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Afghanistan: Abuse Charges at Bad Time for White House
Allegations that U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan burned the bodies of Taliban fighters couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Bush administration, already fighting legislation in Congress that would impose standards on the Pentagon’s treatment of detainees. Lurid television … Continue reading
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Spanish Judge Issues Warrant for Three GIs on Charges of Killing Reporter in Iraq
Spanish Judge Issues Warrant for Three GIs on Charges of Killing Reporter in Iraq By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Filed at 10:29 p.m. ET, October 19, 2005 MADRID, Spain (AP) — A judge has issued an international arrest warrant for three … Continue reading
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These two men are experts on rendition: one invented it, the other has seen its full horrors
If there are two men in the world who know about “extraordinary renditions” then they are Michael Scheuer, the CIA chief who invented the programme, and Craig Murray, the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan who saw first-hand the devastating consequences for … Continue reading
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Privacy Coalition Letter to Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
DOD Database Campaign Coalition Letter The Honorable Donald H. RumsfeldSecretary of DefenseThe PentagonWashington, DC 20301 Dear Secretary Rumsfeld, We are writing in opposition to the Department of Defense’s (DOD) creation of the Joint Advertising and Market Research Studies (JAMRS) Recruiting … Continue reading
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Close our torture loophole
Picture this scene: Young prison guards in khaki uniforms and reflecting sunglasses herd a larger group of inmates down a hallway, each prisoner chained to the next by his ankle, each dressed in a shapeless smock that exposed his pale … Continue reading
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What Game Theory Can Tell Us About Terrorism
In my inaugural column, it’s appropriate to deal with one of last week’s big events in economics: the awarding of the Nobel prize. The prize in economics went to two men for their contributions to game theory: Robert Aumann of … Continue reading
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Sunni group disputes reports of constitution’s likely passage
As the ballots in Iraq’s landmark referendum on a new constitution were dispatched Sunday to Baghdad for an official tally, disputes erupted over the likely result and the U.S. military reported the deaths of six troops on the day of … Continue reading
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Judges liken terror laws to Nazi Germany
A powerful coalition of judges, senior lawyers and politicians has warned that the Government is undermining freedoms citizens have taken for granted for centuries and that Britain risks drifting towards a police state. One of the country’s most eminent judges … Continue reading
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Our Broken Constitution
Our Broken Constitution by Nat Hentoff, Village Voice, October 16, 2005 The outlook of Richard Nixon was that he was above the law. Watergate disabused him of the notion. The position of George W. Bush is that he is … Continue reading
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One victim’s story
ON each stage of his journey, as he descended further and further into the gulags and torture chambers of the war on terror, Benyam Mohammed al-Habashi was shadowed by British intelligence. The British were there in Karachi when Americans interrogated … Continue reading
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