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07
Aug

Saudis urged to free Bahrainis

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Categories: Abdulraheem Al Murbati, Bahrain, Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society, Detainee and Release

..let me just remind you that Saudi is going to take our Guantanamo detainees… all makes sense now, huh?  They don’t want to release these men, either……

By RASHA AL QAHTANI

SAUDI human rights groups are being urged to step up pressure on their government to secure the release of two jailed Bahrainis.

Abdulraheem Al Murbati was among a group of men arrested in Riyadh in June 2003 on suspicion of being members of Al Qaeda.

Khalil Janahi was arrested in April last year for the same reason, but it is understood neither man has been charged.

The Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) has now established contact with the Saudi Human Rights Commission and hopes to secure the men’s release before Ramadan starts next month.

“I have met the commission president Shaikh Turki bin Khalid Al Sadiri and requested they intervene to speed up the release of the men,” said BHRWS regional and international director Faisal Fulad.

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06
Aug

Guantánamo trials | A mixed verdict

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Categories: Detainee, Guantanamo, Kangaroo Kourt and Salim Hamdan

A conviction in the first American war-crimes trial since the second world war

SALIM HAMDAN admitted that he was Osama bin Laden’s driver. But was he a terrorist? Captured in Afghanistan and later transferred to Guantánamo Bay, he has become the first person to hear a verdict from the military commissions set up to try Guantánamo’s detainees. On Wednesday August 6th he was convicted of supporting terrorism, but acquitted of conspiring to commit war crimes with al-Qaeda.

The fact that the verdict was a mixed one might suggest that these are not mere kangaroo courts. Mr Hamdan was a little-educated fellow who may well not have had any access to al-Qaeda’s plans. But a navy officer testified that the defendant had pledged allegiance to Mr bin Laden, and professed his zeal for jihad. Even if he worked at a low level, it seems that he was an enthusiastic cog in a terrorist machine.

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05
Aug

JI sees no Talibanisation

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Categories: Children, Detainee, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Family, Female Detainee, Pakistan and USA

By NISAR MEHDI

KARACHI - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Central General Secretary Munawar Hassan has urged the government to take-up efforts to release Dr Aafia Siddiqui from the captivity of United States.
He lashed on agencies who are harassing the family of Dr Aafia and said that it’s the prime responsibility of the government to protect its own citizens rather giving free hand to agencies to further add to their miseries.
He said that Pakistan had lost its sovereignty and put its integrity at stake by cooperating with US in war on terror. Terming the prime minister’s recent visit to US as a failed attempt, he said that Gilani’s attitude in front of US president was shameful.

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05
Aug

Dr Aafia shifted to USA, Pakistan seeks counselor access

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Categories: Children, Detainee, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Female Detainee, Grey Lady of Bagram, Lies and War Crimes of the US Government, Lies of the U.S. Administration and human rights

Karachi, Pakistan

NEW YORK: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has shifted Doctor Aafiya Siddiqui to New York where she would be produce in front of court and could get 20 years of imprisonment in accusation of attacking on American Army officers. While Pakistan has sought counselor access to the detained doctor

Aafia Siddiqui, 36, a Pakistani and former U.S. resident, was arrested July 17 by police in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, the attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael Garcia, said in a statement.

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05
Aug

U.S. May Have Taped Visits to Detainees

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Categories: Detainee

Foreign Countries Sent Interrogators
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer

The Bush administration informed all foreign intelligence and law enforcement teams visiting their citizens held at Guantanamo Bay that video and sound from their interrogation sessions would be recorded, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The policy suggests that the United States could possess hundreds or thousands of hours of secret taped conversations between detainees and representatives from nearly three dozen countries.

05
Aug

Saudi Arabia Prisons to replace Guantanamo Bay

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Categories: Detainee, Guantanamo and Saudi Arabia

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onlineredaktion - Saudi Arabia is to build five modern prisons in the kingdom to replace US Guantanamo detention facility, a new report has revealed.

Jordanian daily quoted unnamed sources as saying that US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Saudi officials are cooperating to construct the prisons which are to replace Guantanamo and US secret prisons in Europe.

