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Terrorism« Previous EntriesU.S. reveals way to get off terror listTuesday, 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 ...
tagged Terrorism and USA-NewsRights 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 ...
tagged Terrorism, Torture and USA-NewsInterrogating Abu GhraibFriday, 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 unjustFriday, 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-NewsUS ‘war on terror’ backfiring, says thinktankThursday, 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 ...
tagged Terrorism and USA-NewsJudges poised to deliver new blow on terrorTuesday, 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 ... tagged Terrorism and UK-NewsGuantanamo Prisoner Charged in Embassy AttackMonday, 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 ... tagged Guantanamo, Terrorism and USA-NewsWatchdog’s threat to 42-day terror lawMonday, 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 ... tagged Terrorism and UK-NewsCheney again links Iraq invasion to 9/11 attacksThursday, 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 ... tagged Iraq and TerrorismBin Laden in new video attack on EUThursday, 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 ... tagged TerrorismExtent of secret Government IRA links revealedTuesday, 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 ... tagged Cover-Up, Terrorism and UK-News9/11 accused can seek compensationThursday, 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 ... tagged TerrorismIntelligence Says Bin Laden Might Be DeadWednesday, February 13th, 2008Geostrategy-Direct U.S. intelligence agencies are beginning to suspect that Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden is dead after all, despite a recent audio tape exhorting Al Qaida terrorists in Iraq. 
Undated footage from the Internet shows Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden making statements from an unknown location. Reuters
The Al Qaida leader ...
tagged TerrorismVIDEO: Bhutto said Omar Sheikh murdered bin LadenWednesday, February 6th, 2008AlJazeera Sir David speaks to former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto about her controversial return to Pakistan, who she thinks is behind the deadly bombing of her convoy in Karachi last month, and whether she and Musharraf can forge a powersharing agreement ... tagged Terrorism« Previous Entries |
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