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9/11 Husband Urges No Death Penalty for Accused Terrorists

Admin — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:55:56 +0000

WOW! "Allison told friends and family he wanted to go to Guantanamo Bay to "see the faces of the people accused of murdering my wife," reports the Post. While there, the 62-year-old ended up meeting with the lawyers of the accused, offering to testify against the death penalty should a military commission convict them of capital charges, according...

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FIDH Strongly Denounces Palestinian Prisoner Situation

Admin — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:47:58 +0000

Press Release: Palestinian Centre For Human Rights Urgent Statement Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – The International Federation For Human Rights (FIDH) Strongly Denounces The Situation Of Palestinian Prisoners In Israel The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) on the occasion of its international board meeting in Paris on...

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Palestinian prisoners agree to end hunger strike

Admin — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:40:14 +0000

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed to halt a weeks long hunger strike on Monday in exchange for promises of better conditions, ending a standoff that left several participants clinging to life and drew thousands of Palestinians to the streets in shows of solidarity. The Palestinians won key concessions in a deal mediated by Egyptian

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Thiab, Halahla, To Be Released

Admin — Tue, 15 May 2012 03:13:35 +0000

by Saed Bannoura After an ongoing 79 days of hunger-strike, Palestinian detainees Tha’er Halahla and Bilal Thiab, signed an agreement with the Israeli Prison Authorities to end their hunger-strike in exchange for their release as they are being held without charges, the Maan News Agency reported. According to Maan, head of the Legal Unit

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Prisoner Abu Ghulma vomiting blood

Admin — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:39:08 +0000

Al Qassam website- Ramallah- A message from the Israeli dungeons revealed that prisoner Ahed Abu Ghulma was vomiting the water he was consuming along with a yellow substance. The message received on Sunday from Hassan Salame, another prisoner in isolation, said that Abu Ghulma was vomiting blood in the past couple of days and

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Palestinian detainee Hassan Safadi continues his hunger strike for the 63 days

Admin — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:49:15 +0000

Mahmoud Hassan, the lawyer of Addameer Foundation for Prisoners and Human Rights, met, on Sunday in Ramla prison hospital, the detainee Hassan Safadi who has been on hunger strike for 63 days. (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – Mahmoud Hassan, the lawyer of Addameer Foundation for Prisoners and Human Rights, met, on Sunday in Ramla

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Two Grand in Charity could mean Fifty Years Behind Bars

Admin — Fri, 11 May 2012 05:43:49 +0000

Oytun Ayse Mihalik, a Turkish citizen and former pharmacist of Orange County, California, has been in federal custody since August 2011 for wiring charitable contributions to Pakistan. A federal complaint filed against her alleges that Mihalik knew the funds would be used to coordinate attacks against U.S. military oversees and that she had...

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US-led forces intentionally killing Afghan civilians: Former PM

Admin — Fri, 11 May 2012 05:11:52 +0000

This file photo shows two Afghans, who were killed in US-led attacks, in Surkhroad, Nangarhar Province. Former Afghan Prime Minister Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai has accused the US-led forces in Afghanistan of intentionally killing civilians, Press TV reports. “Since Americans and NATO came to Afghanistan, they are killing and

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Operative duped al-Qaeda in plot

Admin — Fri, 11 May 2012 05:01:38 +0000

By Donna Leinwand Leger and Bart Jansen A man who al-Qaeda hoped would carry out a plot to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner is a mole who infiltrated the terrorist organization and thwarted the attack, U.S. and Yemeni officials said Tuesday. Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri constructed the first underwear bomb and two others that al-Qaeda built

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U.S. officials confirm release of senior Taliban

Admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 03:45:46 +0000

By Nick Paton Walsh Up to 20 high-level insurgent prisoners have been released from NATO custody in Afghanistan over the past two years in an effort to boost peace negotiations with the Taliban in various regions of the country, according to U.S. officials. The insurgents, held at the jointly-run NATO-Afghan detention facility of Parwan, are

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Palestinian Leaders decry prisoners’ plight

Admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 03:42:36 +0000

By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned on Tuesday that the death of any one of the hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israel would be a “disaster” and could trigger a backlash that might slip out of control. “It is very dangerous,” Abbas told...

