Human Rights | Extra-Judicial Detentions and Assassinations

2010-03-18: Headlines

• The Guardian: New guidelines for intelligence officials 2010-03-18

  ... of British citizens and residents such as Binyam Mohamed, held as a terror suspect in Pakistan and tortured in Afghanistan, Morocco and Guantánamo Bay.

• Huffington Post: Holder: Facts, not fear 2010-03-18

  Highlighting the benefits of using Article 3 trials over military commissions, Holder noted that our allies support civilian trials over military ...

• NPR: A Village Clings To Hope Amid Dagestan's Dangers 2010-03-18

  They drag away someone they suspect of militant ties. Either way, these young men are rarely seen again. But in the dusty flatlands of rural Dagest ...

• The Perpetual Post: On Barbie and Black Barbie 2010-03-18

  Because of my liberal semi-militant upbringing I would regularly have a rogue battalion of wicked, kickass Barbies. Normally they'd be passing through ...

• New Statesman: Get ready for President Cheney 2010-03-18

  Polls now show that most Americans want Guantanamo prisoners to be put before military tribunals rather than civilian courts (even though the Supreme Court ...

• Daily Kos: Holder Defends Civilian Courts for Terror Suspects 2010-03-18

  In doing so, he addressed a number of myths underlying Republican criticism of using civilian courts instead of military commissions.

• Veterans Today Network: GORDON DUFF: ATTORNEY GENERAL HOLDER HINTS AT BIN LADEN DEATH, FINALLY 2010-03-18

  ... a new “evil doer” came into view, torture, rendition, Soviet style “show trials” or military tribunals pushed a real search for the truth out and away.

• Independent: Robert Fisk: Into the terrifying world of Pakistan's 'disappeared' 2010-03-18

  Others, we know, had been taken to Bagram, three or four to Guantanamo Bay where at least we knew they were alive." But Amina's research could prove ...

• Independent: Links with torture countries to go on 2010-03-18

  It follows a number of high-profile court cases – most notably by former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed – that claimed MI5 officers were complic ...

• Reuters AlertNet: FACTBOX-US-Indonesian ties 2010-03-18

  Just this month, police raided a training camp in Aceh and later shot top militant Dulmatin, a skilled bomb-maker who had been on the run for years.

• Reuters: NEWSMAKER-Shaikh likely to push Pakistani fiscal discipline 2010-03-18

  ... as Pakistan's weak government attempts to energise a struggling economy battered by a Taliban militant insurgency and starved of foreign investment.

• Reuters: Roads, ports shape up as key Brazil vote battle 2010-03-18

  Rousseff, a former leftist militant who is catching Serra in opinion polls, favors a bigger state role but has also pledged to reform the often rigid ...

• ikhwanWeb.com: El-Shater's family calls for his immediate release 2010-03-18

  El-Shater who was transferred to military tribunals after being acquitted by civilian courts on charges which were “groundless and politically motivated ...

• Albany Times Union: Justice for 9/11 mastermind 2010-03-18

  The justification for military tribunals largely encompasses claims that the civilian court system is not up to the task of trying suspected terrorists.

• The Washington Independent: Holder vs. McChrystal: What Would We Do with Bin Laden? 2010-03-18

  ... determined to paint him as weak for his faith in civilian courts that have convicted many orders of magnitude more terrorists than military commissions.

• Arab Times: 'Laden won't be caught alive' 2010-03-18

  ... taken on new meaning as President Barack Obama pushes to try suspected terrorists in civilian courts instead of more secretive military tribunals.

• GMA news.tv: Bishops, group call for vigilance in Arroyo's choice of new Chief Justice 2010-03-18

  For its part, militant umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) called on people to prevent the likely abuse of power by Mrs. "It is up to ...

• Albany Times Union: Try Mohammed at Guantanamo 2010-03-18

  In their current form, military commissions have been approved by the new Congress and the courts, and will be used by the administration for other accused ...

• Globe and Mail: Terror group claims Canadian recruit killed 2010-03-18

  Al-Shabab, a militant Islamist faction tied to al-Qaeda, released a video of a man described as Mohamed al-Muhajiri, which means one who travels ...

