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<title><![CDATA[British Peer Demands Investigation into Detention of Female at Bagram]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A British peer has demanded an investigation into the fate of a female detainee who has been held in US custody for more than four years.  Prisoner 650, a Pakistani woman, was last seen in the US base at Bagram, Afghanistan.

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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25560]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[British Peer Demands Investigation into Detention of Female at Bagram]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A British peer has demanded an investigation into the fate of a female detainee who has been held in US custody for more than four years.  Prisoner 650, a Pakistani woman, was last seen in the US base at Bagram, Afghanistan.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25561]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Bin Laden Driver Denied Al-Qaida Links]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. military prosecutors on Wednesday played an interrogation video that shows a driver for Osama bin Laden denying any connection to al-Qaida but also fretting that he is ``finished.'']]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25562]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Fertiliser Bomb Plotters Lose Appeal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Five men who were jailed for life after plotting a series of fertiliser bomb attacks in the UK have today lost their appeal against their convictions.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25563]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Guantanamo Prisoners Reportedly Not Told of Rights]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A former FBI agent testifying at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial said interrogators did not advise detainees here of any rights because the military prison is dedicated to intelligence gathering, not law enforcement.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25564]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Judge Warns 'Airline Bomb' Jury]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The judge at the trial of eight Muslims accused of plotting to blow up transatlantic planes has warned jurors to discount all outside influences.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25565]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Police Disrupt 13 Terror Networks]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scotland Yard has disrupted 13 terrorist networks in London in the last financial year.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25566]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Birthday Greetings From Guantánamo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Your report on the first of the Guantánamo military commission trials (Bin Laden's driver goes on trial in Guantánamo, July 22) will remind readers of the case of British resident Binyam Mohamed, who is also to face a military court in Guantánamo.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25567]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Film Review: Standard Operating Procedure]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[On Sunday July 13, I had the pleasure of taking part in a panel discussion, following a special preview screening at the Curzon Cinema on Shaftesbury Avenue, of Standard Operating Procedure, a documentary about the Abu Ghraib scandal by acclaimed film-maker Errol Morris.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25568]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan’s Guantánamo Trial]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[
On June 12, when the Supreme Court ruled, in Boumediene v. Bush, that the prisoners at Guantánamo had constitutional habeas corpus rights, it was not immediately clear if the decision would have an impact on the Military Commissions at Guantánamo, the alternative legal system for trying “War on Terror” prisoners that was stealthily established in November 2001 (bypassing the Justice Department, the State Department and the National Security Agency) by Vice President Dick Cheney and his chief counsel David Addington.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25569]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Prisoner 650]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A Pakistani Muslim woman had been held in the notorious Bagram Prison in Afghanistan for years and now her current whereabouts unknown. Have you heard about her? Most likely not. ]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25570]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Letter: Dr Ayman Batarfi]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[We are healthcare workers who wish to protest about the detention without charge for over six years in US custody of Dr Ayman Saeed Bartarfi.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25571]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Human Rights First Asks Congress to Reject Attorney General’s Rushed Plan to Obstruct the Courts in Reviewing Guantanamo Habeas Petitions]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Congress should reject Attorney General Mukasey’s recently announced proposal for unnecessary legislation that would perpetuate the mistakes resulting in the prolonged and unchecked detentions at Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights First said today. ]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25572]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Congress Should Demand Answers from Attorney General]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ The American Civil Liberties Union urges the House Judiciary Committee to demand accountability from Attorney General Michael Mukasey during the Department of Justice oversight hearing scheduled for today.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25573]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan: New Report Demands Release of War on Terror's Missing Prisoners]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International has today (23 July 2008) called for the new government of Pakistan to provide information about hundreds of people held in the country's 'war on terror', and to either release these 'disappeared' people or transfer them to official places of detention.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25574]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Bin Laden's Driver Was Aware of Terrorist Attacks: Witness]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden's driver was part of a small circle of loyal staff and was aware his boss was involved in terrorist attacks, an FBI agent told a US military tribunal here on Wednesday.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25575]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[British Court Rejects Muslim Cleric's US Extradition Appeal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A British court has rejected an appeal by a radical Muslim cleric who has been trying to block his extradition to the United States]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25576]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-24]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Book Excerpt: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Read this exclusive excerpt from Murat Kurnaz's book, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo, about his years in the notorious prison.

