Staff / TruthdigAug 13, 2008
Early Wednesday morning, Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili agreed to a plan to stop the fighting that flared up Friday. However, the crisis isn't over and the terms of the agreement aren't all clear. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 30, 2008
He is almost unrecognizable in the guise of alternative therapist Dr. Dragan Dabic, but it apparently took more than long hair, a beard and an invented identity to keep former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's past from catching up with him. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 22, 2008
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, indicted by the U.N. war crimes tribunal for the murder of civilians in Sarajevo and Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, has been arrested in Serbia after being underground since 1997. Seems the lure of EU membership is getting the government there to turn up some old stones. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 18, 2008
In what will be the Pentagon's first war crimes trial since World War II, the U.S. will go forward Monday in trying Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan. Unknown still is the trial date for Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and the rest of the government cabal that also may have committed war crimes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 5, 2008
When President Bush took to the podium on July 4 to speak at a naturalization ceremony at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home, there were some in the crowd besides those gathered to be sworn in as American citizens. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 5, 2008
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees appeared in court at the U.S. naval base's Camp Justice for an arraignment that effectively sets the legal wheels in motion for the war crimes trials of Mohammed and his alleged 9/11 co-conspirators. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMay 28, 2008
A Pentagon representative has confirmed that "about four or five dozen" news journalists and associated personnel from both the U.S. and abroad are being invited to attend the June 5 arraignment at Guantanamo Bay of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, often referred to as the "mastermind" of 9/11, and four others allegedly involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 25, 2007
Here's footage from Wednesday's dramatic confrontation on Capitol Hill between a Code Pink anti-war activist with faux blood on her hands and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, whose hands are stained, according to the protester, with the "blood of millions of Iraqis." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 10, 2007
Four Serbian men charged with killing six Bosnian Muslims during 1995's Srebrenica massacre have been convicted by Serbia's war crimes court. The four, members of a paramilitary group called the Scorpions, were given jail sentences ranging from five to 20 years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJan 17, 2007
Former "60 Minutes" producer and author Barry Lando connects the dots between Saddam Hussein and his American backers in this powerful documentary.
(h/t: BarryLando) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigNov 8, 2006
Bush insisted that Saddam Hussein's trial be held in Iraq so that an international tribunal would never expose America's history of support for the tyrant -- (as in 1982, when President Ronald Reagan sent Donald Rumsfeld, above, to enhance diplomatic relations between Iraq and the U.S.) Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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