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175 Alleged Gulf Cartel Members and Associates Arrested in Massive International Law Enforcement Operation "Project Reckoning" Leads to the Seizure of $60 Million and More Than 40 Tons of Illegal Drugs From One of Mexico's Largest Drug Trafficking Cartels NEW YORK - Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey announced that 175 individuals were arrested on Sept. 16, 2008, on charges related to an international drug trafficking cartel in a coordinated enforcement action by hundreds of international, federal, state and local law enforcement officials throughout the United States and Italy. Including the operations announced today, a long-term investigation of one of Mexico's...

Let us now praise the Iraqi legal system. Scorned by international watchdog organizations and self-credentialed legal minds since its establishment in 2003 as a newly independent institution, it has now done something that the international community’s premier courts have consistently failed to do: punished, in a reasonable timeframe, a mass murderer and delivered justice to his victims. Back in November, it may be recalled, Iraq's High Tribunal judged Saddam Hussein guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to hang for the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi’ites in the city of Dujail. Initial concerns about an interminable appeals process have...

NEW YORK -- He has a criminal career that has spanned more than 20 years and featured colorful aliases, including John Handsome. He once robbed a bank of more than $60,000 -- during a blizzard. A parole board later labeled him a menace to society. Still, until this week, 41-year-old Darryl Littlejohn was a faceless ex-con getting by as a bouncer. That changed when authorities targeted the parolee in the brutal slaying of a graduate student from Boston who mysteriously vanished after last call at the SoHo bar where he worked. Littlejohn has not been charged in the murder of...