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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Legal News: Philip Young To Be Released!

Filed under: Afghanistan,Legal News,South Africa — Tags: , , , , — Matt @ 5:47 PM

This is fantastic news and I really hope this turns out to be true.  Philip Young is a South African security contractor that has been detained unlawfully, and has been a prisoner of Afghanistan’s legal system. His case was clearly a self defense shooting against an armed combatant. To imprison him was wrong, pure and simple. Here is a quote from the Justice 4 Philip Young page on Facebook.

Imminent release Confirmed. May be out of here as early as next week. Just waiting for the admin to get done.

So we will see and thanks to Debbie at Facebook for giving me the heads up on this. There are a lot of people out there that will be happy to hear this. As more information comes up, I will make the edit. –Matt

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Publications: ICS And ECSA Summary Of Flag State Rules On Arms And Private Armed Guards On Vessels, 2011

Filed under: Legal News,Maritime Security,Publications — Tags: , , , , , , , — Matt @ 1:27 PM

ICS And ECSA Summary Of Flag State Rules On Arms And Private Armed Guards On Vessels, 2011

Maritime Security: ICS And ECSA Compile Flag State Rules On Arms And Private Armed Guards

Filed under: Legal News,Maritime Security — Tags: , , , , , , — Matt @ 1:17 PM

When this first came out, I thought it was a great idea and resource. The funny thing is, I couldn’t find the PDF for this thing at ICS or at the ECSA. Perhaps it was buried somewhere? Either way, I took the time to find it and get it on my Scribd for anyone to access and locate conveniently. Pretty cool. –Matt

ICS: Flag State Rules on Arms and Private Armed Guards
August 17, 2011
With the assistance of its members, the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) in association with the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA), has compiled a useful reference document collating the policy and rules of Flag States on the carriage of arms and private armed guards on board vessels.?The document, providing tabulated information on Flag States’ rules, has been added to the ICS website and is proving to be a popular reference tool for shipowners and other interested parties within the shipping community.

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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Legal News: Appeals Court Lets Contractor’s Family Sue Palestinian Authority Over His Death

Filed under: Israel,Legal News — Tags: , , , , — Matt @ 12:36 PM

Thanks to Clay over at the FJ Facebook Page for pointing this one out. I wish the families success in their case. –Matt

 

Appeals Court Lets Contractor’s Family Sue Palestinian Authority Over His Death
August 14, 2011
An appeals court ruling allows a case to proceed against the Palestinian Authority by the family of a contractor killed by a roadside bomb while providing security to State Department employees during an October 2003 trip to the Gaza Strip.
On Friday, the three-judge panel, members of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, released a ruling explaining that the family of Mark Parsons can sue the Palestinian Authority under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1991 over questions of material support by the PA to a terror group. The decision overturns part of a lower court’s summary judgment in favor of the PA.
“Although we agree with the district court that the family’s conspiracy claim theories are too speculative to survive summary judgment, we believe a reasonable juror could conclude that Palestinian Authority employees provided material support to the bomber,” reads the ruling.
Mark Parsons and two other members of DynCorp International were killed by a roadside bomb while protecting a convoy that included State Department employees on their way to interview Palestinian Fulbright Scholarship applicants. A roadside bomb exploded as the convoy traveled past the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, about a quarter of a city block away from a manned PA security checkpoint.

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Legal News: Former Shield Group Whistleblowers Cleared For Civil Suit Against Rumsfeld

Filed under: Iraq,Legal News — Tags: , , , , , — Matt @ 4:27 PM

I am not too familiar with this case, so I really cannot comment too much. It looks to me like poor communications is the culprit. But if in fact they were poorly treated in detention, and no one fessed up that they were Whistleblowers, then that is pretty pathetic. Three months in detention, and no one could come forward to clear these guys? –Matt

 

Court clears way for torture suit against Rumsfeld
August 8, 2011
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for a civil suit against former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld by two Americans who allege they were tortured while being held by the US military in Iraq.
The three-judge panel upheld a ruling by a lower court judge who denied a Justice Department motion to drop the suit brought by Donald Vance and Nathan Ertell against Rumsfeld in 2006.
Vance and Ertell allege in the suit that they reported to the FBI that they suspected the privately owned Iraqi security company they worked for, Shield Group Security, was paying off an Iraqi sheikh to obtain government contracts.
But when the security company began to suspect their loyalty, they were taken into custody by the US military and held incommunicado at Camp Cropper where they were subjected to violence, sleep deprivation and extremes of light and sound.

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