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Archive for April, 2008

Apr

Abu Ghraib Film Obscures Truth

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Abu Ghraib, Bush Lies, Detainee Abuse and Torture

Editor’s Note: Former Army Sgt. Sam Provance was the only uniformed military intelligence officer at Abu Ghraib who broke the code of silence surrounding the infamous prisoner abuses. He spoke out during the Army’s internal investigation, at a congressional hearing and in press interviews.

For his brave integrity, Provance was punished and pushed out of the U.S. military, clearing the way for the Pentagon to pin the blame for the sadistic treatment of Iraqi detainees on a handful of poorly trained MPs. Now, history is repeating itself in Errol Morris’s supposedly hard-hitting documentary on the scandal:

Representatives for film director Errol Morris told me during pre-production that “Standard Operating Procedure” would be the very best documentary on the abuses of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib – the one that would tell the whole truth.

I had pinned great hope on that. It didn’t turn out that way.

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Apr

ICRC tells warring sides to spare civilians

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Categories: Afghanistan

KABUL: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) urged the Afghan military, foreign troops and Taliban insurgents to spare civilians during combat, the organisation’s global chief said yesterday.

Red Cross president Jakob Kellenberger

Jakob Kellenberger also said suspected Taliban prisoners held by the US military at Bagram were concerned about their fate and pressed the Afghan government for judicial guarantees and better treatment for the inmates it holds at Pul-i-Charkhi jail. Former detainees have complained of being ill-treated and tortured and many are kept without trial at the Afghan jail on the eastern outskirts of Kabul. Kellenberger said the ICRC wanted to have access to more prisons and spoke about the concerns of inmates held by the US military at Bagram air base north of Kabul, the main US military base in Afghanistan. “When I talked to those detainess in Bagram, what comes really clearly out as a main concern, frankly, it is always a question of they do not know why they are there,” he said.

“Second point which is of terrible concern to them is they do not know what the future brings—how long will they be there and (under) which conditions they will be released.”

During his week-long trip to Afghanistan, Kellenberger spoke to a number of detainees at Pul-i-Charkhi and at Bagram. He also met President Hamid Karzai, commanders for the US-led coalition force and Nato, as well as Taliban insurgents.

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Apr

Terror-charge student faces court

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Categories: Islamophobia, Minor, Racism and UK Paranioa

A teenager is due to appear in court charged with terrorist offences.

Andrew Ibrahim is accused of possession of an explosive substance, intent to commit terrorism and possession of articles for terrorist purposes.

The student was arrested on 17 April and three controlled explosions were later carried out at his flat in Westbury-on-Trym, a Bristol suburb.

His hearing will take place later at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court, in central London.

‘Complex inquiry’
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Apr

UN probe urged over Iraqi inmates

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Categories: Abu Ghraib, Detainee, Iraq, USA, United Nations and human rights

The UN Security Council should address serious concerns about the detention policies of the US-led forces in Iraq, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said.

The UN says US-led troops held 24,514 inmates in Iraq at the end of 2007

The New York-based group says thousands of Iraqis are being held indefinitely and without judicial review.

It claims that many inmates are subject to judicial review processes that do not meet international standards.

HRW says the US improperly uses Council resolutions which permit internment for “imperative reasons of security”.

Separately, the group adds that there are also concerns about what is describes as widespread torture of detainees by the Iraqi authorities.
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Apr

Petition: Defend the Rutgers 3

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Categories: action

To: Rutgers University Administration and the New Brunswick Police Department

Defend the Rutgers 3! (petition!)

Stay updated: Http://www. rutgerswalkoutcoalition. blogspot. com Http://www. facebook. com/group. php? gid=14201206009 Email RutgersThree@gmail.com for press information and solidarity statements

On March 27, hundreds of Rutgers students and supporters participated in the Rutgers Walkout against the U. S. occupation of Iraq. Students walked out of classes, rallied on campus, marched through downtown New Brunswick, and spontaneously walked on to Route 18, a state highway. During the action, the police did not complain to student organizers, issue warnings to the crowd, or attempt to stop any of the actions. The non-violent protest, organized by 12 student organizations, ended without incident.
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Apr

ARREST BUSH

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Categories: Bagram, Bush Lies, Lies of the U.S. Administration and war crimes

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 Director George Tenet and Attorney General Ashcroft.)

