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Archive for the Month of October, 2005.
Viewing War on Terrorism NEWS articles 1 through 30 of 30.
- Indonesia’s ruthless Army Special Forces, Kopassus, was trained by the CIA (and U.S. Special Operations Forces in psychological operations) and is known for its covert ops (for instance, “Ninja” assassinations...Kopassus was also responsible for the murder of over 200,000 people on the island of East Timor.
- Azahari bin Husin, said to be the explosives "mastermind" behind the Bali bombings this past weekend, has a very interesting background. He is not your average rural madrassa religious fanatic or "al-Qaeda" goat herder of the sort captured in Afghanistan.
- Election officials and observers said Sunday that with 80 percent of the ballots counted in Afghanistan's national and provincial elections, they had found significant incidents of fraud.
- Hypocrisy and a disregard for basic human rights and international laws continue to mark the American President’s so-called "war on terror". - The group Physicians for Human Rights is urging an independent medical assessment of the fast, noting that the American Medical Association ethical code bans force-feeding prisoners who are on hunger strike.
- US Vice-President Dick Cheney has said that the US must be prepared to fight the war on terror for decades.
- A hunger strike by prisoners at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp has entered a serious stage, the International Committee of the Red Cross says. - Earlier this evening intelligence members of the American-French Alliance stopped an attempt by Israeli Mossad operatives to blow up the New York City subway, according to national security and U.S. intelligence expert Thomas Heneghen. - Cheney...means the American people must prepare themselves for endless and ever increasingly brutal violence, both abroad where "vassals" resist Cheney’s version of neocon-neoliberalism and at home where law enforcement officers are transformed into paramilitary goons, trained and commanded to confiscate guns and either "evacuate" citizens to concentration camps or quarantine their neighborhoods as ill-defined (or government concocted) diseases spread (or do not spread, except by way of corporate media hype)
- In an extraordinary declaration of the brutality of American foreign policy, the Bush administration denounced a Senate vote to bar the use of torture against prisoners held by the US military.
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- It is simply astounding how many videos and audio tapes and letters slip through al-Qaeda’s fingers and into the hands of the Pentagon, the State Department, and various Bushites and intelligence factotums. - James Yee entered Guantanamo as a patriotic US officer and Muslim chaplain. He ended up in shackles, branded a spy. This is his disturbing story
- The "letter" between al-Zawahri and al-Zarqawi is another neocon kayfabian scam, yet another situation where the division between reality and fantasy is blurred. If not for its horror and death toll, the war aimed at Islam would be a comic absurdity. - Two months before the Iraq invasion, US President George W Bush had told British Premier Tony Blair that he "wanted to go beyond Iraq" in dealing with the spread of weapons of mass destruction and mentioned Pakistan as one of the countries posing problems... - Terror suspects on a hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay facility should not be allowed to speak in person or by telephone with relatives and friends because of security risks, the government argued in federal court on Friday. - Five hours after the arrest of Zery and another Egyptian, Ahmed Agiza, both were deported from Stockholm's Bromma airport. It was not revealed for another two years that there had been a US plane at the airport, plus a team of US agents who, it has been claimed, picked up the suspects, manacled their wrists and ankles, dressed them in orange overalls, drugged them, and bundled them into the plane.
- A Government openly promoting torture, A President acting like a King cannot be trusted, must be impeached - US soldiers in Afghanistan burnt the bodies of dead Taliban and taunted their opponents about the corpses, in an act deeply offensive to Muslims and in breach of the Geneva conventions. - One of the six Bahraini prisoners being held at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is seriously ill and has been hospitalised after going on hunger strike.
- Prisoners on hunger strike at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reported troops force-fed them with dirty feeding tubes that have been violently inserted and withdrawn as punishment, said declassified notes released Wednesday by defence lawyers. - If the CIA or military intelligence wants us to believe their fakery, they will need to do a bit more research. - Since September 11, we've all become uncomfortably familiar with names like Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib, Fallujah and maybe even Bagram in Afghanistan. They're all places we now associate with human rights violations or worse - military atrocities and possibly potential war crimes. But after our first story tonight, you can add another placename to that list - Gonbaz in southern Afghanistan, about a 100km from the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.
- The head of MI5 has submitted evidence to the House of Lords indicating that her agents are prepared to act on intelligence obtained under torture in the fight against terrorism.
- A Bahraini detainee held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba revealed more sexual abuses by the American soldiers there and confirmed Qur’an desecration.
- A hunger striking detainee at Guantanamo Bay wants a judge to order the removal of his feeding tube so he can be allowed to die, one of his lawyers has said. - At least 21 detainees who died while in US custody in Iraq and Afghanistan were the victims of homicide and usually died during or after interrogations, according to an analysis of Defence Department data.
- Shocking images from Afghanistan have again exposed the racist barbarism of the U.S. "war on terror."
- U.S. human rights groups have denounced before the U.N. Human Rights Committee that there are perhaps dozens of secret detention centres around the world where Washington is holding an unknown number of prisoners as part of its "war on terror".
- While you were, ah, distracted, Congress was quietly renewing every major provision of the Patriot Act.
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