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• Gitmo plan this month? Holder: Decisions by Nov. 16

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that the administration will decide in the next week the fate of the remaining Guantanamo Bay detainees. Holder, speaking to reporters at a conference in Doha, Qatar, said “We will by Nov the 16th make the determination as to who can be tried in the reformed military ...
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• Were very serious about the fish

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 511
  Judicial inquiry for salmon disappearance . Versus.... Obstruction of Military Police Complaints Commission inquiry on torture allegations involving Afghan detainees. Not to mock the importance of the lost salmon at all. But the comparative treatment is striking.
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• New Docs: Pentagon Ignored FBI’s Warnings on Abusive Interrogations

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff After reading The Dark Side by Jane Mayer, this isnt all that new. But thats a book, and these are declassified Department of Justice-released documents : Sadly, they reveal that the FBI knew perfectly well — and repeatedly warned Defense Department officials, as well as Justice Department ...
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• Head injury could amplify depression in survivors of torture

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 7 (ANI): Head injuries could aggravate depression and other emotional symptoms in survivors of torture and other traumatic experiences, according to a study from the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma (HPRT), based in the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Psychiatry.In the study, ...
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• Homeland defense force will be used in H1N1 “emergencies”

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 534
  November 5, 2009Updated H1N1 posts/symptoms/vaccineYes, troops will be used domestically to help out with H1N1 “emergencies”.CNN was discussing H1N1 vaccine shortage in the military – abroad and domestically. As well as the question of Gitmo detainees getting the vaccine before active military, which the ...
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• Amherst, Mass., Agrees to Take Gitmo Detainees

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  An Amherst Special Town Meeting approved a resolution last night welcoming one or two cleared Guantanamo Bay detainees to Amherst, Mass. — once Congress agrees to lift the latest bans on their transfer. The town of 30,000 residents says it’s the first municipality in the nation to officially welcome the ...
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• 9/11 families back Graham on military trials in letter to the U.S. Senate

  
  9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America — Authority: 118
  Senator Lindsey Graham introduced an amendment this morning (co-sponsored by John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Jim Webb) to an appropriations bill denying funds for trying 9/11 conspirators in federal (Article III) courts that would effectively force them to be tried by Military Commissions. Two-hundred 9/11 family ...
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• Italian court convicts 23 Americans of kidnapping in CIA rendition case

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff Meaningless/meaningful, depending on how you look at it: Twenty three Americans have been convicted in absentia, after an Italian court found them guilty of kidnapping in the CIA rendition of a Muslim cleric, the Associated Press reports . Three other Americans were acquitted. [...] The ...
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• CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 612
  Download audio file (1104092.mp3) Download MP3 An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans – all but one of them CIA agents – and two Italian secret agents for the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric. The agents were accused of abducting Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar (pictured), from Milan and ...
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• Release After 8 Long Years – Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs Press Release: United States Transfers Six Uighur Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Palau

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 431
  Department of JusticeOffice of Public AffairsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESaturday, October 31, 2009 United States Transfers Six Uighur Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to PalauSix detainees who are Chinese nationals of Uighur ethnicity have been transferred from the ... Related Posts B Press Release: Freedom House Condemns ...
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• MUST SEE VIDEO- Justice Denied: Voices from Gitmo- "Its a place where people lose their mind"

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff "People were sodomized... with broomsticks..." The men in this video were held at Guantánamo for years without charge and denied any meaningful opportunity to challenge the legality of their detention. But now they are finally free. This is their story. Produced for the ACLU by Joel P. ...
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• Bush’s interrogators used slaps to ‘instill fear and despair’

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff My friend Larisa Alexandrovna has a piece up at Raw Story that you should go read. Heres a sample: Recently declassified documents on the Bush administration interrogation program describe several techniques used on detainees in US custody, some of which may have violated the United Nations ...
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• U.S. to Pay $1.2 Million to 5 [Muslim]* Detainees Over Abuse Lawsuit - By Nina Bernstein - The New York Times

  
  Muslim India — Authority: 129
  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/nyregion/03jail.html?_r=1 U.S. to Pay $1.2 Million to 5 [Muslim]* Detainees Over Abuse Lawsuit E-MAIL SEND TO PHONE PRINT REPRINTS SHARE CLOSE By  NINA BERNSTEIN Published: November 2, 2009 The federal government is ...
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• World Briefing | Asia: China: Foreign Ministry Criticizes U.S. for Sending Uighur Detainees to Palau

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  China has demanded that the Uighurs be returned to China, but the United States has refused because it says they would face persecution there.
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• Open Letter to Governor Sanford and the General Assembly — A Call to Action: Keep the Gitmo Detainees out of the Lowcountry

  
  SCHotline Blog — Authority: 466
  By Michael S. Smith II   Dear Gov. Sanford and Members of the S.C. General Assembly, Pursuant to a discussion I recently had with an expert on terrorism and radicalized Islam I wonder if you are familiar with a legal case that has been kept all too quiet in North Charleston, a case regarding a Naval Weapons ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Opium, Rape and the American Way Reawaken as Obama Weighs Afghanistan Strategy

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Chris Hedges, was posted to Common Dreams.org, November 2, 2009 The warlords we champion in Afghanistan are as venal, as opposed to the rights of women and basic democratic freedoms, and as heavily involved in opium trafficking as the Taliban. The moral lines we draw between us and our adversaries ...
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• Former Guantanamo Detainees Speak About Their Experiences

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  The American Civil Liberties Union has just released a video of interviews with five former Guantanamo detainees, talking about their experiences of abuse in U.S. custody. It’s not easy to watch, but it’s certainly worthwhile. Although the video (after the jump) doesn’t give any sense of why these men in ...
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• Congressman Blasts H1N1 Vaccine Distribution to Gitmo Detainees During Shortage

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 457
  Missouri Republican Rep. Roy Blunt said Americans civilians -- not terrorism suspects -- should get priority to receive the vaccine.  
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• Held in the Midst of Greenwich Village, Immigrants Lack Access to Counsel, Complain About Threats

  
  Feet In 2 Worlds, Immigration News — Authority: 527
  By Diego Graglia, FI2W web editorMost of the thousands of New Yorkers who walk by the Varick Federal Detention Facility every day are probably unaware of its existence, but the immigration jail on Hudson Street in New York City’s Greenwich Village holds thousands of detainees every year.Over one third of those ...
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• China Slams U.S. For Sending Uighurs to Palau

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  China lashed out at the United States on Monday after the Obama administration sent six Uighur Chinese detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay to the Pacific island nation of Palau.
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