By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The trial of a former Florida professor once accused of being a leading Palestinian terrorist was postponed Friday after a judge raised new doubts about whether prosecutors have been overzealous.
Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian had been scheduled to go on trial [...]
By Artemio V. Panganiban
Philippine Daily Inquirer
LAST SUNDAY, I DISCUSSED TWO RECENT American cases that affect our people. First, on June 12, 2008, the US Supreme Court (USSC) rejected, at least in this instance, the claim of Filipino human rights victims over the $35 million Marcos deposit in a US bank, on [...]
In 2005, while a law student at the University of Miami, Mahvish Rukhsana Khan decided to volunteer as an interpreter for Afghan detainees at Guantánamo Bay. The American daughter of Afghan immigrants (her parents are Johns Hopkins-educated physicians), Khan thought it unfair that the detainees could not understand their lawyers, who did not speak Pashto, [...]
..I’ll let this one speak for itself..
Saudi Arabia prisons to replace Guantanamo bay
Pakistan Daily
Saudi Arabia is to build five modern prisons in the kingdom to replace US Guantanamo detention facility, a new report has revealed.
Jordanian daily quoted unnamed sources as saying that US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Saudi officials are cooperating to [...]
Mike Blanchfield , Canwest News Service
Published: Tuesday, August 05, 2008
WASHINGTON - Newly-disclosed documents revealed Tuesday that foreign government visits to Guantanamo Bay detainees were recorded [...]
..Bet this soldier’s life imprisonment will be spent in a place an awfully different place than the place they keep the detainees.. with much better conditions - which wouldn’t take much - warm food for instance - not being hung by the wrists, that sort of thing.. go figure..
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
OCEANSIDE, Calif. [...]
Guantanamo Bay News
