Law? in Iraq 

Law? in Iraq

I don't stay up to watch Jon Stewart, but he'll be able to do something good with this:

"Iyad Akmush Kanum, 23, learnt the limits of sovereignty on Monday when US prosecutors refused to uphold an Iraqi judges' order acquitting him of attempted murder of coalition troops.

"US prosecutors said that he was being returned to the controversial Abu Ghraib prison because under the Geneva Conventions they were not bound by Iraqi law." (via Atrios)

By the way: why has Paul Bremer twice tried to abolish the death penalty in Iraq? Does he hate America? Doesn't he enjoy jokes about Karla Faye Tucker begging not to be executed?