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Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed was granted — and wielded — the right to censor his own courtroom sketch Thursday.

June 5th, 2008 | Category: Detainee, Guantanamo, High Profile, Kangaroo Kourt, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, Military Commission, Politics, September 11 Six | Leave a comment

By Andy Worthington
Now here’s a weird one to ponder on the eve of the arraignments at Guantánamo of five prisoners — including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — who are charged with facilitating the 9/11 attacks.
I’ve always thought that there was something particularly perverse about charging minor Afghan insurgents in specially conceived “terror courts” at Guantánamo, as [...]

June 5th, 2008 | Category: Afghanistan, Detainee, Guantanamo, Kangaroo Kourt, Military Commission, Politics, USA | Leave a comment

I’m speechless.  Simply without words to express the horror I feel as I read this article.  No sight in one eye, the other is going, He grew up in a 6×8 cell alone.  He’d just lost his father before he was taken… what do they expect him to do or say?  His health is terrible [...]

June 3rd, 2008 | Category: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Abuse, Afghanistan, Canada, Children, Detainee, Detainee Treatment Act, Guantanamo, High Profile, Kangaroo Kourt, Military Tribunal, Minor, Omar Khadr, Politics, Politics of Fear, Torture, Torture flights, URGENT Health Issue, Withholding Medical Treatment, human rights | Leave a comment

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter
New Delhi: Expressing his resentment over the approach of intelligence agencies after a terrorist attack, general secretary of All India Milli Council (AIMC) Dr. Mohammad Manzoor Alam said they as well as government had ignored Muslims’ protest over such attacks.
Not only this, he said, these agencies and government are showing negligence in [...]

May 28th, 2008 | Category: India, Politics | Leave a comment

By Paul Kiel from Muckraker

If you thought the military commissions in Guantanamo Bay couldn’t get any uglier, you were wrong. On Friday, the judge presiding over the Salim Hamdan case, Capt. Keith J. Allred, disqualified a top Pentagon official from any more involvement in the case. The reason? His aims seemed too political, his [...]

May 12th, 2008 | Category: Guantanamo, Politics | Leave a comment

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 [...]

May 12th, 2008 | Category: Detainee, DoD, Lies of the U.S. Administration, Politics | Leave a comment

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris casts light on the torture chambers of Abu Ghraib
By Carl Kozlowski
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then whole volumes of disgust and dismay were generated by the horrifying photos that emerged from the US military prison in Iraq known as Abu Ghraib. A former torture center for deposed and [...]

May 1st, 2008 | Category: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Abu Ghraib, Bush Lies, Death in Custody, Detainee Abuse, Iraq, Politics, Torture | Leave a comment

Any doubt that David Hicks was charged with war crimes for purely political reasons has been removed, his father and his lawyer say.
The former chief prosecutor of the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay said overnight he would not have pursued Hicks because the case against the Australian was not serious enough.
The ex-prosecutor, Air Force [...]

May 1st, 2008 | Category: Bagram, Bush Lies, Detainee, Detainee Treatment Act, Guantanamo, High Profile, Politics, human rights | Leave a comment

By RAYMOND BONNER
LONDON — The Bush administration and the British government are at odds over how to treat one of the last two British residents held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, officials from the countries involved in the case and his lawyer say.
Over objections from the British government, the Pentagon plans to file terrorism-related charges [...]

April 5th, 2008 | Category: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Detainee Abuse, Detainee Treatment Act, Guantanamo, Politics, Torture, waterboarding | Leave a comment

By CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com
As the Guantánamo war court edges toward full-blown trials, closures, censorship and document delays cloud transparency.

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AFP/GETTY IMAGES
This sign marks the Pentagon’s
new pre-fabricated high-tech
court [...]

April 3rd, 2008 | Category: Guantanamo, Lies of the U.S. Administration, Military Commission, Military Intel, Military Tribunal, Politics | Leave a comment