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US: Amnesty slams Bin Laden driver’s Guantanamo trial
AKI | Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Hamdan, convicted by a US military jury on Wednesday of supporting terrorism, did not receive a fair trial, said rights group Amnesty International. “The
Read More »The i-9-11 event and the end of the Internet as we know it?
foobar After the terrible events of September 11, 2001 it didn’t take long for a piece of legislature to be passed in the US, called the Patriot Act. That is a massive set of
Read More »US, UK activists protest under Olympic spotlight
BEIJING (AP) – Activists from the U.S. and U.K. unfurled pro-Tibet banners and spoke out against China’s rights record in Tiananmen Square on Wednesday in the first attempts by foreigners in the Chinese capital
Read More »E-Passports ‘can be cloned’
Microchipped passports the Government claim are foolproof can be cloned in minutes, it has been reported. By Jon Swaine Test results suggest that criminals could copy innocent travellers’ passports and manipulate their data, replacing
Read More »The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of
Read More »South Korea arrests 167 after anti-Bush protests
SEOUL — South Korean police used water cannon and arrested 167 people to break up protests in the evening and overnight against the visit of US President George W. Bush, officers said Wednesday. A
Read More »Gitmo Detainees Subject to Detention Even If Acquitted: Pentagon
Some detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will likely never be released because of the danger they pose, and those tried and acquitted will still be subject to continued detention as enemy combatants, a Pentagon
Read More »Bin Laden driver convicted in war crimes trial
MSNBC | GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – A military jury on Wednesday found a former driver for Osama bin Laden guilty on some counts but cleared him of others in the first Guantanamo
Read More »FBI used aggressive tactics in anthrax probe
Ap | WASHINGTON – Before killing himself last week, Army scientist Bruce Ivins told friends that government agents had stalked him and his family for months, offered his son $2.5 million to rat him
Read More »White House ‘buried British intelligence on Iraq WMDs’
Tim Reid in Washington and Sam Coates in London | MI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq that a high-placed Iraqi source said that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.
Read More »Iraq’s oil-fueled surplus could hit $80 billion, report says
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Iraq is raking in more money from oil exports than it is spending, amassing a projected four-year budget surplus of up to $80 billion, U.S. auditors reported Tuesday. Leading members of
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