Detainees transferred to Guantanamo

From the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, September 6, 2006:

Biographies of High Value Terrorist Detainees Transferred to the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay .

Human rights: Israel / Lebanon

United Nations
UN Human Rights Council names experts to probe Israeli civilian killings in Lebanon
United Nations press release
September 1, 2006

No Justice, No Peace? re Hassan Nasrallah war crimes
Michael I. Krauss, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law, and J. Peter Pham, Director, Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs, James Madison University
August 4, 2006

The UN-NGO Connection: spreading the message of hate and terrorism
Anne Bayefsky, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, and Visiting Professor Law, Touro Law Center Institute for Human Rights
June 12, 2006

Human Rights Watch
Fatal Strikes: Israel's indiscriminate attacks against civilians in Lebanon
Human Rights Watch
August 2006

Letters between Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch and Avi Bell, Professor of Law, Bar Ilan University and Visiting Professor of Law, Fordham University Law School, and others

Amnesty International
Israel/Lebanon: deliberate destruction or “collateral damage? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
August 23, 2006

Amnesty International redefines war crimes
Alan Dershowitz, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
August 23, 2006

Persuasive authority : acquisition and use

The other day a student at the reference desk asked if NESL's acquisition of titles implied pre-screening such that he could safely assume any source he'd find here would not be, to put it bluntly, bunk.

Certainly we screen potential acquisitions. For secondary authority, factors considered include the credentials, reputation, prior works of authors or publishers, the importance of the subject to curriculular or professorial research goals, plus currency, format, functionality, and price. Alas, none of this guarantees against the acquisition of bunk.

Below, arguably, in the context of human rights and the law of war, some recent bunk debunked, illustrating that, for this generation of law students, new media may become a factually and legally significant component of their legal research.

Reuters and Associated Press
Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut?
Little Green Footballs blog
August 5, 2006

Other instances of 'fauxtography'
Little Green Footballs blog
September 2, 2006

The Corruption of the Media: Final Report re Qana
EU Referendum blog
Richard North and Helen Szamuely
August 15, 2006

The Red Cross Ambulance Incident
Zombie blog
August 23, 2006

Reuters Admits, then covers up taking Hezbo instructions
Kerry Rowe, The American Thinker blog
September 5, 2006

Money laundering: report

The Financial Action Task Force ( FATF ), an inter-governmental body created at the G-7 Summit in 1989, with currently 31 member countries (plus the European Commission and the Co-operation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf), was invited to assess the United States' compliance with FATF's recommendations. Here is the 17-page report, June 23, 2006: Summary of the Third Mutual Evaluation Report on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism - United States of America .

FATF standards are comprised of the Forty Recommendations on Money Laundering and the Nine Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing .

The Counterterrorism Blog provides a summary of the above-mentioned report in this post .

FATF reports on other countries here .