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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (37444)10/1/2009 2:48:50 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
An IDF legal adviser—the equivalent of an American JAG—tells the story of a 2 a.m. bombing of a suspected weapons cache in Gaza interrupted by a last-minute petition to the Supreme Court by the owner of the house to be bombed. IDF troops were on the ground, evacuating the area and wiring the building when a secretary of the Supreme Court called the legal adviser to halt the operations. A Supreme Court judge had to be roused from sleep to hear a telephonic brief about the target in question and decide whether to grant an injunction stopping the operation.

That's wild. The ultimate evolution of lawfare...
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