Well it took time too iron out the American laws and now a court precedence has been set into place. Rember too, that the Supreme court hardly evere overturns a decision made by the Supreme Court of America.

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Turkish PM holds emergency meeting after headscarf defeat

Religious fanatics need to be eliminated from ALL the countries in the world FOREVER.

Tags: secular, political Islam, court, head, scarf, turkey, ankara, akp on 2008-06-06 -All Annotations (0) -About

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chief prosecutor when he asked the Constitutional Court in March to ban the AKP on charges that it is seeking to install an Islamist regime in the mainly Muslim country.
The Constitutional Court Thursday annulled an AKP-sponsored law allowing women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities on grounds it violated Turkey's secular system, enshrined in an unchangable constitutional article.
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- Someone said that if a MUSLIM can't live under the laws of a country then they have to go somewhere else to live and NOT make any attempts to change the countrys laws.
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the court "sees the headscarf amendment as a breach of the republic's basic principles, it will give the gravest punishment to the party which is responsible for this act,
hardline secularists -- among them the military, the judiciary and academics -- see the headscarf as a symbol of political Islam and defiance of the secularism system.
Opponents argue that moves such as the headscarf amendment and a ban on alcohol sales in restaurants run by AKP municipalities indicate a secret Islamist agenda.

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US Marine acquitted of all charges in Haditha killings

Haditha killings were exonerated however one more officer needs to be tried for negligence.

Tags: haditha, roadside, bomb, trial, not guilty, army, court, martial on 2008-06-05 -All Annotations (0) -About

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On November 19, 2005, a US soldier on patrol was killed by a roadside bomb in the village of Haditha, 260 kilometers (160 miles) west of Baghdad.
Defense lawyers claim insurgents hidden in nearby houses subsequently opened fire on the soldiers, forcing them to respond.
prosecutors say there were no insurgents, alleging that the soldiers opened fire unprovoked in revenge for their colleague's death.
a three-hour shooting spree, they say, the soldiers shot five passengers of an approaching taxi and killed 10 women and children at point blank range, among others.
The Marines said in a press release issued immediately after the killings that 15 Iraqis had been killed by the roadside bomb that claimed the life of Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas.
Time magazine showed that most of the dead were killed as Marines swept through three houses near the bombing, prompting a wide-ranging internal investigation.
Eight military personnel were originally charged over the incident -- four soldiers faced murder charges and four officers, including Grayson, were accused of covering up and failing to properly investigate the killings.
prosecutors have struggled to make the allegations stick.
Six have now had charges against them dropped, while charges of murder against squad leader Frank Wuterich were changed to the lesser offense of manslaughter.
a preliminary hearing at Camp Pendleton last September that he would "always mourn the unfortunate deaths of the innocent Iraqis who were killed during our response to that attack."
Based on the information I had at the time, based on the situation, I made the best decision I could have."