• Los Angeles Times: The gulf in the Persian Gulf 2010-03-18

  Today, however, concern about the rise of militant Palestinian Hamas, Palestinian political disarray and the growing political despair of Palestinians under ...

• Los Angeles Times: Militant linked to attack on CIA killed 2010-03-18

  Riedel said Yemeni was a key intermediary between Al Qaeda and the Haqqani network, a militant Afghan faction that collaborates with Al Qaeda in attacks ...

• Los Angeles Times: Obama to visit at crucial moment for Indonesia 2010-03-18

  The president's three-day trip next week will demonstrate US confidence in the country's security apparatus as it adapts to a mutating militant threat.

• Los Angeles Times: Pakistan indicts 5 Americans on terrorism charges 2010-03-18

  Islamic militant networks, they said, probably would have been wary of allowing green recruits from the West into their fold. But Cheema, the prosecut ...

• San Francisco Chronicle: Pakistani court indicts 5 Muslim Americans 2010-03-18

  Islamic militant networks, they said, likely would have been wary of allowing green recruits from the West into their fold. However, Cheema said authoritie ...

• National Post: OTTAWA PROBES MARTYR CLAIM 2010-03-18

  ... in Somalia after a video surfaced on the Internet calling him a martyr and urging others to "follow his footsteps" by joining the militant Al-Shabab.

• KUAR: Two Westerners Under Taliban Rule In Kandahar 2010-03-18

  A former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Zaeef has a long history with the Taliban; he was present when Mullah Omar was selected as the Taliban's leader.

• The News International: Haqiqi chief's lawyer gunned down 2010-03-18

  DIG Memon said that taking notice of the targeted killing incident, he had suspended and demoted Ferozabad SHO Orangzeb Khattak.

• Boston Globe: A $63m push to retrofit housing 2010-03-18

  Facilities from the US Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library on Dorchester Bay have used similar financing plans ...

• Sri Lanka Guardian: Serenading Mihindu (aka President Mahinda Rajapakse) 2010-03-18

  Fonseka is being tried by two military tribunals but neither of the two charge sheets against him includes the 'crimes' for which he was arrested ...

• Mail & Guardian Online: Nigeria says most militants on board with amnesty 2010-03-18

  The attacks, claimed by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), are the first by Nigeria's biggest militant group since the amnesty ...

• New York Times: A Family Triangle of Archetypes Amid the Sandbags of America 2010-03-18

  ... belief from Grace, in a book she is secretly writing that accentuates the positive in life, and from Buddy, who keeps a video diary of militant anger.

• Zee News: Towards A New Af-Pak? 2010-03-18

  There are now positive signs that Pakistan has finally come to grips with the reality that without tackling all shades of militant element ...

• Arab Times: US missile strikes kill at least ten militants in NW Pakistan 2010-03-18

  US drone attacks target Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked commanders in the nuclear-armed country's northwest tribal belt, where militant networks have carved out ...

• THISDAY: Good Morning, General Gusau 2010-03-18

  We seem to be depending on the expressed good intentions of militant warlords on the eve of a critical national election. But some of the contestants ...

• News Trends: Report alleges Afghan contractor shot Ind. Marine 2010-03-18

  WASHINGTON — An al Qaida militant suspected of playing a key role in a suicide bombing at a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan died last week in Pakist ...

• Press Trust of India: Encounter in Manipur sparks protests 2010-03-18

  Imphal, March 18 (PTI) A suspected militant was killed in a gunbattle by the security forces, sparking protest by locals who claimed the encounter to ...

• Las Vegas Sun: Iraq Shiite group: We didn't mistreat freed Briton 2010-03-18

  Moore's release, however, coincided with the transfer of the head of the militant group behind the kidnapping, from US to Iraqi government custody.

• Sun-Sentinel: New CAIR director speaks for young South Florida Muslims 2010-03-18

  Already a veteran of South Florida protests related to Israel, Liberty City and the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Malik said he is anxious to improve ...

• GMA news.tv: Christian Monsod: SC under Arroyo is like a Marcos court 2010-03-18

  Militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) also asked Mrs. Arroyo to respect the Constitution. "The SC may have decided but the final call will ...

