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Standing straight and tall, an impressive and deeply introspective man, Sami El Haj walks with a limp and the help of a walking stick. Neither laughter nor smiles light up the refined face of this man, old before his time. A deep sadness pervades him. He was [...]
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 Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — Confessed al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed testified on paper Friday in the defense of Osama bin Laden’s driver — and the defense rested in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War II.
”He was not a soldier, he was a driver,” Mohammed [...]
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Day to Day, August 1, 2008 · In the first trial of a Guantanamo detainee, the defense has rested its case. Salem Hamdan, Osama bin Laden’s former driver, is being tried for aiding terrorists. But he denies being a part of al-Qaida. Alex Chadwick talks with NPR’s John McChesney who [...]
by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC News
Last week, soldiers kidnapped resident Jamal Hussein Ameera, 50, after his daughter managed to capture on film an Israeli soldiers shooting a Palestinian youth after they arrested and handcuffed him. The father was sentenced on Tuesday to one hundred days imprisonment.
The father was kidnapped by the soldiers less than a [...]
The U.S. military base on the island of Diego Garcia in the
Indian Ocean.
By ADAM ZAGORIN
Almost two years have passed since President George W. Bush publicly acknowledged the existence of a CIA program in which agency-leased aircraft fly terror suspects between secret prisons and interrogation sites around the world. “This program has helped us to [...]
By Karl Schwarz Rense.com
It has been said that “as goes GM, so goes America.” With GM teetering on bankruptcy - and suffering massive losses due to lack of foresight on how to compete with foreign car makers - Americans need to stop, think, and realize that GM going down means America is not far behind. [...]
By MIKE MELIA
In this file photograph of a sketch by
courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, reviewed
by the U.S. Military, defendant Salim
Hamdan watches as FBI agent Craig
Donnachie testifies about his
interrogations of Hamdan, while a
picture of disguised U.S. agents is
displayed on a screen, during
Hamdan’s trial inside the war crimes
courthouse at [...]
OTTAWA (AFP) — Canada’s opposition leader on Wednesday urged the prime minister to try to repatriate the last Western detainee at the US “war on terror” camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, calling his jailing “illegal.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper must “do everything in his power to repatriate Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr to Canada where [...]
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