By SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON — Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes, according to a new book on counterterrorism efforts since 2001.
The book says that the [...]
By Tom Lasseter / McClatchy Newspapers | http://www.bostonherald.com
WASHINGTON - The framework under which detainees were imprisoned for years without charges at Guantanamo and in many cases abused in Afghanistan wasn’t the product of American military policy or the fault of a few rogue soldiers.
It was largely the work of five White House, Pentagon and Justice Department [...]
“After torturing, they transferred us to inquisitionland in Guantanamo,” said Mohammed. “We don’t have a right to anything.”
The five defendants are charged with conspiring to finance, train and direct the 19 hijackers who seized four airliners used in the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon outside Washington. They are charged in the deaths of 2,973 people killed in the attacks and the crash of one airliner in Pennsylvania.
Lawyers defending Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, and four other Guantanamo detainees have asked for the presiding military judge to dismiss their cases, saying the timing is politically motivated.
The men are to stand trial over the attacks on September 15, according to the court filing quoted by AP.
However the men’s lawyers say [...]
February 13, 2005 - good interview!
Australian 60 Minutes program - Channel Nine - transcript of interview with ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib.
Transcript: Under suspicion
Reporter: Tara Brown
Producer: Stephen Taylor
Mamdouh Habib.
INTRO
TARA BROWN: Everyone has an opinion. Either Mamdouh Habib is a dangerous terrorist who should have been left to rot in jail or he is [...]
Sahar Yasiri says ?Iraq is the number one country having the largest number of prisons in the world where there are more than 400 thousand Iraqi detainees including 6500 children and 10 thousand women.? This is the first part of long interview translated by AMSI English Web Team.
The representative of the Federation of prisoners and [...]
By Andy Worthington
The latest diclosures further erode claims by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that prisoner abuses at Gardez – or the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib – were isolated acts by a few ‘bad apples’, says Jason Leopold. John Yoo and some other Bush administration lawyers who [...]
By Jason Leopold
Newly released U. S. government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Convention’s protections of war captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed in the first week of the Iraq War when Iraqi TV interviewed several captured American soldiers.
Then, Defense Secretary [...]
Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter Only a third of Canadians believe Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr will receive a fair trial if the U. S. prosecutes him for war crimes, but the majority of Canadians still don’t want him brought home, a new survey released today reveals.
The Angus Reid Strategies poll shows a country still [...]
By Miral Sattar
2006
I had been following Uzair Paracha’s trial closely in the news. I, like many others, was confident the jury would announce a ‘not guilty’ verdict.
Uzair Paracha, 26, is a Pakistani native and a graduate from the elite business school IBA, Institute of Business Administration. He is a legal immigrant who grew up in [...]
Human Right Groups Charge Documents Reveal CIA Stonewalled Congressional Oversight Committees; CIA Says Many Documents too Sensitive to Release
NEW YORK and WASHINGTON, DC- April 23 - The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must stop stonewalling congressional oversight committees and release vital documents related to the program of secret detentions, renditions, and torture, three prominent human rights [...]
by Nat Hentoff
If the deciders at the White House, the Justice Department, and the CIA who are responsible for war crimes ever face the equivalent of the Nuremberg trials—or at least an unsparing Congressional investigation—an essential witness against them will be Murat Kurnaz. His book, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantánamo [...]
He spent over four years in Guantánamo Bay, the infamous US detention camp. The tale of Murat Kurnaz, as told by himself, will hit US bookstores this week. In his first interview since his release from Guantánamo Bay in 2006, Kurnaz tells Germany’s “Stern”-magazine all about torture, solitary confinement, being humiliated, and his life in [...]
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union obtained documents today from the Department of Defense confirming the military’s use of unlawful interrogation methods on detainees held in U. S. custody in Afghanistan. The documents from the military’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID), obtained as a result of the ACLU’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, [...]
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD
The image of CIA officers demonstrating and detailing torture techniques considered for use during detainee interrogations in the White House is one most Americans could probably never conceive. And yet, ABC News reported last week that senior Bush administration officials were privy to such presentations in the Situation Room as they discussed [...]
To the Editor:
Re “ ’03 U.S. Memo Approved Harsh Interrogations” (front page, April 2):
It’s high time that the authors of the Bush administration’s legal recipe book for torture be brought out of the kitchen and into the courtroom. Yet despite volumes of highly credible evidence of human rights crimes, or even war crimes, a negligent [...]
Nick Juliano
This week’s revelation of another secret Bush administration memo that seemed to eliminate
any boundaries on the treatment of detainees added to the already substantial evidence that US military and intelligence interrogators have abused and perhaps even tortured prisoners rounded up during the “war on terror.”
Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo wrote in 2003 [...]
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
NY Times
Lawyers for a Guantánamo detainee asked a military judge to declare that the detainee had been subjected to abusive interrogation techniques, including beatings and sexual humiliation, in a legal filing Friday that is expected to set the stage for many other challenges centering on the treatment of detainees.
The [...]
David Vine
Editor: Miriam Pemberton
On the small, remote island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean halfway between Africa and Indonesia, the United States has one of the most secretive military bases in the world. From its position almost 10,000 miles closer to the Persian Gulf than the east coast of the United States, [...]
By Kim Sengupta
Khaled al-Maqtari’s nightmare began when American troops arrived at the al-Ghufran market in Fallujah in January 2004. He was arrested along with other terrorist suspects and taken to Abu Ghraib jail. For the next four years he was held captive, moved from country to country and suffered, he says, appalling torture.
Mr al-Maqtari, from [...]
by Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington is a historian based in
London. He is the author of
The Guantánamo Files, the first book
to tell the stories [...]
WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) — Charges were sworn against the man the U. S. military said it believes was a key player in the 1998 attack on the U. S. Embassy in Tanzania, officials said.
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani of Zanzibar, Tanzania, now a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was accused of participating in planning and [...]
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