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9/11 defense team says Guantanamo tribunal is unjust

Admin — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:05:49 +0000

Civilian lawyers argue that the military system is rigged to put Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his four codefendants to death. A prosecutor defends the process. An artist’s rendering shows Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks, talking to his attorney during a break in his military commission hearing at

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Delaying Justice at Guantánamo

Admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 03:32:05 +0000

Military commission hearings began last week against five men held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for conspiring in the 9/11 attacks. Other detainees, however, are held without charges and their legal right to challenge their detention remains blocked. Last fall, when the federal appeals court in the District of Columbia ruled 2 to 1 against Adnan

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Al Qaeda cough plot: The story behind the story

Admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:27:28 +0000

by Lucky Gold We Serve to keep you afraid! As dangerous as you can get An al Qaeda plot, hatched in Yemen, to blow up a commercial aircraft over United States air space was exposed by the CIA, but many questions remain unanswered. Ali Soufan, former FBI counter terrorist agent and leading expert on al

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Slamming the door to justice on Palestinians

Admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:36:37 +0000

Israel’s ability to commit crimes against Palestinians with impunity relies on international complicity. The Samouni family narrated the horror they lived through in a short movie named ‘Samouni Street’ [AP] Chicago, IL - There is a determined international effort to ensure that Palestinians are shut out of every legal forum...

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Video Shows US Contractors Killing Civilians

Admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 01:20:28 +0000

Employees of the US military contracting group Academi (formerly Xe, Blackwater USA and Blackwater Worldwide) are seen in new leaked video shooting their machine guns at random while driving through the streets of Baghdad, crashing into other cars and even running over a pedestrian without hesitation. Academi received a $250 million contract by the

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Palestinians Go Hungry to Make Their Voices Heard

Admin — Fri, 04 May 2012 03:33:53 +0000

By JODI RUDOREN The wife of Diab Matar, a Palestinian prisoner who has refused food for the past 17 days, took part in a protest outside Ramle prison in Israel. KHARAS, West Bank — The newest heroes of the Palestinian cause are not burly young men hurling stones or wielding automatic weapons. They are gaunt

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KSM, 4 others to face murder charges again in Guantánamo

Admin — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:12:48 +0000

Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald The ringleader is the U.S.-educated one-time chief of al-Qaida operations who bragged that he was responsible for the Sept. 11 terror attacks “from A to Z.” He was held for years in CIA detention, where agents waterboarded him 183 times, and got to Guantánamo in 2006. The others include a

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Short-Film: Suspicious Neighbors [English with URDU Subtitles] – 2012

Admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:08:55 +0000

I ran into this film tonight. I wish I had the faith to believe this could happen, maybe I will someday, but since I have talked to this… person, it’s just so impossible for me to imagine. However, the film makers did a wonderful job. And if we all pray for this to happen –

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Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.

Admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:24:22 +0000

By DAVID K. SHIPLER THE United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.;

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Padilla Asks SCOTUS to Reinstate Torture Suit Against Rumsfeld, Panetta

Admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:15:47 +0000

Written by Joe Wolverton, II José Padilla (left) is a citizen of the United States and a convicted terrorist. On Monday, he filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U. S. Supreme Court requesting that the nation’s highest court review the decision of an appeals court to dismiss his suit alleging torture

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2 Haqqani, 3 Taliban leaders detained in Afghan operations

Admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:11:14 +0000

Sadaf Shinwari Afghan and coalition security forces detained 2 Haqqani leaders and 3 Taliban commanders following joint military operations at Khost, Kandahar, Helmand and Ghazni provinces of Afghanistan. According to a statement released by International Security Assistance Force Afghan and coalition security force captured two Haqqani leaders...

