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In
Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton
Compromised America's National Security
Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Buzz" Patterson was
a military aide to President Clinton from May 1996 to May
1998 and 1 of 5 entrusted with carrying the "nuclear football"
the bag containing the codes for launching nuclear weapons.
Though he arrived at the job "filled with professional devotion
and commitment to serve, he left believing Clinton had sown
destruction upon our government, endangered national security,
and harmed the American military. Lt.
Col. Patterson offers anecdotes and charges against the
President, including how Clinton lost the nuclear codes; stalled
and lost the chance to strike on Osama bin Laden; how he and
the First Lady treated the military with disrespect; and how
he groped a female Air Force enlisted member aboard Air Force
One, among other incidents.
Elements
of War Crimes under the Rome Statute of the International
Criminal Court: Sources and Commentary
by Knut Drmann, Louise Doswald-Beck, Robert Kolb -- This
provides insight into the negotiating history that led to
the adoption of the international elements of war crimes.
It presents existing jurisprudence relevant to the interpretation
of the war crimes in the ICC Statute. It serves as a tool
in the implementation of international humanitarian law in
cases dealing with war crimes and offers practitioners (judges,
prosecutors and lawyers) and academics critical information
on the substance of the crimes.
The
European Union and Internal Security: Guardian of the People?
by Valsamis Mitsilegas, Jorg Monar Wyn Rees
In the post-Cold War period new security threats have arisen
in Western Europe. Among these, organized crime and illegal
immigration are acknowledged to represent significant security
challenges. The EU and Internal Security analyzes the nature
of these challenges and investigates how the EU has been evolving
to counter them. Written by experts in the fields of political
science and law, this book addresses a hitherto neglected
area of study.
Japanese
War Crimes by Peter Li (Editor), International Citizens'
Forum on War Crimes and Redress
Violence
Against Women in Asian Societies
by Lenore Manderson, Linda Rae Bennett, Manderson and Bennett
Violence against women is a violation of women's human rights
and a priority public health issue. It is endemic worldwide.
While much has been written about it in industrialized societies,
there has been relatively little attention given to such violence
in Asian societies. This book addresses the structural and
interpersonal violences to which women are subject, both under
conditions of conflict and disruption, and where civil society
is relatively ordered. It explores sexual violence and coercion,
domestic violence, and violence within the broader community
and the state, avoiding sensationalised accounts of so-called
cultural' practices in favour of nuanced explorations of violences
as experienced in Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia,
the Philippines, Bangladesh, and India.
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True
Crime Articles
Zoran
Djindjic, Serbia's assassinated prime minister, was buried after
a service that drew up to 500,000 people onto the streets of the
city, investigators were looking again at the incident. The woman
was Djindjic's wife Ruzica and the men who grabbed her were bodyguards
of General Ratko Mladic, the Balkan war criminal.
Law
and Order Scotland
Kidnap Plot Victoria
Beckham against the former Posh Spice of the Spice Girls
Bali
night club bombing
On Saturday, March 22,
1997, a small cottage in the French Canadian village of St.-Casimir
exploded into flames. Inside were 5 people, disciples of the Order
of the Solar Temple. Since 1994, 74 members have died in Canada,
Switzerland and France. In St. Casimir the dead were Didier Queze,
39, a baker, his wife Chantale Goupillot, 41, her mother and 2 others
members. The 3 Queze teenagers; Tom, Fanie and Julien hid. Police
later found them.
A
Shock To The System -- The public is scared and angry about
crime. So politicians are cracking down with tough new laws that
take a bite out of precious civil liberties.
Sisters
In Hell -- Sexual assault is rampant in France's crumbling housing
projects. Now a gang-rape victim has broken the silence.
At a time of civil war
in El Salvador -- when 75,000 people were disappeared or killed
-- four American churchwomen were abducted, raped, and murdered.
Many Salvadorans were tortured, and some lived to tell their tales.
Who was responsible for such atrocities? In separate but related
cases, two Salvadoran
generals face trial in American civil court.
A report on Serbian
war leader Radovan Karadzic, examining who he is and why he
has been indicted bycrimes against humanity and genocide.
Prime
Time Crime: Balkan Media in War & Peace by Kemal Kurspahic
-- Kurspahic tells how media malfeasance stirred up ethnic hatreds
that led to the bloody Balkan wars of the 1990s. Drawing on extensive
interviews with journalists in the region, the author recounts
how after serving Yugoslavia's communist party for decades key
Balkan media shifted loyalties to nationalist ideologues, doing
their warmongering for them. But it is also a story of independent
journalists who risked their livelihoods and lives in an effort
to tell a balanced story. And how the international community
post-Dayton undermined the goal of creating a civil society in
Bosnia by leaving nationalists in control of the media. Recommendations
for the international community in the Balkans and comprehensive
lessons for media intervention in other countries undergoing transitions
to democracy.
