March 3, 2012
How to Leave Guantánamo: By Means of a Plea Deal or In A Coffin by Andy Worthington, March 2, 2012 Guantánamo briefly emerged from the shadows on Wednesday, February 29, when Majid Khan, a Pakistani national described as one of 14 “high-value detainees” when he arrived at Guantánamo in September 2006, after three [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Guantánamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Khan, Majid Khan, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, United States
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January 18, 2012
Ex-Taliban militants surrender under a US-backed Afghan amnesty in Herat. Peace moves with the Taliban appear to have stalled over the transfer of Guantánamo prisoners. Photograph: Jalil Rezayee/EPA You may wonder just how obvious it has become that Guantanamo is set to be the place where those against the idea of endless war to support [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, Hamid Karzai, Herat, Obama, Obama administration, Qatar, Taliban, United States, White House
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January 16, 2012
Ten years ago, Omar Deghayes and Morris Davis would have struck anyone as an odd pair. While they have never met, they now share a profound connection, cemented through their time at the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Deghayes was a prisoner there. Air Force [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Geneva Convention, Guantánamo, Guantánamo Bay, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Jamil el-Banna, Morris Davis, National Defense Authorization Act, Omar Deghayes, United States
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January 13, 2012
Photo: Joint Task Force Guantanamo Unexpected Road Block to Afghanistan Peace: Gitmo By Spencer Ackerman Email Author Photo: Joint Task Force Guantanamo Negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban after 10 years of war in Afghanistan is hard enough. But the stalemated politics of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility risk effectively killing the negotiations before they [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Karen Joy Greenberg, Obama, Politics, Spencer Ackerman, Taliban
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January 11, 2012
Only 6 Guantanamo prisoners have been tried before a military commission [ACLU] New York, New York - This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the first prisoner arriving at Guantanamo Bay, making it the longest-standing war prison in US history. Guantanamo has been a catastrophic failure on every front. It has long been past the time [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama, Geneva Convention, Guantánamo, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Obama, United States
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December 29, 2011
Of the 171 detainees remaining in the controversial prison, 89 are said to have been cleared for release [GALLO/GETTY] Fatimah Al Kandari has not seen her son Fayiz Al Kandari in more than 10 years, but her thoughts are possessed by him. She sees Fayiz in every face. She thinks she hears him at times speaking [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Al Kandari, Al Odah, al-Qaeda, Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, Fatimah, Fouzi Khalid Abdullah Al Awda, Providing material support for terrorism
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November 9, 2011
More than 170 prisoners remain at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, opened shortly after 9/11 [GALLO/GETTY] With their client facing trial in a military commission for his role in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, lawyers for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri have demanded the government answer this basic question: If al-Nashiri is acquitted, will he be released? Although [...]
Tags: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Al Jazeera, al-Qaeda, Guantánamo, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, USS Cole bombing, World War II
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September 14, 2011
“This is the war that has marked our generation,” the commander of the Guantanamo Base said as he spoke to dozens of soldiers ahead of a commemorative run to honour military members killed in the past 10 years since 9/11. Some soldiers had pictures of the victims taped to their running shirts. The [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Guantánamo Bay, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Osama BinLaden, Sabar Lal Melma, United States, War on Terror
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
Tags: Australia, Brisbane, Gaza flotilla raid, Greek Police, Hizb ut-Tahrir, Kevin Rudd, Melbourne, Politics of Greece
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July 3, 2011
U.S. turns to other routes to supply Afghan war as relations with Pakistan fray By Craig Whitlock, Sunday, July 3, 9:54 AM The U.S. military is rapidly expanding its aerial and Central Asian supply routes to the war in Afghanistan, fearing that Pakistan could cut off the main means of providing American and NATO forces with fuel, food and equipment. Although Pakistan [...]
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July 3, 2011
KABUL, Afghanistan – Despite U.S. reports of progress on the battlefield, American troops were killed in the first half of this year at the same pace as in 2010 — an indication that the war’s toll on U.S. forces has not eased as the Obama administration moves to shift the burden to the Afghans. While [...]
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
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June 30, 2011
Latest Guantánamo prison camp suicide was ‘indefinite detainee’ Sign up for email newsletters now! Never miss a McClatchy story Register Log in Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook Add us to your iPhone or G1 MORE ON THIS STORY Story | Pentagon names new Guantanamo war crimes prosecutor Story | Another former Guantanamo detainee named [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Awal Gul, Carol Rosenberg, Guantánamo, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Inayatullah, iPhone, Pentagon
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June 28, 2011
Ceci n’est pas une guerre Chase Madar 24 June 2011 Tags: law | libya If anyone should have been able to put human rights at the centre of US foreign policy, it was Harold Hongju Koh. The dean of Yale Law School and a prominent critic of Bush-Cheney lawlessness, his reputation was clinched by a chorus of [...]
