‘Gitmo detainees lied under CIA torture’ WASHINGTON: Abu ZubaydahAbu Zubaydah, an accused top al-Qaeda operative, claimed to have lied under torture by the CIA, according...
Sunshine is, they say, the most powerful disinfectant – and in Britain the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) should be the ultimate sunshine law. The more we learn about material that has been covered up, the more we see the need for open...
News Source: Dubuque Telgraph Herald
| 5 months ago
The Obama administration is delaying by a week its release of an internal CIA report on the agency's Bush-era secret detention and interrogation program. The roughly 150-page report was expected to be released Friday, but a CIA spokesman said...
AP Said Ali al-Shihri, deputy leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was released from Guantanamo Bay in 2007. Terror experts fear his involvement in recent kidnappings and murders in Yemen. Said Ali al-Shihri, deputy leader of Al Qaeda in the...
The Obama administration's drive to close the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has hit a new snag: At least some of the 13 detainees accepted for resettlement by the island nation of Palau don't want to go there. Meanwhile, protests...
Iraqi civilians killed in Haditha, 2005. (Photo: Lucian Read / WorldPictureNetwork) Perhaps we protest too much...We were waterboarding captives in one of our earliest wars of occupation, the Philippine-American War, which cost as many as 1...
News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
At the call to prayer, the men turn one-by-one down a narrow path through the jungle, marked only by a towering coconut tree. Hidden at the end of the dirt track stands the sole mosque in Palau, the tiny Pacific nation that has agreed to take in a...
The U.S. government is preparing to release a long-delayed internal report on the CIA's secret detention and interrogation program. How much of the document will be declassified for public view isn't yet known. The roughly 150-page report was...
News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
Tunisia condemned fears that Tunisians jailed at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay would be at risk of ill-treatment if they are sent back to their native country. Some rights groups have worried 10 Tunisians still held by the U.S. military...
The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States," Bush told a crowd of manufacturers in Erie, Pa. But Bush saved his strongest language for Obama's plan to close...
News Source: Charlotte Observer Online
| 5 months ago
Bush said Wednesday night in one of his rare appearances since leaving office. Government can act as a stabilizing force in a financial crisis, "but I know it's the private sector that will lead this country out of the current economic times we're in,...
If you want to add your voice and contribute to this existing news event, use the event code (Event Code: @3467692), that you will find on each news event page, as the first word of the SMS or MMS message followed by a space then add your contribution (text, image or video). For example: @3467692 This is an amazing video of Greg Norman hitting a hole-in-one in Sydney, Australia. The first word of the message should be @3467692 (event code), to make sure the system attaches your voice to the right news event.
This beta report credibility rating is intended to help our community sort through uncensored citizen media reports. For more information, see the Report Credibility section in our FAQ
Loading activation form...
Loading login form...
Loading sign up form...
Loading activation form...
Loading password form...
Loading new incentive enroll form...
Loading invite contacts form...
Invite your friends
Please enter an optional message below, check the friends you want to invite, hit "Send Invitation," and you're done!