GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for three years claims U.S. guards recently threatened to kill him and took his legal papers, lawyers for the Saudi said Monday.
Ahmed Zaid Zuhair told his lawyers a guard said “he will kill me and chop my body [...]
ISLAMABAD, A joint meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Human Rights Committee Friday strongly condemned Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir and expressed complete solidarity with the APHC and the Kashmiri people. The joint meeting which was presided over by the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, was also [...]
By MIKE MELIA
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — An alleged al-Qaida recruiter said Friday he wants nothing to do with his trial at Guantanamo Bay, calling it a “legal farce” and telling his Pentagon-appointed lawyer not to defend him.
Ali al-Bahlul, a Yemeni who was allegedly Osama bin Laden’s personal secretary, left the courtroom midway [...]
Arash and Kamiar Alaei, two physician brothers who have been pionneers of HIV/AIDS care and harm reduction in Iran, were arrested on June 21 and 22, respectively. It was announced this week that they are being charged with “plotting a velvet revolution.” Kamiar is a former student at Harvard School of Public Health and a [...]
Charles Mercieca, Ph. D.
The New Webster Dictionary of the English Language describes enemy as “one hostile to another, one who hates another, an adversary, a hostile force, army, fleet, or the like.” The same dictionary describes combat as “to fight with, to oppose by force, to contend against, or to resist.” Combatant is then described [...]
Aijaz Zaka Syed I Arab News
JUST when you think Uncle Sam’s war has no more surprises to spring on an unsuspecting world, he comes up with yet another gem.
Take the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist who grew up in the US and went to top universities including the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of [...]
A military judge has barred a US general from the second war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay.
The judge, Col Steve Henley, ruled that Air Force Brig Gen Thomas Hartmann, legal adviser to the tribunal, had compromised his objectivity.
Brig Gen Hartmann allegedly “pushed” for Afghan detainee Mohammed Jawad to be charged because of the “gripping” details [...]
Dr. James J. Zogby (c) President Arab American Institute
The 1980s were a difficult time for Arab Americans. Politicians returned our contributions, rejected our endorsements, and many effectively hung “No Arab Americans allowed” signs on their campaign doors. Back then, we wrote about this situation, calling it “the politics of exclusion.”
We fought back. We organized, worked [...]
Islamabad: Pakistan on Wednesday announced plans to release 35 Indian prisoners on Friday on the occasion of India’s 61st Independence Day.
The measure is a goodwill gesture and part of Pakistan’s strategy to improve relations with India, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said in a statement.
Also read: Pakistan to approach UN over J&K crisis
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Washington, (ANI): The Pakistani American Democratic Forum has reportedly urged upon all Pakistani American organisations to establish a legal funds for defending Pakistani-American national Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is facing trial in New York over terror charges, and attempting [...]
By Alan Burke
Staff writer
MARBLEHEAD — Marblehead lawyer Elaine Whitfield Sharp is telling the federal government to “put up or shut up” in the case of an MIT-educated Pakistani woman accused of being the only significant female member of al-Qaida.
Sharp, part of a legal team defending Aafia Siddiqui, has represented Siddiqui’s family for the past [...]
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