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The
US military’s detention facilities in Iraq
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 06:29 PM PDT
A look at U.S. military detention facilities in Iraq:
CAMP BUCCA:
Bucca began as a small enemy prisoner of war camp, built by
coalition troops crossing the Kuwaiti border just after the March 2003
invasion. It later grew into an expansive 40-acre (16-hectare) patch of
desert covered with row after row of watchtowers, barbed-wire-topped
fences and metal![]()
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Largest
of America’s two prisons in Iraq to shut
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 06:07 PM PDT
Martin Chulov
The closure of Camp Bucca is part of the US military’s winding
down of its highly contentious detention programme. Photograph: David
Furst/AFP/Getty Images
The largest of America’s two prisons in Iraq, Camp Bucca, will
close by the weekend as the US military winds down the highly
contentious detention programme it has run for the![]()
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Afghan
Detainees to Get Six – Month Reviews – Pentagon
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 06:01 PM PDT
The
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Obama
seeks Patriot Act extensions
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 05:46 PM PDT
By Ben Conery
The Obama administration has asked Congress to extend three
contentious provisions of the USA Patriot Act – a bill once described
by President Obama as “shoddy” – and urged an appeals court to deny
access to U.S. courts for detainees at a military prison in Afghanistan.
Civil liberties groups immediately criticized both![]()
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Obama
revives military tribunals for Guantanamo Bay detainees — with changes
Posted: 16 Sep 2009 05:43 PM PDT
by
Lara Jakes/Associated Press
Brennan Linsley/Associated PressA U.S. trooper in uniform enters the
Guantanamo detention facility at dawn, inside Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval
Base, Cuba. President Barack Obama says he is restarting U.S. military
tribunals for the small number of terrorist suspects among all the
detainees held at Guantanamo
WASHINGTON — In an apparent reversal, President Barack![]()
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RIGHTS-US:
Rendition Victim Still Seeking Justice
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 10:45 AM PDT
By William Fisher
NEW YORK, (IPS) – Thwarted by U.S. courts, a German citizen
who claims he was “rendered” by the U.S. and secretly detained and
tortured for four months is taking his case to the Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights.
The IACHR has accepted a petition filed by the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf![]()
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The
U.N.’s New Censor
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 10:34 AM PDT
The next head of Unesco has a record that speaks for itself.
To Farouk Hosni’s fans, it seems the only conceivable
objection to crowning him global protector of culture is his public
habit of making anti-Israel slurs, notably last year’s offer to burn
Hebrew books. “If he had held his tongue, perhaps a red carpet would![]()
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‘Human
experimentation’ in Guantánamo
Posted: 08 Sep 2009 11:13 AM PDT
Revelations that the CIA used doctors extensively while
subjecting “war on terror” detainees to torture (CIA doctors may have
experimented on prisoners, 3 September) should act as a wake-up call
for the international medical community.
In 2006 I, along with over 260 other physicians, reported in
the Lancet the abuses that were occurring in Guantánamo as![]()
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Keep
quiet about torture made for your own safety
Posted: 07 Sep 2009 07:51 PM PDT
British parliamentarians have accused the Government to cover
the atrocities committed by the secret services, suspected of
complicity in international torture on prisoners suspected to be
perpetrators of terrorist activities, as was the case of Binyam Mohamed.
“We live in torture … a world of torture”: the speaker has
lived for nearly seven years a![]()
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“CIA
health professionals played greater role in torture than previously
known”
Posted: 07 Sep 2009 07:47 PM PDT
R. Prasad
AP The file photo shows a detainee in an outdoor solitary
confinement cell talking to a military policeman at the Abu Ghraib
prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq. Photo: AP
The CIA report shows that doctors played a central role in
designing, calibrating, implementing and legitimizing the torture
programme
A report released recently by the![]()
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Teen
terror plot or wild imagination?
Posted: 07 Sep 2009 07:22 PM PDT
By Matthew Cardinale
‘After 9/11, the U.S. government was ready with hundreds of pages of
how they were gonna change the law to make it work for them and start a
war on terror that had no definitions and no definable end.’ —Stephanie
Guilloud, an activist with Project South
ATLANTA, Georgia (IPS/GIN) – Following a seven-day![]()
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BP
Close to Completing Libya Offshore Survey Amid Deal Scrutiny
Posted: 07 Sep 2009 07:07 PM PDT
By Kari Lundgren and Guy Collins
(Bloomberg) — BP Plc will complete a seismic survey off the
coast of Libya next month, with a view to drilling its first well in
the north African country in more than 30 years, amid controversy that
trade may have played a role in the release of the Lockerbie bomber.
Europe’s![]()
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Court
Says U.S. Officials Can Be Sued for Violating Rights
Posted: 07 Sep 2009 06:55 PM PDT
Written by Thomas R. Eddlem
The 9th District Court of Appeals ruled two to one on
September 4 that innocent people thrown into prison on material witness
pretexts can sue former Attorney General John Ashcroft for losses.
“We find this to be repugnant to the Constitution and a
painful reminder of some of the most ignominious chapters![]()
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RIGHTS-US:
Cleared for Release, But…
Posted: 07 Sep 2009 06:48 PM PDT
By William Fisher
NEW YORK , (IPS) – Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last
year that inmates at Guantanamo Bay have a right to go to federal court
to challenge their detention, detainees have filed more than 150 such
lawsuits.
Thirty-five of these cases have now been completed. And of
these, federal judges have ruled that![]()
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