War - Guerre

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• New Al-Qaeda video targets Germany

  18 March 2009, by Adnkronos
  A new video purportedly from Al-Qaeda criticizes the German government for squandering taxpayers’ money on troops stationed in Afghanistan. The video, which has been posted to jihadist websites, urges Germany to renounce capitalism and embrace Islam to escape economic recession.

• Jihad TV in Europe

  18 March 2009, by Wall Street Journal Europe
  Their propaganda notwithstanding, Hamas and, two years ago, Hezbollah suffered devastating military defeats that may diminish their ability to attack Israel with rocket fire. But these Iranian-backed terrorist organizations are deploying another dangerous weapon in their war against Western democracies — terrorist television stations.

• Trial about 2006 plot to blow up flights begins in London

  17 March 2009, by News Agencies
  London’s high-security Woolwich Crown Court has opened the trial about the 2006 attempted terrorist attacks on flights from London Heathrow to Canada and the US. Eight men, aged between 22 and 30, are on trial and they all deny conspiracy to murder. They plotted to detonate homemade bombs disguised as soft drinks.

• Sweden: Malmö man freed from terror financing charges

  17 March 2009, by The Local
  A Malmo court acquitted the head of the al-Aqsa Foundation in Sweden on charges that Khaled al-Yousef used funds from the charity to support Hamas. «This is good. Now the work of sending money to children can continue,» said al-Yousef’s defense attorney Laue Traberg. Al-Yousef was charged with violating terror financing laws, with an alternative charge of violating sanctions laws.

• Islamic terrors suspects on trial in Spain

  17 March 2009, by Boston Herald
  Fourteen people went on trial in Spain this week on charges of involvement with Islamic terrorist groups and recruiting extremists to fight in Iraq. The fourteen, all men and mostly of Moroccan background, are charged with collaborating with Islamic terrorist groups and for helping several suspects flee the March 11, 2004 Madrid bombings.

• Five Convicted of Conspiring to Attack Fort Dix

  14 January 2009, by News Agencies
  A federal jury convicted five men of conspiring to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix, but acquitted them of attempted murder. The jury returned its verdict against the defendants – three bothers and two others, all Muslim immigrants who lived in South Jersey or Philadelphia. New Jersey federal prosecutors said the men planned to attack Fort Dix and military personnel there, and had taken steps to train and arm themselves for an attack.

• Al-Qaeda cell apprehended

  14 January 2009, by News Agencies
  Five men and one woman were held in Brussels from raids, and police say they believe one of those charged was planning a suicide attack. No information was given concerning target or location. Eight additional persons were held in the recent raids, but a judge decided that there was insufficient evidence to hold them.

• Acquittals of Islamists raise security concerns in Spain

  14 January 2009, by News Agencies
  Spain’s National Court acquitted three Islamist extremists suspected of helping to finance al Qaeda. The acquittal is raising questions over the country’s law and judicial systems. Recently acquitted Imad Eddin Baraka Yarkas, known as Abu Dahdah, who is serving a 12 year sentence on a separate charge of having headed in al Qaeda cell in Spain, was initially sentenced to an additional 15 years for helping to organize the attacks on 9/11.

• Foucault on Politics, Security and War

  6 October 2008, by Dillon Michael, Neal Andrew
  This diverse collection of essays is the first to specifically engage Michel Foucault on questions of politics, security and war. It is also the first to take up the provocations found in Michel Foucault’s recently published Collège de France lectures, particularly Society Must Be Defended, Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics. The contributors reassess the way Foucault worked experimentally and in collaboration and dialogue with others.

• Le droit international et la guerre : évolution et problèmes actuels

  4 juin 2008, par Iagolnitzer Daniel
  Dans le cadre du droit de la guerre l’auteur aborde le problème de la lutte contre le terrorisme et des atteintes aux droits de l’homme commises au nom de la « légitime défense » présumée (Irak et Guantanamo)

• German Federal Constitutional Court : Judgment 7 May 2008 (2 BvE 1/03)

  20 May 2008, by Besselink Leonard F. M.
  The deployment of German soldiers in AWACS aircraft above Turkey in the war against Iraq in spring 2003, required the consent of the Bundestag (the German Federal Parliament).

