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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
By Jason Leopold | The Pentagon’s decision to drop war-crimes charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, the alleged “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attacks, again underscores the consequences of the Bush administration’s descent into torture and other abusive treatment of “war on terror” detainees.
If al-Qahtani’s case had gone forward, the U.S. government would have been forced to reveal its own violations of ...
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Renditions Ruin the EU Case
Monday, May 5th, 2008
By David Cronin | Collusion between European Union governments and a secret U.S. torture and kidnapping programme has damaged the EU's efforts to promote human rights throughout the world, an internal paper drawn up by Brussels officials has admitted.
In 2001, the EU approved guidelines on how diplomats representing it should raise concern over the ill-treatment of detainees with the ...
tagged EU, Terrorism and World News
U.S. reveals way to get off terror list
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
UPI | The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a way for people who don't belong on terrorist watch lists to be spared extra scrutiny at the airport.
Under the new program, tens of thousands of travelers who are stopped repeatedly because their names match those of suspected terrorists will be permitted to register with the airlines, USA Today reported ...
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Rights Groups Wrangle with CIA over “Ghost Prisoners”
Saturday, April 26th, 2008
IPS | The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has refused to release more than 7,000 documents related to its programmes of secret detentions, renditions, and torture, and is asking a federal judge to dismiss a Freedom of Information lawsuit demanding disclosure.
The refusal came last week in the CIA's response to a lawsuit brought by three human rights groups, Amnesty International USA ...
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Interrogating Abu Ghraib
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Tony Diaz, a former military-police sergeant who served at Abu Ghraib, stares into Errol Morris' camera and speaks in baffled tones about being called into a shower room at that notorious Baghdad prison where CIA interrogators were beating an Iraqi detainee to death. Diaz says he did not participate in the man's interrogation and did not beat him; he was ...
tagged Iraq, Terrorism and USA News
‘Terror’ asset-grab absurd and unjust
Friday, April 25th, 2008
By Gerri Peev |
ANTI-TERRORISM legislation drawn up by Gordon Brown to allow the Treasury to seize assets from suspects has been ruled unlawful by a High Court judge. The practice, which was dubbed "Britain's financial Guantanamo" by campaigners, was condemned by the judge as absurd and unfair, breaching the human rights of individuals.
Mr Justice Collins said asset-freezing ...
tagged Terrorism and UK News
US ‘war on terror’ backfiring, says thinktank
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
By Mark Tran |
The US "war on terror" has backfired, strengthening extremists in Afghanistan and Somalia and turning them into legitimate political actors in the eyes of their local populations, a thinktank said today.
The Senlis Council, which has strongly criticised US policy in Afghanistan in the past, is particularly scathing of the Bush administration's "abject policy failures" in Somalia.
It ...
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Judges poised to deliver new blow on terror
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
By Sean O'Neill |
Gordon Brown is facing a new battle over key anti-terrorism laws this week with the High Court set to rule against powers to freeze suspects’ bank accounts. Five men who deny any link to terrorism and have no previous convictions are challenging the Government’s powers to freeze bank accounts, stop benefit payments and control ...
tagged Terrorism and UK News
‘Terror gang plotted to blow up airliners’
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Eight Islamist terrorists plotted to blow up several transatlantic airliners in mid-air using explosives disguised as soft drinks in what would have brought about a death toll of “almost unimaginable scale”, a court heard today. The alleged suicide mission involved the suspects boarding seven Air Canada, United Airlines and American Airlines flights leaving London bound for the United States and Canada on a date to be arranged in late 2006. Once on ...
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Guantanamo Prisoner Charged in Embassy Attack
Monday, March 31st, 2008SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The U.S. has charged a Guantanamo prisoner with war crimes for the deadly 1998 al-Qaida attack on the American embassy in Tanzania. The Pentagon said Monday that Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani could receive the death penalty if convicted by a military tribunal at the U.S. military prison. The charges against Ghailani include murder and attacking civilians for his alleged role in a bombing that killed 11 people ...
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Watchdog’s threat to 42-day terror law
Monday, March 31st, 2008Alan Travis | The Guardian The government's own human rights watchdog threatened last night to launch a legal challenge to Labour's plan to introduce a law that would let police detain terror suspects without charge for 42 days. The Equality and Human Rights Commission says the key part of the counter-terrorism bill goes against human rights law and may breach the Race Relations Act. As the ...
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Cheney again links Iraq invasion to 9/11 attacks
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Vice President Dick Cheney told soldiers in Iraq that the 9/11 attacks spurred the decision to invade Iraq. BAGHDAD -- Amid tears and wails, mourners in the southern city of Najaf on Tuesday began burying victims from a suicide bombing that killed nearly 50 worshipers and injured dozens just before evening prayers Monday in nearby Karbala. In Baghdad, a long-anticipated reconciliation conference began with great fanfare, then quickly dissolved into ...
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Bin Laden in new video attack on EU
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden addressed the "wise men" of the European Union in a new audio message slamming the publication of drawings insulting to the Prophet Mohammed and vowed a strong reaction. The message, which appeared on a militant website that has carried al Qaida ...
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Extent of secret Government IRA links revealed
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008The full extent of a secret 20-year "back channel" between the British government and the IRA is revealed today by Tony Blair's former chief of staff, who declares that the peace process might never have been possible without the link. In the first authoritative account of the link by a British official, Jonathan Powell tells the Guardian that a Derry businessmen, Brendan Duddy, and a series of MI5 and MI6 ...
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9/11 accused can seek compensation
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Lotfi Raissi, the Algerian wrongly accused of training pilots involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, should be allowed to claim compensation, the Court of Appeal ruled. Mr Raissi, a pilot, was arrested at his home under the Terrorism Act in September 2001, 10 days after the World Trade Centre atrocity. He was released after seven days but re-arrested under an extradition warrant issued at the request of ...
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