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Military Seeks $1.3 Billion for Construction Projects in Afghanistan
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 21 days ago
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Now, if its request is approved as part of the fiscal 2010 defense appropriations bill, it would spend another $1.3 billion on more than 100 projects at 40 sites across the country, according to a Senate report on the legislation. At the main U.S. base...
Tags: Afghanistan, cargo facility, passenger terminal, Bagram, adjacent cargo
61 WHITE HOUSE ARRESTS: 100's demand Obama to end wars, close Gitmo & Bagram, surge housing & job spending
As the U.S. led war in Afghanistan begins its ninth year this week, 61 were arrested yesterday at the White House. Demonstrators' message: war, torture and drone bombing are outrageous, unacceptable and must end immediately. National anti-war groups...
Tags: National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, the War Resisters League, Witness Against Torture, Code Pink, Peace Action, World Can't Wait, Veterans for Peace, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, Frida Berrigan, Cindy Sheehan, Barack Obama, National Call for Nonviolent Resistance, October 5 Anti-War Coalition, White House, Guantanamo, torture, drone bombing, McPherson Square, Bagram, Bush Administration, Afghanistan, Iraq, Casey Sheehan, Washington DC.
Hope in Bagram: Prisoners may soon challenge indefinite detention
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 1 month ago
Credibility More than 600 prisoners have been held by the United States at Bagram, near the capital, Kabul, some for more than six years...Some were captured by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, others were picked up elsewhere and transferred to Bagram...American principles...
Tags: United States, Bagram
THE EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION OF RAYMOND AZAR: An Early Case of Contradictions Between Candidate Obama’s promises and President Obama’s realpolitics.
THE EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION OF RAYMOND AZAR: An Early Case of Contradictions Between Candidate Obama’s promises and President Obama’s realpolitics. Raymond Azar worked for a Lebanese construction company,...
Tags: RAYMOND AZAR, President Obama, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Dinorah Cobos, FBI, Kabul, Bagram, Taxi to the Dark Side, body cavity search, Guantanamo Prison Camp, Gulfstream V executive jet, Tbilisi, Georgia, Afghanistan-Pakistan region, US Justice Department, Manassas, Virginia, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, FBI Special Agent Nicholas Zambeck, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Public Affairs Deputy Director Gina Talamona
Admin.: Detainee deaths were underreported
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The Obama administration said Monday the deaths of 10 people in immigration detention during the past six years went unreported. The deaths were either overlooked or were left off an official list of detainee deaths provided to Congress in March, The...
Tags: Bagram
Former Bagram detainees claim abuse, neglect
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 4 months ago
Credibility This time the allegations centre on the US detention facility at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan. The Pentagon is denying the allegations and while US President Barack Obama has ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay within a year, he has not decided...
Tags: Bagram, preventive detention
Guantanamo may be closing, but Bagram still casts a shadow
WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: THE DETAINEES GRAEME SMITH and BIODUN IGINLA, BBC NEWS February 23, 2009 KABUL -- The word "Guantanamo" serves as shorthand among some Afghans for all the reasons they hate foreign troops, but the impending closing of the...
Tags: AFGHANISTAN, BAGRAM, BBC NEWS BIODUN IGINLA, GUANTANAMO
Terror watchdog presses Miliband on torture files
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
Credibility Guantanamo torture row after the government’s own terror watchdog said the foreign secretary should consider releasing secret files on MI5’s role in the affair. Lord Carlile of Berriew said Miliband should think about publishing files that relate to the...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Binyam Mohamed, Bagram, Afghanistan, terror suspects, bay prisoners, Julie Christie
Judge: Obama gets chance to weigh in on detainees
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility District Judge John Bates has given the new president and his Justice Department until February to tell him whether they want to change the government's position on the definition of "enemy combatant." Prisoners from U.S. detention facilities at Guantanamo...
Tags: combatant, guantanamo, enemy, detainees, prisoner, bagram, administration, bay, enemy combatant
Only 4 Pakistanis remain in Guantanamo
By Khalid Hasan WASHINGTON: Of the 248 detainess currently imprisoned at Guantanamo, only four are Pakistanis, a Brookings Institution study has shown. They are: Majid Khan (No 10020), Saifullah Paracha (No 1094), Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbain (No 1460)...
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