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http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/5/italian_prosecutor_in_case_against_cia
In a landmark case, twenty-three Americans, mostly CIA operatives, have been convicted in Italy for kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003. They were all tried in absentia after the United States refused to hand them over. The convictions turn them into international fugitives who risk arrest abroad. The case marks the first time any American has been convicted for taking part in a so-called “extraordinary rendition.” We go to Rome to speak with the Italian prosecutor who brought the case, Armando Spataro, and get comment from international law and human rights attorney Scott Horton. [includes rush transcript]http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/5/italian_prosecutor_in_case_against_cia
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Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantanamo detainee, has reversed a decision to stay out of the public eye by signaling his determination to campaign for justice for prisoners at the American detention camp and highlight the lifelong effects of torture he suffered at the hands of his interrogators.
Six months after emerging as a frail and ghostly figure from the plane which brought him back to Britain from the US military prison in Cuba, Mr Mohamed last night used his first public speech since his release to explain the legacy of his seven years in detention, which he says included his "extraordinary rendition" to a prison in Morocco where his penis was repeatedly cut with a scalpel to force him to confess as an al-Qai'da terrorist.Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantanamo detainee, has reversed a decision to stay out of... more
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(d)Sexual abuse includes the forced stripping, cutting of any type of clothing, forced sexual positions, being forced to be nude in front of a interrogator, any type of forced sexual intercourse, any type of forced sexual conduct, forced showing of any sexual content, any verbal sexual abuse on a suspect or convicted criminal of a crime.
(e)Verbal sexual abuse is the act of telling somebody anything sexual without the granted permission from the suspect or convicted criminal of a crime. Verbal Sexual Abuse is also saying any type of forcing sexually offensive words, and talk to the suspect of a crime.
(f)verbal Abuse includes forcing an offensive word, offensive lanugage or anything offensive to the persons religion, to the person, to the persons beliefs, and offensive to the persons family, and friends. Verbal abuse also includes racial slurs, threats, and hateful language.
(g)non sexual abuse includes being electrocuted, beaten, waterboarded. being put in stress positions, being chained to the ceiling, being given bodily harm that may be permanent, non permament, inflict pain, inflict any type of damage that could effect the mental state of a prison, citizen accused of a crime, and non citizens accused of a crime.
(h)Following orders means that a soldier or government employee is forced to obey a order to engage in any type of conduct whether it be legal or illegal or under threat of dishonorable discharge. A soldier is forced to obey orders whether it is moral or immoral and so any soldier just obeying orders must be excluded from any type of punishments or investigations.
Sec. 4. All laws, or parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. This act shall become effective on on the exact day, exact time, and exact minute this bill becomes a public law, or when signed by the president of the United States.
Sec. 6. This will define what actions will be prohibited by this act, from under this act these actions and decisions from be prohibited from this act,
(a)The bodily harm of any prisoner, any suspect of any crime or crimes of United States and international law, exceptions include that a uncontrollable prisoner may be tranquilized
(b)Any type of denial from giving a prisoner, and any suspect of any crime or crimes of United States and international law a right to a lawyer/attorney.
(c)Any type of denial from giving a prisoner, and any suspect of any crime or crimes of United States and international law a right to a phone call to friends, family, and even attorneys.
(d)Any type of denial from giving a prisoner, and any suspect of any crime or crimes of United States and international law a right to a court hearing.
(e)Any type of denial from giving a prisoner, and any suspect of any crime or crimes of United States and international law a right to a proper hearing.
(f)Any type of sexual abuse, non sexual abuse, and verbal abuse against any citizen, prisoner, and non citizens of thos country.
(g)Any secret abductions, and kidnappings. All accused citizens and non citizens may be taken in by police the same way criminals are taken in.
Sec. 7. Punishments of any conduct against this act
Under found guilty by any United States court whether a politician, military personell, citizen or non United States citizen, the penalty is as follows
(a)When found guilty the victim may be allowed to sue the person in charge of the crimes against this act
(b)Any suspect or criminal that has been put through what is illegal through this act may press charges and under found guilty the penalities of renditions, and torture prohibited by this act includes life in prison, and under any extreme cases such as permanent suffering or damage through any dispiciable conducts against this act will lead to the death penalty by choices of lethal injection, or any other choice of getting the death penalty.(d)Sexual abuse includes the forced stripping, cutting of any type of clothing, forced... more
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Ruling strikes major blow to Bush/Obama position on state secrets
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday to reinstate an ACLU lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary that allegedly helped the CIA transport terror war prisoners to so-called black sites where they were tortured. The Obama administration had argued the case’s very existence would endanger national security and pressed the court to dispose of it.
