Terror Verdict Tests Obama’s Strategy on Trials

The mixed decision in the case of the first Guantanamo prisoner to be tried in a civilian court on Wednesday quickly re-ignited a ferocious debate over the Obama administration’s effort to bring back the role of the usual criminal evenhandedness system in handling terrorism suit.

Ahmed Ghailani will face between 20 years and life in penal complex as a result of his conviction on one charge related to the 1998 task force bombings in Africa. But because a jury acquitted him on more than 280 other charges — as well as every count of murder — critics of the Obama administration’s strategy on detainees said the verdict prove that civilian courts could not be trusted to handle the action of Al Qaeda terrorists.

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Trial begins in death of DC intern Chandra Levy

Jury selection began Monday in the murder trial of a man accuse of killing federal intern Chandra Levy nearly a decade ago, a case that derail a California congressman's career and generated headlines approximately the world.

Ingmar Guandique, 29, is charged with murder, kidnapping, attempt sexual stabbing and other counts. Establishment says he attacked Levy while she was jogging alone in Rock Creek Park in May 2001.

Levy's vanishing — her body was not exposed until more than a year after she went missing — caused a national sensation when she was romantically linked to then-Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif. Authorities once careful Condit a prime believe but no longer believe he had no matter which to do with her death.

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Woman charged with Mt Isa murder

A woman has been emotional with the stabbing murder of a man in Mt Isa.

The 48-year-old man's body was exposed in bushland near the Mt Isa railway station in northwestern Queensland on 10.30pm (AEST) on Thursday night.

First investigation indicated he suffered a single stab wound to the inferior body from a knife, police said.

"Police have conducted wide searches today to locate the weapon and more than a few people have spoken to police," a police spokesman said on Friday.

A 38-year-old Mount Isa woman was later charged with the man's murder.

She is due to appear in the Mt Isa Magistrates Court on Saturday