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Official in charge of closing Gitmo quits
New York :: NY :: USA | 2 days ago
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The official in charge of closing the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center has resigned, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Phillip Carter submitted his resignation letter Friday after just under seven months in the post, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell...
Tags: obama, Phillip Carter, Pentagon, New York, Politics, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Human rights abuses, Interrogations, Baloch people, Islamic terrorism, Black site, Waterboarding, Barack Obama, Rendition: Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Morrell, Internments, September 11 attacks, Torture in the United States
In Sept. 11 Trial, Lots Of Evidence, But No Slam Dunk
Singapore :: Singapore | 2 days ago
Credibility There is a chance, however, that the hard drive and other evidence seized during his capture might not be inadmissible in court. “Much of the evidence that may exist was obtained and then retained outside the rules of federal evidence,” says Kevin Brock,...
Tags: Singapore, Waterboarding, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Interrogations, September 11 attacks, Islamic terrorism, Law Crime, Politics, War crimes, Zacarias Moussaoui, Baloch people, Evidence, Michael Mukasey, Torture in the United States
Khmer Rouge prison chief could get 40 years
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | 3 days ago
Credibility Khmer Rouge prison chief could get 40 years Lawyers for the Khmer Rouge prison chief blamed for thousands of killings in Cambodia accused prosecutors Thursday of making him a scapegoat for all the horrors committed by the regime. Lawyer Francois Roux...
Tags: Khmer Rouge, Kaing Guek Eav, Cambodian, Comrade Duch, rouge prison, excruciating remorse, prison chief, Cambodia, Phnom Pénh, Kang Kek Iew, Law Crime, Nic Dunlop, The Killing Fields, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Pol Pot, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh, Khmer people, Waterboarding, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Choeung Ek, Khieu Samphan, Chum Mey
Khmer prison chief faces 40 yrs jail
Phnom Pénh :: Cambodia | 4 days ago
Credibility The country's UN-backed war crimes court on Wednesday heard closing arguments from both sides in the tribunal's first trial delving into the horrors of the communist regime behind the "Killing Fields" atrocities three decades ago. Under their leader Pol...
Tags: Khmer Rouge, Cambodia, Comrade Duch, Kaing Guek Eav, extraordinary chambers, rouge prison, backed tribunal, final arguments, Phnom Penh, war crimes, Phnom Pénh, Kang Kek Iew, Law Crime, Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Nic Dunlop, Pol Pot, The Killing Fields, War Conflict, Anees Ahmed, Prosecutor, Khmer people, Chum Mey, Waterboarding, Ta Mok, Son Sen, War crime, Choeung Ek, Genocide
U.S. not 'afraid' of terror trials
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility A top House Democratic leader says Americans no longer fear bringing terrorist suspects from Guantanamo Bay detention center to the United States, a shift in public opinion that he says will fuel the defeat of Republican measures to block the transfers.
Tags: New York City, Fear mongering, Hollen, Republican Party, Chris Van Hollen, Human rights abuses, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Politics, War crimes, Waterboarding, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Osama bin Laden, Trials related to the September 11 attacks, Islamic terrorism, September 11 attacks, Interrogations
RIGHTS-US: Justice to Probe Detainee Abuses
Baghdad :: Iraq | 8 days ago
Credibility Attorney General Eric Holder is poised to release a long-delayed report prepared in 2004 by the Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailing the "enhanced interrogation" techniques used by the CIA and some of its contractors against...
Tags: Iraq, Baghdad, Waterboarding, Violence, Enhanced interrogation techniques, Black site, Maher Arar, Human rights abuses, Torture in the United States, War crimes, Politics
Court rules to release details of US, UK hand in Guantanamo �torture�
London :: United Kingdom | 8 days ago
Credibility More secret information relating to the alleged torture of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee should be disclosed, Britain’s High Court ruled Thursday. Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohammad claims the US and Britain were complicit in his torture in Pakistan and...
Tags: Britain, CIA, High Court, court rules, Binyam Mohamed, United Kingdom, London, Criminal law, Morality, Torture, Intelligence, Human rights abuses, Violence, Crimes against humanity, Politics, Abu Zubaydah, Interrogations, Waterboarding, Torture in the United States, War crimes, Bybee Memo, Law Crime, Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Battlefield in the War of Ideas
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility The critics can’t really think a judge is going to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed an open microphone to spew his jihadist views, or fear that a jury—sitting just blocks from Ground Zero—will look for reasons to let an accused mass murderer off on some technicality.
Tags: Story Mohammed, New York City, Interrogations, Waterboarding, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, September 11 attacks, Islamic terrorism, Torture in the United States, War crimes, Law Crime, Baloch people, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, War against Islam, Politics, Counter-terrorism, War Conflict, Zacarias Moussaoui, Josￃﾩ Padilla, Jack Goldsmith, Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, International public opinion on the war in Afghanistan, War in Afghanistan, Presidency of Barack Obama, Human rights abuses
Holder: DOJ Report on Yoo, Bybee Torture Memos to Be Released by Month's End
Youngstown :: OH :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t Report A long-awaited Justice Department watchdog report that is said to be highly critical of the legal work on torture that three attorneys who worked at the agency's powerful Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) conducted for...
Tags: OPR, Mr. Bradbury, OLC, Steven Bradbury, Congressional, Justice Department, Harry S. Truman, George W. Bush, opr investigation, legally opinion, Youngstown, Waterboarding, War on Terrorism, Bybee Memo, John Yoo, Office of Legal Counsel, Torture in the United States, War crimes, Human rights abuses, Politics
US Attorney General Defends 9/11 Trial Decision
New York City :: NY :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Attorney General Eric Holder is defending his decision to try the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in a U.S. federal court. Speaking Wednesday at a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill, Holder said prosecutors in a federal court...
Tags: Justice Department, KSM, attorney general, Eric Holder, New York City, Human rights abuses, War crimes, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Third Geneva Convention, Waterboarding, Islamic terrorism, Interrogations, Laws of war, War Conflict, Enemy combatant, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, Torture in the United States, Law Crime, Politics, Racism, Rush Limbaugh, Discrimination, Prejudices, Racial profiling, September 11 attacks, Patrick Leahy, Dismissal of United States Attorneys controversy, USA PATRIOT Act, Jeff Sessions, Prosecutors
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