Ex-Guantánamo prisoner freed in Libya after three years’ detention – and information about “ghost prisoners”
As Colonel Gaddafi marks 41 years in power, Andy Worthington reports on the release of a former Guantanamo prisoner and three former CIA "ghost prisoners," but notes that others are still held.
No Surprise at Obama’s Guantánamo Trial Chaos
Surprise is the last thing that anyone ought to feel on hearing the news that the Obama administration “has shelved the planned prosecution,” in a trial by Military Commission, “of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged coordinator of the Oct. 2000 suicide attack on the USS Cole in Yemen,” as the Washington Postreported on Thursday, or that senior officials are “alarmed” by negative responses to the trial by Military Commission of Omar Khadr, as the New York Times reported on Friday.
Khadr terror trial to resume Oct. 18 at Guantánamo
Accused teen terrorist Omar Khadr's Guantánamo murder trial will resume Oct. 18, more than two months after the Canadian captive's lone defense attorney collapsed in court.
ACLU files suit over 2008 detention and treatment of U.S. citizen in U.A.E.
Other countries probe Bush-era torture, not U.S.
Counter-Insurgency: From Latin America to Afghanistan
Interview with Larry Siems
CIA tapes show interrogation of 9/11 suspect Binalshibh
The Shadow of Truth: The “War on Terror”
Interview with Tina Foster on the Yemeni issue in Guantanamo Bay, with comparison to the Yemenis she represents held in Bagram.
Asim Qureshi on Al Jazeera's Inside Story
Asim Qureshi discusses the case of Omar Khadr before the military commissions on Al Jazeera's Inside Story.
UK government to overhaul interrogation policy
The British government indicated Monday that it will issue a new set of regulations regarding the use of information obtained via torture.
ACLU urges Obama administration to repudiate Bush-era national security policies
The Obama administration is in danger of entrenching some of the most draconian aspects of the Bush administration's controversial national security policy, warns a new report, [press release] from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released Thursday.
Security risk men can be deported
Eight men deemed to be a threat to national security can be deported, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
The way out - a reminder for Ramadhan
The Guantanamo prisoners have, despite unimaginable odds, faced their ordeal with dignity and strength sustained by an unshakeable faith. This is one of the reasons why so many of them have returned stronger - not weaker - for the experience of imprisonment.
The Best of Times
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
الحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا نبي بعده
I first read the Dickens’ classic, Bleak House, in solitary confinement, Camp Echo. The concentric part of this story is based on the fictitious – though accurately representative – and never-ending case of Jarndyce vs Jarndyce which ultimately consumes and destroys the lives of its central characters, rather like the Supreme court decisions relating to the Guantánamo detainees. But it was the first sentence of another Dicken’s classic, A Tale of Two Cities, which reads, ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,’ that captured my imagination back then. For that is precisely how I would have described the noble months of Ramadhan spent in US custody.
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