Riyadh is to spent about two billion Saudi Rials for the project which can accommodate up to 18000 inmates, they added. Bin laden firm and with the help of German engineers will build the prisons in the Saudi cities of Mecca, Haer, Demmam, and Qasim.

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05
Aug

Pakistani accused of shooting at U.S. officers extradited to U.S.

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Categories: Detainee, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Female Detainee, Ghost, Grey Lady of Bagram and human rights

..Lies… lies, and more lies.. obvious lies! I do not understand how they expect us to believe these lies! Perhaps we need to ask them… if Aafia isn’t the “Grey Lady of Bagram” who IS??
NEW YORK (CNN) — A Pakistani scientist accused of shooting at U.S. officers while in Afghan custody last month has been extradited to the United States, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Aafia Siddiqui, who the FBI had sought for several years for terrorism, faces federal charges of attempted murder and assault of a U.S. officer and U.S. employees, federal authorities said.

The 36-year-old Siddiqui is an American-educated neuroscientist and a suspected member of al Qaeda. If convicted, she faces a maximum of 20 years on each charge.

On July 18 Siddiqui shot at two FBI special agents, a U.S. Army warrant officer, an Army captain and military interpreters who unknowingly entered a room where she was being held unsecured at an Afghan facility, officials said.

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05
Aug

Pakistani Suspected of Qaeda Ties Is Held

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Categories: Children, Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Extraordinary Rendition, F.B.I., Female Detainee and USA

..This is such an obvious lie!  How do they expect us to believe these things?  Be sure to read her background under ‘profiles’!

WASHINGTON — An American-trained Pakistani neuroscientist with ties to operatives of Al Qaeda has been charged with trying to kill American soldiers and F.B.I. agents in a police station in Afghanistan last month, the Justice Department said Monday night.

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The scientist, Aafia Siddiqui, who studied at Brandeis University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was transferred to New York on Monday, and is to be arraigned Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, the department said in a statement.

Ms. Siddiqui, 36, disappeared with her three children while visiting her parents’ home in Karachi, Pakistan, in March 2003, leading human rights groups and her family to believe she had been secretly detained. But in interviews Monday and in a criminal complaint made public later Monday, American officials said they had no knowledge of Ms. Siddiqui’s location for the past five years until July 17, when Ms. Siddiqui and a teenage boy were detained in Ghazni, Afghanistan, after local authorities became suspicious of their loitering outside the provincial governor’s compound.

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05
Aug

U.S. must charge or release Reuters Iraq cameraman

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Categories: Ali al-Mashhadani, Detainee, Iraq and Journalist

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. military must charge or immediately release a Reuters cameraman detained in Iraq, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday.

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Reuters journalist Ali al-Mashhadani (R), a television cameraman,
embraces a colleague shortly after his release from Abu Ghraib
prison in Baghdad January 15, 2006.
REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani

Ali al-Mashhadani, who also works freelance for the BBC and Washington-based National Public Radio, was detained in Baghdad on July 26 while he was in the Green Zone government compound for routine checks for a U.S. military press card.

U.S. forces have detained Mashhadani before. No charge has ever been filed against the cameraman, who is based in Ramadi, the capital of western Anbar province.

“This is the third time U.S. forces have detained Ali al-Mashhadani without charge,” said Robert Mahoney, deputy director of the New York-based press rights group.

“The military has never substantiated any wrongdoing by him. The authorities must make evidence against him public or release him immediately,” said Mahoney.

Reuters and the BBC have urged the U.S. military to immediately release Mashhadani or produce evidence to justify his detention.

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05
Aug

Khadr’s lawyer makes final push to have charges dropped

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Categories: Angel/Attorney, Detainee, Guantanamo, Kangaroo Kourt and Omar Khadr

OMAR EL AKKAD

Lt.-Cmdr. William Kuebler, a military lawyer for Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr.

OTTAWA — Omar Khadr’s U.S. military defence lawyer will try this month to have charges against his client tossed out – launching what may be the final legal broadside against the U.S. government before the detained Canadian’s trial is expected to start in October.

