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'Spanish judge asked to suspend Israel probe

04/02/09: Ynetnews.com reports that Spanish prosecutors have asked a Madrid judge to suspend an investigation of seven Israeli officials over a 2002 bombing in Gaza that killed Hamas commander Salah Shehada and 14 others, including nine children. In a writ issued Thursday, prosecutors at the National Court asked Judge Fernando Andreu to hold off because they said Israel is investigating the attack.

03/31/09: Time discusses the possibility that Baltasar Garzón, the same Spanish Investigative Judge who brought Chile's Pinochet to justice, may seek to bring charges against Alberto Gonzales and other former Bush officials behind the Bush administration's justification for the use of torture at Guantánamo.

03/30/09: Law.com reports that a human rights lawyer has urged Six former Bush administration officials accused in a Spanish complaint of sanctioning the torture of terror suspects should come to Spain to face justice. The case against the American officials -- including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith -- was brought by human rights lawyers before Spain's investigative judge Baltasar Garzon, who has sent it on to prosecutors to see if the charges merit a full investigation.

03/29/09: Jurist and New York Times report that Spanish judge Baltazar Garzon has asked prosecutors to examine the US lawyers reportedly behind the establishment of the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Garzon's request comes after a criminal complaint was filed last week in the Audiencia Nacional against six lawyers from the Bush administration, including David Addington, John Yoo, and former attorney general Alberto Gonzales. The lawsuit, brought under Spain's universal jurisdiction statute, alleges that the six lawyers committed crimes against the international community, as well as crimes against persons and property protected during armed conflict, in violation of the Spanish constitution, as well as the Geneva Conventions and the Convention against Torture.

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