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Archive for the Month of November, 2005.
Viewing War on Terrorism NEWS articles 1 through 36 of 36.
- The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld refused UN experts access to detainees at a military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dismissing a hunger strike there as a publicity stunt.
- When Donald Rumsfeld was asked about the force feeding of detainees at Guantanamo Bay recently, a brutal practice that involves inserting tubes as wide as fingers directly through stomachs and nostrils without any anesthetic as prisoners convulse and vomit blood, Rummy replied, "I'm not a doctor."
- Conditions in these jails, referred to as "black sites," are hellish. Prisoners are, according to the Post, kept in "dark, sometimes underground cells, they have no recognized rights, and no one outside the CIA is allowed to talk with or even see them, or to otherwise verify their well-being."
- Laxalt, the former US senator whose address and phone number are used by the owners of the CIA’s 737 prison plane, was a close friend of Republican icon Ronald Reagan. When Reagan was president, Laxalt was referred to as the "First Friend."
- ...the vast majority of so-called "Muslim terrorism" is a creation of American, British, and Israeli intelligence operations. Osama, dead or alive, is irrelevant to the objectives of these terrorist operations—in fact, he is but one character in a cast of stand-ins, mostly patsies, dupes, crazies, and in the case of al-Zarqawi, almost entirely mythical. - After three years at Guantanamo, Afghan writers found to be no threat to United States
- Abu Ali is charged with plotting to bring al Qaeda members into the U.S. by means of Mexico, to commit aircraft piracy, and to kill President Bush through the use of suicide bombers and snipers. Abu Ali faces possible life imprisonment on these very serious charges. But whether there ever was such a conspiracy is doubtful. - Over the past year, Vice President Dick Cheney has waged an intense and largely unpublicized campaign to stop Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department from imposing more restrictive rules on the handling of terrorist suspects, according to defense, state, intelligence and congressional officials.
- While the US military is busy investigating media reports that its troops put bodies of two Taliban on fire in Kandahar province in October, there are now fresh allegations that American soldiers burnt alive two more Taliban fighters in Zabul.
- There is a small band of men who are such firm believers in the protections of the Bill of Rights that they are willing to lay down their lives to defend these principles. They aren't soldiers or civil libertarians — they are a group of "enemy combatants" confined in the gulag of Guantanamo - The latest outrage from an administration that brought us white phosphorous chemical weapons, sodomizing teen prisoners, and naked human pyramids.
- The Senate voted Thursday to strip captured "enemy combatants" at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, of the principal legal tool given to them last year by the Supreme Court when it allowed them to challenge their detentions in United States courts. - Italian prosecutors on Friday formally requested the extradition of 22 U.S. citizens believed to be CIA operatives on charges that they seized an Egyptian Islamic cleric off a Milan street in early 2003 and flew him to Cairo, where he later said he was tortured.
- The Bush administration, under cover of the war on terror, is marching inexorably towards a totalitarian state. - "We will have the equivalent of 'letters de cachet'," said attorney Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, referring to the French kings’ power to send critics to the Bastille prison.
- The Pennsylvania Republican’s freelance spying has once again brought a discredited arms dealer's fabrications to the CIA.
- The United States has detained more than 83,000 foreigners in the four years of the war on terror, enough to nearly fill the country's largest football stadium.
- ... the CIA, with its related institutions, is exposed as an agency of destabilization and repression. Throughout its history, it has organized secret wars that killed millions of people in the Third World who had no capability of doing physical harm to the United States...
- ..."al-Qaeda" never existed in the form now claimed by the Bushites and the corporate media, "al-Qaeda" was in fact a database of CIA recruited and trained mujahideen and an email connected to that database, Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with that database and thus all references in the corporate media claiming he is the leader of “al-Qaeda” the fantastical terrorist organization are false (if not deliberately contrived lies)... - If we can believe the Pew Research Center in Washington, nearly fifty percent of all Americans not only believe torture is justified against “suspected terrorists” (i.e., Pakistani and Afghan cab drivers and dirt farmers kidnapped and then sold to the CIA), but also that it works. - Sources Say Agency's Tactics Lead to Questionable Confessions, Sometimes to Death
- A Bahraini man being held at the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects attempted suicide this week for the ninth time and has begun a hunger strike...
- Jose Padilla, the accused "dirty bomb" terrorist has been formally charged with terrorism-related offenses, but no charge directly related to the radiological terrorism he was accused of plotting. Is this a tacit admission by the White House that they were wrong? - We have created and fostered an environment of human rights atrocities: nurtured by an ideology of the ends justifies the means, and that brutality is acceptable; fertilized by secrecy and "disappearing" people; watered by the denial of any rights to those detained - whether known or unknown.
- Set Padilla Free - At issue: more than 300 hours of secret videotapes from a U.S. prison facility in Brooklyn, N.Y., where many Arab and Muslim detainees were incarcerated in the months after 9/11.
- Would the U.S. government terrorize its own people? Yes, unless we expose their tricks.
- The Neocons had used his case as fearmongering of the continued threat posed by Al Qaeda on American soil.
- The Council of Europe, which represents 46 countries, said on Nov. 23 that it was opening a formal inquiry into reports the U.S. secretly held terrorist suspects in Europe and used European countries as transit points for the detainees. - ...footage shows two corpses laid out facing Mecca and then being burned in what the reporter, John Martinkus, describes as a "deliberate desecration of Muslim beliefs".
- He's forgotten nothing of the pain, the humiliation, the solitude. American investigators took a year to clear him. And another year to free him.
- A 24-year old Arab-American was convicted Tuesday of joining al-Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush. Houston native Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was tried after spending nearly two years in a Saudi Arabian prison, where he says was tortured into making a confession. Two doctors who examined him corroborated his claim. Abu Ali moved to Saudi Arabia to study Islam in the year 2000. He was arrested three years later while taking final exams at the Islamic University of Medina. He’ll be sentenced on February 17, and faces life in prison.
- Any European Union state that secretly hosted a CIA prison faces loss of its voting rights, and Washington should punish any violations that occurred, an EU commissioner says. - George W. Bush, when asked about torture at a press conference recently, said: "We do not torture." One wonders, who is this 'we' of whom he speaks?
- The sponsorship of terrorism by western governments, targeting their own populations, has been a taboo subject. Although major scandals have received cursory coverage in the media, the subject has been allowed to immediately disappear without discussion or investigation.
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