司法部的總檢查員報告了FBI繼續非法地得到關於美國人的個人信息。
`它太早期的以至於不能告訴這些措施是否充分地將消滅問題』， Glenn A.總檢查員。 罰款在他的第二個報告在二年認為在對國家安全信件的用途得到個人信息。
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在一個事件在華盛頓，退伍軍人和戰士在伊拉克敦促軍事的其他成員加入他們在公然反對戰爭。
星期四在華盛頓開始4天的`冬天戰士』事件，組織由伊拉克退伍軍人反對敦促其他軍事個人公然反對美國暴行的戰爭(IVAW) […]

Only 28 percent know that nearly 4,000 U.S. troops have been killed
Twenty-eight percent of the public is aware that nearly 4,000 U.S. personnel have died in Iraq over the past five years, while nearly half thinks the death tally is 3,000 or fewer and 23 percent think it is higher, according to an opinion survey […]

Millions of Britons face having their lives made a “misery” by mistakes on Government databases, it was claimed last night.Experts warned these errors could even put lives at risk by leading to inappropriate medical treatment.
Research by IT specialists found 4 per cent of the population - almost two million people - had discovered incorrect information […]

We were told that Saddam Hussein was an enemy of mankind because he used torture. Now we witness the gruesome spectacle of President Bush endorsing torture by vetoing the Bill from Congress outlawing “waterboarding” and other equivalently barbaric forms of interrogation.This must be the first time in modern history that a head of state has […]

DAKAR: The head of the world’s biggest Muslim body, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), called yesterday for Israelis to be tried by an international war crimes court for “heinous” attacks against Palestinians.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the 57-nation body - the second largest inter-governmental bloc after the UN - told an OIC summit in […]

The Home Secretary yesterday set out her plans for a “triple ring of security around Britain”. This “triple ring” entails the funding of new Special Branch police to patrol UK borders; tougher checks at borders and ID cards for foreign nationals.
As the Troubles come to an end with their attendant measures of State control to […]

The Ministry of Defence has been accused of supplying “misleading propaganda” to schools and attempting to recruit pupils into the army.The children’s secretary, Ed Balls, has written to officials in the MoD asking them to investigate teachers’ claims that their worksheets for 16- to 18-year-olds provide a one-sided view on the war in Iraq.
The National […]

SAFA ABU SEIF, 12, was fatally wounded as she stood in an upstairs room of her home in the Gaza City district of Jabaliya 10 days ago.
She was one of 27 children identified by United Nations staff among the 107 Palestinians who were killed in five days last week. Another 25 dead, including five women, […]

German activist Martin Kramer, en route to Japan to prepare for the Hokkaido G8 summit protests, was arrested by police in the city of Vanino in the Habarovsk region of the Russian Far East March 3. He was turned over the FSB agents, in whose hands he was harshly interrogated and beaten.
Martin was accused of […]

Four British MEPs have been fined hundreds of pounds for staging an EU treaty referendum protest in the European parliament.
The president of the European parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, has docked the allowances of MEPs involved in the disruption of the parliament last December.
Dozens of MEPs, many of them from the Conservative party and the UK Independence […]

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is asking armed forces personnel to voluntarily submit DNA samples leading to fears that they are becoming part of a larger national DNA database.
Under secretary of state for defence Derek Twigg told the Commons that voluntary DNA submission has been a gradual process across the armed forces. In 1999 all […]

Home Office slows ID card rollout as independent Treasury study recommends fast implementation
The government’s failure to take on board the recommendations of independent reports on the national identity card scheme may lead to faults and extra cost, warn experts.
Last week, home secretary Jacqui Smith announced plans for a slower rollout of the £5.4bn ID cards […]

Lawyers for a detainee held at the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., allege in court papers to be filed today that their client was systematically abused and that he was told there were cabinets full of videotapes depicting his treatment at the hands of the FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Ali al-Marri, who has been […]

Lawyers for Omar Khadr are asking a U.S. military judge for the names of interrogators who questioned the Canadian citizen in Afghanistan in an attempt to prove he was tortured.
Khadr’s lawyers were to appear at a pretrial hearing Thursday for the 21-year-old, who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay facility since his 2002 capture […]