Antiterrorism

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• Islamophobia & Religious Discrimination: contextualising the need

  
  walls come tumbling down — Authority: 117
  My opening speech from the “Islamophobia & Religious Discrimination: new perspectives, policies and practices” event yesterday (9th December 2009):Why do we need an event that focuses on Islamophobia and religious discrimination when, as Alistair Campbell once famously remarked to Tony Blair, as a nation “We ...
  4 days ago

• Human Rights Maps (74): The War on Terror, Extraordinary Renditions and Secret Detentions

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 504
  ( source , click on the image to enlarge) More on rendition , arbitrary arrest and habeas corpus . More human rights maps here . Posted in human rights maps, terror, torture Tagged: 9-11, al-Qaida, anti-terrorism, arbitrary arrest, extraordinary rendition, habeas corpus, map, maps, rendition, terrorism, ...
  6 days ago

• No Photography Law Amended

  
  Digital Camera Reviews, Digital Photography Tutorials, Best Digital Cameras - Photoxels — Authority: 142
  Can it be true? UK Police has been instructed to stop using anti-terror laws to question and search innocent photographers. The message says: “Officers and community support officers are reminded that we should not be stopping and searching people for taking photos. Unnecessarily restricting photography, whether ...
  1 week ago

• No Photography Law Amended

  
  Digital Camera Reviews, Digital Photography Tutorials, Best Digital Cameras - Photoxels — Authority: 142
  Can it be true? UK Police has been instructed to stop using anti-terror laws to question and search innocent photographers. The message says: “Officers and community support officers are reminded that we should not be stopping and searching people for taking photos. Unnecessarily restricting photography, whether ...
  1 week ago

• Selective Empathy

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 508
  Thats the title of Linda Greenhouse s latest post at the New York Times Opinionator blog.  LINK Its a must-read. Several excerpts: In overturning a death sentence this week ofa Korean War veteran whose lawyer failed to inform the jury about theman’s combat-related traumatic stress disorder, the Supreme ...
  1 week ago

• Photographers and anti-terrorism: The holiday snaps that could get you arrested

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Police abuse of anti-terrorist laws is a shameful threat to our civil liberties, says Philip Johnston.
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• The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (18): Rectal Terrorism

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 504
  President Sarkozy’s new domestic intelligence directorate (DCRI) learnt of an attack in Saudi Arabia in which the bomber detonated … a device in his rectum. Al-Qaeda gave video publicity to its new method tested by Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri, a 23-year-old terrorist, who blew himself apart at a meeting in Jeddah ...
  1 week ago

• The United States “Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act”: Massive Aid, Tough Love, Tall Order

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  With Obama signing the ‘Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act,’ otherwise known as the ‘Kerry-Lugar-Berman Bill,’ a five-year, $7.5 billion aid package to Pakistan is assured, along with a promise of more to come. ‘It includes language proposing a subsequent tranche of $7.5 billion of aid for 2015 to 2019. ...
  1 week ago

• Al-Qaeda Terrorists Win Right To Hear Secret Evidence

  
  War News Updates — Authority: 161
  Abu Qatada Photo: REUTERS From The Telegraph: Two men, alleged to be al-Qaeda terrorists, have won the right to hear the secret evidence against them or be released. Both men are in prison but if the government refuses to release the information they would be freed on bail with minimal restrictions. One ...
  1 week ago

• Photographer Stopped From Taking Christmas Lights Photos

  
  Digital Camera Reviews, Digital Photography Tutorials, Best Digital Cameras - Photoxels — Authority: 142
  Chalk it up to another episode of “No Photography here, (Please)” as two police Community Support Officers use anti-terrorism legislation to stop a Brighton-based photographer from taking images of Christmas lights. [ Read the article at: BJP ]
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• Troop Surge in Afghanistan: Still No Match to Taliban’s Irregular Warfare

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  General McChrystal does not get his ‘40,000 new troops in order to hold the “major” cities and secure the population from the Taliban.’ He only gets a part of it. Obama did very recently order for additional troops to Afghanistan, but only about 75 percent of McChrystal’s request. McChrystal’s plan, ...
  1 week ago

• Got targets to meet?

  
  The PhotoZone — Authority: 112
  Plods still at it. A few days ago BBC News photographer Jeff Overs was stopped and questioned by the police for taking photographs of a sunset over St Pauls Cathedral in London. Heres an interview with him on The Andrew Marr Show, the programme for which he takes photographs. Listen carefully. In the ...
  1 week ago

• Indian Government Set To Begin Automated Civilian Communication Surveillance

  
  Infosecurity.US — Authority: 133
  News of the Republic of India’ latest febrile attempts at intelligence gathering: This time the formerly contemplated and now soon-to-be-released initiative to surveil all civilian commercial voice and data traffic in the sweltering South Asian country… Based on previous attempts in one of the poorer nations on ...
  2 weeks ago

• Benson: Lady Liberty

  
  Infosecurity.US — Authority: 133
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• Anti-terrorism Court Indicts 7 Over Mumbai Attacks

  
  A Pakistan News — Authority: 576
  Pakistan News: Anti-terrorism court on Wednesday charged seven suspects in connection with the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people a year ago. The men were indicted at an anti-terrorism court in a high security prison in the city of Rawalpindi on the eve of the first anniversary of India’s worst militant ...
  2 weeks ago

• The bird and the prisoner

  
  Machetera — Authority: 414
  Gerardo Hernández with bird This is How it All Began - Español By Alicia Jrapko Translation: Machetera Once upon a time, a bird made friends with a prisoner.  Both were incarcerated in the United States and both were unjustly imprisoned for defending Cuba from terrorist activity. This is how the story ...
  3 weeks ago

• Magwood v. Culliver From Alabama

  
  The StandDown Texas Project — Authority: 508
  " 30 Years After Murder, Is His Appeal Too Late? " is the title of Adam Liptaks report in todays New York Times. The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether it is too late foran Alabama man to argue that the murder that sent him to death row wasnot a capital crime when he committed it. The inmate, Billy Joe ...
  3 weeks ago

• In Fort Hood (just like in Afghanistan), US failure to know Muslims well enough?

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  The massacre at Fort Hood occurred at a time when US President Barack Obama is at the final stage of decision-making about what to do with the US war in Afghanistan. The Afghan war has been proving to be a failure in the US antiterrorism mobilization, as well as its counterinsurgency campaign. US troops in Afghanistan ...
  4 weeks ago

• Robert Gates and the ‘American Footprint’ in Afghanistan

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  It is said that there are ‘two poles in Washington: the counterinsurgency experts, or COIN-istas, who believe Afghanistan’s deteriorating security can only be reversed by adding tens of thousands of troops – perhaps as many as 80,000; and those who believe US interests in Afghanistan are few, and the best way to ...
  4 weeks ago

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