By Steve Hendrix
Washington Post Staff Writer
When U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina was looking for a place in the United States to send 17 Chinese Muslim detainees he wants released from Guantanamo Bay, the Washington area was an obvious choice. The region is home to the country’s largest concentration of refugees from the men’s ethnic [...]
Chinese Muslims Held at Guantanamo Aren’t Considered Enemy Combatants
By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
A federal judge is considering whether to order a group of detainees held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay released into the United States, in what would instantly become a landmark legal decision in the years-long battle over the [...]
By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
Britain has failed in its duty to stop the US from committing “shameful acts” in the treatment of suspects detained during the war on terror, one of America’s most respected intellectuals warns today.
In an interview with The Independent, Professor Noam Chomsky calls on the Government to use [...]
..Hmm… shouldn’t someone tell these guys that this has been done before? With the results of a heck of a lot of innocent guys going to Bagram/Guantanamo? Ah well, they probably don’t mind so much, at least it looks like they are doing something. Morons.
A billboard asks Afghans
to give information about
Al-Qaeda and Taliban [...]
By Fidaa Abed
As a young Palestinian from Gaza, I had been eagerly anticipating the opportunity to study at the University of California San Diego on a Fulbright scholarship. The chance to escape Gaza’s confines and immerse myself in an American education was deeply thrilling. With Israel controlling Gaza’s border exits, air space and sea access [...]
James Sturcke
Last remaining Guantánamo Bay detainee with automatic right to return to UK faces death penalty after being charged with terrorism offences by Pentagon
Binyam Mohamed, the last remaining Guantánamo Bay detainee with an automatic right to return to the UK, faces the death penalty after being
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British security services
colluded in unlawful
detention [...]
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 [...]
..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, [...]
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.
The fate of her three young, American-born children is still unknown.
..WHAT? I thought they were closing Guantanamo!
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention center said Saturday he has been researching new potential accommodations for Osama bin Laden’s driver, who could be held here indefinitely regardless of the verdict at his war crimes trial.
A jury of American military officers [...]
The 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” [...]
The “capture videos” the Pentagon aims to bury, late-night brutality pointing to the CIA — and even a surreal viewing of “The Dark Knight” here in Guantánamo.
Salon Editor’s note: Since May, staff members of Human Rights Watch have been reporting on U.S. judicial proceedings at Guantánamo for Salon.
By Julia Hall
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Given all [...]
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 [...]
Despite grant of bail, government continues to hold him
Hanover, VA - July 27, 2008 -
More than two weeks after being granted bond by a federal judge, Sami Al-Arian is still being held in prison. In fact, Dr. Al-Arian is now being subjected to the worst treatment by prison officials since his stay in Coleman Federal Penitentiary in Florida [...]
Tehran Times Political Desk
TEHRAN — British journalist Yvonne Ridley flew to Pakistan on a whirlwind trip this week to highlight the plight of a woman who has been held in U.S. custody for more than four years.
She referred to the woman, known only by her prisoner number 650, as The Grey Lady of Bagram.
More than [...]
AAI, ADC, MPAC Concerned By Alleged DOJ Guidelines
Washington, DC - The Arab American Institute (AAI), the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and other organizations are concerned by an Associated Press report (http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=5294541 ) quoting “senior FBI, Justice Department, and U.S. intelligence officials” concerning new Department of Justice guidelines which are [...]
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, masters of evil John Yoo and David Addington pop back up, like Jason or a platter of undercooked pork, to tell the U.S. Congress how much they’d really like to take that water and pour it over your blindfolded and Saran-wrapped face.
Happy Birthday, U.S.A.!
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — Bolstered by a U.S. Supreme Court victory, defense attorneys streamed onto this base Monday to consult alleged al Qaeda captives on whether to sue in federal court over their war-on-terror detention.
The lawyers arrived by early-morning charter from Washington, D.C., organized by the Pentagon’s Office of Military [...]
U.S.-led forces killed four Afghan civilians, including two women and a boy, in an operation against Taliban insurgents in southeastern Paktika province, the U.S. military said in a statement on Wednesday.
Lawyers for a London resident held in Guantanamo Bay have accused the US government of covering up his alleged torture.
According to the legal action charity Reprieve, Binyam Mohamed was abused in prisons in Morocco and Afghanistan by “proxy torturers” working on behalf of the United States before being brought to the US base in Cuba [...]
Detainee number 063, Mohamed Al-Kahtani, was one of the many hundreds housed in the Guantanamo (known as “Gitmo”) Bay detention camps who was subjected to 20 hours of interrogation on only four hours of sleep.
German politicians from both the ruling coalition and the opposition are taking aim at outgoing US President George W. Bush ahead of his week-long farewell trip to Europe. The Iraq war, Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib have damaged America’s reputation, they say.
The U.S. has held up a country’s terrible history of poverty, repression and inequality as the pretext for a war that only aggravates poverty, repression and inequality.
A U.S. Marine Corps general has decided not to bring criminal charges against two officers who led their unit on a March 2007 killing spree that left 19 Afghan [...]
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From: Invictus
The UK Guardian is reporting the United States is holding hundreds of detainees from its international wars on at least 17 “floating prisons” in different harbors around the world. The detainees are interrogated, and then many of them sent via extraordinary rendition to other countries for further interrogation and torture.
According to research carried out [...]
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