What Nobody Wants To Know About Somalia And Why; And What That Means
Friday, October 03, 2008

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From the Los Angeles Times Guantanamo prosecutor quits amid controversy

The Army reservist was concerned about a lack of due process for war crimes defendant, two defense attorneys say. A tribunal official denies their claims.
  By Josh Meyer
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

September 25, 2008

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Commentary

SHEEMA KHAN

From Monday's Globe and Mail

September 22, 2008 at 12:32 AM EDT

Shut Up and Let Me Go, the title of the Ting Tings hit, is one way to describe the behaviour of a myriad of government and security agencies toward the four Canadian citizens who were imprisoned and tortured by the Syrians. That's right - four. Not just Maher Arar. ( Read more... )

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Secrets and Lies: The Persecution of Muhammad Salah (Part I)

Michael E. Deutsch and Erica Thompson

Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol 37, no. 1 (Summer 2008), p. 38
Special Feature

Authors’ Note:

As Muhammad Salah’s lawyers, we felt compelled to write this article because the true story of the Salah case has never been told. Instead, many books and ( Read more... )

Volume 55, Number 14 · September 25, 2008
Official American Sadism
By Anthony Lewis
Guantanamo: Beyond the Law
a series of five articles by Tom Lasseter

in the McClatchy Newspapers, June 15-19, 2008, available at www.mcclatchydc.com/detainees
The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight ( Read more... )

21 hours ago

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - A private jet that crash-landed almost one year ago in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA "rendition" flights, a newspaper report said here Thursday, citing documents from the United States and the European Parliament.

The plane was carrying Colombian drugs for the fugitive ( Read more... )

First Published 2008-09-05

Still in the dark

Polish prosecutors obtain document showing east European country hosted secret US centre.

MEXICO CITY - A private jet that crash-landed almost one year ago in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA "rendition" flights, a newspaper report said here Thursday, citing ( Read more... )

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Former RCMP commissioner blames U.S. for handling of Maher Arar case

Tue Sep 2, 9:47 PM

By The Canadian Press

TORONTO - Former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli said the United States effectively "threw away the rule book" in ( Read more... )

by James Petras / August 27th, 2008

In recent days there is mounting evidence of the advance of totalitarianism in the political and media mainstream. The entire Western world, led by the United States, has embraced a Georgian regime, which invaded South Ossetia totally demolishing its capital city of 50,000 residents, assassinated 1500 men, women ( Read more... )