Serial
Assault Hunting -- The Trophy Rapist
After serving 27 years
of a life term for high treason, Nelson Mandela was released from
prison February 11, 1990. Weeks earlier, South African Police arrested
Clayton Sizwe Sithole, soldier of Umkhonto we Sizwe, (the armed
wing of the African National Congress) the boyfriend of Zindzi Mandela
(daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela) and the father of her 3
month old son. January 30, 1990, 4 days after his arrest, Sithole
was found hanged in prison cell at Johannesburg Central Police Station.
President
Nelson Mandela One-on-One
The
protests at Tiananmen in 1989, and the resulting Beijing Massacre
of June 4.10 years after Tiananmen
Square, more than a hundred relatives of the dead petitioned
the government to open a criminal investigation.
A
biochip for potential kidnap victims -- Foreign executives who
are kidnapping targets in Latin America will be able to use implantable
ID chips and personal GPS devices to thwart abductors.
Stolen
Works of Art -- The 2 countries most affected by the theft of
cultural objects are France and Italy.
Was
the Government Right to Use Force to Reunite Elian Gonzalez?
-- Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Boris Meissner,
Washington, House majority whip, Congressman Tom DeLay, William
Bennett, co-director of Empower America; and former Clinton Chief
of Staff, Leon Panetta, discuss "Did Elian Gonzalez have to
be put through this to be reunited with his father?"
Deepcut
Barracks deaths -- Allegations of bullying, sexual harassment
and violence at Deepcut Barracks in Surrey, where 4 soldiers died
in mysterious circumstances unexplained deaths at Catterick Barracks,
in North Yorkshire and in Northern Ireland.
Violence
Stems from Neglect of Human Values - Indiana University, the
Dalai Lama said, "Today there is more violence in society, particularly
the younger generation" ... "This happened because of many decades
of negligence about basic human values." The Dalai Lama added youth
violence may stem from society's failure to encourage a sense of
"warmheartedness" in children. This lack of affection, could lead
to a lack of contentment, and then violence. Join
Together
Espionage's
Most Wanted: Top Ten Book of Malicius Moles, Blown Covers, and
Intelligence Oddities by Tom E. Mahl -- Delivers facts
and stories about cloak-and-dagger operations, dirty tricks, and
the games that nations play Includes anecdotes about history's
most renowned intelligence agencies, CIA, KGB, Britain's MI-6,
and Israel's Mossad. America's first spymasters included Benjamin
Franklin and John Jay. Otto von Bismarck's chief spy, Wilhelm
Stieber, posed as an itinerant peddler and sold religious artifacts
and pornography to enemy troops as a cover for collecting intelligence.
During the cultural competition of the Cold War, the CIA helped
popularize abstract expressionism by spending millions to promote
the careers of artists such as Jackson Pollock. The East Germans
once traded two captured West German agents for one dead East
German agent. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt cleverly disrupted an
intimate dinner meeting between Mexican communists and a Soviet
delegation by distributing party invitations to the general public.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, the CIA employed psychics to
"remotely view" places of interest in the Soviet Union. Espionage's
Most Wanted chronicles five hundred of the most daring spies,
ingenious plots, bungled operations, and surprising facts about
the history of espionage and intelligence from around the world.
Its fifty lists include the top ten intelligence agencies, master
spies, traitors, spy gadgets, code-breaking coups, covert operations
blunders, and colorful dirty tricks. History buffs and espionage
enthusiasts will enjoy this irreverent but illuminating look at
the world of spies and intelligence.
Stalin's
Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953
by Jonathan Brent, Vladimir Naumov -- A new investigation, based
on previously unseen KGB documents, reveals the truth behind Stalin's
last great conspiracy. January 13, 1953, a stunned world learned
that a vast conspiracy had been unmasked among Jewish doctors
in the USSR to murder Kremlin leaders.The Doctors' Plot, as this
alleged scheme came to be called, was Stalin's last crime. In
the 50 years since Stalin's death many myths have grown up about
the Doctors' Plot. Did Stalin invent the conspiracy against the
Jewish doctors or was it engineered by subordinates who wished
to eliminate Kremlin rivals? Did Stalin intend a purge of all
Jews which might lead to a Soviet Holocaust? How was this plot
related to the cold war dividing Europe, and the hot war in Korea?
Was the Doctors' Plot connected with Stalin's fortuitous death?
Brent and Naumov explore previously unknown, top-secret documents
from the KGB, the presidential archives, state and party archives
to probe Stalin's intrigues.
Buried
Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala
by Victoria Sanford -- Between the late 1970s and the late-1980s,
Guatemala was torn by mass terror and extreme violence in a genocidal
campaign against the Maya, which becameknown as "La Violencia."
