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Embassy Bomber Faces Justice; What Do These Cases Say About Terrorism Prosecution?

February 20, 2015 05:08:40 PM

JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon discusses recent terrorism trials...On August 7, 1998, al Qaeda terrorists simultaneously attacked the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania with massive truck bombs, killing a combined...

February 6, 2015 02:39:06 PM

Adel Abdel Bary, a member of al Qaeda and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday by US District Judge Lewis Kaplan. The Egyptian national pleaded guilty last September to threatening...

January 3, 2015 04:54:27 PM

Alleged al Qaeda operative Abu Anas al Libi, accused of involvement in the bombings of US embassies in Africa, died in a US hospital Friday. Al Libi was captured by US military special forces in Libya in...

October 22, 2013 03:45:07 PM

Mark Martins , the chief war crimes prosecutor for the US military commissions at Guantanamo, said on Monday that he had participated in the decision to bring the case of suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai...

October 15, 2013 02:52:13 PM

Suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai appeared in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday to plead not guilty to charges that he helped plan and conduct surveillance for the bombings of...

October 6, 2013 11:15:44 AM

US military special forces on Saturday captured Abu Anas al Libi, a suspected high-ranking operative of al Qaeda , during a raid conducted in Tripoli, Libya. US authorities allege that al Libi played a significant...

April 24, 2013 02:10:21 PM

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday resentenced Wadih El-Hage to life in prison for his role in the 1998 bombing of two US embassies [PBS...

August 24, 2012 04:53:53 PM

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday upheld the life sentence imposed on a former Osama bin Laden aide after he stabbed a prison guard in the eye in 2000....

April 27, 2012 11:33:39 AM

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday denied a request to release photos of Osama Bin Laden taken shortly after his death last year. Nonprofit...

February 29, 2012 12:27:45 PM

Former al Qaeda military commander Saif al-Adel was arrested at an airport in Cairo on Tuesday, according to the Egyptian media. Egyptian security officials detained al-Adel upon his arrival after noticing...

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Line of Demarcation divides the New World between Spain and Portugal

On May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI promulgated the Line of Demarcation, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal in response the return of Christopher Columbus from his discovery of the American continents. However, neither country was entirely satisfied with the placement of the Line. A year later on June 7, 1494, the two nations signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, which moved the Line of Demarcation further west, giving Portugal claim to Brazil.

Kent State student shootings precipitated lawsuits

On May 4, 1970, National Guardsmen at Kent State University opened fire on students protesting the US invasion of Cambodia, killing four.

Review a legal chronology of the Kent State shootings, from May 5, 1970 (the day the FBI investigation started) to January 4, 1979 (the day the state of Ohio reached an out-of-court settlement for $675,000 with victims and relatives of victims).