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Nigel Duara, The Associated Press, 05 Sep 2010
The attorneys for an Ashland man accused of using an Islamic charity to smuggle money to Muslim fighters...
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Jeff Barnard, Associated Press, 04 Sep 2010
An expert witness for the prosecution testified Tuesday that Islamic charities based in Saudi Arabia,...
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Jeff Barnard, Associated Press, 04 Sep 2010
A prosecution witness testified Wednesday in the trial of an Ashland man accused of smuggling money...
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Jeff Barnard, Associated Press Writer, 01 Sep 2010
In the course of the government going after Al-Haramain, a federal judge ruled in another case involving ...
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Jeff Bernard, 01 Sep 2010
The prosecution said Monday the founder of the U.S. branch of an Islamic charity accused of trying to smuggle $150,000 to Muslim fighters in Chechnya took extreme steps to leave no paper trail.
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--, 22 Aug 2010
David Berger sat in a downtown Ashland coffee shop July 3 looking across the table at an old friend,...
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--, 17 Jun 2010
In an opinion piece published by a legal journal, Cole likened the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to the domestic crimes...
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--, 14 Jun 2010
Terrorist groups have long exploited charities. Humanitarian groups are attractive covers for illicit acts, after all. Characteristics that would arouse money-laundering suspicions in other organizations...
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--, 09 Jun 2010
This summer, I won't get to wrap my arms around my father's shrunken body and inhale his familiar scent of chamomile fused with cedar.
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--, 05 Jun 2010
The Treasury Department has designated seven U.S. Muslim charities since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Critics of U.S. designation procedures...
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--, 24 May 2010
Today, the state secrets privilege is no longer an obscure rule of evidence. It is a tool the U.S. government increasingly uses to defend its national security policies in court. Since Sept. 11,...
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--, 05 May 2010
The government does not admit that plaintiffs were illegally surveilled, but argues if they were they were not illegally surveilled for the number of days claimed by plaintiffs.
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--, 22 Apr 2010
A lower court agreed with the government. And Orin S. Kerr of George Washington University, an expert on surveillance law,...
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--, 20 Apr 2010
Two American lawyers and an Islamic charity have submitted their bill for damages following a federal court ruling the Bush Administration...
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--, 19 Apr 2010
Federal prosecutors are continuing to gather evidence they believe suggests former Ashland peace activist Pete Seda was well aware...
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--, 17 Apr 2010
Federal prosecutors are continuing to gather evidence they believe suggests that former Ashland peace activist Pete Seda was well aware...
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--, 15 Apr 2010
The international community faces a daunting challenge in confronting global terrorism financing. The task is especially tough in today's environment,...
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--, 15 Apr 2010
U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that the government had violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's protections against warrantless wiretaps of U.S. citizens...
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--, 14 Apr 2010
One of the more insidious and dangerous policies resulting from the war on terrorism has been the warrantless surveillance of Americans,...
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--, 14 Apr 2010
What could be a significant legal victory in the on-going battle against blanket surveillance transpired March 31 in district court in San Francisco,...
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--, 14 Apr 2010
A federal judge's ruling last week declaring illegal the Bush-era warrantless surveillance of a now-disbanded Islamic charity is a victory for all Americans' privacy.
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--, 13 Apr 2010
A federal judge has rebuffed the Obama administration’s latest attempt to defend illegal Bush-era eavesdropping, ruling that a now defunct US Islamic charity,...
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--, 12 Apr 2010
The lawsuit filed against the federal government in the case of al-Haramain, a no-longer-existing Islamic charity based in Ashland,...
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--, 11 Apr 2010
The District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment for the plaintiffs, the defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation...
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--, 10 Apr 2010
A US Federal District Court has ruled in favor of the defunct Riyadh-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (AHIF) branch in Ashland,...
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--, 10 Apr 2010
The Oregon nonprofit corporation and two of its attorneys, Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoor, sued high-ranking U.S. officials and associated government...
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--, 09 Apr 2010
The Bush administration's secret program of wiretapping U.S. citizens in the name of nabbing terrorists offended a lot of people because it bypassed...
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--, 08 Apr 2010
The efforts of the Barack Obama administration to maintain the secrecy of the counterterrorism policies of its predecessor, the administration of former President George W. Bush, hit a major speed bump last week.
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--, 08 Apr 2010
Last week, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled against the federal...
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--, 07 Apr 2010
We have a ruling in the Al Haramain case, the one involving an Islamic charity in Oregon that was the target of warrantless wiretaps...