More than 600 massacres occurred, one and a half million people
were displaced, and more than 200,000 civilians were murdered,
most of them Maya. Buried Secrets chronicles the journey of Maya
survivors seeking truth, justice, and community healing, and demonstrates
that the Guatemalan army carried out a systematic and intentional
genocide against Maya. The book is based on more than 400 testimonies
from massacre survivors, interviews with members of the forensic
team, human rights leaders, high-ranking military officers, guerrilla
combatants, and government officials. Buried Secrets traces truth-telling
and political change from isolated Maya villages to national political
events, and provides a unique look into the experiences of Maya
survivors as they struggle to rebuild their communities and lives.
Crime
and Violence in Latin America: Citizen Security, Democracy, and
the State by H. Hugo Fruhling, Heather Golding, -- By
virtually any standard of measurement, Latin America ranks as
one of the most violent regions in the world. Violence and crime
pose serious threats to the relatively fragile democracies of
Latin America and the Caribbean. This volume offers timely discussion
by attorneys, government officials, policy analysts, and academics
from the United States and Latin America of the responses of the
state, civil society, and the international community to these
threats. Because the experiences of the countries in the region
vary greatly, the book focuses on citizen security from a variety
of perspectives. The first part examines the predominant themes
of citizen security, which include efforts to reform the criminal
justice system, separate the police from the military, create
public and social policies decreasing violence, and raise money
to finance such efforts. The second part presents case studies
exploring experiences in Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Central America,
and the Caribbean. In the final part, the editors offer specific
policy recommendations based on the foregoing analyses. This book
contributes the most detailed discussion of reform efforts to
date, with special attention to police-community partnerships
and police professionalization programs. Although complete evaluation
of these relatively new programs is impossible, the contributors
discuss lessons thus far and offer recommendations for governments,
civil society, and the international community. Policy makers,
analysts, and students of public policy, sociology, Latin American
studies, and law will benefit from this book.
Menace
to Society: Political-Criminal Collaboration Around the World
by Roy Godson
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Ransom:
The Untold Story of International Kidnapping
by Ann Hagedorn
Ransom opens with the story of five men taken hostage in 1995
in Kashmir, the hotly disputed paradise that lies between India
and Pakistan. The men--two Britons, an American, a German, and
a Norwegian--were tourists hiking their way through the Himalayan
mountains that crosses through Kashmir, when men with weapons
appeared and snatched the five hostages. Interweaving the story
of the Kashmir abduction with accounts of other kidnappings and
interviews with antikidnapping "risk" experts, a mesmerizing kidnapping
on a massive scale: as many as 20,000 to 30,000 incidents occur
annually, up from about 6,000 per year during the 1980s. Auerbach
ascribes some of the blame to the end of the cold war, which brought
uneducated but highly trained soldiers into the mercenary pool.
Ransom details countermeasures to combat the kidnapping problem,
from the FBI's internal revolution on the issue to the rise of
high-tech "risk consultants," danger assessments for corporations
and individuals and who will fly to the scene to negotiate with
kidnappers. As for the five in Kashmir, one is dead: the Norwegian,
his body found dismembered a month after the group was taken hostage.
Of the remaining four, no word of their situation has come since
December 1995, when allowed to record a message for their families.
War
Crimes -- In 1946, Nazi commanders sentenced at Nuremberg
helped reshape justice in the world, establishing "Crimes Against
Humanity." Get an inside look at the Nuremberg trials and two
other landmark cases. Explore where Lt. William Calley alone of
33 defendants was found guilty of murdering over 400 unarmed women,
children and old men in the Vietnam village of My Lai. And the
case of John Demjanjuk one of the most barbaric Nazi figures of
the Holocaust. With rare footage.
Rosenbergs
-- It was dubbed the "espionage trial of the century." Julius
and Ethel Rosenberg, accused of passing American A-bomb secrets
to the Soviets, were found guilty and sentenced to death. Their
execution in the electric chair at New York's Sing Sing prison
on June 19, 1953, divided the nation and sparked controversy that
remains to this day. See footage of their arrest and courtroom
ordeal, and hear interviews with their son. Relive the trial through
interviews with attorneys from both the prosecution and the defense,
and hear commentary from leading historians. Finally, see a mock
trial staged by the American Bar Association on the 40th anniversary
of the Rosenbergs' sentencing.
Investigative
Reports: Organ Trade -- This shocking documentary investigates
the growing demand for organ transplants, and the emerging black
market in human organ sales around the world. Cameras take viewers
to India, where people have sold kidneys for cash -- one man even
had a kidney stolen by an organized ring of kidney snatchers.
The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Spies & Espionage
by Rodney P. Carlisle
A
World of Crime: The Comparative Perspective
by Ineke Haen Marshall
Globalisation,
Crime and Terror by John Lea
International
Crimes by Nikos Passas
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