• China Briefing: Why the US Won't Win a Currency Spat with China 2010-03-18

  As the militant, brilliant, (and oft ignored by white corporate America) black Chicago poet (remind you of anyone?) Gil Scott-Heron said in 1981 at a ...

• The Nation, Pakistan: Nato tanker blown up 2010-03-18

  Another Khyber administration official confirmed the incident, saying there were no casualties and blamed the attack on the militant group Lashkar-e-Islam.

• PakTribune.com: 10 more killed in NWA drone attacks 2010-03-18

  Only one militant, identified as Khalid, was said to have survived, but he was seriously injured and admitted to a private medical centre in Miramshah ...

• WorldNewsVine: Afghanistan | Drugs, Weapons Seized by Joint Security Forces 2010-03-18

  Intelligence information indicated militant activity in the area prompting Afghan-international security forces to investigate.

• Vanguard: I know nothing about MEND's operation — Akhigbe *No apology for Warri bomb ... 2010-03-18

  Speaking to Vanguard, yesterday, on the abortion of its two-day post-amnesty dialogue in Warri by the militant group, which detonated two bomb ...

• DAWN.com: No respite from fear 2010-03-18

  Some of the militant groups are modest in their religious zeal as they want Sharia rule only in their territory, while the more ambitious ones among them ...

• New York Times: Pentagon Sees a Threat From Online Muckrakers 2010-03-18

  WikiLeaks also published an outdated, unclassified copy of the “standard operating procedures” at the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

• Bianet: Journalists Tahmaz and Demirer Still in the Dock 2010-03-18

  Journalist Hakan Tahmaz is in the dock for his interview held with leading official of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Kandil Mountain in ...

• Weakley County Press: War hero outspoken on needs of Tennessee, United States 2010-03-18

  It should remain open as long as we are involved in combat anywhere and military combatants should be tried in military tribunals and never in our court ...

• Little About: Top Al-Qaeda commander killed in drone attack in North Waziristan : US official 2010-03-18

  ... expert who had established contacts with groups ranging from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to Afghan and Pakistani Taliban militant groups.

• Post-Bulletin: President blasts UN report 2010-03-18

  Nearly 20 years of unabated chaos have eviscerated all national institutions, and the current conflict between a weak transitional government and militant ...

• The Gateway Online: Breakin' Down the E-Town Sound: Humble Beginnings 2010-03-18

  ... would've gotten otherwise,” said Minister Faust, a former member of the Edmonton-based Militant Rap Party and current host of The Terrordome on CJSR.

• The Nation, Pakistan: Pakistan working on 'exit strategy' for military: PM 2010-03-18

  The area is the stronghold of militant groups such as the Haqqani network, identified as a significant threat by the US.

• A.V. Club: The battle of the sexes rages on at the Romanian Film Festival 2010-03-18

  ... the films The AV Club watched ahead of time included plenty of male behavior that makes your average drunken jock-brah look like a militant feminist.

• BusinessWeek: Al-Qaeda Trainer Believed Killed in Bombing, US Official Says 2010-03-18

  ... Hammam Khalil al- Balawi, the suicide bomber, said he was carrying out the attack to avenge the killing of a Pakistani militant leader.

• PunjabNewsline.com: Bitta challenged pro Khalistan militants in Pakistan 2010-03-18

  Bitta alleged that militant Daljit Singh Bittu was released from jail due to influence of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Managing Committee president Paramjit Singh ...

• Express Buzz: Cornered, Ulfa engages snipers 2010-03-18

  During interrogation, the arrested Ulfa militant revealed that Kalita, a sharpshooter, was assigned specific targets who enjoy high security cover.

• Sarasota Herald-Tribune: CIA chief says US attacks crippling al-Qaida leaders 2010-03-18

  The comments came as a senior US intelligence official revealed new details of a March 8 killing of a top al-Qaida commander in the militant stronghold ...

• Ottawa Citizen: Canadian suspect in Mumbai attack again denied bail 2010-03-18

  The agency alleges he and Headley were following orders from the outlawed Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and that Rana allowed Headley ...

