for Maui man accused of being spy
11/20/09: The Miami Herald reports that a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer accused of spying for China suffers from narcissistic personality disorder, expert witnesses for the prosecution and the defense testified in federal court Thursday.…
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'Muslim Mafia' author will return CAIR files
11/20/09: Politico reports that the author who directed an undercover infiltration of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has agreed to return 12,000 pages of the group's documents, as well as audio and video recordings of…