Door Andy Worthington | Canadese nationale Omar Khadr. nog in de Baai van Guantanamo heeft. Beschuldigd van moord, werd Khadr gevangen in Afghanistan in 2002 toen hij 15 was. Voor Zondag, gaf het Pentagoon toe dat 12 jongeren -- die onder de leeftijd van 18 tegelijkertijd hun zogenaamde misdaden plaatsvonden -- in de Baai hebben plaatsgehad van Guantanamo (in tegenstelling tot het cijfer van acht dat aan… werd voorgelegd

De geassoci�ërde Pers op Vrijdag hief zijn opschorting op het gebruik van foto's op die door de V.S. worden verstrekt. militair na het Pentagoon verzekerde de nieuwscoöperatieve vereniging die het zou vermijden verdelend veranderde beelden aan de nieuwsmedia. AP heeft ook zijn interne procedures versterkt om de integriteit van foto's uit buitenbronnen te verzekeren. Het tijdelijke verbod werd vorige week opgelegd nadat het Leger een digitaal gemanipuleerde foto van de V.S. vrijgaf. militairen…

Door Robert Parry | consortiumnews.com om te begrijpen hoe het bewijsmateriaal moet tegen vijf Algerijnen verdun geweest zijn hield bij de Baai van Guantanamo bijna zeven jaar †“ en wie enkel bevrijd door de V.S. werden bevolen. De rechter ⠀ “ van het Hof van het district u moet de geschiedenis van die rechter, Richard J. kennen. Leon. Vroeger in zijn carrière ⠀ “ alvorens benoemd te worden aan de bank door George W. Bush in 2002…

Michael Ratner, Voorzitter, Centrum voor Constitutionele Rechten en Auteur, de „Proef van Donald Rumsfeld: Een vervolging door Boek " Stuart Taylor, Kroniekschrijver, Nationaal Dagboek en Bijdragende Redacteur, de MODERATOR van Newsweek: David Vladeck, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center Ratner's new book, "The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld," lays out the evidence that high-level officials of the Bush administration ordered, authorized, implemented and permitted war crimes, in particular the crimes of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. ...

By AMOL SHARMA, Wall Street Journal | Verizon Wireless disclosed late Thursday that several of its employees accessed and viewed President-elect Barack Obama's personal cellphone account, and said it planned to discipline workers for the privacy breach. "We apologize to President-Elect Obama and will work to keep the trust our customers place in us every day," the company's chief executive, Lowell McAdam, said in a statement. Verizon said it discovered the ...

Texas Rangers to escort Guerra to court Friday morning after having been found in Mexico By ROBERT WILCOX | After being AWOL from the job and violating sections of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct - Willacy County District Attorney Juan Angel "Johnny Guerra" has been replaced in five (5) of the nine (9) criminal cases he convinced a grand jury to file against Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney ...

By Nancy A. Youssef  | WASHINGTON — Private security contractors operating in Iraq could face Iraqi prosecution for acts committed when they supposedly had immunity from Iraqi law, U.S. officials said Thursday. A new U.S.-Iraq security agreement doesn't specifically prevent Iraqi officials from bringing criminal charges retroactively in cases such as the September 2007 shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians by contractors protecting a State Department convoy, officials told security company ...

The crowd of tens of thousands, gathered in Baghdad where a Saddam Hussein statue once stood, protests a security pact that would keep American troops in Iraq through 2011. By Tina Susman and Caesar Ahmed Reporting from Baghdad -- At the spot where U.S. forces helped Iraqis topple a statue of Saddam Hussein ...

By RALPH NADER | While the liberal intelligentsia was swooning over Barack Obama during his presidential campaign, I counseled “prepare to be disappointed.” His record as a Illinois state and U.S. Senator, together with the many progressive and long overdue courses of action he opposed during his campaign, rendered such a prediction unfortunate but obvious. Now this same intelligentsia is beginning to howl over Obama’s transition team and early choices to run his ...

Via lancasteruaf.blogspot.com | Let me start by thanking the ADL and Chris Wolf for making this into a great conference. I’m pleased to be here in the United States, in fact I’m always happy to come here but this time is doubly joyful since America has voted massively for hope. Hope for America and hope for the world. Now, step into my time machine, we’re going back 2000 years. The first ...

University of London, 20-21 February, 2009 War Crimes Conference – Retrospectives and Prospects 'Identifying war crimes and the perpetrators is a key part of post-conflict resolution' Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London When: February 20/21 2009 Speakers Include: Lesley Abdela, Professor David Fraser Michael Kandiah Frank McDonough Hans Pawlisch Dr David Seymour Professor David Sugarman Details, including the programme and the booking form will be available on the SOLON, IALS, and CCBH websites: http://www.perc.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/http://ials.sas.ac.uk/  Or, Further info on speakers ...

Liverpool Daily Post | LABOUR MPs were accused of “Orwellian” tactics last night after voting to make it all-but impossible for innocent people to remove their DNA from the national database. Opposition parties reacted with fury after the Government overturned a Lords amendment that would have forced the Home Office to issue specific guidelines to help the innocent strip out their profiles. The vote came just days after the Daily Post revealed ...

By John Oates  | The Scottish Parliament has voted against the government's proposed ID cards, in a gesture of Phythonian futility. Members of the Scottish Parliament decided the cards would not deter crime, would not add to security and would do very little for civil liberties as well. MSP Fergus Ewing told the Parliament that the government could not be trusted to keep the data safe. ...

Many people have been asking us, "Could Bush actually pardon himself?". Would it be despicable? Sure it would. Would it be shameless and cowardly? Yes, that and that too. But all those adjectives fit Bush like O.J.'s glove before it shrunk from being soaked completely in blood. Which means he is absolutely is planning on doing it. And only impeachment could stop it. We need to talk about this. We need ...

By David Morrison | Stella Rimington, the last but one head of MI5, was interviewed by Decca Aikenhead in The Guardian on 18 October 2008. She asked her about the effect of Britain’s invasion of Iraq on the terrorist threat to Britain: I ask Rimington what importance she would place on the war, in terms of its impact on the terrorist threat. She pauses for a second, then replies quietly but ...