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John Major to speak against 42 day terror law
By Rosa Prince | Sir John Major, the former Prime Minister, is preparing to make a rare intervention into domestic policies by speaking out against Government plans to increase detention without trial to 42
Read More »Islamic extremists to be given counselling
Islamic extremists could escape prosecution and instead receive therapy and counselling under new Government plans to “deradicalise” religious fanatics. By James Kirkup | The Home Office is to announce an extra £12.5 million to
Read More »In-flight surveillance in every seat
New Scientist | CCTV cameras are bringing more and more public places under surveillance – and passenger aircraft could be next. A prototype European system uses multiple cameras and “Big Brother” software to try
Read More »The ‘War Crimes File’
Hartford Courant | It comes as a relief to know that FBI agents were aghast at harsh interrogation techniques used by American military and CIA operatives against terror suspects detained in U.S.-run detention centers.
Read More »No sign al Qaeda has WMD capability – US official
Reuters | There’s no sign that al Qaeda has acquired the capability to use weapons of mass destruction, a U.S. intelligence official said Tuesday, ahead of an anticipated release of a video by the
Read More »Iran busts CIA terror network
Tehran Times – TEHRAN | The Intelligence Ministry on Saturday released details of the detection and dismantling of a terrorist network affiliated to the United States. In a coordinated operation on May 7, Iranian intelligence
Read More »Torture Policies Undermine 9/11 Case
By Jason Leopold | The Pentagon’s decision to drop war-crimes charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, the alleged “20th hijacker” in the 9/11 attacks, again underscores the consequences of the Bush administration’s descent into torture and
Read More »Renditions Ruin the EU Case
By David Cronin | Collusion between European Union governments and a secret U.S. torture and kidnapping programme has damaged the EU’s efforts to promote human rights throughout the world, an internal paper drawn up
Read More »U.S. reveals way to get off terror list
UPI | The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced a way for people who don’t belong on terrorist watch lists to be spared extra scrutiny at the airport. Under the new program, tens of
Read More »Rights Groups Wrangle with CIA over “Ghost Prisoners”
IPS | The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has refused to release more than 7,000 documents related to its programmes of secret detentions, renditions, and torture, and is asking a federal judge to dismiss a
Read More »Interrogating Abu Ghraib
Tony Diaz, a former military-police sergeant who served at Abu Ghraib, stares into Errol Morris’ camera and speaks in baffled tones about being called into a shower room at that notorious Baghdad prison where
Read More »‘Terror’ asset-grab absurd and unjust
By Gerri Peev | ANTI-TERRORISM legislation drawn up by Gordon Brown to allow the Treasury to seize assets from suspects has been ruled unlawful by a High Court judge. The practice, which was dubbed
Read More »US ‘war on terror’ backfiring, says thinktank
By Mark Tran | The US “war on terror” has backfired, strengthening extremists in Afghanistan and Somalia and turning them into legitimate political actors in the eyes of their local populations, a thinktank said today.
Read More »Judges poised to deliver new blow on terror
By Sean O’Neill | Gordon Brown is facing a new battle over key anti-terrorism laws this week with the High Court set to rule against powers to freeze suspects’ bank accounts. Five men who
Read More »‘Terror gang plotted to blow up airliners’
Eight Islamist terrorists plotted to blow up several transatlantic airliners in mid-air using explosives disguised as soft drinks in what would have brought about a death toll of “almost unimaginable scale”, a court heard
Read More »Guantanamo Prisoner Charged in Embassy Attack
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The U.S. has charged a Guantanamo prisoner with war crimes for the deadly 1998 al-Qaida attack on the American embassy in Tanzania. The Pentagon said Monday that Ahmed Khalfan
Read More »Watchdog’s threat to 42-day terror law
Alan Travis | The Guardian The government’s own human rights watchdog threatened last night to launch a legal challenge to Labour’s plan to introduce a law that would let police detain terror suspects without charge
Read More »Cheney again links Iraq invasion to 9/11 attacks
Vice President Dick Cheney told soldiers in Iraq that the 9/11 attacks spurred the decision to invade Iraq. BAGHDAD — Amid tears and wails, mourners in the southern city of Najaf on Tuesday began
Read More »Bin Laden in new video attack on EU
Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden addressed the “wise men” of the European Union in a new audio message slamming the publication of drawings insulting to the Prophet Mohammed and vowed a strong reaction.
Read More »Extent of secret Government IRA links revealed
The full extent of a secret 20-year “back channel” between the British government and the IRA is revealed today by Tony Blair’s former chief of staff, who declares that the peace process might never
Read More »9/11 accused can seek compensation
Lotfi Raissi, the Algerian wrongly accused of training pilots involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, should be allowed to claim compensation, the Court of Appeal ruled. Mr Raissi, a pilot, was
Read More »Intelligence Says Bin Laden Might Be Dead
Geostrategy-Direct U.S. intelligence agencies are beginning to suspect that Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden is dead after all, despite a recent audio tape exhorting Al Qaida terrorists in Iraq. Undated footage from the
Read More »VIDEO: Bhutto said Omar Sheikh murdered bin Laden
AlJazeera Sir David speaks to former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto about her controversial return to Pakistan, who she thinks is behind the deadly bombing of her convoy in Karachi last month, and whether
Read More »Former US congressman indicted
An ex-congressman is indicted for his part in an alleged terrorist fundraising and accused of sending $130,000 to a Taliban supporter. A US grand jury indicted ex-Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, with
Read More »WAC Ireland Confronts Gerry Adams
Martin Ingram, a British agent admitted infiltration of the IRA and said that over 70% of their bombings were commanded by British Intelligence. We confronted Gerry Adams to get the info from the ‘horse’s
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