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t-Commander Bill Kuebler has filed three motions with the Guantanamo Bay military commission seeking dismissal of charges based on what the military lawyer describes as exertion of “unlawful influence” over the commission.

One of the three motions relates to a Guantanamo manual that advised interrogators they could destroy notes containing “interrogation information.” Lt.-Cmdr. Kuebler said that after he made that information public in June, lawyers from the U.S. Department of Defense’s general counsel directed prosecutors to “claw back” the documents, preventing their use as evidence.

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04
Aug

FBI concedes Aafia Siddiqui in US custody: lawyer

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Categories: Afghanistan, Bagram, CIA Black Sites, Children, Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Disappeared, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Extraordinary Rendition, Kabul Prison, Pakistan, Torture, Torture flights, USA, human rights and war crimes

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By Anwar Iqbal

WASHINGTON, Aug 3: Five years after her mysterious disappearance in Karachi, the FBI has finally conceded that an MIT-trained Pakistani neuroscientist is alive and is in US custody in Afghanistan.

Aafia Siddiqui, 36, disappeared with her three children while visiting her parents’ home in Karachi in March 2003, around the same time the FBI announced that it wanted to question her over her alleged links to Al Qaeda.

Her family’s lawyer Elaine Whitfield Sharp said she believed recent media reports about Mrs Siddiqui’s incarceration increased pressure on the US and Pakistani authorities to divulge more information.

“I don’t believe that they just found Aafia,” she said. “I believe that she was there all along.”

The fate of her three young, American-born children is still unknown.

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04
Aug

2 U.S. soldiers charged with killing Iraqi

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Categories: Death in Custody, Detainee and US Troops charged

BAGHDAD, (UPI) — Two U.S. soldiers have been charged with the premeditated killing of an Iraqi detainee, military officials said Saturday.

Staff Sgt. Hal Warner and 1st Lt. Michael Behenna also face charges of assault, making false statements and obstruction of justice, CNN reported.

A release by the Multi-National Division in Iraq gave few details about the case. It said the victim, Ali Mansur Mohamed, had been held by coalition forces and was initially thought to have been released in May.

A pretrial investigation into the charges against Warner, the military equivalent of a grand jury investigation, is scheduled to start Aug. 15 in Tikrit.

The BBC said Warner and Behenna were stationed near Baji, about 120 miles north of Baghdad.

03
Aug

Pakistani scientist alive, in custody

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Categories: Abuse, Afghanistan, Bagram, Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, Female Detainee, Grey Lady of Bagram, Kabul Prison, Khalil Janahi and Prisoner 650

By Farah Stockman
Globe Staff

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Female activists rallied in Karachi, Pakistan,

on Thursday demanding the release of

Aafia Siddiqui, who is in custody in

Afghanistan.

(RIZWAN TABASSUM/ AFP/ Getty Images)

WASHINGTON - Five years after her disappearance, an MIT-trained Pakistani neuroscientist accused of belonging to an Al Qaeda cell based in Boston, is alive and in custody in Afghanistan, her family’s attorney said yesterday.

“It has been confirmed by the FBI that Aafia Siddiqui is alive,” said Elaine Whitfield Sharp, a lawyer for Siddiqui’s family, who said she spoke to an FBI official on Thursday. “She is injured but alive, and she is in Afghanistan.”

The news sheds some light on one of the most intriguing local mysteries in the war on terrorism.

Siddiqui, who lived in Roxbury and studied at Brandeis University as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, disappeared with her three children while visiting her parents’ home in Karachi, Pakistan, in March 2003, around the same time the FBI announced that it wanted to question her.

For five years, US and Pakistani authorities have denied knowing her whereabouts. But human rights groups and Siddiqui’s relatives have long suspected that she had been captured in Karachi and secretly taken into custody.

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02
Aug

Fatah frees Hamas detainees in West Bank: official

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Categories: Detainee, Fatah, Hamas, Released and West Bank

NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) — Fatah security forces of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Friday released several Hamas militants arrested in the West Bank in recent days, a Palestinian official said.