Tags: Advocacy Organizations, Human rights, Human Rights and Liberties, John McCain, Obama administration, United States, WikiLeaks, Yale Law School
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May 22, 2011
Barack Obama says he would repeat Pakistan raid Barack Obama says he respects Pakistani sovereignty but would go after another ‘very high-value target’ if found to be there Share98 Press Association guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 May 2011 10.03 BST Article history Andrew Marr interviewed Barack Obama in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. Photograph: [...]
Tags: Andrew Marr, Andrew Marr Show, Barack Obama, Mohammed Omar, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Taliban, United States
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May 17, 2011
Subscribe to FFF Email Update Subscribe to Freedom Daily DONATE TO FFF Hornberger’s Blog Monday, May 16, 2010 Hornberger’s Blog Index Information about RSS REMINDER: The Jacob Hornberger Show every Saturday at 7-8 pm EST. Listen and watch live on the Internet: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-future-of-freedom-foundation America’s Post-9/11 Turn toward Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger Among the most potent [...]
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May 17, 2011
One day everyone or at least those left alive and still able to think and speak will thank Assange whoever and whatever he was,is and will be. For the elites the hegemons the imperialists and the capitalists the truth has to be guarded against. Elaborate systems of lies, deceit and murder must be put in place [...]
Tags: ENI, iPhone, Iran, Julian Assange, New York Times, The McClatchy Company, United States, WikiLeaks
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May 17, 2011
Carney knowledge used to be a crime but these days it seem to be the best way of avoiding a discussion by using it to say they were right now what is your question? Even to a child in a school yard that is not an accepted way of talking but in the US anything [...]
Tags: 1948 Palestinian exodus, Israel, Jay Carney, Nazi Germany, Palestinian refugee, Syria, United States, White House
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May 16, 2011
Sanity is where you find it and a recent article by Justin Raimondo of antiwar.com is exactly the place to go to see sanity in action. Perhaps the better word or phrase is “strict critical analysis”, but that is entirely a matter for you to decide. However, there is one possible complaint, and that [...]
Tags: 1948 Palestinian exodus, Bashar-al Assad, Justin Raimondo, middle east, Riders On The Storm, Rudolf Rocker, Tel Aviv, United States
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May 16, 2011
60 More Days in Libya: Obama Does Bush Lawyers Proud By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/57853 Now we know why Obama has gone to such outrageous lengths to keep Bush’s lawyers out of prison, claiming powers of secrecy and immunity beyond Cheney’s wildest dreams and pressuring foreign nations to clamp down on any outbreaks of law [...]
Tags: John McCain, John Yoo, Libya, NATO, United Nations, United States, United States Constitution, War Powers Resolution
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May 16, 2011
This is an article from Der Spiegel about the Bin Laden assassination. After all the rumour and innuendo dies down what we can expect is that the US will continue to lie about what really happened for what can only be reasons of world domination. However, by simply going into a foreign country and assassinating someone like Israel their close cohorts [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, AlQaeda, Barack Obama, David Suzuki, Der Spiegel, Osama BinLaden, Peter Kropotkin, Terrorist Organizations, United States
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May 16, 2011
Round Up the Usual Suspects … and Shoot Them By DOUGLAS LUMMIS The issue is not whether bin Laden was a very bad man (I suppose he was) or for that matter whether Barack Obama is also a very bad man (looking worse all the time), but what happens to the law when states violate [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Extrajudicial punishment, Laws of war, Marjorie Cohn, Osama BinLaden, United States, Wendell Willkie, Zbigniew Brzezinski
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May 15, 2011
This is part one of a story about the US and war. It forms part of Volume 1 of the autobiography of Mark Twain It makes interesting reading, George Ikners ikners.com Click to Print This Page [page 403]Monday, March 12, 1906 Mr. Clemens comments on the killing of six hundred Moros—Men, women and children—In a [...]
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May 14, 2011
Have knees will crawl the US and Mining magnates a specialty If you believe the official line the US did not see 911 coming and somehow have managed to blunder their way along playing the good guys against the forces of darkness. Yet they would have everyone believe their CIA possesses intelligence beyond the [...]
Tags: Australian Uranium, Julia Gillard, Libya, Meet the Press, Muammar al-Gaddafi, National security, NATO, NBC, United States, White House
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May 14, 2011
Obama Confirms Libya War to Continue – But Will He Ever Ask Congress? With No Authorization Sought, Officials Mull Ways to Skirt Legal Requirements by Jason Ditz, May 13, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Following a White House meeting today with NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen,President Obama confirmed that the US [...]