“History will not judge this kindly,” Ashcroft predicted.

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Apr

Persecution in HMP Whitemoor

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Categories: Detainee, Detainee Abuse, HMP Whitemoor, Islamophobia, UK and human rights

SOURCE : Anonymous

I was transferred to HMP Whitemoor from HMP Belmarsh on 11th July 2007. On arrival I was held in the normal association. I had no problems in whilst in normal location. I had never been in trouble with the officers or other prisoners, and I believe my wing reports will show this. I pretty much kept to myself. I was attending workshop classes during the day and had enrolled to attend education classes also.

On 16th October 2007 at 12: 30pm it was lock up time and I was in my cell. Until this time I was not involved or aware on any incident relating to me which warranted me to be in trouble of any sort. The DST Team (the Dedicated Search Team) came in to my cell. They were accompanied by Governor X. One of the officers told me I was being moved to the segregation. I was shocked by this as I did not understand the reason why I was taken to segregation.
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Apr

Afghanistan’s Guantánamo: unfair trials exported

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Categories: Afghanistan, Bagram, Detainee, Extradition, Guantanamo, Kangaroo Kourt, Pul-i-Charkhi and human rights

Sahr MuhammedAlly [senior associate, Law and Security program, Human Rights First]: “While pre-trial motions continue at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, at other end of the globe in Afghanistan more than 60 former Guantánamo and Bagram detainees have been convicted based on little more than mere allegations by the United States. After years of detention in U.S. custody without any due process, these detainees, although now finally in some legal process, are being tried by the Afghans in violation of basic fair trial standards.

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Apr

Errol Morris: His New Iraq Documentary

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Categories: Abu Ghraib, Activists and Documentary

The Oscar-winning director of ”The Fog of War” is back, and in this frank, wide-ranging Q&A he discusses his latest movie, ”Standard Operating Procedure,” about the Abu Ghraib scandal

By Missy Schwartz

”I worry that I don’t know how to talk about my own movie,” says Errol Morris, referring to his new documentary, Standard Operating Procedure (now playing in New York City and opening soon nationwide). Given that the film is a dizzyingly complex look into the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, we can hardly blame the veteran documentarian for febreling a little anxious. Morris’ first feature since 2003’s Academy Award-winning The Fog of War dares us to reconsider what we think we know about the infamous photographs of Iraqi prisoners. With surprising frankness, former M.P.s like Lynndie England and Sabrina Harman — two of the military’s so-called ”Bad Apples” — tell their side of the horror that went down in that dilapidated old jail compound outside of Baghdad in the fall of 2003.

Here’s what Morris has to say about the provocative film. Because yes, he does indeed know how to talk about it.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: When the abuse scandal became public, did you immediately think, This is my next documentary?

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Apr

Behind the Scenes: Walking amid 2,000 al Qaeda suspects

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Categories: Detainee

(fd editors note: Sometimes it’s good to see which way the spin blows. This is one of those. You can also view it as a comedy piece if you like. I figure it’s that, or just scream bloody murder. They say laughter is healthy, so after I’m finished screaming, I will be laughing too. Don’t let these spin doctors get away with this. Tell everyone you know the truth about this situation. If you follow this issue - you will recognize key words like “hard to break” and so on.)

CNN Editor’s note: In our Behind the Scenes series, CNN correspondents share their experiences and analyze the news behind events. Here, CNN’s Nic Robertson describes a tour of Camp Bucca, the largest U.S.-run detention facility in Iraq.

CAMP BUCCA, Iraq (CNN) — The inmates huddle below the barbed wire, looking up at the strangers who have arrived at the detention facility. They’re dressed in bright yellow, almost fluorescent jumpsuits. There are 2,000 of them, described by the U.S. military as hard-core al Qaeda loyalists.

These inmates are kept behind a maze of chain-link fences, topped with barbed wire, and are guarded by heavily armed men in military fatigues who hold shields. We’re escorted through Camp Bucca, the United States’ biggest detention facility in Iraq, by Marine Gen. Douglas Stone, who runs the camp.

“They’re hard to break,” he says of the suspected al Qaeda inmates.

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Apr

Four Years Later

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca, Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Detainee Treatment Act, DoD, Geneva Conventions, Iraq, Lies of the U.S. Administration, Torture, USA, war crimes and waterboarding

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 given America’s enemies a recruiting poster and the consequently heightened danger confronted by the men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan as the world reacted with outrage.

