The admiral, who was responding to questions at a news conference, reiterated stated American policy that it would not reopen bases in the Philippines.
The National Indian Foundation (Funai) recently reopened the base at Xinane, which it had abandoned in 2011 after attacks by drug traffickers, who run a lucrative cocaine trail across the border from Peru – the world's biggest coca producer.
The case, now nearly three years old, was dismissed in August, but Catskill Development's lawyers have appealed, and on Friday they filed a motion to reopen the case based on the newly disclosed audiotapes.
A10 El Salvador Killings Inquiry The Organization of American States will reopen an investigation based on new forensic evidence into the massacre of hundreds of peasants in 1981 at El Mozote, El Salvador, by a U.S.-trained Salvadorean Armed Forces battalion.
A New Jersey appeals court ruled today that four defendants convicted of drug offenses after traffic stops by state troopers could file new appeals or reopen their cases based on information about racial profiling that surfaced after their trials or guilty pleas.
"It is time to move on," Mr. Gates said, calling Japanese proposals to reopen the base issue "counterproductive".
Today: Egyptian court hands down life sentences in sex assault cases, Mexican police raid group home amid sexual abuse allegations, Russia agrees 'in principle' to reopen spy base in Cuba, and ancient Chinese town submerged in floodwaters.
and "Scenes of a Crime" by Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh, about an attempt to reopen a murder conviction based on a disputed confession, are included in the festival's 10-film Viewfinders competition.
Now the Metropolitan police has reopened the phone-hacking investigation based on new evidence provided by whom?
