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I
hate to ask but…
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 11:24 PM CDT (Ignore this if
you saw the earlier one!)
Freedetainees.org
needs your help badly. Soon the server charge is due, and in addition
I’m trying to run off of a very very bad dial up connection. (14.4 to
28.8 baud) For not much more I connect via satellite (all that is
available here) and get a lot more done, thereby helping a lot more,
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Please
take action for Mohammad Jawad
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 09:33 PM CDT
Mohamed
Jawad was a minor when he was taken to Guantanamo Bay in 2002. Major
David Frakt has been working very very hard on Mohamed’s behalf. He
has put together an action that he believes will work. It will take
only a few minutes. The deadline is September 17, 2008. You CAN make
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Who
speaks for Islam: Part I
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 07:25 PM CDT
By
John Esposito and Dalia Mogahed
What do the world’s one billion Muslims really think? What does the
silent majority of Muslims want for their lives, and in their politics?
Why are the aspirations of the vast majority of Muslims in direct
contrast to most of the world’s impressions of Muslims?
In this five-part series, carried every [...] ![]() |
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Tanzanian
`terrorist` freed
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 06:56 PM CDT
By
Guardian Correspondent, Zanzibar
A Man who was implicated in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and
Dar es Salaam Suleiman Abdallah Salim was released and returned home
safely on Saturday under the escort of the Red Cross.
Speaking to this paper here in Zanzibar, Salim said he was arrested in
Somalia`s capital Mogadishu in 2003, [...] ![]() |
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Former
detainee czar urges war court shake-up
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 06:47 PM CDT
By
Carol Rosenberg
Click-2-Listen
MIAMI — A former Bush administration official responsible for detainee
operations urged the Pentagon on Friday to replace the war court’s top
lawyer — an Air Force Reserves general whom three military judges have
excluded from portions of military commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In the latest ruling, an Army judge said Thursday that [...] ![]() |
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Khadr
military judge bars Hartmann from legal advisor role
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 06:40 PM CDT
Andrew
Gilmore
[JURIST] The military judge presiding over the military commission
[JURIST news archive] trial of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD
materials; JURIST news archive] on Wednesday barred US Air Force Brig.
Gen. Thomas Hartmann [official profile] from acting as a legal advisor
to the commission in Khadr’s trial. In addition to his position as
legal [...] ![]() |
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US
govt to act against soldiers
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 06:36 PM CDT
By
Rose Mwalongo
The US government has said it will take tough measures against its
officials if proved that they illegally detained and tortured Suleiman
Abdallah Salim, a Tanzanian arrested five years ago for allegedly being
involved in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Dar es Salaam and
Nairobi.
Salim, who was brought back to [...] ![]() |
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The
ashes of American morality - Book Review
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 06:32 PM CDT
The
Dark Side by Jane Mayer Reviewed by Alexander Casella
Has the George W Bush administration’s “war on terror” been turned into
a war on America’s ideals of justice and the respect of basic human
rights? For author Jane Mayer the answer is an unqualified yes.
Indeed, the author makes a convincing case to [...] ![]() |
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opinion:
Six Pakistani women
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 06:06 PM CDT
Rafia
Zakaria Is it true that Pakistanis find it easier to condemn those
unlawful and gruesome acts committed by a defiant superpower than those
committed by Pakistani citizens?
Six Pakistani women have fuelled international headlines in the past
week. Five of them are the hapless victims of the grotesque live burial
that took place in [...] ![]() |
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Barack
Obama would consider charging Bush administration over Guantanamo
Posted: 05 Sep 2008 05:58 PM CDT
Joe
Biden, Barack Obama’s vice-presidential running mate, has indicated
that a new Democratic administration could pursue criminal charges
against the Bush administration over the treatment of detainees in
Guantanamo bay. By Toby Harnden in St Paul
Mr Biden said at an event in Deerfield Beach, Florida; If there has
been [...] ![]() |