Despite the damage to our moral authority and national security inflicted by the events at Abu Ghraib, questions of torture and detainee treatment were ignored during the 2004 presidential campaign. In fact, (not a single/only once addressed). Instead of prompting an examination of our country’s conduct in its struggle against terrorism, the Bush administration dismissed the torture at Abu Ghraib as merely the consequence of the misbehavior of a few bad apples. Subsequently, low ranking enlisted men and women were punished.

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Apr

US Military Detains German Citizen in Afghanistan

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Categories: Afghanistan, Bagram, Detainee, Germany, ICRC, Mental Health and Murat Kurnaz

By Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark

For the past three months, the United States military has detained a German citizen in Afghanistan on suspicion of terrorism. German security experts are convinced that the man, who has a history of psychological problems, is innocent.

A German soldier on patrol near Bagram in Afghanistan: The US military is holding a German citizen on suspicions of terrorism in Bagram.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva operates according to an iron rule: If members of its supreme governing body, the Assembly, suspect that a country is guilty of violating human rights, they do not comment publicly on the matter. The Assembly, whose current membership consists of 18 Swiss citizens, is adamant when it comes to upholding its principles of neutrality and independence. This independence has enabled it to remain the only internationally established controlling body for international humanitarian law.

Thus it comes as no surprise that the ICRC is refusing to comment on a case it has pursued for months. An employee of the aid organization visited Gholam Ghaus Z., a German citizen, at the US air base in Bagram near Kabul, where he has been held under inhumane conditions since early January. The Americans believe that the 41-year-old man is a terrorist. As part of its investigation, the ICRC contacted the man’s relatives living in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The case has become a political issue and threatens to strain German-American relations unless the US military releases the man soon. German security experts are convinced that the man, who has languished in a prison for no discernible reason for the past three months, is in fact innocent. But, as in most such cases, even the German security experts have “minimal residual doubts.”

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Apr

Gholam Gaus Z

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Name: Gholam Ghaus Z
Home: Germany, Wuppertal
Ethnicity: Afghan
DOB: Circa 1966 -67
Arrested January 4, 2008

Gholam moved to Germany in 1990, and moved to Wuppertal 1992. Later he was granted German citizenship. He has taken an early retirement due to medical/psychiatric problems. Gholam has no ties to terrorist organizations or anything that could possibly be seen as suspicious.

Please note that this is also under the profiles on the sidebar.

German secret service, BND, investigated him and said that he is “harmless.” Communal authorities from the city he lived in confirmed that.

It was reported that he was apprehended while on a trip in January to visit relatives in Afghanistan. A Der Spiegel report states that his Kabul relatives told him that, as a German citizen, he could shop in the supermarket on the USA’s base in Kabul, which he proceeded to do.

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Apr

U.S. interrogation of German may strain ties with Berlin

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Categories: Afghanistan, Bagram, Detainee, Germany and USA

By STEFAN NICOLA
UPI Germany Correspondent
BERLIN, April 25 (UPI) — Diplomats fear the ongoing detention of a seemingly innocent German terror suspect by U.S. forces in Afghanistan will develop into a major strain on trans-Atlantic relations.

In early January a 41-year-old German of Afghan origin walked up to the entrance of U.S. military base Waren near Kabul to shop in one of its Western-style supermarkets. The man, identified by German news magazine Der Spiegel as Gholam Ghaus Z. from Wuppertal, in western Germany, had come to Afghanistan to visit relatives.
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Apr

The Insignificance and Insanity of Abu Zubaydah

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Detainee Abuse, Guantanamo, Interrogators, Mental Health, Torture, USA and human rights

Abu Zubaydah, an alleged senior al-Qaeda operative, has been held without charge or trial as a “high-value detainee” for over six years, first in secret CIA custody, and then in Guantánamo, while battles have raged within the administration over his supposed significance. Drawing, in particular, on the story of former Guantánamo prisoner Khalid al-Hubayshi, Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, makes the case that Zubaydah’s importance has been wildly exaggerated.

A recent article in the Washington Post, Out of Guantánamo and Bitter Toward Bin Laden, which was based on an interview with former Guantánamo prisoner Khalid al-Hubayshi (released in 2006), was noteworthy as much for what it did not reveal as for what it did.

