Terrorism Prosecutions Drop
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Justice Department prosecutions of international terrorism cases, which surged in volume after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, have nearly returned to the levels seen prior to the hijackings, according to an independent analysis of government data released yesterday.
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South African authorities on Wednesday abruptly dropped criminal charges against a Pretoria man charged last week with possessing components for the construction of nuclear weapons.
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Prosecutions of nearly all federal crimes in the District have taken a steep dive, with one research group estimating a 67 percent decline in the past five years.
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Prosecutors on Thursday dropped their investigation of two German soldiers who posed for photos with a skull they found in Afghanistan.
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Federal prosecutors counted immigration violations, marriage fraud and drug trafficking among anti-terror cases in the four years after 9/11 even though no evidence linked them to terror activity, a Justice Department audit said Tuesday.
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A Pakistani court dropped terrorism  charges on Wednesday against a Pakistani-British dual national  suspected of being a key figure in a plot to blow up airliners  over the Atlantic Ocean, his lawyer said.
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A US judge drops charges against two Guantanamo Bay inmates, in a setback for efforts to try terror suspects.
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Corporate manslaughter charges faced by Railtrack over the Hatfield train crash have been dropped.
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Britain lowered its terrorism threat level from the highest category on Wednesday and sources close to the investigation of last week's bomb plot said police now think they have caught the main suspects.
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A Pakistani court dropped terrorism charges on Wednesday against a Pakistani-British dual national who was suspected of being a key figure in a plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic Ocean, his lawyer said.
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The U.S. government's failure this week to win a conviction in a major case of alleged terrorism financing is a sign it may be targeting the wrong suspects and needs to rethink its prosecution strategy, legal experts say.
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Attorney General John D. Ashcroft said yesterday that federal courts have endangered national security by ruling against the Bush administration on issues related to the war on terrorism.
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Britain has charged less than one in five of the more than 1,000 people arrested under anti-terrorism legislation since the September 11, 2001 attacks with terrorism-related offences, the government said Monday.
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Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi politician and former US favourite, has said that criminal charges against him in Iraq have been dropped.
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U.S. immigration tried to deport only 12 people on terrorism-related charges from 2004 through 2006, according to a private research study
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Canada's Supreme Court struck down a controversial anti-terror law on Friday that allows foreign suspects to be detained indefinitely without trial on the basis of secret evidence.
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Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the governmentâs track record  against winning terrorism prosecutions has been decidedly spottier than in previous years.