..Now we are charging 11 year old children??
Kabul, (ANI): After repeated requests from Islamabad, the Afghanistan Government has reportedly promised to Pakistan to return soon one of the three sons of Pakistani scientist and terror suspect Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who was arrested in Afghanistan earlier this month and presently being tried in the US [...]
A veteran foot soldier reveals his role in the jihad — and why he’s having second thoughts about a holy war that seems to have no end (This article originally appeared in the Dec. 15, 2005 issue of Rolling Stone)
TOM DOWNEY
Khalid had been in Iraq for only a few weeks, but he was already sick [...]
By Yoginder Sikand, TwoCircles.net
In the face of a seemingly unending wave of fake encounters, killings and arrests of innocent Muslims across the country falsely accused by the police of being ‘terrorists’, a three-day Peoples’ Tribunal was recently held in Hyderabad on ‘Atrocities Committed Against Minorities in the Name of Fighting Terrorism’.
Organised by three noted Delhi-based [...]
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 [...]
Lawyer Bothaina Doqmaq, head of the Mandela Institute in Palestine, reported on Friday that the detainees in several sections and in solitary confinement in Al Jalama Israeli prison and interrogation center started a hunger strike on Thursday in protest to the harsh living conditions and the administration’s rejection to move them to ordinary sections although [...]
The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has failed to persuade the High Court that evidence which could help prove the innocence of a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay must remain secret.
Lord Justice Thomas and Mr Justice Lloyd Jones ruled yesterday that Mr Miliband had not properly considered allegations of “medieval” torture made by Binyam [...]
SANA’A, (Saba) – A US lawyers team for Yemeni Guantanamo detainees has urged to retry Ramzi al-Shaiba, one of Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, who was sentenced to death, the state-run 26sep.net has said.
The team doubted Ramzi’s mental capabilities as he asked the authorities to use the death penalty against him. [...]
..This serves to prove a few things, some of which are - how deeply traumatized this poor child is, how long he has been in Afghanistan, and also how terribly afraid he must be.. we in the USA should be so proud of ourselves!
WASHINGTON: Ahmed, the 11-year-old boy said to have been apprehended with Aafia [...]
By Stephen Lendman
Countercurrents.org
The UN Convention against Torture defines the practice as:
“any act by which severe pain [...]
The Only Good Muslim is the Anti-Muslim
For some, Barack Obama’s stature as a man of the left has fallen precipitously, like late autumn leaves shed by branches bowing to the will of winter.
Disappointment has often been self-inflicted. Supporters have dipped their pens deeply into the inkwell of Obama’s inspiring story and written their own lines [...]
by Tim Bella
What happens when an 11-year-old U.S. citizen is held by Afghanistan’s intelligence service? According to the U.S. State Department, not much, at least for now.
It is, for sure, a complicated case. Early this week, we noted a Washington Post article detailing confirmation that Afghan security forces had been holding Ahmed Siddiqui, the [...]
Families, Attorneys Push to Hold Guantanamo Officials Liable
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
When Mani al-Utaybi fixed a makeshift noose around his neck and hanged himself in a Guantanamo Bay cell in June 2006, the Saudi Arabian detainee had been close to being transferred to his homeland and freed, his attorney and military officials said. But [...]
By JOANNE MARINER
This Wednesday, unless the UK foreign secretary takes rapid action, Britain’s High Court will hold a hearing to assess whether the UK government should be ordered to hand over secret documents to lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee. The detainee in question, Binyam Mohamed, faces possible charges of conspiracy and material support for terrorism [...]
By LGR
An inquiry by the Australian Defence Force has found there’s no evidence to support claims its soldiers mistreated Afghan detainees in Afghanistan.
The Defence Force says an Afghan soldier claimed that four suspected Taliban members were bashed by Australian soldiers in April after the death of Australian soldier Jason Marks.
The Vice Chief of the Defence [...]
ANDY MEEK | The Daily News
THE LECTURE CIRCUIT: Former U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Janis
Karpinski speaks at a meeting of The Commonwealth Club
of California in San Francisco in 2005. Her topic that day
was “What Really Happened in Abu Ghraib?”
— AP PHOTO/ERIC RISBERG
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..Well, considering that Karzai the sock puppet is in the back pocket of Bush the… this shouldn’t be too tough to accomplish…
By Mariana Baabar
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has approached the government of Afghanistan to hand over the eldest, eleven-year-old son of the missing Pakistani scientist Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who according to the US authorities, is in [...]
..The petition is also here, I don’t care where you sign, just sign, and please remember it is not INSTEAD of the letter-writing campaign, it is to suppliment it.
By Stephen Soldz
Mohammad Jawad — arrested when he was 16 or 17 on highly questionable charges of throwing a grenade at US troops — [...]
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The Afghan government should immediately relinquish 11-year-old Ahmed Siddiqui to the custody of his family, Human Rights Watch said today. Siddiqui, a US citizen, is believed to [...]
by Andy Worthington
As part of its alleged “desire not to hold detainees any longer than necessary,” the Pentagon announced on Tuesday that two Guantánamo prisoners had been transferred to Algeria. This follows the repatriation of two other Algerians – Mustafa Hamlili and Abdul Raham Houari – at [...]
..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 [...]
After being offline having fallen ill rather quickly - and trying to recover - I went online today to check the news on Aafia. What I saw was so frustrating. I saw various articles. I saw one where they apparently have Aafia’s son in Afghan custody. I saw another where he is allegedly in US [...]
BAGHDAD: The U.S. military on Saturday released a cameraman working for Associated Press Television News after nearly three months in detention, saying no evidence was found that he posed a security threat.
Ahmed Nouri Raziak, 38, was handed over to representatives of The Associated Press at a U.S. military compound in Baghdad. He was detained by [...]
NEW YORK, Aug 26 (APP): A lawyer for Aafia Sidiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist charged with trying to kill American interrogators in Afghanistan, has made a fervent plea to U.S. authorities to immediately shift her client to a hospital in view of her worsening state of health.
“Her condition has significantly deteriorated since August four when [...]
..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 Andy Worthington, AlterNet
Biden doesn’t have clean hands when it comes to Iraq, but he’s been a leader in re-establishing the rule-of-law in Bush’s terror war.
In the end, then, it came down to this: Barack Obama needed a vice-presidential candidate with well-established Washington credentials, foreign policy experience and an ability to connect with blue-collar [...]
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