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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... 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.
WASHINGTON - The White House says President Bush will veto legislation on Saturday... more
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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
polls. The results were hotly... more
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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 polls. The results were hotly... more
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A former British special forces soldier is to claim today that the government knew all about the extraordinary rendition flights and that it's "deeply involved" in the process.
Last week, the Foreign Secretary David Miliband apologised to MPs in the Commons and admitted that two US rendition flights transporting terrorists suspects for questioning by the US had landed on UK soil. The former SAS soldier, Ben Griffins, claims this "pales into insignificance" compared to British forces' actions.
He is set to tell a London press conference organised by the Stop the War Coalition: "We detained individuals and carried out our own interrogation before handing them over to the US. We were under no illusion as to what awaited the individuals handed over by us.
"For the British Government to claim that they only became aware of the use of British territory this week is disingenuous."
After years of denial, the British government admitted that two flights had refuelled on the British Indian Ocean island territory of Diego Garcia in 2002. Mr Miliband said he'd been told by the US that none of the suspects on those flights had been held at a secret detention centre of subjected to waterboarding or other forms of torture.
The former SAS soldier opposing the government's claims left the army on moral grounds at the beginning of 2007 after three months in Iraq, saying he disagreed with the "illegal" tactics of US troopsA former British special forces soldier is to claim today that the government knew all... more
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The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has admitted for the first time that US planes on "extraordinary rendition" flights carrying terrorist suspects stopped on British soil at least twice.
Until now, the government has said it had no evidence of such "torture taxi" flights.
He told MPs he was "very sorry indeed" that ministers had previously given them the wrong information and said that the US had only alerted the British government to the incidents last week due to "record errors".
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had expressed "deep regret" that the Government was misled, he said.The Foreign Secretary David Miliband has admitted for the first time that US planes on... more
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Produced by Julie Angel.Artists understand imagery symbols and information, therefore the role of the art activist can be to take information and reformat it for a larger audience.
Since the mid-90's, the United States Central Intelligence Agency has operated a programme called extraordinary rendition in which suspected terrorists captured in Western nations are transported to secret locations for torture and interrogation . The extraordinary rendition programme is largely carried out using leased equipment and private contractors.The Institute for Applied Autonomy, an anonymous collective of artists designers, activists and engineers, have created an imagined CIA travel agency specialising in extraordinary rendition flights, based on the information collected by plane spotters and journalists of actual specific flights of specific people who have been rendered.
The group's stated mission is to develop technologies that extend the autonomy of human activists in public acts of expression. The two week time frame of social conscious and memory is sometimes not enough when the issues are this serious. The installation was part of the Social hacking event in Plymouth.
Produced by Julie Angel.Artists understand imagery symbols and information, therefore... more
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On Tuesday PBS Frontline: Extraordinary Rendition explored Bushs use of the CIA to kidnap persons from sovereign nations and fly them to secret locations at CIA Black Sites or to prisons in other countries to be tortured and held indefinitely in secret without charges. Although the practice of extraordinary rendition did not originate under Bush, after Sept 11 the program expanded beyond recognitionbecoming, according to a former C.I.A. official, an abomination. What began as a program aimed at a small, discrete set of suspectspeople against whom there were outstanding foreign arrest warrantscame to include a wide and ill-defined population that the Administration terms illegal enemy combatants.
Click the link for more.On Tuesday PBS Frontline: Extraordinary Rendition explored Bushs use of the CIA... more
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"FRONTLINE/World begins a new season of investigations this November with a story about the CIA's controversial rendition program. Five years ago, award-winning journalist Stephen Grey left his job at The Sunday Times in London to investigate one of the darkest sides of the Bush Administrations war on terror. Beginning with the mysterious flight logs of secret CIA flights, Grey and others uncovered a secret CIA prison system involving countries like Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco, and the CIA's own "black sites," where the White House authorized "enhanced interrogation techniques," which critics say amount to torture."
Coming November 6, at 9 pm
Watch on TV and online"FRONTLINE/World begins a new season of investigations this November with a story... more
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