“Four Hamas militants, including Mohammed Ghazal, a member of the Hamas leadership in the West Bank, have been released on Abbas’s orders,” the official said, adding that more would be freed later.

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zohri said the move was not enough.

“It is insufficient because around 200 Hamas members have been arrested in the past few days and we expect these political prisoners to be released,” Abu Zohri told AFP in Gaza City.

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02
Aug

More than 10,000 detainees released in Iraq

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Categories: Detainee and Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military says it has released more than 10,000 detainees in Iraq so far this year — more than in all of 2007.

The military says in a statement on Saturday that it is currently holding about 21,000 detainees in Iraq.

The military said that more than 8,900 people left detention last year.

The United States wants to phase out its role of running prisons in Iraq and transfer detainees to Iraqi control. Reaching the goal has been slowed partly by the lack of adequate Iraqi prison space and trained guards.

02
Aug

Secret Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed: Six “High-Value” Guantánamo Prisoners Held, Plus “Ghost Prisoner” Mustafa Setmariam Nasar

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Categories: Abu Zubaydah (Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn), Detainee, Diego Garcia, Disappeared, Ghost, Hambali (Riduan Isamuddin), Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, UK and USA

Diego GarciaThe existence of a secret, CIA-run prison on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean has long been a leaky secret in the “War on Terror,” and today’s revelations in TIME — based on disclosures by a “senior American official” (now retired), who was “a frequent participant in White House Situation Room meetings” after the 9/11 attacks, and who reported that “a CIA counter-terrorism official twice said that a high-value prisoner or prisoners were being interrogated on the island” — will come as no surprise to those who have been studying the story closely.

The news will, however, be an embarrassment to the US government, which has persistently denied claims that it operated a secret “War on Terror” prison on Diego Garcia, and will be a source of even more consternation to the British government, which is more closely bound than its law-shredding Transatlantic neighbor to international laws and treaties preventing any kind of involvement whatsoever in kidnapping, “extraordinary rendition” and the practice of torture.

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02
Aug

Yafie’ Tribe Declare Solidarity With Bagram Prisoner Amin al-Bakri

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Categories: Detainee and Yemen

Mohammed al-Qiri

The Yafie tribe of al-Dalie has asked President Ali Abdullah Saleh to use his constitutional commitments towards all Yemeni citizens to secure the release of their kinfolk’s member Amin al-Bakri from the United States’ Bagram prison in Afghanistan.

The Yafie tribe issued a statement over the arrest and detention of al-Bakri since 2002, saying that he was kidnapped by the Americans from Thailand and smuggled to Bagram prison. They called on all the Yemeni people to support them over the release of their son.

The Yafie chiefs and those who back them said that al-Bakri is innocent and the continuation of his detention opens all options before them to pressure the Americans for the release of him and other Yemeni detainees.

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01
Aug

Soldiers arrest father of child who filmed soldiers shooting bound Palestinian youth

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Categories: Detainee, Gaza, Israel, Jamal Hussein Ameera and Palestine

by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News

Last week, soldiers kidnapped resident Jamal Hussein Ameera, 50, after his daughter managed to capture on film an Israeli soldiers shooting a Palestinian youth after they arrested and handcuffed him. The father was sentenced on Tuesday to one hundred days imprisonment.

The father was kidnapped by the soldiers less than a week after the story was exposed as the footage showed one of the soldiers aiming at the leg of the bound Palestinian youth and shooting him.

Ameera was kidnapped while working in his olive orchard close to an area where the Annexation Wall is being constructed.

The youth who was shot by the soldier was kidnapped by the army during a peaceful process against the Wall. The incident took place on July 7, and the youth was identified as Ashraf Abu Rahma.

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01
Aug

Canada Liberal urges repatriation of Guantanamo detainee

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Categories: Canada, Detainee, Guantanamo and Kangaroo Kourt

OTTAWA (AFP) — Canada’s opposition leader on Wednesday urged the prime minister to try to repatriate the last Western detainee at the US “war on terror” camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, calling his jailing “illegal.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper must “do everything in his power to repatriate Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to Canada where his rights as a Canadian citizen will be respected,” Liberal Leader Stephane Dion said in a statement.

