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  • Orwellian House Votes: Call for End to War = Emboldening Terrorists
    21 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - Calls for an early withdrawal from Iraq are a mistake that will only embolden terrorists, the House resolved Wednesday. The resolution drew opposition from Democrats, who said it implied that questioning President Bush’s Iraq policies is unpatriotic.
    The measure, approved 291-137, says the United States should leave Iraq only when national security and foreign policy goals related to a free and stable Iraq have been achieved.
    "Calls for an early withdrawal embolden the (…)

  • Bin Laden’s driver to face trial
    19 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan
    A US appeals court in Washington has ruled that the trial at Guantanamo Bay of a former driver for al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden can go ahead.
    The decision overturns a lower court ruling that the trials for detainees held at Guantanamo were unlawful.
    This latest ruling means in effect that the trials, known as military commissions, can now proceed.
    Salim Ahmed Hamdan, from Yemen, is accused of conspiracy to commit war crimes, including (…)

  • ABUSE, WHAT ABUSE?
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    The U.S. Army general widely considered the ‘architect’ of abusive prisoner interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib and in Afghanistan used “creative” and “aggressive” tactics, but did not practice torture or violate law or Pentagon policy. Despite the recommendations of military investigators, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey C. Miller will not be reprimanded ? thus bringing to a close what could be the last of 15 separate investigations into detainee abuse.
    Members (…)

  • Legalised Brutality - The New Face Of America
    18 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Legalised Brutality - The New Face Of America Andrew Sullivan July 17, 2005 The terror attack on London is perhaps an appropriate background for an official report into the detention policies at Guantanamo Bay. We live in a world where the rules of even guerrilla warfare have shifted towards deeper and deeper levels of barbarism. It would be highly unlikely that western societies are not changed in response. Some loss of liberty is inevitable; some fraying of freedom and the rules of (…)

  • War Crimes - Dahr Jamail - World Tribunal on Iraq
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In May of 2004 I was interviewing a man who had just been released from Abu Ghraib. Like so many I interviewed from various US military detention facilities who’d been tortured horrifically, he still managed to maintain his sense of humor.
    Beat prisoners
    He began laughing when telling of how US soldiers made him beat other prisoners. He laughed because he told me he had been beaten himself prior to this, and was so tired that all he could do to beat other detained Iraqis was to lift his (…)

  • Global Eye: Dark Waters
    14 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last Friday, the former physician of ex-President George H.W. Bush wrote a guest column for The Washington Post. Two days later, the attorney general appointed by current President George W. Bush made a surprise visit to Baghdad. These seemingly unrelated events are not only inextricably linked; together they form a portrait of a nation gone wretchedly astray, hurtling into a moral void from which there may be no return.
    There was nothing unusual about the physician, Dr. Burton Lee III, (…)

  • Criticizing Patriot Act Lands Manlin Chee, Asian American Lawyer, in Jail
    12 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Having spent almost three decades offering legal service to immigrants, Chinese American immigration attorney Manlin Chee is now getting used to serving time instead.
    Chee had been a nationally recognized lawyer for her work with immigrants, some of it pro bono, and much of it for Muslims, but things soured for her soon after she appeared on a panel discussing the PATRIOT Act in March 2003.
    The public forum at the main library in Greensboro, North Carolina was televised and attracted a (…)

  • The Stain of Torture
    1 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Having served as a doctor in the Army Medical Corps early in my career and as presidential physician to George H.W. Bush for four years, I might be expected to bring a skeptical and partisan perspective to allegations of torture and abuse by U.S. forces. I might even be expected to join those who, on the one hand, deny that U.S. personnel have engaged in systematic use of torture while, on the other, claiming that such abuse is justified. But I cannot do so.
    It’s precisely because of my (…)

  • 8th day of hunger strike of the State prisoner Francesco Pazienza
    28 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    PRESS RELEASE Hunger strike in prison of the Italian citizen Francesco Pazienza D. aimed at soliciting the U.S. Department of Justice to deliver an answer.
    In 1987 the then Government of the Republic of Italy decided to seal under the STATE SECRET restraining order the whole extradition file of Dr. Francesco PAZIENZA D. from the U.S. kept in the Italian Ministry of Justice to forestall s request for consultation submitted by the International Law Department of the Rome University of Tor (…)

  • Is Gotham Worth Saving?
    27 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    Summer is here. The choking ajajas of Baghdad coat everything in a pale yellow dust. Meanwhile, back at imperial headquarters, the sandman effect of the Summer movie list coaxes Americans back to sleep, our attention spans and consciences soothed into complacency, in contrast to the suffocating Sumerian sandstorms. Kick back and enjoy your popcorn in the artificial bubble of petroleum-driven, air-conditioned bliss, while the bubble outside shows signs of bursting. (…)