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Apr

Torture Question Hovers Over Chertoff

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", ACLU, Abu Ghraib, Activists, Bagram, Black Site, C.I.A., Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Detainee Treatment Act, DoD, Michael Chertoff, Yoo Memo, war crimes and waterboarding

By Andy Worthington

The latest diclosures further erode claims by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that prisoner abuses at Gardez – or the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib – were isolated acts by a few ‘bad apples’, says Jason Leopold. John Yoo and some other Bush administration lawyers who built the legal framework for torture are now out of the U. S. government, but one still holds a Cabinet-level rank – Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

In the summer of 2002, Chertoff, then head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, offered assurances to the CIA that its interrogators would not face prosecution under anti-torture laws if they followed guidelines on aggressive techniques approved by the Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, where Yoo worked.

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Apr

‘We don’t have prisoners here’

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Categories: Detainee, Detainee Treatment Act, Guantanamo and Lies of the U.S. Administration

Guides will only let journalists so far behind the wire — and one detention camp remains completely secret $Canada\'s no-longer-teenaged terror suspect, Omar Khadr, is housed in Guantanamo Bay\'s Camp 4.$

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 His forgiveness./ Surely He is oft-returning with mercy.

The men sway back and forth, trance-like, as they recite these words in Arabic. Cross-legged on the floor, eyes cast downward past their greying beards to the Korans in their laps. We watch them through the diamond cutouts of a chain-link fence, topped with endless curls of barbed wire. In the periphery, armed soldiers keep watch from the guard towers. A military welcome sign down the road proclaims that the “value of the week” is “Pride.” It is daytime, and the Cuban sun beats down on the prison camp, but daytime can last well beyond sunset here — there are floodlights everywhere.

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Apr

The Pentagon’s Guantánamo Problem

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Categories: Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Detainee Treatment Act, Geneva Conventions, Guantanamo, USA and human rights

By Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington’s Blog

In what appears to be nothing more than propaganda masquerading as news, the U.S. military has announced that it will “televise the Guantánamo trial of accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other suspects so relatives of those killed in the attacks can watch on the U.S. mainland.”

Army Col. Lawrence Morris, the chief prosecutor of Guantánamo’s system of trials by Military Commission, stated, “We’re going to broadcast in real time to several locations that will be available just to victim families,” adding that the footage would be “beamed to closed-circuit television viewing sites on military bases at Fort Hamilton in New York, Fort Monmouth in New Jersey, Fort Meade in Maryland and Fort Devens in Massachusetts.”

While there seems little doubt that Col. Morris is sincere, it’s also apparent that the trial under discussion will not be taking place anytime soon, and that announcements of broadcasts designed to appeal to the families of 9/11 victims are premature, to say the least, and more judiciously regarded as attempts to shore up the disputed legitimacy of the Commission process.

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Apr

After Guantánamo

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Detainee Treatment Act, Due Process, Guantanamo, Lies of the U.S. Administration, Torture and USA

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 federal prosecutor in New York and Washington, D.C., is Executive Director of Human Rights Watch.

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These days, it seems, everyone wants to close Guantánamo. In January 2002, the Bush administration created a detention camp at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba to imprison what former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called “the worst of the worst” terrorism suspects. The facility has since become an embarrassing stain on the United States’ reputation. With some inmates now having endured more than six years of detention without charge or trial, and with no end to their ordeal in sight, Guantánamo has come to symbolize Washington’s flouting of international human rights standards in the name of fighting terrorism. Now, even President George W. Bush says he wants to shut it down.

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Apr

Guantánamo drives prisoners insane, lawyers say

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Detainee Treatment Act, Drugs, Guantanamo and Mental Health

By William Glaberson

Next month, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who was once a driver for Osama bin Laden, could become the first detainee to be tried for war crimes in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. By now, he should be busily working on his defense.

But his lawyers say he cannot. They say Hamdan, already the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, has essentially been driven insane by solitary confinement in a tiny cell where he spends at least 22 hours a day, goes to the bathroom and eats all his meals. His defense team says he is suicidal, hears voices, has flashbacks, talks to himself and says the restrictions of Guantánamo “boil his mind.”

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Apr

Report: CIA tactics given legal cover

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", C.I.A., Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Detainee Treatment Act, Guantanamo, Lies of the U.S. Administration, Torture and human rights

Justice Department letters say interrogation rules may not bind U. S.

