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Bush Greeted By Torture Complaint and War Criminal Welcoming Committee

Common Dreams    Saturday, October 22, 2011   George Bush’s arrival inCanadafor an economics summit was met by protests and a torture complaint – including a proposed 69-page indictment – brought by international human rights lawyers on behalf of one current and three former Guantánamo detainees. TheBritish Columbia Provincial CourtinSurreyset a Jan. 9 hearing date. Democracy [...]

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Assassination Rights

by Edward S. Herman Edward S. Herman is an economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media.   October 2, 2011    Assassination is as American as apple pie. The record-breaking case of assassination targeting is Fidel Castro.  The 1976 Church Committee report [...]

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Guantánamo Suicide Was Severely Mentally Ill, And Was A Case of Mistaken Identity

Guantánamo Suicide Was Severely Mentally Ill, And Was A Case of Mistaken Identity                                                                                   Andy Worthington Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US May 22, 2011 There is cruelty. There is stupidity. And [...]

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US Rendition and Torture: A New Front for Accountability Opens Up in Djibouti

US Rendition and Torture: A New Front for Accountability Opens Up in Djibouti Andy Worthington Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison  Cageprisoners.      March 3, 2011 The mainstream media in the US may not care about the significance of the Spanish National Court’s [...]

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Detainee 239.

by Felicity Arbuthnot On Tuesday,13th April, as British politicians travelled the country, promising a brave new world on Election day (6th May) a letter was delivered to the British Prime Minister’s residence, Number 10, Downing Street. Both former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his successor, Conservative leader, David Cameron, have made much, recently, on television, [...]

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Ramadan at Guantánamo: Nightly force-feedings

At Guantánamo during Ramadan, the guards strap hunger striker detainees into the force-feeding chair at night. BY CAROL ROSENBERG crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com The Miami Herald    Wednesday, 25 August 2010 Here’s a new twist in the U.S. military’s Islamic sensitivity effort in the prison camps for suspected terrorists at the Guantánamo Bay Navy base: Military medical staff are [...]

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The Omar Khadr case makes a mockery of US justice

Posted by Yo Zushi – The New Statesman    -  10 August 2010 After eight years in Guantanamo, the last western ‘enemy combatant’ faces a deeply flawed trial. Omar Khadr was a badly wounded boy of 15 when, in 2002, US forces captured him in Afghanistan. As the dust settled on a suspected al-Qaeda compound after a [...]

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As Khadr ‘Trial’ Looms, Military Rules Disputed Confessions Admissible

Prosecutors Insisted Abuse Didn’t Effect Confessions by Jason Ditz Antiwar Forum – August 09, 2010 The Obama Administration’s military “trial” against Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay is expected to begin as soon as Tuesday, following a ruling form a military judge that the confessions made by Khadr are admissible. Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was 15 [...]

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When it comes to waterboarding, labels matter

The press’s failure to call waterboarding torture impedes honest discussion of the darkest years of the Bush presidency Dan Kennedy guardian.co.uk –  6 July 2010 On 18 September 1945, barely a month after the Japanese surrender had brought second world war to a close, a sickening story appeared on page two of the New York [...]

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20% failure rate in Saudi Gitmo rehab programme

Middle East Online – 20 June 2010 Twenty-five former Saudi detainees of Guantanamo prison make contacts with militants. RIYADH – Twenty percent of ex-Guantanamo prisoners who graduated from Saudi Arabia’s rehabilitation programme made contacts with militants, a senior Saudi counter-terror official said on Saturday. Twenty-five of the 120 former detainees at the US “war-on-terror” prison committed [...]

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NYC judge rules Guantanamo detainee must face strip searches to protect security interests

LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press – 17 June 2010 NEW YORK — A Guantanamo Bay detainee awaiting trial in a federal civilian court cannot evade strip searches that require him to expose his private areas because security would be compromised, a judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan made the written ruling Monday and it [...]

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Robert Fisk: Silenced for speaking the truth about Guantanamo

Independent - 15 May 2010 I began my column last week with the words “We know all about Guantanamo”. I was wrong. Courtesy of the Toronto press – until a few days ago, when half of them were censored out of the drumhead courts martial that pass for “justice” in this execrable place – I have [...]

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