Turkel Committee: Brigadier General, lawyer, foreign observers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has instructed Cabinet Secretary Zvi Hauser to bring a proposal for government approval on Monday, for appointing an independent public committee to investigate the IDF raid on the Gaza flotilla. The announcement from the Prime Minister's Office noted that the committee would be headed by former Supreme Court Justice Jacob Turkel. The committee will be comprised of professor of international law and Israel Prize laureate Shabtai Rosen, and Brigadier General (res.) Amos Horev, former president of Haifa's Technion. Flotilla Raid Ayalon to CNN: We won't apologize for flotilla raid / Yitzhak Benhorin Deputy FM says Gaza-bound Turkish ship carried 75 mercenaries with links to al-Qaeda, other terror groups. 'They were well equipped and ambushed our soldiers,' he says, 'We found the money on their bodies, $10000 apiece' Full Story Two foreign observers will also be appointed: Lord William David Trimble, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Ken Watkin, international lawyer and former judge advocate general for Canada. The observers will also take part in discussions and consultations. According to the Prime Minister's Office, the committee will: Examine the security aspects of the naval blockade on Gaza and adjusting it in accordance with international law. Examine Israel's actions to enforce the naval blockade and prevent the international flotilla from reaching Gaza on May 31, 2010 with respect to international law. Examine the actions of the ...



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Boiling the Ocean: Prosecuting Foreign Crimes planned in the US

www.dmcantor.com Today's video from David M Cantor, a Phoenix DUI Lawyer, covers recently proposed legislation that would prosecute criminals who conspire in the US to commit a crime in foreign countries. The reason for this proposed law is centered around a crime in 2007 where the suspects ran a drug deal that occurred in Venezeula and France but planned it while in Miami, Florida. The prosecution tried to bring them up on US charges but the court threw the case out since the actual crime had not occurred in the US. While David agrees that morally it is wrong to plan any crime regardless of where it is perpetrated, but making that a crime of its own will open a Pandora's Box. The US Justice system is already overwhelmed with too many cases, Federal prosecutors' issues with ethics, and frivolous lawsuits. Adding a broad policy of charging people for planning to commit crimes in other countries will add a huge burden and slow the courts even more. Of course this is David's opinion, what do you think? Here is the full text of the proposed bill September 17, 2010 The Honorable John Conyers Jr. Chairman Committee on the Judiciary US House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Chairman Conyers: This letter provides the Department of Justice's views in support of HR, 5231, the "Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act." This legislation seeks to amend the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to clarify that persons located in the United States who enter into a conspiracy ...



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