Khadr has been held at the US naval facility since his arrest in 2002, when he was 15 years old, and faces a US military trial for alleged war crimes in October.

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31
Jul

Taking Liberties

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Categories: Arrests, Detainee, Guantanamo, Oregon, US Paranoia and USA
By Jonathan Finer, who spent 18 months in Iraq as a correspondent for The Washington Post between 2003 and 2006

KAFKA COMES TO AMERICA

Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror

By Steven T. Wax

Other. 380 pp. $25.95

Before they were falsely accused of terrorism, Brandon Mayfield, an American lawyer in Oregon, and Adel Hamad, a Sudanese relief worker in Pakistan, had little in common but their Muslim faith. Then came the political, military and legal maelstrom that followed the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. On opposite ends of the globe, Hamad and Mayfield were ensnared in the roundup of those considered security threats. Both were jailed without charge, Mayfield for 19 days in his home state and Hamad for more than five years in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

But the two men soon shared one key thing that improved their lot: lawyer Steven T. Wax, whose chilling account of injustice in the war on terror, “Kafka Comes to America,” leans heavily on the experiences of these two clients he helped exonerate and free. “Their fates, the citizen and the alien, are linked,” writes Wax, a Harvard Law School graduate serving his seventh term as the federal public defender in Oregon. “They are a cautionary tale for all of us.”

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31
Jul

April 6 youth detainees still in custody despite release order

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Categories: April 6, Detainee and Egypt

By Sarah Carr
Activists call for the release of April 6 detainees.

CAIRO: Four members of a group of 14 young activists and journalists were released Wednesday, two days after a court ordered they be freed and a week after they were arrested in Alexandria.

It is expected that the remaining members of the April 6 Youth Movement detainees — the majority of whom are from Cairo — will be transferred to Cairo today and let go after release procedures are complete.

The group of 14, all in their early 20s, were singing patriotic songs and flying the Egyptian flag on the occasion of the anniversary of the July 23 revolution when they were arrested on Sidi Beshr beach in Alexandria.

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31
Jul

Kenya Muslims say government blocking abuse report

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Categories: Activists, Detainee, Guantanamo, Kenya and human rights

By Guled Mohamed

keyaNAIROBI (Reuters) - Muslim leaders in Kenya accused a senior government official on Wednesday of blocking the release of a presidential report on injustices against their community, a charge the government immediately denied.

The leaders said Cabinet Secretary and Public Service Head Francis Muthaura had suppressed the findings of the study, which was ordered by President Mwai Kibaki late last year to investigate Muslim claims of discrimination.

“Muthaura has vowed not to clear the report,” a statement signed by three Kenyan Muslim groups said. “He wants some issues to be expunged to make the report conform to the establishment’s position.”

Muthaura could not be reached for comment. But government spokesman Alfred Mutua dismissed the charges and accused the three groups of playing “activist politics” with a very sensitive matter.

“Muthaura cannot shield the report,” Mutua said.

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31
Jul

Army says U.S. soldiers shot detainees at Iraq canal

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Categories: Death in Custody, Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Iraq, US Troops and US Troops charged

By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes

GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — Four Germany-based soldiers charged with conspiracy to commit premeditated murder in Iraq allegedly took male detainees to a canal and shot them, according to details released by the Army on Tuesday.

An Article 32 hearing for Staff Sgt. Jess Cunningham, Sgt. Charles Quigley, Spc. Stephen Ribordy and Spc. Belmor Ramos is set for Aug. 26 in Vilseck, a Joint Multinational Training Command news release said.

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29
Jul

Guantanamo trial views graphic September 11 video

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Categories: Detainee

By Randall Mikkelsen

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the trial of Osama bin Laden’s driver unveiled a graphic video on Monday of the September 11 attacks and other al Qaeda operations that is likely to play a repeated role in pending war crimes cases.

The video is entitled “The Al Qaeda Plan,” an echo of “The Nazi Plan” made by Oscar-winning director George Stevens as evidence in the Nuremberg war crimes trials of German leaders after World War II.

