Door Ross Tuttle
Een het vervloeken nieuw gesprek openbaart dat de proeven Gitmo slechts voor tonen zijn.
Geheim bewijsmateriaal. Ontkenning van habeascorpus. Bewijsmateriaal dat door waterboarding wordt verkregen. Onbepaalde detentie. Litany van klachten over de wettelijke behandeling van gevangenen bij Baai Guantánamo is lang, het storen en onderhand huisvriend. Niettemin, een nieuwe golf van begroete schok en kritiek […]
Tot 20 Iraakse burgers kunnen door Britse troepen in zuidelijk Irak uitgevoerd te zijn, is het geëistr.
De advocaten publiceerden een dossier van bewijsmateriaal van mensen genomen gevangene na een kanonslag dichtbij de zuidelijke Iraakse stad van majat-al-Kabir in Mei 2004, die de ook voorgestelde gevangenen door militaire het UK werden werden gemarteld en verminkt.
De beweringen waren […]
Stop the War: a mass movement to celebrate and defend
Socialist Worker
The 15 February 2003 demonstration reminds us of the strength of the anti-war movement and shows the importance of the upcoming 15 March protest, writes Andrew Burgin
The fifth anniversary of the great anti-war march of 15 February 2003 was celebrated by the anti-war movement last […]
Independent Online
An early draft of a pre-war British weapons dossier on Iraq included concerns over Israel’s nuclear capability, but the government fought to suppress the reference before publication, The Guardian reported on Thursday.
The newspaper said the Foreign Office convinced a tribunal to keep secret the handwritten mention of Israel in the margin of the dossier, […]
The Irish Times
Four million Iraqis are struggling to feed themselves, and 40 per cent of the country’s 27 million people have no safe water, the UN said today.
Iraq has annual economic growth of around 7 per cent, according to UN estimates, and a national budget of €33 billion, buoyed by oil exports of 1.6 million […]
Can a DOJ lawyer be held accountable for advocating the inhumane?
By Doug Cassel
When on Jan. 22 a federal court judge sentenced Jose Padilla to 17 years in prison for conspiracy to commit terrorism, it was a one-day story. But, in fact, the Padilla case goes on.
Padilla, a U.S. citizen and former Chicago gang member, alleges […]
Jim Bronskill
An investigation by the watchdog over the Canadian Security Intelligence Service concludes the spy agency “uses information obtained by torture” - perhaps its bluntest assessment of CSIS’s intelligence-gathering practices to date.
The Security Intelligence Review Committee, which began looking into the issue two years ago, stops short of accepting Toronto lawyer Paul Copeland’s assertion that […]
By Nigel Morris
The mothers of two teenage soldiers killed in Iraq accused Tony Blair’s government of going to war “on a lie” as they took their fight for a public inquiry into the conflict to the House of Lords.
Beverly Clarke and Rose Gentle argue that ministers breached their duty to Britain’s armed forces by failing […]
The US has ordered diplomats abroad to justify seeking death penalty for 6 Gitmo detainees by recalling the executions of Nazi war criminals.
The unclassified cable is written in a question-and-answer format in anticipation of inquiries that diplomats may get from foreigners about the Pentagon’s Monday announcement of the trial and charges.
In the four-page cable […]
Raw Story
Jon Stewart hosted the New York Times’ Philip Shenon on Monday night to discuss his new book, The Commission: An Uncensored history of the 9/11 Commission. The author described White House obstructionism in the course of the officially-mandated Sept. 11 investigation.
“It is remarkable the efforts that the Bush White House went through to try […]
Matthew Weaver and agencies | guardian.co.uk
The planned reduction in the number of US troops in Iraq is to be put on hold, the US defence secretary, Robert Gates, indicated today.
Under a plan set out by General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, Washington had planned to withdraw five of the 20 brigades in […]
Muscular Defense Plan Buoys Contractors
Proposed Budget Would Benefit Area Companies
By Dana Hedgpeth
A run of healthy profits for defense contractors that has lasted nearly a decade will continue for at least another year, analysts and company executives said after the Bush administration last week submitted its new defense budget.
The $515.4 billion defense spending proposal for fiscal […]
By Ahmed Ali
The violence around the continuing U.S. military operations in this city has robbed children of their childhood.
Only two provincial schools and one private kindergarten school are functioning in this city of 280,000, located 50 km north of Baghdad. Most children know neither school nor play.
Or even the food they want. “We parents can […]
Majid Khan is seen in 1999 during his senior year in high school in Baltimore, Maryland. Khan, 27, is now jailed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The Khan Family / Center for Constitutional Rights / AP
In 2005, CIA officials ordered the destruction of videotapes depicting the harsh interrogation of prisoners in the […]
A new court at Guantánamo would allow the U.S. military to keep its secrets by cutting off terror suspects’ testimony from the ears of observers at the flick of a switch.
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — On the eve of the resumption of its war crimes trials, the military on Sunday unveiled a […]
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