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Will
next president ban torture?
Posted: 28 Oct 2008 05:05 PM CDT
By
Peter T. Smith
It’s only one week until Americans choose their next president, but
whether McCainmania or Obamarama takes the day, there’s one thing that
we all should hope will come about shortly thereafter: the end of the
American torture state.
Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad Abou El Maati and
Muayyed Nureddin leave a news conference
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MnIndy
interview: Errol Morris looks beyond the frame at Abu Ghraib
Posted: 28 Oct 2008 04:58 PM CDT
Of
all the guards implicated in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal,
Lynndie England stands alone. Her smiling thumbs up beside a line of
hooded prisoners is hard to forget. But in one photo, the one where she
holds a nude prisoner on a leash, she wasn’t originally standing alone.
She tells Errol Morris in [...] ![]()
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Gitmo
tribunal official probed
Posted: 28 Oct 2008 01:35 PM CDT
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Nawaz
calls on govt to bring Aafia back
Posted: 28 Oct 2008 01:14 PM CDT
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By Our Correspondent
LAHORE
PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif has reiterated his statement on Monday
that Dr Aafia Siddiqi was the daughter of Pakistan and it was the
responsibility of the government to put diplomatic pressure upon the US
government for the release of Dr Aafia and her children and their
return to Pakistan.He said this [...] ![]() |
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Female
Palestinian detainee release after 12 years in captivity
Posted: 28 Oct 2008 01:12 PM CDT
Israeli
Prison Authorities released on Monday Souna Al Ra’ey,40, after twelve
years in detention after she allegedly carried an attack against
Israeli soldiers at the Allenby Bridge, in retaliation to the death of
her brother who was killed by Israeli soldiers in an Israeli detention
camp. In an interview with Guevara Al Bodeiry, Al Jazeera [...] ![]() |
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U.S.
speeding up release of Iraqi detainees
Posted: 28 Oct 2008 01:03 PM CDT
By
CORINNE REILLY
McClatchy Newspapers
In recent months, the American military has begun freeing many of the
Iraqi prisoners it’s been holding without charges and aims to release
all of them by December 2009, according to U.S. military data and
interviews with military officials.
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