bismi-lLahi-rRahmani-rRahiem
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
=== News Update ===
Is America above the Geneva Conventions?:
The debate over an anti-torture bill is a sad moment for a country that once stood for human rights.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10980.htm
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Iron Fisted America
Understanding the collective American psyche is no easy task. To those living in other lands we Americans are an enigma. Indeed, we are an enigma unto ourselves. To others we appear foolish, dim-witted, cowardly and morally bankrupt. To allow the rise of a fascist regime to take power is compelling evidence for those views. Let me try to explain why.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10983.htm
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Torture is un-American
This nation doesn't set up clandestine prisons around the globe to hold suspected terrorists in so-called "black sites" where no one but CIA operatives knows what occurs. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died to make sure that the Gestapo never exists here and that even our enemies are treated with the civility that they would never accord us.
http://www.sitnews.us/Columns/1105/111105_dan_thomasson.html
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Enemies of Democracy
In yet another disturbing example of our leaders' contempt for such antiquated notions as democracy and the rule of law, on November 10, 2005, the U.S. Senate voted to prevent suspects detained at Guantanamo Bay from challenging their detentions. The Senate's decision (which will surely be adopted by the facile House) would eviscerate the 2004 Supreme Court decision which held that the detention centers at Guantanamo were not outside the jurisdiction of U.S. law.
http://www.politicsofdissent.blogspot.com/
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Justice detained at Guantanamo: This must stop now
Prisoners held in long legal limbo
We recently returned from visiting with several prisoners in Guantánamo Bay's military prison, where there are still hundreds of faceless, uncharged prisoners who have been held for nearly four years without ever seeing an attorney.
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_3203612
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Guantanamo inmates to lose all rights :
Human rights campaigners are calling it the 'November surprise' - a last-minute amendment smuggled into a Pentagon finance bill in the US Senate last Thursday. Its effects are likely to be devastating: the permanent removal of almost all legal rights from 'war on terror' detainees at Guantanamo Bay and every other similar US facility on foreign or American soil.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10975.htm
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Mike Whitney : The Senate agrees to Imprisonment without Charges:
None of the Guantanamo inmates have ever been charged with a crime. The Senate vote ensures that they never will.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10981.htm
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Frank Rich : 'We Do Not Torture' and Other Funny Stories :
If it weren't tragic it would be a New Yorker cartoon. The president of the United States, in the final stop of his forlorn Latin America tour last week, told the world, "We do not torture." Even as he spoke, the administration's flagrant embrace of torture was as hard to escape as publicity for Anderson Cooper.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10985.htm
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Video : Sister Dianna Ortiz, OSU "I Was Tortured":
Many of our fellow Americans wear a blindfold hiding from the truth of what our government is doing. But each of you has eyes to see, ears to hear, and a voice to oppose this crime against humanity.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8807.htm
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Larry C. Johnson: ... And why it should never be one:
I 'm a former CIA officer and a former counterterrorism official. During the last few months, I have spoken with three good friends who are CIA operations officers, all of whom have worked on terrorism at the highest levels. They all agree that torturing detainees will not help us. In fact, they believe that it will hurt us in many ways.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10987.htm
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CIA allegedly hid evidence of Iraqi detainee's torture and murder - report
The death of secret detainee Manadel al-Jamadi was ruled a homicide in a Defense Department autopsy, Time reported, adding that documents it recently obtained included photographs of his battered body, which had been kept on ice to keep it from decomposing, apparently to conceal the circumstances of his death.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10984.htm
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9/11: Rumsfeld Buries Admission of Missing 2+ Trillion Dollars in 9/10/01 Press Conference
On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds could not be accounted for. Rumsfeld stated: "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions." 1 Such a disclosure normally would have sparked a huge scandal. However, the commencement of the attack on New York City and Washington in the morning would assure that the story remained buried.
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_news&Number=294139541#Post294139541
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It's Not up to the Court
Who cares about Alito, anyways? The courts have never been on the side of justice
http://progressive.org/mag_zinn1105
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1,100 Lawyers Leave Saddam Defense Team :
Some 1,100 Iraqi lawyers have withdrawn from Saddam Hussein's defense team, citing insufficient protection following the slayings of two peers representing co-defendants of the ousted Iraqi leader.
http://tinyurl.com/9ox7h
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Blair Faces New Inquiry into Iraq War :
MPs organising the campaign to impeach Tony Blair believe they have enough support to force a highly damaging Commons investigation into the Prime Minister's pre-war conduct.
http://www.sundayherald.com/52851
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Three U.S. Soldiers Killed In Iraq:
The Multi-National Forces declared on Sunday that three US soldiers died in two separate incidents on Saturday in Iraq.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=786884
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U.S. soldier dies three weeks after explosion in Iraq :
The Department of Defense says the 35-year-old Army Sergeant died Tuesday at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division,
http://www.wofl.com/_ezpost/data/30017.shtml
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UK troops out of Iraq 'next year' :
British troops could leave Iraq by the end of next year, the country's president Jalal Talabani has predicted.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4432480.stm
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Report: 14,500 East Jerusalem children not in school due to lack of classrooms
The Ir Amim - or "City of the Nations" - foundation is dedicated to advancing relations between Jews and Palestinians in Jerusalem.
The report said there are 79,000 children of school age in East Jerusalem and only 64,536 children registered with the Jerusalem municipality and the Minister of Education studying in the public school system or in private schools such as those run by the Waqf Muslim religious trust, churches and private foundations.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/644808.html
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War pimp alert:
U.S. builds case of Iran bomb on laptop clues:
In mid-July, senior American intelligence officials called the leaders of the international atomic inspection agency to the top of a skyscraper overlooking the Danube in Vienna and unveiled the contents of what they said was a stolen Iranian laptop computer.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10979.htm
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Lyon burns as riots hit city centre :
Violence moves out of the suburbs for the first time while Paris prepares for the worst
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1641567,00.html
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