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Guantanamo 9/11 arraignments to be broadcast

Admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:16:16 +0000

FD Editor’s Note: Apparently they are not worried about the public seeing their poor excuse for an actual trial. The public has been primed for 10 years now, nearly everyone in the US has already declared these men guilty. In a normal court – that would be cause for concern. In this case, it’s

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PA says Israeli inmate found dead in cell

Admin — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:30:36 +0000

BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — An Israeli detainee hanged himself at Eshel prison on Saturday, the Palestinian Authority’s minister of prisoners affairs and Israeli officials reported. Qaraqe told Ma’an that the incident involved “an Israeli criminal inmate attempting to hang himself.” The prisoners rights group Addameer...

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We Could All Be the Next Babar Ahmad

Admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:24:13 +0000

Reyhana Patel Last week, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that six alleged terror suspects could face extradition to the United States. While extensive media coverage have been given to Abu Hamza, who has been convicted of soliciting to murder and stirring up racial hatred and jailed in the UK for seven years, the

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Mother, Sister Of Queens Terror Suspect Testify On His Behalf

Admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:19:15 +0000

By: NY1 News The mother and sister of a Queens man accused of plotting a terror attack in the city gave emotional testimony for the defense in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday.Alisa Medunjanin choked back tears as she talked about her brother, Adis, and the raid on their home. She recounted the story of dozens

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Something is Rotten with American Justice

Admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:03:02 +0000

A fish rots from the head: Trials Without Crimes Or Evidence by Paul Craig Roberts l Information Clearing House Andy Worthington is a superb reporter who has specialized in providing the facts of the US government’s illegal abuse of “detainees,” against whom no evidence exists. In an effort to create evidence, the US

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Efforts on for Pakistanis’ release from Bagram: LHC told

Admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:54:52 +0000

MINISTRY of foreign affairs on Wednesday informed the Lahore High Court that serious efforts were being made for the release of Pakistani citizens detained at Bagram Airbase prison. A deputy attorney general stated this appearing before the court of Justice Khalid Mehmood Khan in connection with a petition, seeking release of seven Pakistani...

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Egyptian refugee Mohammad Mahjoub seeks an end to proceedings against him

Admin — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:48:23 +0000

By John Bonnar mahjoub.mp3 Artist: John BonnarTitle: Mohammad Mahjoub press briefingYear: 2012Length: 14:08 minutes (12.95 MB) Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR) From the press release: Egyptian Refugee Mohammad Mahjoub was in court again yesterday in a bid to end proceedings against him after a court-ordered inquiry into a Department of...

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Criminals disguising themselves as Muslim Sisters

Admin — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:44:22 +0000

I wonder if any of you have heard these stories yet? Remember in the old western days…. when miners around Virginia City, NV would dress up like Indians and rob general stores and such, trying to start wars. They wanted to get rid of the Indians once and for all. They figured that the Army

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It Could Be You: The Sad Story of Jose Padilla, Tortured and Denied Justice | Andy Worthington [Digg]

Digg — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:15:50 PDT

The most important story most Americans don't care about is that of US citizen Jose Padilla, the "dirty bomber" who wasn't, who was tortured as an "enemy combatant" by George W. Bush, then tried without his torture being mentioned, convicted, and given a 17-year sentence for little more than a thought crime. Now an appeals court has vacated his sentence, arguing, incredibly, that it was not severe enough.