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May 14, 2011
Afghanistan: war without end? Obama promised no open-ended occupation – and to draw down forces from July. A 2.5% cut is hardly an encouraging start Share68 Comments (94) David Swanson guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011 19.31 BST Article history General David Petraeus, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, greets US defence secretary [...]
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May 13, 2011
Defense Intelligence Staff chief blows British cover for Iraq War Submitted by NicolasDavies on Fri, 2011-05-13 01:13 Iraq Paul Pillar, a senior CIA analyst who worked on the 25-page “summary of intelligence” presented to Congress in 2002, later told PBS, “The purpose was to strengthen the case for going to war…I regret having had a [...]
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May 13, 2011
The totally cold hearted and bloodthirsty imperial project can perhaps even if for some ulterior reason produce something like a good result. For those of you who think that worse is better try looking at those affected and think about grabbing even the most meagre of forced concessions with open arms. No doubt anyone allowed [...]
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May 12, 2011
Kill the Men, Take the Thumb Drives Was the Bin Laden raid a manhunt or an intelligence grab? By William SaletanPosted Wednesday, May 11, 2011, at 8:46 AM ET How important was intelligence-gathering to the Bin Laden raid?One after another, elements of the U.S. account of Osama Bin Laden‘s death have unraveled. First it was [...]
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May 12, 2011
Tomgram: William Astore, A New Age of “Enlightened” War Posted by William Astore at 10:00am, May 12, 2011. In case you hadn’t noticed, they are — no kidding around — absolutely the niftiest non-humans on Earth. I’m speaking about the special operations force of Navy SEALs that took out Osama bin Laden. They and their special ops [...]
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May 12, 2011
Afghanistan: war without end? The Guardian Obama promised no open-ended occupation – and to draw down forces from July. A 2.5% cut is hardly an encouraging start David Swanson guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 May 2011 19.31 BST General David Petraeus, commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, greets US defence secretary Robert Gates upon his [...]
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May 9, 2011
THE NEW YORKER ONLINE ONLY NEWS DESK Notes on Washington and the world by the staff of The New Yorker. « The Sounds of 9/11 Main What a Week: Mostly Osama, and Some Other Stuff » MAY 5, 2011 PRAGMATIC TORTURE Posted by David K. Shipler Advocates of torture who enjoy tormenting the rest of us with [...]
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May 9, 2011
After bin Laden Hit, U.S. Aides Raise Dubious Hopes for Peace by Gareth Porter, May 09, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Barack Obama and top administration officials have taken advantage of the killing of Osama bin Laden to establish a new narrative suggesting the event will pave the way for negotiations [...]
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
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May 5, 2011
This not a cheap ticket. It costs an enormous amount. Death and destruction on a wide scale mixed with a specific target does not come cheap. Particularly if you are in the rifle sights or too close to the bomb crater. George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site Opening photo is of Paul Pillar Bin Ladin‘s [...]
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April 29, 2011
US General: Slow Transition Out of Afghanistan Insists Forces Already ‘Significantly’ Thinned Out by Jason Ditz, April 28, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Major General Richard Mills cautioned against expecting any major withdrawals from Afghanistan, insisting that any moves would be a “slow transition” and that [...]
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April 29, 2011
Leaked Files Detail Gitmo’s History of Child Prisoners Over 60 Detainees Were Under 18 When Captured by Jason Ditz, April 28, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Guantanamo Bay’s detention center hasn’t just been home to aging militants, like 89 year old Mohammed Sadiq, who was described in his 2002 assessment as suffering [...]
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April 29, 2011
US lawmakers warn against Palestinian unity ‘Palestinian Authority has chosen alliance with violence, extremism over democratic values that Israel represents,’ bipartisan group of legislators says, while State Department skirts questions over whether aid will continue Reuters Published: 04.28.11, 23:35 / Israel News share The new Palestinian unity deal could imperil hundreds of [...]
Tags: Fatah, Gaza Strip, Hamas, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Palestinian National Authority, Palestinian people, Salam Fayyad, United States
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April 26, 2011
The Guardian has a very extensive site with a huge amount of information on all Gitmo detainees. You can got to the interactive site at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-guantanamo-bay This is a very majot source of information Guantánamo [...]
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April 26, 2011
The United States released dozens of so-called “high-risk” detainees from the Guantanamo Bay prison facility and held more than 150 innocent men for years, according to new reports about a trove of leaked military [...]
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A Gaza message to others
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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