“Today’s ruling demolishes once and for all the legal fiction, advanced by the Bush administration and continued by the Obama administration, that facts known throughout the world could be deemed ’secrets’ in a court of law,” said Ben Wizner, staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project, in a media advisory.
“In a 26-page ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the federal government failed to document how the lawsuit would reveal state secrets, sending the case back to San Jose U.S. District Judge James Ware for further proceedings,” reported Mercury News. “Ware dismissed the lawsuit last year, concluding that litigation over the controversial flight program could prompt the disclosure of CIA secrets.”Ruling strikes major blow to Bush/Obama position on state secrets
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WASHINGTON -- As national security adviser to former President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice verbally approved the CIA's request to subject alleged Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in July 2002, the earliest known decision by a Bush administration official to OK use of the simulated drowning technique.
Rice's role was detailed in a narrative released Wednesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee. It provides the most detailed timeline yet for how the CIA's harsh interrogation program was conceived and approved at the highest levels in the Bush White House.
The new timeline shows that Rice played a greater role than she admitted last fall in written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The narrative also shows that dissenting legal views about the severe interrogation methods were brushed aside repeatedly.
The Intelligence Committee's timeline comes a day after the Senate Armed Services Committee released an exhaustive report detailing direct links between the CIA's harsh interrogation program and abuses of prisoners at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in Afghanistan and at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
Both revelations follow President Barack Obama's release of internal Bush administration legal memos that justified the use of severe methods by the CIA, a move that kicked up a firestorm from opposing sides of the ideological spectrum.
According to the new narrative, which compiles legal advice provided by the Bush administration to the CIA, Rice personally conveyed the administration's approval for waterboarding of Zubaydah, a so-called high-value detainee, to then-CIA Director George Tenet in July 2002.
Last fall, Rice acknowledged to the Senate Armed Services Committee only that she had attended meetings where the CIA interrogation request was discussed and asked for the attorney general to conduct a legal review. She said she did not recall details. Rice omitted her direct role in approving the program in her written statement to the committee.
A spokesman for Rice declined comment when reached Wednesday.
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This is a very unfortunate day for all Americans who wish to know the full extent to which our Constitutional Rights have been waved in how the War on Terror has been waged. Moving forward under a cloud of suspicion is not putting the past behind us; it's simply turning a blind eye to corruption at the highest levels. Is this obstruction of justice, aiding and abetting, or signal of how this administration plans to continue in step with the last? Move-On.org and the entire liberal blogosphere that helped Obama win should be raising the roof about this. A public outcry at least as loud as for the initial TARP fund should be raised. Obama needs to hear from us.
Despite President Obama's vow to open government more than ever, the Justice Department is defending Bush administration decisions to keep secret many documents about domestic wiretapping, data collection on travelers and U.S. citizens, and interrogation of suspected terrorists.This is a very unfortunate day for all Americans who wish to know the full extent to... more
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Daphne Eviatar, a lawyer and journalist, on why shutting down Guantanamo is only the first step in restoring the rule of law in the United States. The U.S. military base at Bagram in Afghanistan is another black hole, some say with a worse history of abuse and torture, and the United States has plans to open a new prison in Afghanistan—the country Barack Obama has called the US’s central front on the war on terror. Indeed, the Washington Post reports today that, "The Army is building $1.1 billion worth of military bases and other facilities in Afghanistan and is planning to start an additional $1.3 billion in projects this year, according to Col. Thomas E. O'Donovan, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Afghanistan District." The post notes that this, "signals a long-term U.S. military commitment at a time when the incoming Obama administration's policy for the Afghan war is unclear."
There are approximately 250 detainees at Guantanamo and an estimated 670 at Bagram. And, according to a report in Time Magazine, "the U.S. military is building a new prison for what it calls "unlawful enemy combatants" at Bagram that won't be finished until Obama is well settled in the White House."Daphne Eviatar, a lawyer and journalist, on why shutting down Guantanamo is only the... more
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WASHINGTON — Emboldened by a Democratic win of the White House , civil libertarians and human rights groups want the incoming Obama administration to investigate whether the Bush administration committed war crimes. They don't just want low-level CIA interrogators, either. They want President George W. Bush on down.
