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  • FlashBack: Bin-Ladin Denies Involvement in the 9/11 Attacks
    31 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ummat Interviews Usamah Bin-Ladin 28 September 2001
    Bin-Ladin Denies Involvement in the 9/11 Attacks
    Source: Khilafah.com, 10 Oct 2001
    The Al-Qaidah group had nothing to do with the 11 September attacks on the USA, according to Usama bin Ladin in an interview with the Pakistani newspaper Ummat. Usama bin Ladin went on to suggest that Jews or US secret services were behind the attacks, and to express gratitude and support for Pakistan, urging Pakistan’s people to jihad against the (…)

  • Michael Berg Changes His Story About Nick and Moussaoui
    29 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com In May 2004, after his son Nick was decapitated in Iraq, Michael Berg told a very strange story to CNN to account for the fact that Nick’s University of Oklahoma computer password had come into the possession of Al Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui, who spent six months in Norman in 2001. In 2005 Moussaoui pled guilty to all six counts of an indictment charging him with terrorism. The elder Berg said that while his son (…)

  • ILLEGAL WIRETAPS MAY THREATEN TERROR CASES
    28 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Defense Lawyers in Terror Cases Plan Challenges Over Spy Efforts
    By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN Published: December 28, 2005
    WASHINGTON, Dec. 27 - Defense lawyers in some of the country’s biggest terrorism cases say they plan to bring legal challenges to determine whether the National Security Agency used illegal wiretaps against several dozen Muslim men tied to Al Qaeda.
    The lawyers said in interviews that they wanted to learn whether the men were monitored by the agency and, if (…)

  • Maher Arar: Timeline
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen born in Syria in 1970, came to Canada in 1987. After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer engineering, Arar worked in Ottawa as a telecommunications engineer.
    On a stopover in New York as he was returning to Canada from a vacation in Tunisia in September 2002, U.S. officials detained Arar, claiming he has links to al-Qaeda, and deported him to Syria, even though he was carrying a Canadian passport.
    When Arar returned to Canada more than a (…)

  • Growing Dissent in UK Parliament: MPs "don’t belive what the US Administration states anymore"
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The US ambassador in London has been forced into an embarrassing retreat after his embassy clarified comments he made denying that the United States was involved in removing terrorist suspects to Syria.
    Robert Tuttle told Radio 4’s Today programme last Thursday that there was no evidence that US forces had sent suspected terrorists for questioning in Syria, a practice known as "extraordinary rendition".
    The US embassy issued a statement yesterday acknowledging that there had been claims (…)

  • The Patriot Act’s arsenal of intrusion Is constricting liberty really the way to save it?
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    There’ve been few sugarplums for President Bush this December. Not only is he being compared to a joyless Grinch called Nixon over revelations of secret surveillance, but Congress left town after stuffing his Christmas stocking full of rocks.
    The president wanted a vote making the soon-to-expire Patriot Act permanent. After impassioned negotiating, a filibuster and a last-minute fight between the House and Senate, lawmakers instead opted to extend the law for one month — a move that buys (…)

  • Republicans Prevented Congressional Oversight of Data-Mining Tactics
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON, July 23, 2005 - Bush administration officials are opposing an effort in Congress under the antiterrorism law known as the USA Patriot Act to force the government to disclose its use of data-mining techniques in tracking suspects in terrorism cases.
    As part of the vote in the House this week to extend major parts of the antiterrorism law permanently, lawmakers agreed to include a little-noticed provision that would require the Justice Department to report to Congress annually on (…)

  • NSA tapped main telecommunication lines for data mining, spying not limited to al-Qaeda
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Secret domestic wiretaps authorised by US President George Bush led to the National Security Agency gaining access to the country’s main telephone switches in a vast operation to mine data from phone calls and emails.
    The New York Times, the paper that broke the wiretap story, cited disclosures from current and former government officials that the surveillance operation was far broader than anything admitted by the White House and involved the co-operation of private telecoms companies. (…)

  • President Bush’s clandestine domestic surveillance-`A rot’ on national psyche
    26 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Impeach him now. Enough already. Unlike former President Bill Clinton’s simplistic dalliances, President Bush has consistently and maliciously acted outside the laws of this country.
    The revelation that he has personally authorized domestic spying in direct violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 clearly rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. Not since the darkest days of the Nixon administration have we been treated to such a level of imperious (…)

  • Taken for a ride in the ’war on terror’
    24 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Syed Saleem Shahzad
    KARACHI - Since the onset of the "war on terror", the US has detained more than 3,000 people worldwide in a network of secret prisons established by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in a number of regions, from Southeast Asia to North Africa, South Asia and Eastern Europe.
    Revelations of this policy have drawn a flood of criticism, with allegations that prisoners held in such countries at the CIA’s behest could have been subject to unlawful interrogation.
    US (…)