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Tightened terror laws could be used against the five British men who are to return home from Guantanamo Bay. Ruhal Ahmed, Tarek Dergoul, Jamal Al Harith, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul have spent two years in the prison camp created originally for those accused of fighting or supporting forces who opposed coalition troops in Afghanistan. Earlier this month Home Secretary David Blunkett proposed that the standard of proof should be lowered in terrorism cases, making it easier for prosecutors to secure convictions. He also suggested that terrorism cases should only have to be proved "on the balance of probabilities" rather...

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/6757099.htmBreyer Says U.S. Could Learn From Israel ANNE GEARAN Associated Press NEW YORK - The United States could learn from compromises Israeli courts have struck to balance terrorism and human rights concerns, Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer said Friday. Israeli judges have adopted what Breyer called "intermediate solutions" that acknowledge the security risks the country faces, the justice told an audience at Columbia Law School. "There are many solutions that ... solve nothing to everyone's satisfaction but are not quite as restrictive of human rights as an extreme solution, nor as dangerous as some other extremes," Breyer said. He...

LEADING his lawyers in a series of Islamic chants, accused Bali bombing mastermind Imam Samudra faced trial yesterday, not denying his role in the atrocity but challenging the laws Indonesia is using to prosecute him. "Alahu Akhbar," Samudra shouted as he took the accused's chair. He followed up with three cries of "Exalt him", which his lawyers echoed loudly. After the 43-page prosecution indictment was read to the Denpasar District Court, Samudra's chief counsel, Quadhar Faisal, claimed the involvement of foreign police in the investigation had been an obstruction of justice and said his client's main sentence for the Bali...