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McCain: bin Laden could face Nuremberg-like justice

(CNN) — Sen. John McCain on Friday said as president he would consider bringing Osama bin Laden to justice through a Nuremberg-like international trial.

He told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, We have various options. The Nuremberg Trials are certainly an example of the kind of tribunal that we could move forward with. I don’t think we’d have any difficulty in devising an international — internationally supported mechanism that would mete out justice. There’s no problem there.

McCain said it would be a good thing to reveal to the world the enormity of this guy’s crimes, and his intentions, which are still there.

When asked if as president he would move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee unequivocally stated, Yes. Asked when, he said, Right away.

I’ve been committed to that proposition for years, he said.

McCain said he wouldn’t discuss hypotheticals when asked whether he would support an Israeli attack on Iran, but did say, I can tell you this: The United States of America is committed to making sure that there is never a second Holocaust. That will be what I do as president of the United States.

McCain also continued to defend his criticism that Sen. Barack Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign. Interactive: iReporters question McCain

I am stating the facts. The facts are that I don’t question Sen. Obama’s patriotism. I’m sure that he’s a very patriotic American, he said from Denver, where he will meet with the Dalai Lama.

I question his judgment because he lacks experience and knowledge, and I questioned his judgment. … Sen. Obama just views this war as another political issue, [on] which he can change positions. Watch more of McCain’s interview

McCain argued Obama opposed the surge and doesn’t understand the importance of this victory and the consequences of failure and the benefits of success.

McCain and Obama have different views on how to handle the situation in Iraq. McCain says troop withdrawal should be based on conditions on the ground, but Obama advocates removing all combat brigades within 16 months of taking office.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appeared to back the idea of a timetable in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel over the weekend, but an Iraqi government spokesman said later the prime minister’s comments were misunderstood, mistranslated and not conveyed accurately. The magazine has said it stands by its version of this interview.

The Bush administration has opposed timetables for troop withdrawals, but al-Maliki and President Bush last week agreed to a general time horizon for meeting aspirational goals on troop cuts.

The news comes in the wake of conservative criticism about al-Maliki’s statement.

Washington Post columnist, Charles Krauthammer, wrote Friday that al-Maliki, voted for Obama, casting the earliest and most ostentatious absentee ballot of this presidential election.

Asked if he would support al-Maliki’s intentions, McCain said I know Prime Minister al-Maliki rather well. I know that he is a politician, and I know that they are looking at upcoming elections. I know that he knows and the other leaders know there that it has to be condition-based.

I can assure you that Prime Minister al-Maliki understands that conditions have to be kept.

Asked what he would do if al-Maliki persisted a withdrawal was needed, McCain said he won’t … I know him well.

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Karadzic extradition deadline looms

BELGRADE, Serbia (CNN) — The lawyer of former Bosnian Serb president Radovan Karadzic was expected to launch an appeal Friday to block his client’s extradition to The Hague to face an international war crimes tribunal.

A three-day deadline for the appeal to be filed was due to expire later Friday, a court spokesman in Belgrade told The Associated Press.

Karadzic’s lawyer, Sveta Vujacic, told CNN earlier this week that an appeal was planned. She also said that Karadzic, whose arrest was announced earlier this week, planned to defend himself if extradited to The Hague.

Karadzic, a fugitive since 1996, faces charges of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity relating to the 1992-1995 civil war that followed Bosnia-Herzegovina’s secession from Yugoslavia. Watch what’s next for Karadzic

Meanwhile, further details emerged Friday of Karadzic’s bizarre life in hiding following revelations that he had been living in Belgrade and working as an alternative medicine therapist, disguised by a heavy beard and using a false identity.

Austrian newspaper The Kurier said Karadzic had worked in Vienna as a miracle healer, and stayed with Serbian families in the city, AP reported. One couple said they had hired Karadzic, who called himself Pera, after trying unsuccessfully to conceive children.

Living in Belgrade under the name Dragan Dabic and disguised by a heavy white beard and thick glasses, Karadzic was unrecognizable in photos from the clean-shaven figure last seen in public in 1995.

He lived in an apartment in the densely populated area of the capital known as New Belgrade. Neighbors noticed him due to his strange appearance but had no reason to suspect his real identity, they said. Watch Karadzic’s neigbors describe the man they knew as Dabic

I remember we were sitting there and wondering and talking about his appearance, said Rusica, a neighbor. He was strange because of his white beard and long hair.

Not even his landlords knew who Karadzic was, Serb officials said.

Karadzic liked to frequent a cafe down the street from his apartment called the Crazy House, where the owner said Karadzic often drank his favorite red wine and listened to Serb national songs. Pictures of Karadzic as he used to look — clean-shaven, with thick salt-and-pepper hair — and his wartime commander, Ratko Mladic, are on prominent display at the cafe. Follow a timeline on Karadzic

Owner Tomas Kovijanic admits not knowing the actual Karadzic was sitting in the same cafe — but he says he would have protected the former Bosnian Serb leader had he known.

I would have protected him by all means, Kovijanic said. He was a hero who protected Serbs

The editor of a health magazine who organized the forums that Karadzic attended said he met him last October. He said he thought the fugitive’s medical credentials were strange, showing that he was educated in Russia with brief travels to Asia, but he found Karadzic convincing.

