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'High-Value' Gitmo Detainee Alleges Torture

Pakistani national denies scouting for Al-Qaeda

Baltimore Sun Baltimore Sun May 16, 07 12:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - A 27-year-old Pakistani says he has been tortured since being moved last year from a CIA jail to the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Majid Khan, who once lived in Maryland, denies belonging to Al-Qaeda, but he was transferred to Cuba in September with 13 other "high-value" operatives after being in custody since 2003. More »

More about:  al-Qaeda • Guantanamo Bay • CIA • torture • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • terror plots • Majid Khan

Debate Torture for GOP Hopefuls

Front-runners clash over interrogation techniques, conservative credibility

New York Times New York Times May 16, 07 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ten Republican presidential candidates mixed it up in an often boisterous and contentious debate last night at the University of South Carolina. John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, in particular, clashed on the war in Iraq, abortion rights, immigration, each other's conservative credentials and the use of torture in a national emergency. More »

The Decider With the 'Yee Haw' Aesthetic

Blumenthal connects the dots from cowboy
art to Abu Ghraib

Salon Salon Apr 26, 07 10:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - You can learn a lot from the art in someone's office, says Sidney Blumenthal, even the oval one. George Bush's prized painting of cowboys riding into the unseen helps explain his "stay the course" mentality, while a painting of the Alamo feeds W's evangelically inflected insistence on a "fight to the finish." More »

More about:  George W. Bush • White House • art • torture • painting • decorations

Padilla Jury Selection Begins

Judge rules that prosecutors can mention 9/11—but can't link Padilla directly

Christian Science Monitor Christian Science Monitor Apr 16, 07 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jury selection began today in the trial against accused terrorist Jose Padilla, with  Judge Marcia Cooke ruling that prosecutors may make references to the 9/11 attacks, but not suggest that Padilla and his co-defendants were linked to them. "Any idea, through inference or otherwise, that these defendants are connected to 9/11 is not available to the government," Cooke said. More »

More about:  terrorist • torture • trial • September 11 • bomb • Jose Padilla

They're Lucky They're Not in Guantánamo

Novelist notes British captives have it easy, as detainees go

Guardian (UK) Guardian (UK) Mar 30, 07 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran's British captives may be embarrassed and anxious, but they  appear to be better off than many detainees in American and British hands, observes novelist Ronan Bennett. "They have not been hung from a forklift truck and photographed for the amusement of their captors. They have not had electrodes attached to their genitals or been set on by attack dogs." More »

More about:  Iran • Guantanamo Bay • torture • hostage • detainee • captives

Judge Throws Out Rumsfeld Torture Suit

Abuse and humiliation regretted,
but officials are immune

Associated Press Associated Press Mar 28, 07 7:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Donald Rumsfeld can't be held personally responsible for the alleged mistreatment of prisoners held in overseas military prisons on his watch. Calling the case “lamentable,” U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan nevertheless dismissed a suit against the former defense secretary on behalf of nine former prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. More »

More about:  Iraq • Afghanistan • lawsuit • torture • prison • Donald Rumsfeld • Judge Thomas Hogan

British Torture
Trial Backfires

Acquittal in case that mirrors
Abu Ghraib sparks public outrage

Daily Telegraph (UK) Daily Telegraph (UK) Mar 14, 07 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The prosecution of a group of British soldiers for mistreating Iraqi detainees—one of whom died under questioning—has backfired on the British government. Four soldiers have been acquitted of various crimes after a three-year investigation. Now the knives are out for leading members of the British government over the botched prosecution. More »

More about:  Iraq • Great Britain • United Kingdom • scandals • torture • detainee • Abu Ghraib • British troops

Prisoner Sheds Harsh Light on "Black Sites"

Testimony undercuts Bush claims about CIA secret facilities for terror suspects

Washington Post Washington Post Mar 6, 07 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Details about "black sites"--the network of secret internment facilities for terror suspects the CIA ran until last summer—are emerging as former prisoners tell their stories. The Washington Post i nterviews Marwan Jabour, an accused al-Qaeda paymaster who spent 28 months in two facilities—where he was drugged, burned, beaten and abused, he claims. More »

More about:  Bush administration • CIA • terrorist • torture • human rights • Geneva Convention • rendition • black sites • internment

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