From Jihadism to Crusade-ism « freedetainees.org [Digg]

Digg — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:58:48 PDT

From Jihadism to Crusade-ism

Writing To Muslim Detainee Talha Ahsan « freedetainees.org [Digg]

Digg — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:36:05 PDT

Writing To Muslim Detainee Talha Ahsan

Michael Mansfield Defends Students’ Right to Protest, Criticizes Heavy Policing and Draconian Sentencing | Andy Worthington [Digg]

Digg — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 09:28:56 PDT

Following prison sentences for student protestors in last year's campaign against the government's assault on university funding, Michael Mansfield QC has criticized the drive towards scapegoating protestors by government, the police and the judiciary, expressing understandable alarm about the erosion of civil liberties and the right to protest.

SAVE SHAKER AAMER CAMPAIGN (SSAC) « freedetainees.org [Digg]

Digg — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:01:07 PDT

SAVE SHAKER AAMER CAMPAIGN (SSAC)

A treachery under Rawalpindi sky (the true story of capturing of Abu Musaab Al-Suri) « freedetainees.org [Digg]

Digg — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:31:47 PDT

A treachery under Rawalpindi sky (the true story of capturing of Abu Musaab Al-Suri)

WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (Part Five of Ten) | Andy Worthington [Digg]

Digg — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:07:17 PDT

Here's the fifth part of a ten-part series adding new information to the stories of 114 Guantanamo prisoners released between 2002 and September 2004, drawing on and analyzing the classified military documents released by WikiLeaks in April -- Afghans, Pakistanis, a Russian, a Frenchman and a Brit.

Oslo Terrorist Anders Behring Breivik Manifesto « freedetainees.org [Digg]

Digg — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:27:20 PDT

Oslo Terrorist Anders Behring Breivik Manifesto

Witness saw teen beaten in Syrian jail « freedetainees.org [Digg]

Digg — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:14:46 PDT

Inside a filthy detention center in Damascus, eight or nine interrogators repeatedly bludgeoned a skinny teenager whose hands were bound and who bore a bullet wound on the left side of his chest. They struck his head, back, feet and genitals until he was left on the floor of a cell, bleeding from his ears and crying out for his mother and father to help him.

'Fast & Furious' could put the heat on Holder | Politicallore.com/blog [Digg]

Digg — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:37:58 PDT

The media chatter this week in Washington is all about the battle of the debt ceiling, but the real ticking time bomb, according to New York Post columnist

Other Greek Consulates to Call & E-Mail « USTOGAZA [Digg]

Digg — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:15:45 PDT

ACTION - Demand Greece Allow Flotilla through!

Rights Groups Tell Obama: Reward Those Who Opposed America’s Use of Torture in the “War on Terror” | Andy Worthington [Digg]

Digg — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:26:32 PDT

Here's a cross-post of a letter to President Obama from the ACLU, PEN and 8 other groups asking him to honor the officials and lawyers who opposed the use of torture, plus two accompanying articles and a link to a petition that readers can sign, which is useful and important in the run-up to the UN International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture (on June 26).

During Obama’s UK Visit, Shaker Aamer’s Children – and Campaigners – Call for His Return from Guantánamo | Andy Worthington [Digg]

Digg — Thu, 26 May 2011 05:44:33 PDT

To coincide with President Obama's state visit to the UK, the children of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantanamo, appeal for their father's return from the prison, and campaigners send a letter to David Cameron calling on him to raise Shaker's return with the President.

Forner Guantánamo Prisoner Khaled Ben Mustapha Interviewed by Cageprisoners | Andy Worthington [Digg]

Digg — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:02:32 PDT

Here's a cross-post of a fascinating interview with French citizen and former Guantanamo prisoner Khaled Ben Mustapha, originally published on Cageprisoners, providing excellent insights into how prisoners were bought, how they were abused at Guantanamo, and the role of the French government.

The 9/11 Indictment: The Case We Would Have Seen In New York Had A Federal Court Trial Proceeded | Andy Worthington [Digg]

Digg — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:11:11 PDT

Here, with commentary, is the indictment against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other men accused of involvement in the 9/11 attacks - posted here for posterity's sake, and also to demonstrate the role of this indictment in a history dating back to 1993, and successful federal court terrorist trials.