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When Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud Qosi, a Sudanese detainee at Guantanamo Bay, was arraigned Thursday he refused to accept legal representation and informed the military court that he would boycott future proceedings. In a "rambling statement" he told the judge, "I...more »
Posted on April 11, 2008 10:22 AM
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The ACLU has petitioned the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Khaled el-Masri, a German citizen who alleges that he was abducted in December 2003 and then tortured by the CIA. El-Masari was denied his day in a...more »
Posted on April 10, 2008 10:22 AM
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Attorneys for Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a detainee being held as "enemy combatant," argued to an appellate court yesterday that a memo that the Justice Department declassified and released only last week proves that their client's detention is illegal. According...more »
Posted on April 9, 2008 10:27 AM
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Since 1994 the FBI has maintained a surveillance link (the Digital Collection System) between 40 of its offices, Quantico, and networks belonging to major telecommunications companies. Three Democratic lawmakers are concerned about the scope of this surveillance and have demanded...more »
Posted on April 8, 2008 9:42 AM
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Defense lawyers of detainees at Guantanamo Bay assert that the government's efforts to introduce evidence obtained through abusive interrogation "heralds a very dark chapter in American history." The lawyers for Salim Ahmed Hamdan have asked a military judge to acknowledge...more »
Posted on April 7, 2008 10:13 AM
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The Nation reports in harrowing detail on the rape of Lisa Smith (a pseudonymn), who worked as a paramedic for KBR in southern Iraq. A KBR supervisor told her to shut up about the brutal rape and the camp's military...more »
Posted on April 4, 2008 10:29 AM
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If the Army had conducted proper paperwork on the initial testing of its body armor, it would have been able to guarantee that the protective vests provided to soldiers met current safety standards. But it didn't, a Defense Department audit...more »
Posted on April 3, 2008 10:14 AM
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Just one week before General Petraeus is expected to testify about the progress of the surge, General Richard Cody, the army's vice chief of staff, asserted that the 30,000 additional troops sent to Iraq have inflicted "incredible stress" and have...more »
Posted on April 2, 2008 10:19 AM
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When Rush Limbaugh launched his "Operation Chaos" plan which urged Republicans to register as Democrats so that they could vote for Hillary Clinton in Mississippi, he may not have realized the extent of the chaos he was causing. Party-switchers in...more »
Posted on April 1, 2008 10:06 AM
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Murat Kurnaz, a German resident, was captured in Pakistan in 2001 as a suspected terrorist and imprisoned for two months at a U.S. base in Afghanistan. Kurnaz insists that he was hung from a ceiling for five days and was...more »
Posted on March 31, 2008 10:10 AM
