Nashua New Hampshire News Center
Justice System For Detainees Is Moving At a Crawl
May 9, 2008GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- At the end of a tattered, sunbaked runway dotted with large green tents here is a building aptly called the Expeditionary Legal Complex Courtroom, surrounded by coils of concertina wire, where the most notorious alleged terrorists in U.S. custody are supposed to face charges related to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Deal Struck on Pakistan Judges
May 9, 2008ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, May 2 -- The coalition government of Pakistan has agreed to reinstate the country's chief justice and 60 other judges deposed last year under a controversial order by President Pervez Musharraf, a move that could threaten Musharraf's tenuous grip on political power.
Military Stressing Veterans' Counseling
May 9, 2008Applicants for government security clearances will no longer have to declare whether they sought mental health counseling after serving in combat zones, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced yesterday.
Alleged Driver for Bin Laden Boycotts Military Hearing
May 9, 2008 GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, April 30 -- Salim Ahmed Hamdan carried out his threat Wednesday morning to boycott military commission hearings here, opting to sleep in his prison cell while lawyers debated legal motions ahead of his scheduled trial in late May.
Alleged Driver for Bin Laden Boycotts Military Hearing
May 9, 2008GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, April 30 -- Salim Ahmed Hamdan carried out his threat Wednesday morning to boycott military commission hearings here, opting to sleep in his prison cell while lawyers debated legal motions ahead of his scheduled trial in late May.
President Repeats First-Term Answers to Rising Gas Prices
May 9, 2008Soaring gasoline prices spilled over into Washington and the presidential race yesterday, as Congress moved toward a showdown with President Bush over legislation aimed at forcing oil companies to help ease the burden on consumers.
In France, Prisons Filled With Muslims
May 9, 2008SEQUEDIN, France -- Samia El Alaoui Talibi walks her beat in a cream-colored head scarf and an ink-black robe with sunset-orange piping, an outfit she picked up at a yard sale.
Washington's Future, a History
May 9, 2008 THINK BACK TO JANUARY 1991: The Web, e-mail, cellphones -- all virtually unknown. The three networks still mattered. The Soviet Union still existed. Downtown Bethesda was barely worthy of the name. There was no Dulles Town Center, no Verizon Center, no Green Line. The Redskins played at RFK. A lot can change in 17 years. On the other hand, the Washington area road system was largely identical to what it is today. Madonna was already Madonna. The Wizards -- okay, the Bullets -- were already cursed. We had long since passed Orwell's dystopia date but hadn't yet partied like it was 1999. It hadn't yet occurred to us to panic about a Y2K disaster.
Accusing N. Korea May Stall Nuclear Pact
May 9, 2008The Bush administration gambled this week that its detailed accounting of North Korean assistance to a Syrian nuclear program would help pave the way for a nuclear disarmament agreement with Pyongyang, but the allegations so angered Republican lawmakers that support for a deal may be seriously weakened.
Citing Risks, Study Suggests Ways To Ease National Security Handoff
May 9, 2008The United States is "lurching toward a period of uncertainty and increased risk" in this election year and during the upcoming presidential transition, according to a new Congressional Research Service study that suggests counterterrorism responses that Congress, the Bush administration and its potential successors could take.
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