17. oktober 2002

US Offers Compromise on Iraq The US has backed down from its demand for a single UN Security Council resolution threatening the use of force. Instead, the Bush administration now seeks a compromise resolution that will hopefully make France (and perhaps Russia) agree to get tough on Saddam Hussein. The US has also agreed that a weapons inspector report should be reviewed by the Secirity Council before a call to arms. My comment: This is what France has demanded all along: a two stage process. 11:07:16 PM    comment []

War on Terror in Courts The war on terror has reached the legal system, but not only in the form of detained terrorist suspects. In August, relatives of victims of the 9/11 attacks sued a number of Islamic organizations and individuals, accusing them of financing the Al Qaeda network. The trillion-dollar lawsuits, which targets incude members of the Saudi royal family, are designed to bankrupt terrorism, or, rather, their supporters. Less than a week later, a Saudi lawyer announced his plan to sue the US Government over unlawful arrests of many Saudi nationals who were 'wrongly accused' of terror links after 9/11. Recently, Indonesian cleric and lawyer Abu Bakar Bashir sued Time magazine over allegations that he is associated with terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah and, by extension, Al Qaeda. Time stands by the accusations. Today, Indonesian police has ordered the arrest of Abu Bakar Bashir, or called him in for questioning, depending on which news source you want to believe. 8:07:16 PM    comment []

Hot! Ah, sorry. I've been too busy in a flamewar to keep the blog updated for the last hours.   9:01:37 AM    comment []

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