World-News

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/05-1

Witness Against Torture: Activists and Lawyers Rally, March and Offer Press Briefing, Mark 8 Years of Guantanamo

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/01/05-1



Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR): Statement of Faisal Hashmi on Behalf of Family of Syed Fahad Hashmi

http://act.commondreams.org/go/472?akid=48.124981.xYPIZQ&t=36

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The law is lost

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

01/05/10

Hashmi is a U.S. citizen but his government has violated every right guaranteed to him by the Constitution. The U.S. government, in violation of U.S. law, is also subjecting Hashmi to psychological torture known as extreme sensory deprivation. The bogus ‘evidence” against him is classified and denied to him. Like Joseph K. in Kafka’s The Trial, Hashmi is under arrest on secret evidence. As the case against him is unknown or non-existent, defense is impossible. Hashmi’s rights have been abrogated by his government with the allegation that he is a potential terrorist or perhaps just a terrorist sympathizer...

http://counterpunch.org/roberts01052010.html



The sins of Guantanamo

Slate
by Dahlia Lithwick

01/06/10

In light of America’s spontaneous discovery of the existence of Yemen on Christmas Day, it may make political sense to argue that Guantanamo detainees repatriated there will turn to terrorism. But it makes no more legal sense than their original incarceration did. The idea that we would hold onto these men based solely on a foiled terror plot connected to their country of origin shows how little factual accuracy matters when it comes to Guantanamo. A reminder: Despite Donald Rumsfeld’s famous assertion that the folks at Guantanamo represented the ‘worst of the worst,’ we know that the majority of the prisoners at the camp were largely just unlucky...

http://www.slate.com/id/2240625/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Guantanamo Recidivism: Mainstream Media Parrot Pentagon Propaganda (Again)

Andy Worthington, Truthout: "Last May, The New York Times uncritically published a front-page story entitled, '1 In 7 Detainees Rejoined Jihad, Pentagon Finds,' in which Elisabeth Bumiller, relying on an unpublished Pentagon report, stated that '74 prisoners released from Guantanamo have returned to terrorism, making for a recidivism rate of nearly 14 percent.'"

http://www.truthout.org/010710Worthington

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A Convenient Bomb Plot

By Finian Cunningham

So, just when the US public is growing increasingly weary of these trillion-dollar wars that are killing young Americans and innocent villagers with no end in sight and for no credible purpose, and just when Washington wants to expand its regional war into Yemen - we conveniently have the "Christmas Day bomb plot" with a Yemeni connection. Now, that is a gift for US war aims.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24355.htm



Report: US had intel to stop Christmas bomb plot

A new White House reports says the U.S. government had plenty of information to keep the alleged Christmas Day bombing suspect off an airplane.

http://snipurl.com/u0mdo


From Information Clearing House



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