Freed GTMO Detainee Becomes Al Qaeda Chief? Blame Bush (and Clinton).
In a case of interesting timing, today’s New York Times reports in “Freed by U.S., Saudi Becomes a Qaeda Chief” that a former Guantanamo detainee is now a deputy leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen and opines...
View ArticleWorld’s Top Investigators Call for Gaza Inquiry
(Originally posted on Daily Kos) The top dogs of international justice and reconciliation today called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UN member states to set up a UN commission of inquiry into...
View ArticleObama Drops Resistance to Investigating Torture
President Obama gingerly retreated Tuesday from his resistance to a Congressionally-authorized commission of inquiry to investigate US detention and interrogation practices. During a photo-op with the...
View ArticleObama's Mixed Messages on Torture & Abuse
The President on counterterrorism policy, after 100 days in office: No more torture, or loopholes galore? Important symbolic steps, or stalling tactics? Heading in the right direction, or Barack...
View ArticleDeath at Camp Delta
On the evening of June 9, 2006, three inmates of the Guantanamo detention facility known as Camp Delta, Salah Ahmed al-Salami, Mani Shaman al-Utaybi and Yasser Tala al-Zahrani, were found dead in their...
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