American Robert Caldwell was also found guilty of aiding and abetting the illegal transport of defence articles and served 20 months in prison.
At a brief court hearing in El Paso today, Tappin, who pleaded guilty last year to a single count of aiding and abetting the illegal export of defence articles, had his plea deal with the US authorities formally approved and must now report to a state penitentiary in Pennsylvania before 8 March.
This war, they say, was illegal (neither self-defence nor authorised by the UN Security Council); unnecessary (Saddam seems not, after all, to have had weapons of mass destruction); and left Iraq worse off than before (his Iraq was at least not being torn apart by civil war).
A number of top executives at News International were told that the News of the World was breaking the law four years before the company finally abandoned its "rogue reporter" defence of illegal phone-hacking this year, The IoS has learned.
Playing to their respective supporters, both sides are keen to rekindle the huge controversy that followed a ruling by the Supreme Court last December that the entire draft-deferment system for yeshiva students, based on regulations issued periodically by the minister of defence, is illegal.
Others, such as the UK, are essentially similar to New Zealand in their legal approach to euthanasia (ie, it is illegal), and the only defence for an action that arguably hastened or caused a patient's death would be that this had been unintended, the intention having been simply to alleviate pain and suffering (the so-called doctrine of double effect defence).
In Finland, for example, sex involving under-16s is illegal, but there is a defence of proximity—"if there is no great difference in the ages or the mental and physical maturity of the persons involved".
Mr Qwelane, who was appointed last year to Uganda where homosexual acts are illegal, did not mount a defence.
As with the DMCA, the ISP won't be liable until they are notified of the illegal content (the 'safe harbor' defence) providing they then take immediate steps to block the sites hosting them.
To begin with, Price Tagging acts were retaliatory acts, committed when Palestinians or local authorities like the Israel Defence Forces destroyed illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