“Oh my God” was heard repeatedly as crowds watched the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapse on September 11, 2001, in a vivid highlight of the movie shown over defence objections at the terrorism conspiracy trial of Salim Hamdan.

The six-member panel that will decide Hamdan’s fate also saw footage of charred bodies stripped of flesh in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa and the body of a U.S. soldier dragged through the streets in Somalia in 2003.

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28
Jul

Devoid of the Rule of Law: Pakistan’s War on Terror PDF

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Categories: Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Disappeared, Extraordinary Rendition, Musharraf and Pakistan

INTRODUCTION

Since shortly after 9/11 – when many Al Qaeda members fled Afghanistan and crossed the border into Pakistan – we have played multiple games of cat and mouse with them. The biggest of them all, Osama bin Laden, is still at large at the time of this writing, but we have caught many, many others. Some are known to the world, some are not.

We have captured 672 and handed over 369 to the United States. We have earned bounties totalling millions of dollars. [President Pervaiz Musharraf]

A question hangs over the international community at the moment. Who is the grey lady of Bagram?

In 2003, prisoner 650 was heard screaming in the detention facility at Bagram Airbase. Her abuse at the hands of the US soldiers led to mass protests amongst the male inmates being detained there. To this day, no one knows the identity of that tortured woman; what we do know, is that she was sent from Pakistan.

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Blogroll

  • Act Against Torture
  • adalah.org
  • alhaq.org
  • Andy Worthington
  • B’tselem
  • Baghdad Burning
  • Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society
  • CagePrisoners
  • Campaign To Repeal The Torture Law
  • captivesupport.org
  • Center For Constitutional Rights
  • Center For Human Rights and Global Justice
  • Defense for Children Int’l - Palestine
  • Democracy Now!
  • Dennis Loo
  • Feesabilillah
  • Find Habeas Corpus
  • FireDogLake
  • Global Voices Online
  • Guantanamo Blog
  • Guantanamo Human Rights Commission
  • Guantanamo In Focus
  • Help The Prisoners
  • Human Rights
  • Human Rights First
  • Imam Anwar al-Awlaki
  • International Federation for Human Rights
  • International Justice Network
  • International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
  • Jesus, Prince of Peace
  • JURIST
  • Justice
  • Lie by Lie: The Mother Jones Iraq War Timeline (8/1/90 - 2/14/08)
  • minorityrights.org
  • Muslim Prisoner Support
  • National Guantanamo Coalition
  • Ornicus
  • PHRMG
  • Physicians For Human Rights
  • Prisoners of Faith
  • Project To Enforce the Geneva Conventions
  • QUESTION EVERYTHING
  • Reject Torture
  • Reprieve
  • Save a Life
  • Sumoud
  • The Cats Blog
  • The List Project
  • The Talking Dog
  • Trial Watch
  • We Torture
  • witness.org
  • World Can’t Wait
  • World Organization Against Torture

Detainee Sites

  • Defend Aamer Anwar
  • Dhafir Trial
  • Don’t Smear Rafil Dhafir
  • Free Barbar Ahmed
  • Free Bilal Hussein!
  • Free Dr. Ali Al-Timimi
  • Free Fahad
  • Free Farid Hilali
  • Free Hich! (Free)
  • Free John Walker Lindh
  • Free Kareem
  • Free Rafil Dhafir
  • Free Sami Al-Arian
  • Hamid Hayat
  • Justice Coalition For Adil Charkaoui
  • Justice For Harkat
  • Justice for Jack Thomas
  • Justice For Lynne Stewart
  • Justice for Shareef Abdul Haleem and detainees in Canada
  • Maher Arar
  • Prisoner 345 (Free)
  • Project Hamad (Free)
  • Umm Tayyab (Free)

Resources

  • Boumediene/Al-Odah v. Bush 06-1195
  • McClatchy News Guantanamo Project

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RSS Guantanamo Bay News

  • Military tribunal splits first Guantanamo Bay verdict - Minneapolis Star Tribune
  • Waterboarding an attraction at amusement park - Reuters