NEW YORK — A federal appeals court says the U.S. government must release 20 pictures of U.S. soldiers and detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan demanded by a civil rights group seeking to expose abuse.
The Manhattan court on Monday rejected the government’s claim that the release of the pictures would endanger the life or physical safety of [...]
..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 [...]
By Yvonne Ridley, Press TV
Aafia Siddiqui
The FBI lost much of its credibility when its chief J. Edgar Hoover was revealed to be a transvestite who preferred to be called Mary.
Hoover, probably the most powerful men in America some say even more powerful then the presidents he served under, was the originator of dirty [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Andy Worthngton
The ruling in Parhat v. Gates invokes Lewis Carroll: “the fact the government has ’said it thrice’ does not make an allegation true.”
Some of us have known for years that the U.S. administration’s basis for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the “War on Terror” has more to do with a fantasy world [...]
By Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate committee released Tuesday.
Story | General who probed Abu Ghraib says Bush officials committed war [...]
A BRITISH detainee who survived Guantanamo Bay headed a rally opposing the rise in racism against Muslims.
Moazzam Begg led the protest in Manchester on Thursday along with a vast amount of speakers and David Edgar who is one of Britain’s leading playwrights.
They join the growing demand that Gordon Brown act now to secure the release [...]
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers chastised the Bush administration on Wednesday for allowing the Chinese government to interrogate Chinese Muslim detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and demanded they be freed in the United States.
The two lawmakers, Reps. Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., and Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., said the Uighurs — [...]
By BEN FOX
Associated Press Writer
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The alleged “20th hijacker” in the Sept. 11 attacks tried to kill himself at Guantanamo last month, his lawyer disclosed Tuesday, saying the Saudi prisoner was distraught over a possible death sentence for charges later dropped by the Pentagon.
Mohammed al-Qahtani cut himself at least three [...]
TEHRAN - The Intelligence Ministry on Saturday released details of the detection and dismantling of a terrorist network affiliated to the United States.
In a coordinated operation on May 7, Iranian intelligence agents arrested the terrorist network?s members, who were identified in Fars, Khuzestan, Gilan, West Azerbaijan, and Tehran provinces, the Intelligence Ministry announcement said.
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For anyone who is counting on the next administration to slow any of this down….
By ERIC SCHMITT and TIM GOLDEN
WASHINGTON ? The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely [...]
By Dr. Marwan Asmar
Online Journal Contributing Writer
It was freedom at last! The release of Sami Al Haj after six-and-a-half years, languishing in prison on Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, is a surreal reality going to the heart of international political intrigue, media manipulation and human rights violations.
Despite what is regarded as a botched up theatrical play [...]
By Vincent Bugliosi
“CommonDreams”
There is direct evidence that President George W. Bush did not honorably lead this nation, but deliberately misled it into a war he wanted. Bush and his administration knowingly lied to Congress and to the American public lies that have cost the lives of more than 4,000 young American soldiers and close [...]
And here we were told that all this illegal detention and so on was winding down… doesn’t look that way, does it? -LGR
By MATT KATZ Courier-Post Staff
A Burlington City poultry plant supervisor, a West Deptford operating room technician, a Mount Laurel mail carrier and a Haddonfield high school dropout are among the 2,850 New Jersey [...]
Sami al-Haj was reporting from Afghanistan for al-Jazeera TV when the US imprisoned him and took him to Guantánamo Bay. He was the only journalist there and this is his story.
Suddenly last Thursday, after nearly six years incarcerated without charge and more than a year after going on hunger strike, Sami al-Haj, the only journalist [...]
WASHINGTON — The commanding general in Iraq for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal says outright in his new memoir that the military tortured and killed detainees in Afghanistan, that the military had a plan to kill off Moqtada al-Sadr’s deputies as early as March 2003 and that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld tried to usurp command for [...]
NEWS CENTRAL/S. ASIA Freed Guantanamo men face trial
Five Afghan detainees who were released from Guantanamo Bay last week have been sent to jail upon their arrival in Afghanistan.
They had been detained at Guantanamo Bay with the Al Jazeera cameraman, Sami al-Hajj.
Al-Hajj and the Afghan detainees were on the same plane after they were released [...]
Al-Hajj was carried off his flight from Guantanamo by US troops
A Sudanese minister has refuted a US defence department official’s claim that Sami al-Hajj, a released detainee of Guantanamo Bay, was affecting weakness on his return from the camp to Sudan.
The US official had told ABC news that al-Hajj was “a manipulator and a propagandist”.
Dr [...]
Hezbollah issued the following statement:
With regard to the release of a report by the US administration through which it gave itself the right to categorize peoples, states and movements, between those it calls moderates who are in harmony with its policies and schemes and those opposing it to preserve their rights and therefore [...]
By Amir Arfa, Press TV, Tehran
“Days later, Mr. Rumsfeld wrote a memorandum distilling their collective guidance into bullet points. Two were underlined:
‘Focus on the Global War on Terror - not simply Iraq. The wider war - the long war.’
‘Link Iraq to Iran. Iran is the concern. If we fail in Iraq or Afghanistan, it [...]
Bush Confesses to Waterboarding. Call D. C. Cops!
NEW YORK–”Why are we talking about this in the White House?” John Ashcroft nervously asked his fellow members of the National Security Council’s Principals Committee. (The Principals were Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, CIA [...]
By Sharon Keller to Huffington Post
Four years ago, the world learned that American soldiers had tortured Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison. In addition to the human cost in pain, suffering, and humiliation that was captured on film, an accounting of the harm done by the incidents at Abu Ghraib must include the price of having [...]
Guides will only let journalists so far behind the wire — and one detention camp remains completely secret
OMAR EL AKKAD
From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE
When the help of Allah comes and the Victory/ And thou seest men entering the religion of Allah in crowds / Glorify thy Lord with His praise and seek [...]
The Case Against Preventive Detention
By Kenneth Roth
Summary: The U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay has become a stain on the United States’ reputation. Shutting it down will cause new problems. Rather than hold terrorism suspects in preventive detention, the United States should turn them over to its criminal justice system.
KENNETH ROTH, a former [...]
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