By Mel Frykberg
GAZA CITY (IPS) - Mohammed Omer, the Gaza correspondent of IPS, and joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was strip-searched at gunpoint, assaulted and abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on Thursday as he tried to return home to [...]
By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
Jawed Ahmad, a driver and assistant for reporters of a Canadian television network in Afghanistan, knew the roads to avoid, how to get interviews and which stories to pitch. Reporters trusted him, his bosses say.
Then, one day about seven months ago, the 22-year-old CTV News contractor [...]
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I have added Jumah’s “Days of adverse hardship in US detention camps - Testimony of
Guantánamo detainee Jumah al-Dossari” Click here to download the PDF. Understandably Jumah didn’t want to go back to the torture in the interview, but he did in this PDF)
Juma Mohammed Al-Dossari was held in Guantanamo Bay [...]
Tampa Bay Coalition for Justice and Peace
Dr. Sami Al-Arian’s Arraignment on Monday Morning
VIRGINIA — Tomorrow (Monday) morning, June 30th, at 10 AM sharp, Dr. Al-Arian will have his arraignment at the U. S. Courthouse in Alexandria. He will appear before Judge Leonie Brinkema. We encourage supporters and people of conscience to attend.
Email samialarianactioncommittee@gmail.com if interested [...]
Think Progress
(Audio Below)
Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that detainees held at Guantánamo Bay have the right to habeas corpus and can thus challenge their detention in civilian courts, a U.S. Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the Bush administration’s detention policy.
The appeals court ruled that the Pentagon improperly designated Huzaifa [...]
ALEXANDRIA – The Bush Administration’s persecution of Dr. Sami Al Arian reached new heights on Thursday when prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia brought charges against him, entering a new phase in the politically-motivated campaign of the past five years.
The indictment charges Dr. Al-Arian with two counts of criminal contempt, relating to two attempts [...]
Lyle Denniston
Lawyers for the Pentagon and for detainees now held at Guantanamo Bay have already engaged in a debate — at least in summary form — over the meaning of the Supreme Court’s June 12 ruling in Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195). In short, the military lawyers contend that the detainees are now protected by only a [...]
Fadi al-Maqaleh disappeared from his family’s home in Sana’a, Yemen, in 2002. His relatives did not learn of his whereabouts until a year later, when they received a letter informing them that he was being held as an enemy combatant in a U.S. military prison at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. U.S. officials say al-Maqaleh, now [...]
There are two kinds of courage in war - physical courage and moral courage. Physical [...]
Mohammad Jawad’s military commission hearing last week was unusual for many reasons. Jawad was a minor when he was captured in Afghanistan and now faces life in prison if convicted for allegedly throwing a hand grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter in December 2002. Not only did the pre-trial hearing [...]
-See Mohamad Jawad’s Profile here.
On Feb 7, 2002, President Bush issued an order. The order stated, in pertinent part “I accept the legal conclusion of the Department of Justice and determine that Common Article 3 of Geneva does not apply to either al Qaeda or Taliban detainees.”
“I determine that the Taliban detainees do not qualify [...]
By FRANK JORDANS
GENEVA (AP) — Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are turned into “nomads” to keep them agitated and to punish those who break rules, a Sudanese journalist recently released from the U.S. military prison said Friday.
Sami al-Haj said moving detainees between camps and from cell to cell appeared to be part of an official [...]
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By Julian E. Barnes, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — For years, congressional Democrats dreamed of getting a crack at a man they saw as a key player behind the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods against detainees in the war on terrorism — methods the critics say amount to torture.
On Thursday, [...]
By CHARMAINE NORONHA
TORONTO (AP) — A lawyer for a detainee at Guantanamo Bay said Thursday that he expects to release a video of his client being interrogated by Canadian officials.
Nathan Whitling’s announcement comes a day after Canada’s Federal Court ordered the government to hand over the 2003 interrogation video of terrorism suspect Omar Khadr [...]
By Nora Barrows-Friedman
USH GHRAB, West Bank, (IPS) - East of Beit Sahour in Ush Ghrab, the tree line stops and the bronze, rocky desert begins. In a flat clearing on this hilltop, a small, abandoned military post is being slowly transformed from an assorted collection of cement-grey barracks into a virtual oasis for the region’s [...]
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON (IPS) - On the eve of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a bipartisan group of some 200 religious leaders and former top U.S. national security and military officers launched a campaign for a presidential order to outlaw torture and cruel and inhumane treatment of all detainees.
The campaign, [...]
Noam Chomsky, the renowned US academic, author and political activist, speaks to Avi Lewis on Al Jazeera’s Inside USA.
They discuss whether the US election this year will bring real change, the ongoing conflict in Iraq and why Americans should look to their Southern American counterparts for political inspiration.
(Video of this interview below)
Chomsky says the US can [...]
By Anthony Dworkin
February of 2008 Report from Crimes of War Project
The European Court of Human Rights released an important ruling on Thursday, February 28, affirming the absolute nature of the right against torture and inhuman treatment in the European human rights system. Delivering judgment in the case of a Tunisian resident of Italy who faced [...]
Here are the five steps the US must now take to safely and quickly remove the stain on America’s reputation
After more than six years of constant controversy, it really does look as if Guantánamo’s days as a prison camp are numbered. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Boumediene v Bush further narrowed any legal distinction [...]
By Josh White and Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writers
Mohammed Sulaymon Barre fled his native Somalia as civil war raged in the early 1990s, receiving U.N. refugee status and landing in Pakistan, where he settled his family and worked for a financial services company. In a nighttime raid in November 2001, Pakistani authorities [...]
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on habeas corpus and suspected terrorist detainees has faded a bit on the political world’s radar, but the McCain campaign continues to believe the issue will benefit their candidate. Indeed, just this afternoon, McCain’s in-house blogger blasted Barack Obama’s campaign for “conflicting answers” on whether Osama bin Laden would be [...]
This strikes me as suspicious……..
Written by The Media Line Staff
The Saudi Ministry of Interior announced Wednesday it had arrested 701 terror suspects in the past six months, of whom 181 were released for lack of sufficient evidence, Arab media outlets reported.
The terror cells were mainly managed from abroad and were primarily plotting against economic targets [...]
Only one Congressman had the personal courage and the profound respect for our Constitution to stand on the floor of the House of Representatives and exercise his right and his responsibility to bring Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush - Ohio Representative Dennis J. Kucinich.
Now, Americans who cherish our Democracy and the Constitutional [...]
Global Research Editor’s note
We bring to the attention of our readers David DeBatto’s scenario as to what might occur if one of the several contingency plans to attack Iran, with the participation of Israel and NATO, were to be carried out. While one may disagree with certain elements of detail of the author’s text, [...]
Salon.com
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — When Mohammed Jawad took the stand in a courtroom at the U.S. Naval base here late last week, he described a litany of abuse he has endured while detained at Guantánamo, including a sleep deprivation regime known colloquially as the “frequent flyer” program.
“Day and night, they were shifting me from one [...]
Guantanamo Bay News
