Libyan intelligence officials were held responsible, but before he would pay any compensation, Gadhafi demanded the lifting of U.N. sanctions, an end to U.S. trade sanctions and that Libya be taken off the American list of state sponsors of terrorism.
The three officers are being held responsible for decisions before the attack, in particular for failing to properly prepare defenses at the Wanat outpost in Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan.
For qualifications in the doctoral program in English and Comparative Literature, candidates are not held responsible for literature before 1350, but instead include on their reading list a selection of works from a foreign literature read in the original language.
They say that a police union has never before been held responsible when its members are accused of using excessive force, and that the lawsuit will expose what they say is the union's encouragement of a blue wall of silence.
A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decided Ms. Norton could not be held responsible for problems that existed before she joined the department in 2001.
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"We want all those who committed crimes to be held responsible; we want them to answer before our institutions," Mr. Djindjic said after meeting Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in Washington.
"The first thing President Putin can do in the face of a governor such as ours is conduct an investigation so that he will be held responsible for what he has done before the coming elections," Mr. Khmurchik said, referring to the gubernatorial elections in the fall in which Mr. Gorbenko is seeking a second four-year term.
Under U.S. law, he explained, even if the jury decides Abu Ghaith only joined the al Qaeda conspiracy on September 12, "the defendant still will be held responsible for any acts that happened before he joined the conspiracy".
