This was first reported by BBC in 2003. You MUST watch this video - for many reasons - keeping in mind again, it was 2003! It was before Miller at Guantanamo, and listen to how they talk about the war in Afghanistan. FIVE years have passed…. like one day. To these men and women who [...]
NEW YORK – The Bush administration petitioned a full appeals court late Thursday to reconsider a decision ordering the Defense Department to release photographs showing detainee abuse by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. In September, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ordered the government to release the [...]
But Dr Aafia Siddiqui is NOT Prisoner 650, the Grey Lady of Bagram. We still do not know who Prisoner 650 is. We do not know where she is, and we do not know how many other Pakistani women are being held as female enemy combatants - yes, that is what the pentagon calls them: Female Enemy Combatants.
No evidence that men living in Bosnia plotted attack on Sarajevo embassy
FBI evidence against Hadj Boudella has been
withdrawn,on the ground that it was ‘not reliable’
In the dying days of the Bush administration, yet another presidential claim in the “war on terror” has been proved false by the withdrawal of the main charge [...]
var requestedWidth = 0;
if(requestedWidth > 0){
document.getElementById(’articleViewerGroup’).style.width = [...]
Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon that outlined options for transferring the detainees elsewhere, according to senior administration officials.
Bush’s top advisers held a series of meetings at the [...]
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Islamabad High Court (IHC) Sardar Muhammad Aslam has adjourned by 3 weeks hearing [...]
TO ALL: Here is a time to write The Justice Dept, The State Department and your representatives. We are going to have to help to push this thing through! Contact info below article…
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
An urgent effort by the Bush administration to find a country willing to accept 17 detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, [...]
U.S. brings Iraq prison camp out of black hole (ahem.. by force thanks to those who work so hard to demand accountability from the US Government)
By Peter Graff
In the visiting hall of the U.S. prison camp, Delal Hashem, 25, sat opposite her husband Abbas Daoud Salman with the children she had brought to see [...]
”I am a resolute Catholic and take as an article of faith that justice is defined as reparative and restorative,” he wrote, “and that Christ’s most radical pronouncement — command, if you will — is to love one’s enemies.”
by Daniel Hopsicker
How did 100 drug planes escape U.S. scrutiny?
The CIA Drug Plane Scandal [...]
Daily Ummat Publication recently published an interview with Fauzia Siddiqui (Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s sister) and human rights activist Khalid Khawaja. Al-istiqamah.com has translated the interview from the original Urdu:
The American ambassador N.W. Peterson yesterday wrote a letter to the editors of the Pakistani newspapers regarding the Dr Aafia case, which begins by addressing the [...]
Aafia Siddiqui [allegedly] Had “Dirty Bomb” & “Mass Casualty Attack” Information & New York Target List in Her Possession
By RICHARD ESPOSITO and BRIAN ROSS
Aafia Siddiqui, the alleged Mata Hari of Al Qaeda, was indicted by federal authorities in New York today for allegedly attempting to kill the FBI agents, US soldiers, interpreters and others who [...]
by Prof. Francis A. Boyle
Justice Robert H. Jackson Conference:
Planning for the Prosecution of High Level American War Criminals Massachusetts Law School September 13-14, 2008
Andover, Massachusetts
Since the impeachable installation of George W. Bush as President in January of 2001 by the U. S. Supreme Court’s Gang of Five, the peoples of the world have witnessed [...]
by Andy Worthington
In the lawless world of Guantánamo – and the United States’ even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA – it has taken six years and four months for British resident Binyam Mohamed to secure anything [...]
Families, Attorneys Push to Hold Guantanamo Officials Liable
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
When Mani al-Utaybi fixed a makeshift noose around his neck and hanged himself in a Guantanamo Bay cell in June 2006, the Saudi Arabian detainee had been close to being transferred to his homeland and freed, his attorney and military officials said. But [...]
..Just in case anyone thought that the detainee issues would be solved with the regime change…. think again…. they won’t. They will only be re-arranged.. How much better can a facility be when you are locked up not knowing if or when you will ever be released, not allowed visitors, not knowing the charges against [...]
Was one of the youngest prisoners at Guantánamo rushed to court by the Bush administration for political reasons?
By Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director, published in Salon.com
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — One of the youngest detainees at Guantánamo Bay, a 23-year-old Afghan named Mohammed Jawad , spent two days in a courtroom here last week [...]
by Amad
A new chapter in the long and painful saga of the “War on Terror” has been revealed to the public. The facts are murky, the details impossible to confirm.
While there are several possibilities, there is one that most will find almost impossible to believe. We are not ready to believe that Dr. Aafia is [...]
by Tim Bella
Aafia Siddiqui (Credit: AP Photo)
As U.S. and Pakistani officials sort through the confusion following Aafia Siddiqui’s transfer to New York after being charged with trying to kill U.S. soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan last month, a key question remains: Where has Siddiqui been for the past five years?
The American-trained [...]
..Here we see a really good example of the manufactured lies about Aafia Siddiqui. This letter from the US Embassy is towing the party line of what we are all supposed to believe, despite the facts that are as plain as day. Any intelligent person can see that, and no intelligent person can buy the [...]
A US general described by colleagues as a bully was barred on Thursday from further involvement in the war crimes trial of a young Afghan prisoner at Guantanamo, the second time the legal adviser has been blocked from a case.
The judge also ordered that the attempted murder charges against defendant Mohamed Jawad, now 23, be [...]
Aijaz Zaka Syed I Arab News
JUST when you think Uncle Sam’s war has no more surprises to spring on an unsuspecting world, he comes up with yet another gem.
Take the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who grew up in the US and went to top universities including the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of [...]
By Mike Cowie
Driving, according to the George W. Bush administration, is the newest war crime. Yes, war crime.
Things have been quite farcical in the land of Bush and Dick (Cheney) for years now, but it would seem that, as of the past week, they’ve reached a whole new level of lunacy.
At a trial in Guantanamo [...]
..tis true .. I have to say I noticed this months ago…
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - It was no coincidence the U.S. military jurors at Guantanamo timed the prison sentence they gave Osama bin Laden’s driver to end just before President Bush’s term does, legal analysts say.
The timing seems intended to [...]
Guantanamo Bay News