• Training foreign police : a missing aspect of U.S. security assistance to counterinsurgency

  13 mai 2008, par Ladwig Walter C. III
  L’absence de capacité institutionnelle et d’autorité légale pour entraîner les forces de police étrangères est un handicap pour les Etats-Unis dans la lutte contre le terrorisme. En Afghanistan et en Irak, mais aussi aux Philippines, des forces de police efficaces sont une composante importante dans la lutte contre le terrorisme et l’insurrection.

• Cyberconflits : vers la première cyberguerre

  12 mai 2008, par Ifrah Laurence
  Depuis quelques mois, les systèmes d’information des pays occidentaux sont victimes d’attaques virulentes provenant de la RPC (République populaire de Chine). Organisées ou non par l’Armée populaire de libération de la Chine (APL) il n’y a aucun doute sur le fait qu’elles proviennent de pirates informatiques (hackers) de haut niveau qui ont bénéficié de moyens techniques et financiers importants complétés par des informations précises sur les infrastructures de leurs cibles.

• Olsson Christian : curriculum vitae

  31 mars 2008, par Olsson Christian
  Doctorant en sciences politiques (relations internationales) à l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) de Paris affilié au Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI). Chercheur associé au Centre d’Etudes sur les Conflits, Paris

• Is terrorism distinctively wrong ?

  28 février 2008, par McPherson Lionel K
  Peut-on considérer que le terrorisme est moralement différent de la guerre traditionnelle ? Il s’agit d’une violence politique très comparable et la mise en avant de l’argument des morts de civils est bien peu convaincant : on estime que dans les guerres récentes ce sont à peu près 80% de civils qui ont été tués.

• Norway Criticized for Extradition to Regimes Practicing Torture

  4 February 2008, by Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
  Several human rights organizations have claimed that the Norwegian military intentionally extradite Afghan prisoners of war to regimes that evidently practice torture.

• Croatia’s EU Membership submitted to improved collaboration with UN Yugoslavia Tribunal

  23 April 2007, by European Parliament
  The European Parliament’s (EP) Progress Report on Croatia requests the next possible EU accession country to cooperate better with the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The report, drafted by Austrian Socialist MEP Hannes Swoboda has been adopted by the EP’s Foreign Affairs Committee on 27.3.2007 and will be discussed by the plenary next Wednesday, 25.4.2007.

• ECJ, Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-354/04 P and 355/04 P

  28 February 2007, by Court of Justice of the European Communities
  The Court of Justice rejects the appeals brought by the applicants claiming compensation following their inclusion on the list of persons, groups or entities involved in acts of terrorism, stating that the appellants are not deprived of all effective judicial protection and the orders of the Court of First Instance do not prejudice their right to such protection.

• The United States of America and international law

  27 February 2007, by Conseil de l’Europe
  Although the United States of America (US), an observer to the Council of Europe, remains strongly committed to international law, the American administration has, especially since 11 September 2001 and in pursuit of its so-called «war on terror», inappropriately and unilaterally disregarded key human rights and humanitarian legal norms considered by it to be overly constraining or otherwise inappropriate in view of the perceived new situation. In so doing, it has done a disservice to the cause of justice and rule of law and has tarnished its reputation as a beacon in defending human rights and in upholding well-established rules of international law.

• Desafío(s) 1 : POLÍTICA CRIMINAL DE LA GUERRA

  14 de febrero de 2007, por Observatorio del sistema Penal y los Derechos Humanos
  This first volume of Desafío ( s ) looks to begin an investigation field to analyze the (perverse) relationships established between power and the citizens’ rights. This volume presents different contributions that were submitted at the Seminar on Criminal Policies of War organized on March 2005 by the Observatori del Sistema Penal i els Drets Humans (OSPDH) of the University of Barcelona (UB).

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