NEW YORK - Recent letters from the U.S. Justice Department to Congress state that intelligence agents working on counterterrorism can legally use interrogation techniques that might otherwise be banned by international law, The New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.

The Justice Department’s interpretation shows the Bush administration is contending that the boundaries should have a degree of latitude, the Times said, despite the president’s order last summer that he said meant the CIA would hew to international norms on the treatment of detainees.

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Apr

U.S. asserts new interrogation rights: NY Times

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Categories: "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques", Detainee, Detainee Abuse, Detainee Treatment Act, Guantanamo, Interrogators, Lies of the U.S. Administration, Torture and war crimes

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Recent letters from the Justice Department to Congress state that U.S. intelligence agents working to prevent terror attacks can legally use interrogation techniques banned by international law, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

President George W. Bush issued an executive order last summer in which he said the CIA would observe international regulations regarding detainee treatment. The letters indicate the Bush administration now contends these boundaries may be stretched in some interrogations.

A March 5 letter from the Justice Dept. to Congress makes clear the Bush administration has not defined which interrogation methods might violate the Geneva Convention’s bans on “outrages upon personal dignity,” the Times said.

The letters were provided by the staff of Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The panel received classified briefings on the matter and Wyden requested further information, which yielded the letters, the Times said.

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Apr

Singer Patti Smith demands U.S. CLOSE GUANTANAMO PRISON, NOW!

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Categories: Activists, Detainee Abuse and Guantanamo

by Todd Baesen

The Patti Smith song, WITHOUT CHAINS is a plea to close the Gulag America maintains at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Says Patti Smith: This is a heart breaking legal and moral issue. We cannot forget these human beings.\

WITHOUT CHAINS

Patti Smith debuted this song in New York City at the final show of the famed rock club CBGB’s on October 15, 2006. Since then, she has posted the song on her website (see link below) and written the Foreword to Murat Kurnaz’s new book, FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo.

Here are Patti Smith’s comments before she played the song in 2006:

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Apr

Lies and subterfuge: media military commentators betray public trust

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Categories: Lies of the U.S. Administration

By Don Monkerud

The U. S. government has unleashed a propaganda campaign to support the military conquest and occupation of Iraq. Unfortunately, the current effort to control public opinion represents a secret war against the American people.

If the story hasn’t yet reached your newspaper, Op Ed section or TV station, there’s a good reason; media outlets were duped or turned a blind eye to Bush propaganda, and most highly respected military commentators are implicated.

Called “sycophants” by the Pentagon, these expert, sober news voices merely mouthed Bush “talking points” on Fox News, NBC, CNN, CBS and ABC, on radio programs, or were read or quoted in news articles and op-eds. These military experts, such as Lt. Col. Tim Eads, Major Bob Bevelacqua, Lt. Col. Bill Cowan, Capt. Chuck Nash, Brig. Gen. James Marks, Generals William Nash, Wayne Downing and Joe Rayleton, and dozens of others, appeared in the media hundreds of times to gain public support for Bush’s war, without admitting they are profiting from the death of American troops.
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Apr

Rush Limbaugh: As Always, Wallowing in Slime

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Categories: Detainee

By Bill Hare

Political Cortex

Rush, your reign of gutter radio commentary has embedded you into the public consciousness as one of the ultimate slime wallowers in our nation’s history.

You show no sign of letting up. In fact, perhaps an air of desperation has finally reached you as the taste for your style of “political analysis” is receding.

To say that you embrace hypocrisy is letting you off far too gently. Yours is the mammoth category of hypocrisy that would have to be carried to the realm of infinity and beyond.

Remember Rush, you were the one who took the stern and unrelenting view that anyone caught consuming drugs under any circumstances should sustain one of two punishments: 1) execution; 2) be dismissed from America without ever receiving a future opportunity to return.

Such a strong message from someone who makes such a great role model!When it was discovered that you were a habitual consumer of Oxycontin, what did you do, Rush? Along with obtaining highly paid, high profile Miami criminal lawyer Roy Black to fight your legal battles, what was his strategy and yours?

Oh Rush, you who made no exceptions among the poorest and most vulnerable of society, you a multimillionaire radio talk show host, you asked for mercy, the same mercy that you in a frenzy of dogmatic declaration denied to anyone suffering from drug affliction, even of a far lesser degree than your own.

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