NATO AND TERRORISM Catastrophic Terrorism and First Responders: Threats and Mitigation (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics)
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Time Magazine reports on The Fall of Greg Craig : Obama quietly killed the Gitmo plan in the second week of May; Craig never got a chance to argue the case to the President. "It was a political decision, to put it bluntly," says an aide. ...The White House realized it had to start over on a signature issue....First to go was the release of the pictures of detainee abuse. Days later, Obama...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
CHICAGO -- On the edge of a cornfield 150 miles from Chicago lies a prison, all but vacant, that could become the new Guantanamo.
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | yesterday
Standish, Michigan, tells Liz Cheney to sell it up the street: Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney’s national security group want her to know that they’re not falling for her “fearmongering” — and tell us they want Gitmo detainees in their town. Cheney’s group, Keep America Safe, has released a short documentary...
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The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | yesterday
By GottaLaff Good news and hope for those detainees who should not be there in the first place: Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, an Algerian national who was captured in Pakistan and turned over to the U.S. military after fleeing from Afghanistan, was ordered released from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by a U.S. District Court judge yesterday, according to the human rights group CagePrisoners....
Chris Dickson (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. Senator Dick Lugar, Chris Dickson, Dr. Tom Ringenberg, Congressman Mike Pence MIKE PENCE RECLAIMING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM For Immediate Release | Contact: Matt Lloyd matt.lloyd@mail.house.gov > or Mary Vought mary.vought@mail.house.gov > - 202-226-9000 Pence Urges President to Overturn “Wrongheaded Decision” Regarding Gitmo Detainees “Trying terrorists...
Election Addict (Free subscription) | yesterday
Republican Rep. - and Senate candidate - Mark Kirk introduced in the US House a few days ago a provision that would require a Federal assessment of security measures at key Illinois locations such as Chicago O'Hare Airport and the Willis Tower if plans go ahead to bring Guantanamo detainees to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois. The Lake County News-Sun reports: Kirk ... noted that federal...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
Recently, the Liz Cheney-founded right-wing advocacy group Keep America Safe released a mini-documentary that features several residents of Standish, Michigan, speaking out against a possible transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay to a prison in the city. The video ominously warns that the transfer would turn the town into “Guantanamo North” and claims that Standish [...]
Andy Worthington (Free subscription) | yesterday
In the wake of Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that five Guantánamo prisoners — including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — will face federal court trials in New York, and five others will face trials by Military Commission, much of the media has been consumed with the whining of opportunistic right-wing politicians, who persist in maintaining the [...]
The Corner (Free subscription) | yesterday
I think this sentence from an essay in the current Time magazine pretty much sums up, not only the tension between Obama's campaign rhetoric and the present realities in the war against terror, but also his general policies abroad: "Since then, experts within the government have struggled to come up with a policy that can reconcile the President's ideological opposition to indefinite detention...
The Humble Libertarian (Free subscription) | yesterday
***Call in Radio Show on this issue tonight at 8 pm! Details below*** The Controversy Many of Rand Paul's more libertarian supporters are concerned about his recent statements regarding the Guantanamo Bay detention center, though many of his more conservative supporters might be very pleased: For Immediate Release November 19, 2009 BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY – Leading United States Senate candidate...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | yesterday
With recent news reports centering on Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that some Guantanamo detainees would be prosecuted in federal court and revamped, albeit flawed military commissions, important stories from previous months related to the prison facility continue to sink ever deeper into the swamp of our collective amnesia. read more
Kevin Drum - Mother Jones (Free subscription) | yesterday
Time has an interesting tick-tock this week about Greg Craig, the White House lawyer tasked with dismantling Bush-era interrogation and detention policies. At first, Obama was on board with Craig's plans. Then, reality set in. Here he is deciding whether to release a set of "torture memos" last spring: Obama arrived at [Rahm] Emanuel's office a few minutes later, took off his windbreaker...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saying that critics are “understating the criminal justice system’s capacities,” two top Bush Justice officials came out in support of Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other Guantanamo detainees in federal court. Writing in the Washington Post, Jim Comey, former deputy attorney general and U.S. attorney in Manhattan, and Jack [...]
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | yesterday
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 11/18/09 – Legal proceedings, such as they are, rumbled to life again today at Guantanamo Bay. Pre-trial issues in the case of Mohammed Kamin, an Afghan man who was captured by the U.S. in Afghanistan in 2003, were heard in a military commission courtroom on a small hill a few miles away [...]
Political Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
A must-read piece in Time shows how the Obama administration's decision to release photographs of suspected terrorists being abused in U.S. custody was part of an "unseen struggle" that ultimately led to Greg Craig's announced departure as White House counsel. "Interviews with two dozen current and former officials show that Obama's public decision to reverse himself and fight the release...
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sahilsimran | 02/24/2009
Under the plan being crafted inside Obama's camp, some Guantanamo Bay detainees would be released and others would be charged ... more
summers | 02/10/2009
'The terrorists lists are our Guantanamo," said Dick Marty, the rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (January 2008). The case of PMOI is an eloquent case. The inclusion of this movement is a path filled with hidden political agenda and abuse of power in violation of the rule of law." He added:'Iran justified the hanging of Mujahideen (PMOI), saying they are considered terrorists
paisano1 | 02/10/2009
When the dust from the departing helicopter finally settled, America realized that the old “shrubs” of the last 8 years had been replaced with the seeds of new growth opportunities. Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner will most certainly review the current state of affairs and enact some significant new enhancements.
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