In the past eight years, administration critics have demanded that top officials be held accountable for a host of expansive assertions of executive powers from eavesdropping without warrants to detaining suspected enemy combatants indefinitely at the Guantanamo Bay military prison. A recent bipartisan Senate report on how Bush policies led to the abuse of detainees has fueled calls for a criminal investigation.WASHINGTON — Emboldened by a Democratic win of the White House , civil libertarians... more
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Jacqui Smith has asked our attorney general to investigate "criminal wrongdoing" by the MI5 and the CIA over allegations made about their treatment of a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay.
The original evidence to support the case was presented to the attorney general behind closed doors at a high court hearing - the release of the evidence was suppressed following gagging orders demanded by David Miliband, the foreign secretary, and the US authorities.
Hopefully justice will be done and the attorney general won't be silenced by the likes of Milliband and the US authorities who probably will do everything they can to keep this case under wraps. This will be the beginning of a long drawn out court case I imagine...Jacqui Smith has asked our attorney general to investigate "criminal wrongdoing" by... more
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The CIA Drug Plane Scandal grew exponentially last week when European Union officials broke an official 40-year-long silence on the previously-taboo subject of the CIA’s worldwide involvement in drug trafficking.
Last week Mexico City newspaper El Universal reported that The European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation has begun an investigation one of the planes, the cocaine-laden Gulfstream II business jet (N987SA), for suspected use in CIA "rendition" flights in which prisoners are covertly transferred to a third country or US-run detention centers.
The plane crash-landed after running out of fuel in the jungle near the small town of Tixkokob, 40 miles outside the Yucatan capital of Merida on September 24th of last year.
The downed aircraft’s ties had already been conclusively demonstrated months ago in investigative reporting by this reporter, as well as by Bill Conroy of NarcoNews, who first broke news of the Gulfstream II jet's longstanding use by the CIA and the DEA in operations in Colombia.
How Did Fleet of 100 Drug planes Escape U.S. Scrutiny?---------------the rest of the story at the link--------------------------------------------------------------------------
I really hate posting about the illegal activities of the USA Government, since I believe the USA people are generally good people wanting to bring peace in the world and the founding fathers had it right, right from the get-go. Unfortunately, some top officials have it in their minds that the worlds resources belongs in their stock portfolio and bank accounts. Simply power and greed, not a trait of the American people as a whole.
Peace must start at home and in ones heart. Creating and then prosecuting the crimes is not the beginning to peace. We must 'Clean House', and that means cleaning the US government.
This type of corruption (CIA/Drugs) is not new. In the mid 80's you may remember Ollie North taking the blame for the Arms deal, which was funded in part by....cocaine. There was more to that, but thats a little off the subject, but it was a cowardly way to create a larger prison system to lock up poor and people of color. What a way to get em off the welfare rolls! Anyway, the story above must have some cred since this stuff is not new. I'll leave it up to you.---------click the link!
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Polish intelligence sources have for the first time confirmed that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) ran a secret prison facility on Polish soil.
The admission comes after a report found the CIA had operated prisons for terror suspects in Poland and Romania.
Polish and Romanian officials denied the claims, but last month Warsaw launched a new inquiry into the matter.
In 2006, US President George W Bush admitted the CIA had held suspects in secret jails but he did not say where.
Two anonymous intelligence officers made the claims about facilities being located in Poland in the daily Dziennik.
One of them states that between 2002 and 2005 the CIA held terror suspects inside a military intelligence training base in Stare Kiejkuty in north-eastern Poland.
The officer says only the CIA had access to the isolated zone, which was used because it was a secure site far from major towns and was close to a former military airport.
Both the then Prime Minister, Leszek Miller, and President, Aleksander Kwasniewski, knew about the base, the newspaper reports.
However the officer says it was unlikely either man knew if the prisoners were being tortured because the Poles had no control over the Americans' activities.
Both leaders have always denied the existence of any such base.
Last year a Council of Europe report quoted unnamed CIA sources as saying that "high-value detainees", including Khalid Sheik Mohammed - the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on the US in 2001 - had been interrogated in Poland.
The current Polish government says it has no knowledge of the base but it has sanctioned a new investigation into the claims.
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After years of Cocaine smuggling by the CIA, peddling it in poor inner city neighborhoods to fund an illegal war on nicaragua that ended in a conviction of international terrorism by the UN's Security Council and the world court, it looks like the world's most notorious terrorist organization (the CIA) is still up to the same ol' tricks.
Not that anyone seems to care. It was considered "left wing conspiracy theory" for years by most americans that their CIA would even dream of such things.
