After the CIA torture report
CounterPunch
by Kareen Shora
09/22/09
With the release of the CIA report detailing torture methods in secret prisons, we are at a critical juncture with an opportunity to regain our nation’s credibility in the world. The acts described in the report are morally reprehensible and a direct affront to our American values and international human rights...
http://counterpunch.org/shora09222009.html
Sold to the United States for cash
In These Times
by Leonard C. Goodman
09/22/09
In May, President Barack Obama began floating the idea that his administration might seek the power to ‘preventatively detain’ terrorism suspects who ‘are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried.’ The rationale is: These folks are bad. We can’t tell you how we know this because of national security concerns. So trust us. This is in effect what the Bush administration told us for more than five years, and it is nonsense. I am an attorney representing one of the 230 remaining Guantanamo detainees who are subject to this preventative detention. Shawali Khan has been imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center for more than six years without charges. � When the Americans invaded in October 2001, Khan was living in Kandahar City, selling kerosene and gasoline. On Nov. 13, 2002, he was riding his motorcycle from his home to the market when he was arrested by four Afghan men who work for the corrupt warlord Gul Agha Shirzai, who governed Kandahar province. A short while later, Khan was transferred to the Americans...
http://tinyurl.com/lmjras
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prison
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=preventative+detain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+suspect
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kareen+Shora
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leonard+C.+Goodman
by Kareen Shora
09/22/09
With the release of the CIA report detailing torture methods in secret prisons, we are at a critical juncture with an opportunity to regain our nation’s credibility in the world. The acts described in the report are morally reprehensible and a direct affront to our American values and international human rights...
http://counterpunch.org/shora09222009.html
Sold to the United States for cash
In These Times
by Leonard C. Goodman
09/22/09
In May, President Barack Obama began floating the idea that his administration might seek the power to ‘preventatively detain’ terrorism suspects who ‘are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried.’ The rationale is: These folks are bad. We can’t tell you how we know this because of national security concerns. So trust us. This is in effect what the Bush administration told us for more than five years, and it is nonsense. I am an attorney representing one of the 230 remaining Guantanamo detainees who are subject to this preventative detention. Shawali Khan has been imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center for more than six years without charges. � When the Americans invaded in October 2001, Khan was living in Kandahar City, selling kerosene and gasoline. On Nov. 13, 2002, he was riding his motorcycle from his home to the market when he was arrested by four Afghan men who work for the corrupt warlord Gul Agha Shirzai, who governed Kandahar province. A short while later, Khan was transferred to the Americans...
http://tinyurl.com/lmjras
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=national+security
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+prison
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=preventative+detain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+suspect
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kareen+Shora
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leonard+C.+Goodman
rudkla - 23. Sep, 14:06
