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American
Muslims Seven Years after 9/11
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 07:19 PM CDT
by
Abdus Sattar Ghazali Seven years after 9/11, Muslims in America
remained at the receiving end with assault on their civil rights and
their faith in the name of “war on terror.” Muslims are the prime
targets of the post 9/11 reconfiguration of American laws, policies,
and priorities. Defending civil rights remains the single most [...] ![]() |
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9/11 ‘What If?’
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 07:01 PM CDT
By
Peter Dyer What if we had never gone to war? What if, after the
shocking crimes of September 11, 2001, the United States had pursued a
different course?
What if all the blood which has been [...] ![]() |
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Prosecutor
‘admits’ that Omar Khadr is a child soldier
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 06:33 PM CDT
Steven
Edwards, Canwest News Service
U.S. NAVAL BASE GUANTANAMO, Cuba - A prosecutor in Omar Khadr’s war
crimes case admitted for the first time Thursday that the Toronto-born
youth had been - as a 15-year-old when captured on an Afghan
battlefield - a “child” in need of at least some special consideration
ahead of his trial.
The admission [...] ![]() |
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IRAQ:
Cameraman freed by U.S.; another held
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 06:07 PM CDT
New
York, The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of a
cameraman held by U.S. forces in Iraq, and calls on the military to
release a freelance journalist working for Reuters who has been held
since Tuesday.
Omar Husham, 28?, a cameraman with Baghdad TV?, a satellite channel
owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party, [...] ![]() |
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Canadian
officials frustrated in efforts to ensure care for Omar Khadr
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 05:47 PM CDT
TORONTO
— A Canadian government representative complained as recently as a few
months ago that her efforts to ensure proper medical and other care for
Omar Khadr in Guantanamo Bay were being stymied by his American
captors, newly released documents reveal.
The classified accounts of welfare visits by an official from Foreign
Affairs show even simple [...] ![]() |
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‘Dhoom
Dhamaka!’: Shock and awe in dance
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 05:14 PM CDT
Andrea
Abney
Joti Singh’s works are usually celebratory and happy. She’s a student
of Guinean dance and bhangra (a Punjab, India, harvest dance), and her
pieces tend to be pretty upbeat.
But then she heard Boynarr Sow’s story.
Singh says Sow, a Senegalese drummer and artist who lives in
Sacramento, was “abducted” by the Department of Homeland Security [...] ![]() |
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