Adding to the list of heinous crimes is the "extraordinary rendition" practiced by the CIA.
Imagine if you will, the iranian national guard decided to kidnap you for a blog entry they didn't like and then flew you to a secret prison where you were held without hope of trial for years of torture and interrogation.
How would you describe that behavior?
How much proof do common americans need before they'll accept that they in fact are the enemy the pretend to be against?After years of Cocaine smuggling by the CIA, peddling it in poor inner city... more
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The United States military has secretly handed over more than 200 militants to the intelligence services of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries, nearly all in the past two years, as part of an effort to reduce the burden of detaining and interrogating foreign fighters captured in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to American military officials.
The United States military has secretly handed over more than 200 militants to the... more
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Poland's prime minister has requested an investigation into allegations there were secret prisons in the country used by the CIA to hold and question terror suspects between 2001 and 2004.
The request by Prime Minister Donald Tusk was confirmed Monday by government spokesman Jacek Filipowicz.
In September 2006, President Bush acknowledged for the first time that terror suspects have been held in CIA-run prisons overseas, but did not specify where.
Allegations that CIA agents shipped prisoners through European airports to secret detention centers, including compounds in Eastern Europe, were first reported in November 2005. Human Rights Watch later identified Poland — a U.S. ally in Afghanistan and Iraq — and Romania as possible locations of the alleged secret prisons. Both countries have repeatedly denied involvement.
An investigator for the Council of Europe, a leading human rights group, said evidence pointed to the likelihood that planes linked to the CIA carrying terror suspects stopped in Romania and Poland and likely dropped off detainees there.Poland's prime minister has requested an investigation into allegations there were... more
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"Electrosmog", "eco-village" and "carbon footprint" are among the new environmental terms which have made it into the latest Chambers Dictionary.
Popular culture has also had an influence, with "wardrobe malfunction" and "fashion forward" also included. "Credit crunch" and "wags", which have recently won places in other dictionaries, also feature. Dictionary editors said the new words painted a "vivid picture of current interests and concerns".
"Electrosmog" refers to the electromagnetic fields emitted by computers and mobile phones, "eco-village" is a term used for small ecologically-sustainable communities and "carbon footprint" is the measure of the impact human activities on the environment. They are joined by two other environmental terms, "food miles" and "green tax", in the 11th edition of the dictionary.
The war on terror also contributes to the edition with "blue-on-blue", referring to friendly fire attacks, "extraordinary rendition", a controversial detention method where a person is moved from one state to another, and "watch list", a list of those being monitored.
From the world of science and technology, "blu-ray", the blue laser used to read and write discs, "quantum computer", a computer that makes use of quantum mechanics, and "metamaterial", an artificially-created material which has properties not found in nature, make the pages.
Along with "wags", the wives and girlfriends of footballers, "wardrobe malfunction" and "fashion forward", meaning someone embracing the newest fashion trends, the influence of popular culture can be seen with the additions of "nail bars" and "social networking".
The growing interest in cuisine also sees Thai food's "pad thai" enter the dictionary as well as "comfort food" and "dashi", a Japanese clear stock made from dried bonito.
Dictionary editor in chief Mary O'Neill said: "The new words we added to this 11th edition of The Chambers Dictionary paint a vivid picture of current interests and concerns."
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Turkish Police Kurdish women Torture during Kurdish newroj (new day) festival
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WASHINGTON - The White House says President Bush will veto legislation on Saturday that would have barred the CIA from using waterboarding — a technique that simulates drowning — and other harsh interrogation methods on terror suspects.
Bush has said the bill would harm the government's ability to prevent future attacks. Supporters of the legislation argue that it preserves the United States' right to collect critical intelligence while boosting the country's moral standing abroad.
"The bill would take away one of the most valuable tools on the war on terror, the CIA program to detain and question key terrorist leaders and operatives," deputy White House press secretary Tony Fratto said Friday.
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So tell me again why impeachment is off the table? This is SHAMEFUL.
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On the 27th of December 2007, Kenyans went to the
polls. The results were hotly contested and, for over
a month, Kenya was the world's focus as law and order
appeared to break down. On the 5th of January 2008,
9 days after the general election, Paul Karuri, a bus
driver working for the Starliner Bus Company, left
the Western Kenyan city of Kisumu with 47 passengers
aboard for the coastal city of Mombasa.
This is his account of what happened that day.
On the 27th of December 2007, Kenyans went to the
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