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  • U.N. expert: Iraq torture may be worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein
    22 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    U.N. expert: Iraq torture may be worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein
    By ELIANE ENGELER, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 21, 2006
    GENEVA - Torture in Iraq may be worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein, with militias, terrorist groups and government forces disregarding rules on the humane treatment of prisoners, the U.N. anti-torture chief said Thursday.
    Manfred Nowak, the U.N. special investigator on torture, made the remarks as he was presenting a report on detainee (…)

  • Defiant Bush Declares War On His Own Party’s Senators
    16 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Defiant Bush Declares War On His Own Party’s Senators Bush Leagues September 16, 2006 5:40 AM An obviously-angry President George W. Bush declared war on Senators from his own party Friday after a Republican revolt in the Senate threatened tough anti-terror legislation taht would allow torture of prisoners. A defiant Bush rejected warnings that the United States had lost the high moral ground to adversaries.
    "It’s flawed logic," he snapped.
    Bush is trying to rush his legislation (…)

  • The Torturer’s Apprentice
    11 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ray McGovern
    Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour. He was an Army infantry/intelligence officer, then a CIA analyst for 27 years, and is now on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
    Addressing the use of torture Wednesday, President George W. Bush played to the baser instincts of Americans as he strained to turn his violation of national and international law into Exhibit A on how “tough” he is (…)

  • New Maximum-Security Jail To Open At Guantanamo Bay
    30 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Maximum-Security Jail To Open At Guantanamo Bay Far From Winding Down, The Controversial US Detention Centre Is Expanding By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 30 July 2006 The controversy over the US-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay is to erupt anew with confirmation by the Pentagon that a new, permanent prison will open in the Cuban enclave in the next few weeks.
    Camp 6, a state-of-the-art maximum-security jail built by a Halliburton subsidiary, will be able to hold 200 prisoners. (…)

  • Shadows On The Wall
    7 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Shadows On The Wall Sheila Samples, Arab News Thursday, 6, July, 2006 And so we Americans sit, shackled by self-imposed chains of fear, captivated by shadowy forms that move discordantly across the walls of our perception. Once again we are eager to accept appearance for reality.
    The Supreme Court ruling last week rejecting President George W. Bush’s military commissions to try Guantanamo detainees casts a huge shadow on the wall. Many are saying it not only curbed Bush and Cheney’s (…)

  • Panel Orders Abu Ghraib Documents From Pentagon
    6 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Panel Orders Abu Ghraib Documents From Pentagon By Kristin Roberts Wed Jul 5, 2006 6:41pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. congressional panel has ordered Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to turn over documents on the probe into abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison after the Pentagon failed to respond to an earlier request.
    The House Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena to Rumsfeld last week and said the Pentagon must produce a raft of documents, including all drafts of the report (…)

  • Bush’s Assault On Freedom: What’s To Stop Him?
    3 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush’s Assault On Freedom: What’s To Stop Him? By Paul Craig Roberts July 3, 2006
    On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-3 decision ruled that President Bush’s effort to railroad tortured Guantanamo Bay detainees in kangaroo courts "violates both U.S. law and the Geneva Conventions."
    Better late than never, but it sure took a long time for the checks and balances to call a halt to the illegal and unconstitutional behavior of the executive.
    The Legal Times quotes David Remes, a (…)

  • Alex Jones Detained On Orders Of Bilderberg Group
    8 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    15 hours of hell at the hands of immigration who knew they were coming
    Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | June 8 2006
    Alex Jones and his team were detained by Canadian immigration on orders of the Bilderberg Group for a 15 hour nightmare of interrogation, accusations and threats of arrests in anticipation of the conference in Ottawa which starts today.
    The group were detained at 11:45pm last night and only released after 2pm today.
    Customs openly told Alex as soon as they brought (…)

  • SAUDI COSMETICS?
    7 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher As human rights organizations expressed skepticism that detainees recently transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabian custody could receive fair trials and escape torture - and a new study charged that the country’s textbooks continue to promote intolerance of other religions - the oil-rich Kingdom put the finishing touches on its new Human Rights Commission. The new commission - which the government characterizes as an independent rights watchdog — came into (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan condemns Australian prime minister as an “illegal combatant”
    31 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Richard Phillips
    US antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan denounced the Australian government for its participation in the Iraq war and called for the release of David Hicks from Guantánamo Bay and the closure of the notorious US military prison camp at a demonstration in Melbourne last Friday.
    Sheehan rejected US and Australian government claims that Guantánamo inmates “did not deserve civil rights” because they were “illegal enemy combatants”. The four-and-a-half-year incarceration of (…)