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• An Evening with Andy Worthington: “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo”

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 554
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk14 November 2009As part of my US tour to promote my new documentary about Guantánamo, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash), I traveled on Sunday (after events in New York, discussed here) to ...
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• An Evening with Andy Worthington: “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo”

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 554
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk14 November 2009As part of my US tour to promote my new documentary about Guantánamo, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (co-directed with filmmaker Polly Nash), I traveled on Sunday (after events in New York, discussed here) to ...
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• Ray McGovern: Why Accountability for Torture Is Crucial for Human Rights

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 554
  Dandelion SaladtalkingsticktvNovember 13, 2009Talk by 27-year Veteran of the CIA Ray McGovern on “Why Accountability for Torture Is Crucial for Human Rights, Our Security and Our Souls” given November 12, 2009 at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. Talk sponsored by Washington State ...
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• PDC 2009 Preview: The move to Office 2010 and Visual Studio 2010

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 444
  By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews All next week, Betanews will be reporting from Los Angeles, at the scene of this year’s Microsoft Professional Developers’ Conference. Based on our experience with prior years’ shows, here’s the pattern we expect: Day 1 (officially next Tuesday) will center on ...
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• Italian court finds 23 CIA operatives guilty in absentia for the abduction of a Muslim cleric. The trial was the first by any government over the Central Intelligence Agency’s extraordinary rendition program.

  
  Topblank — Authority: 163
  Italian court finds 23 CIA operatives guilty in absentia for the abduction of a Muslim cleric. The trial was the first by any government over the Central Intelligence Agency’s extraordinary rendition program.
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• Lawyers Allege Ongoing ‘Dragnet’ Surveillance

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 774
  Attorney General Eric Holder (WDCpix) On October 30, the Justice Department for the first time applied its new “state secrets” policy to a case charging the government with breaking the law. Open government advocates hoping for a significant change in the government’s stance toward secrecy in national security ...
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• Italy’s Justice System Treads Where US Courts Won’t

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 501
  The United States of America owes much of the hope it has right now of remaining what John Adams called “a nation of laws, not men” to Italian law enforcement. Were it not for the fact that Italian prosecutors, unlike their American counterparts, answer to the law rather than a president, the enforcement of ...
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• Links for 11.09.09 to 11.12.09

  
  The Arabist — Authority: 500
  ✪ Report: Angelina Jolie planning to adopt child from Syria – Haaretz – Israel News | Jolie and Pitt thinking of adopting an Iraqi refugee baby in Syria. They also met with Bashar and his wife, apparently. United Colors of Adoption… this will cause a stir. ✪ Israel & Palestine: Can They Start Over? ...
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• Extraordinary Rendition, The Story of Abu Omar, Ctd.

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 434
  This post is by guest writer Robert Nijssen who also has his own blog . Abu Omar is an imam from Egyptian origin, who was kidnapped by the CIA from the streets of Milan. For more information on his kidnapping please refer to my original post here . Last week the Italian trial against the involved CIA operatives was ...
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• NYT on Arar case: US government also subject to laws

  
  Psyche, Science, and Society — Authority: 130
  The New York Times , in an editorial, joins those contrasting the Italian court conviction of CIA kidnappers with a US court’s decision that kidnap and torture victim Maher Arar has no legal recourse. A National Disgrace New York Times Editorial Two courts, one in Italy and one in the United States, ...
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• Editorial: A National Disgrace

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  Two courts, one in Italy and one in the United States, ruled recently on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, which is the kidnapping of people and sending them to other countries for interrogation — and torture. The Italian court got it right. The American court got it miserably wrong. ...
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• Expect Collateral Damage in the War against Muslim Atrocities

  
  Dominionists for Tancredo/Palin 2012, 2016 at the latest — Authority: 109
  Jesus protected by a sad US GI on day of His rendition and torture The peaceful, loving relationship between the US soldier and Jesus is the basis upon which the US projects its devastatingly effective military power.  Our Military and all of Her operations are certified by an authority no less powerful and Perfect ...
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• Review: Darcy Saga: Book One: Two Shall Become One by Sharon Lathan

  
  Love Romance Passion — Authority: 505
  What I love most about this book is the research and language used to express the time period. Lathan’s diction is vastly superb – I had to look one or two words up. (Romance novels have all the credit when it comes to my 750 verbal SAT score from way back when.) The way she writes is very mellow, you’re not ...
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• Extraordinary rendition of a U.S. citizen - it could happen to you...!

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 133
  note: mr. meshal was never charged ... "U.S. officials repeatedly threatened Mr. Meshal with torture, forced disappearance, and execution in order to coerce him to confess to wrongdoing in which he had not engaged and to associations that he did not have," according to the lawsuit [the suit, brought on behalf of ...
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• Editorial: A National Disgrace

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  A court’s overt disregard for the central role of judges in policing executive branch excesses has frightening implications for safeguarding civil liberties.
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• U.S. citizen sues over treatment in rendition

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 967
  An American who was captured by Kenyan forces in January 2007 filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington on Tuesday, arguing that FBI agents allegedly involved in his interrogation and transfer to other countries violated his constitutional rights.
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• Only the greatest rendition of Mariah Carey’s “Obsessed”

  
  LOFT965 — Authority: 497
  Wow, she nevers ceases to amuse. This is one of our favorites. Oh, the ending melisma! Posted in Asian Persuasion, Beats, Chuckle, Clip Tagged: cover, mariah carey, obsessed, rendition, version
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• American Sues F.B.I., Saying He Was Detained in Africa

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Amir Meshal said he was detained and mistreated in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia in 2007 with the approval of the United States.
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• ACLU Sues Government Officials on Behalf of American Citizen Illegally Detained in Africa

  
  Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union — Authority: 525
  Today, the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of Amir Meshal , an American citizen who was arrested and secretly imprisoned in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia for four months. He was held in secret, without access to a lawyer or any process to contest his detention, and was never charged with a crime. He endured more ...
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• Rendition Case Tests FBI Immunity

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 774
  Illustration by: Matt Mahurin Twenty-four-year-old Amir Meshal, the son of Muslim immigrants from Egypt, was a lifelong resident of New Jersey when, after living briefly in Cairo with extended family members, in 2006 he decided to go to Somalia to study Islam and experience living under Islamic law. The country ...
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