His body language was calm, said Goran Kojic, editor of Healthy Living magazine. Then he would get theatrical and moved his hands a lot. He was very good with the crowds. He knew how to engage people, how to keep their attention.

I can say without any doubt he was one the best speakers I ever hired for our lectures, Kojic said.

Karadzic, a one-time psychiatrist and self-styled poet, declared himself president of a Bosnian Serb republic when Bosnia-Herzegovina seceded from Yugoslavia in 1992. Watch an author discuss Bosnia’s painful past

The Bosnian Serbs, backed by the Serb-dominated Yugoslav military and paramilitary forces, quickly seized control of most of the country and laid siege to Sarajevo, the capital. See a map of the Balkans today

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Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows Impressions [Comic-con 08]

Activision treated us to an early look at Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows at Comic-Con this week, giving us a taste of the game’s suit-switching mechanic and highlighting boss battles with classic villains Venom and Vulture. In Web of Shadows, Venom has infected the people of New York with a symbiote plague, creating hundreds of mini-Venoms that our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man must dispatch.

Peter Parker has been infected by the alien symbiote, too, but has total control over its abilities, allowing him to switch from the more nimble red and blue suit to a more destructive black and white suit on the fly. Both suits have their advantages and disadvantages, as the black suit lets Spidey whip foes with symbiotic tentacles and carries a heftier punch, but can result in more collateral damage to the city.

That trade-off comes into play in how the citizens of New York, as well as your superpowered allies and enemies perceive you later in the game. With a cast of “Marvel Team Up” regulars, folks like Wolverine and Luke Cage, you’ll need to make sure the good guys are on your good side.

Shaba Games, developer of Web of Shadows, looks to have gone to great lengths to capture that Spider-Man feel. All the stock Spidey moves are in there — wall-climbing, web-swinging, spider-sensing — with cinematic camera angles complimenting each. The camera will pan out and strafe when Spider-Man is leaping through the air, attaching himself to foes with a carefully placed web shot, making it look easy to string together combos.

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In the Vulture fight we watched, Spider-Man had to get more altitude than he would normally be capable of. With a flock of Vulture minions sporting Green Goblin style gliders floating about, the producer in charge of controlling our hero leaped from minion to minion, until the Vulture was in range. He then knocked the crap out of him with a flurry of punches, kicks and webbing.

We also got to see a epic battle between Spidey and Venom, with a dozen Venomites scrambling around a back alley hive. After dealing with the symbiote infected mob, Spider-Man’s next task was to eliminate Venom and his symbiote hive. Looks like Shaba is adding some nice variety to the boss battles in Web of Shadows and we look forward to taking some of this on ourselves.

What we saw of Spider-Man: Web of Shadows looked very early, as the game was still in alpha build stages. There’s clearly plenty of work to be done on the title, as frame rate and camera performance needed some serious tweaking — our biggest concerns for the title’s ultimate success. Visually, though, the game looks quite nice, and the glossy look of the symbiotes fits in well with the character’s art style.

Activision was showing off the Xbox 360 version of the game, but it plans to ship on just about everything under the sun later this fall.

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Chavez makes up with king who told him to shut up

MADRID, Spain (AP) — Hugo Chavez was on a hug-and-make-up visit to Spain on Friday, his first since last year’s infamous exchange in which Spain’s normally reserved monarch told the voluble Venezuelan leader to shut up at a summit in Chile.

Chavez arrived an hour late for an appointment at the monarch’s summer residence on Mallorca, where he was greeted by King Juan Carlos, Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos — and watched by a mass of photographers and TV crews.

Why don’t we head for the beach? Chavez joked with the king. The king smiled, shook hands and welcomed Chavez warmly.

After the breakfast meeting at the Marivent Palace, Chavez was to fly to Madrid for talks with Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in the afternoon.

Officially, the trip is being billed as an opportunity to discuss bilateral relations — but the agenda also will undoubtedly include at least some awkward references to last year’s high-level diplomatic dust-up.

In a television address to his countrymen last week, Chavez said he was ready to let bygones be bygones — but also joked that the king ought to know it is not in his nature to sit quietly.

I would very much like to give the king a hug, Chavez said in his weekly show of his Spanish visit. But you know, Juan Carlos, that I am not going to shut up.

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Ecuador assembly backs draft charter

MONTECRISTI, Ecuador (AP) — A special assembly on Thursday approved a new draft constitution granting Ecuador’s leftist president broad powers, including the ability to dissolve Congress and set monetary policy, and freeing him to run for office through 2017.

The constituent assembly, elected to write a new constitution, backed the 444-article proposal by a vote of 94 to 32 in a late night ballot whose outcome had been expected.

President Rafael Correa’s Alianza Pais party controls more than 60 percent of the assembly. The draft charter will now be submitted to a national referendum set for September 28.

The new constitution would help wrest power from Ecuador’s widely discredited traditional political parties and more equitably distribute wealth across the country, said Correa, a U.S.-trained economist who made such revisions a central part of his 2006 presidential campaign platform.

But his detractors say the charter would concentrate excessive power in Correa’s hands, amounting to a virtual coronation of the self-avowed Christian socialist leader.

Annabella Azin, an assembly member with the opposition PRIAN party, said the constitution’s objective is to keep Correa in power.

The charter would allow Correa to control every part of our lives, Azin said.

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