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* Louise Slaughter Slams Effort to Amend FOIA to Shield Abuse Photos
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* Guantanamo Update: 38 Cases, 2 New Releases, and 1 Showdown <#2>
* Iraq exile tales shock and awe NY theater audiences <#3>
* US House votes to allow Guantanamo transfers to US <#4>
* Israel 'holding hundreds illegally' <#5>
* Charkaoui declared a free man <#6>
* Obama DOJ Adopts Bush Position in Torture Cases <#7>
* Prisons' legacy haunts Afghanistan <#8>
* Bethlehemites protest medical neglect at Israeli prisons <#9>
* Judge Confirms Detainee Tortured to Make False Confessions <#10>
* University of Ottawa prof sues DND to see Afghan detainee photos
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* Officials: Zazi [ALLEGEDLY] Had Contact With Top Al-Qaida Leaders
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* Republicans oppose bringing 9/11 plotters to US for trial <#13>
* Abu Ghraib appeal centers on confusion at prison <#14>
Louise Slaughter Slams Effort to Amend FOIA to Shield Abuse Photos
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Posted: 15 Oct 2009 03:05 PM PDT
By Daphne Eviatar
(Be sure to see video of Rep. Sloughter at the end of this article)
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) today blasted the Obama administration,
as well as some of her colleagues in the House and Senate, for including
a provision in the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill that would
amend the Freedom of Information Act to
Guantanamo Update: 38 Cases, 2 New Releases, and 1 Showdown
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Posted: 15 Oct 2009 02:57 PM PDT
by Christopher Flavelle, ProPublica
More than a year after the Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo detainees
can appeal their detention in U.S. courts, at least 17 prisoners remain
in U.S. custody despite judges' orders for their release. To help track
the progress of those cases, ProPublica launched a feature tracking each
detainee's petition. Today we updated
Iraq exile tales shock and awe NY theater audiences
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Posted: 15 Oct 2009 02:53 PM PDT
By Louis Charbonneau
NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) -- An imam describes being locked in a small
cage by U.S. soldiers at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, forced to listen to
deafening music that mocked Islam. An Iraqi woman unveils her
bomb-destroyed face.
They are two of the characters in "Aftermath," a new play by Jessica Blank
US House votes to allow Guantanamo transfers to US
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Posted: 15 Oct 2009 02:50 PM PDT
By Olivier Knox (AFP)
WASHINGTON --- The US House of Representatives voted Thursday to allow
Guantanamo Bay detainees to be brought to US soil for trial, boosting
President Barack Obama's efforts to close the notorious facility.
The green light came in a 42.7-billion-dollar 2010 spending bill for the
US Department of Homeland Security, which cleared the House
Israel 'holding hundreds illegally'
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Posted: 14 Oct 2009 11:58 PM PDT
Annaem's brother is one of hundreds being detained by Israeli
authorities without charge
Israel is violating international law by detaining hundreds of
Palestinians, some of them for years without charge or trial, two
leading human rights groups in the country have said.
B'Tsalem and HaMoked released a report on Wednesday, saying that 335
Palestinians are being
Charkaoui declared a free man
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Posted: 14 Oct 2009 08:54 PM PDT
A security certificate against a Montreal man accused by Ottawa of
having terrorist ties has officially been declared null and void.
Adil Charkaoui, a married father of three who has steadfastly denied any
links to terrorists, said Wednesday he's elated with the judgment.
Federal Court Justice Daniele Tremblay-Lamer wrote that the certificate
has been quashed and that
Obama DOJ Adopts Bush Position in Torture Cases
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Posted: 14 Oct 2009 08:44 PM PDT
Stance Follows Presidential Declaration That Torture Is Illegal By
Daphne Eviatar
Morning prayer for detainees in Camp 4 of the Guantanamo Bay Detention
Facility (Zuma Press)
When he took office, President Obama made clear that torture is illegal
and that the United States would not abuse detainees in its custody. He
immediately ordered the CIA as
Prisons' legacy haunts Afghanistan
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Posted: 14 Oct 2009 08:34 PM PDT
Chris Sands, Foreign Correspondent
Mohammed Jawad claims he was only 12 when he was arrested for allegedly
planning a grenade attack in Kabul in 2002. He says he was beaten by
Afghan police to make him confess before being transferred to US custody
at Bagram and then at Guantanamo Bay. Chris Sands / The National
Mohammed Jawad
Bethlehemites protest medical neglect at Israeli prisons
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Posted: 14 Oct 2009 08:24 PM PDT
Bethlehem -- Ma'an -- Mothers and fathers of Palestinian prisoners in
Israel held a sit-in protest in Bethlehem Wednesday, outside the Red
Cross Building in an attempt to precipitate action on securing medical
attention to sick prisoners.
Head of the Palestinian Detainees' Society Abdullah Az-Zaghari condemned
what he called the "medical neglect" Palestinians are suffering
Judge Confirms Detainee Tortured to Make False Confessions
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Posted: 14 Oct 2009 08:21 PM PDT
by: Andy Worthington, t r u t h o u t | Report
A declassified ruling by a federal court judge reveals that Fouad
al-Rabiah, an innocent Kuwaiti prisoner who was ordered released from
Guantanamo three weeks ago, was brutally tortured into making false
confessions by US interrogators and repeatedly
University of Ottawa prof sues DND to see Afghan detainee photos
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Posted: 14 Oct 2009 08:12 PM PDT
By Glen McGregor , The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA --- A University of Ottawa law professor is taking the federal
government to court over its refusal to release photographs of detainees
held by Canadian Forces in Afghanistan.
Amir Attaran wants a court order to force the Department of National
Defence to release pictures he requested in 2006 under
Officials: Zazi [ALLEGEDLY] Had Contact With Top Al-Qaida Leaders
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Posted: 14 Oct 2009 08:10 PM PDT
by Dina Temple-Raston
The man arrested last month for allegedly plotting to blow up targets in
New York contacted one of Osama bin Laden's right-hand men, U.S.
intelligence officials say.
Officials say Denver shuttle bus driver Najibullah Zazi used an
intermediary to contact Mustafa al-Yazid, the head of al-Qaida's
operations in Afghanistan. Yazid is perhaps best known
Republicans oppose bringing 9/11 plotters to US for trial
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Posted: 14 Oct 2009 08:01 PM PDT
WASHINGTON --- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Wednesday defended
a Republican measure to prevent bringing five September 11 suspects from
their Guantanamo prison to the United States for trial in civilian courts.
"The question is not whether terror suspects should be brought to
justice. The question is where and how," the Republican senator said
Wednesday.
"And the
Abu Ghraib appeal centers on confusion at prison
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Posted: 14 Oct 2009 07:56 PM PDT
By DAVID DISHNEAU
A female soldier who was photographed giving a smiling "thumbs-up"
beside a pyramid of naked Abu Ghraib detainees should have her criminal
conviction overturned because parading prisoners in the nude was
apparently Army policy, her lawyer told the military's highest court
Wednesday.
Defense attorney Frank J. Spinner also told the U.S. Court of Appeals
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