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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25544]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Torture and the Strategic Helplessness of the American Psychological Association]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Jane Mayer's new book, The Dark Side, has refocused attention on psychologists’ participation in Bush administration torture and detainee abuse.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25545]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[A History of Abuse in the War on Terror]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[“The Dark Side,” Jane Mayer’s gripping new account of the war on terror, is really the story of two wars: the far-flung battle against Islamic radicalism, and the bitter, closed-doors domestic struggle over whether the president should have limitless power to wage it.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25546]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan 'Failing' Its Missing Suspects]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Pakistan's government has failed to push for information on hundreds of its citizens who went missing after the country joined the US-led "war on terror", according to Amnesty International.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25547]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[US Ties Prisoner To 9/11 at Gitmo Trial]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A former driver for Osama bin Laden knew the target of the fourth hijacked plane on Sept. 11, a prosecutor said Tuesday as he sought to undercut defense arguments that the Guantanamo prisoner was a low-level employee of the terrorist leader.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25548]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Dispute Over Evidence At Centre of Guantanamo Trial]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The trial of Osama Bin Laden's former driver before a special US military tribunal in Guantanamo focused Tuesday on a dispute over what evidence should be allowed in court from interrogations deemed "coercive" by defense lawyers.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25549]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Terror Police Detain Disabled Boy]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A police officer has been transferred from duties at a Channel crossing after a disabled child and his parents were detained under the Terrorism Act.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25550]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Video Footage of a Young Canadian Guantanamo Detainee Causes A Public Outcry]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Video footage released last week of a young Canadian detainee's interrogation at Guantanamo has shaken Canadians, prompted much soul-searching and moved many to blame the country's Conservative government for sullying Canada's reputation as a caring, compassionate nation.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25551]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Terror Trial Openings Describe Al Qaeda World]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government opened its first war crimes prosecution Tuesday with a narrative of Osama bin Laden's driver overhearing his boss offer an eerie post-mortem in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks:]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25552]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Californian Sentenced To 12+ Years]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A California terrorist who plotted to wage war against the United States was sentenced Monday to more than 12 1/2 years in prison, prosecutors said.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25553]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Yemen Renews Demands To US To Repatriate Guantanamo Prisoners]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Yemen renewed demands to the United States to hand over the Yemeni nationals detained in Guantanamo Bay, said Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, Foreign Affairs Minister.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25554]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA['Spying' Requests Exceed 500,000]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[More than 500,000 official "spying" requests for private communications data such as telephone records were made last year, a report says.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25555]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Sketch Artist Greeted With New Obstacle at Gitmo]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last month, it was the alleged 9/11 mastermind who censored a Guantánamo war court sketch artist. Tuesday, she couldn't sketch a U.S. Special Forces soldier.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25556]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Witness: Hamdan Had 2 Missiles When Arrested]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A former driver for Osama bin Laden had two shoulder-fired missiles in his car when he was captured in Afghanistan in late 2001, along with a piece of paper signed by the leader of the Taliban, a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier testified Tuesday.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25557]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Rules For Guantanamo Bay Proceedings Are Still Unclear]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[More than six years after the Bush administration sent hundreds of foreign prisoners to Guantanamo Bay, the rules for deciding just who can be held and for how long remain unclear.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25558]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[A Letter From Detainee BB]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[I am ex-detainee BB.  I am 43 year old, Algerian national, a qualified electronic engineer, married to an Algerian woman and I have three very young children.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25559]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-23]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Moazzam Begg: Who Cares For This Boy?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[His hair has grown, his voice sounds a little deeper and his wounds appear to have healed somewhat. But what isn’t clear from the first ever Guantánamo interrogation video to be released for public consumption is that Omar Khadr is blind in one eye.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25526]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-22]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Torture, Ineptitude and the Omar Khadr Guantánamo Tapes: Andy Worthington on Antiwar Radio]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last week was a busy week for matters relating to Guantánamo and the “War on Terror,” and after the successes of the last month, in Boumediene v. Bush and Parhat v. Gates, not entirely reassuring. ]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25527]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-22]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[This Muddled Terror Law Limits Free Speech and Wrecks Innocent Lives]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The glorification clause of the Terrorism Act has created a climate where artists and academics must watch their words
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25528]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-22]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[AG Mukasey Asks Congress to Set New Rules on Detainee Hearings]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a speech before the American Enterprise Institute this morning, Attorney General Michael Mukasey urged Congress to pass legislation governing federal courts’ consideration of habeas petitions by Guantanamo detainees.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25529]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-22]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Excerpt: 'My Guantanamo Diary']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The prisoner was standing at the far end of the room behind a long table. His leg was chained to the floor beside a seven-by eight-foot cage. He looked wary as the door opened, but as our eyes met and he saw me in my traditional embroidered shawl, a smile broke across his weathered features. I smiled back and gave him the universal Islamic greeting:
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25530]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-22]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren Denounces Mukasey Scheme]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[-In response to leaked portions of Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s speech to be delivered this morning, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vincent Warren issued the following statement:]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25531]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-22]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Bin Laden's Driver Pleads Not Guilty in Guantanamo Trial]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, has pleaded not guilty at the opening of the first trial before a special "war on terror" military tribunal at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=25532]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-07-22]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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