• SteelGuru: Papuan radicals behind Freeport attacks - Report 2010-03-18

  ... Radicalization and Dialogue in Papua, said that some elements of OPM and the National Committee for West Papua were becoming increasingly militant.

• New Yorker: Bin Laden's Body 2010-03-18

  Holder spoke with some scorn about the fetish for military tribunals over criminal trials—“They're not put up against a wall and shot,” Holder “barked back” ...

• Arab Times: 26/11 US suspect to plead guilty 2010-03-18

  VASCO: India on Wednesday said 42 militant training camps were operating in Pakistan and accused the country's government of making little effort to close ...

• Anglican Media Melbourne: Belief in an age of unbelief 2010-03-18

  It was Hitchings who coined the phrase “Islamofascism” to describe today's militant Islam. Then there is Sam Harris who has written “The end of Faith”  ...

• Modern Ghana: JOS KILLING - WERE ARE BEROM PLATEAU MEN AND BOYS TO DEFEND THEIR WOMEN ... 2010-03-18

  THE YORUBA PEOPLE HAVE OPC, AREA BOYS AND OTHER MILITANT GROUPS TO DEFEND ODUDUWA AREA IF SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENDS. THE PLATEAU BEROM PEOPLE SUPPOSED ...

• Vanguard: Warri: The Vanguard Emperor Is Under Fire… 2010-03-18

  As the militant wing of the Vanguard Empire, you are all ordered into the war room, to plan and respond to that aggression. RSM Okon Bassey, all the retired ...

• Vancouver Sun: Thursday at a Glance 2010-03-18

  ... in Somalia after a video surfaced on the Internet calling him a martyr and urging others to "follow his footsteps" by joining the militant Al-Shabab.

• Pakistan Ledger: History didn't begin on 911: Leaving Afghanistan to Afghans 2010-03-18

  Induction of Army in South Waziristan in 2002 at the behest of Washington and launching of military operations made the militant tribesmen turn their gun ...

• Ball State Daily News: SCENE SELECTION: Iraq War becomes action thriller in 'Green Zone' 2010-03-18

  Instead of the invincible and programmed Bourne, he plays a flawed militant who is not the most politically savvy fighter. He follows orders and execute ...

• Daily Pilot: • That's Debatable 2010-03-18

  When asked about the Obama administration's plan to shut down the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and move its detainees to a prison in Illino ...

• Enid News & Eagle: Enid attorney says attacks on lawyers who defend unpopular clients, causes h ... 2010-03-18

  ... Department attorneys who previously represented Guantanamo Bay terror suspect detainees or argued for changes in legal policy concerning Guantanamo Bay.

2010-03-17: Headlines

• The Nation, Pakistan: Two including FC man killed in Peshawar 2010-03-17

  PESHAWAR - A personnel of Frontier Constabulary (FC) was killed and another got injured while a militant was shot dead during an exchange of fire between ...

• Winston-Salem Journal: US missile attack destroys compound, kills 9 in Pakistan 2010-03-17

  MIR ALI, Pakistan -- An apparent US missile attack destroyed a suspected militant compound in a tribal region of northwestern Pakistan yesterday ...

• Australia.TO: ABCC – Another Broken Core Commitment 2010-03-17

  The ABCC is the tough cop on the beat, evidenced by the recent record fines, totalling more than 1.3 million dollars, handed down against militant uni ...

• Kashmir Live: Nationwide manhunt for journo friend of 'Pepsi Bomber' 2010-03-17

  A nationwide manhunt has been launched to nab a Kashmiri journalist who is alleged to be an accomplice of Hizbul Mujahideen militant Bashir Ahmed Baba.

• Caribbean Net News: Letter: The political drama continues in Grenada 2010-03-17

  The big question is: Why all at a sudden Chester Humphrey becomes a militant trade unionist again, knowing that he became so very quiet after the NDC w ...

• Dissident Voice: America's Secret Prisons 2010-03-17

  (It) looks like the pictures we have seen of Guantanamo Bay.” A Tuzla detainee said he was also held at a secret Diego Garcia facility.

• Independent: Seven Iraqi prisoners died in British custody after 'liberation' 2010-03-17

  ... hooded and with their hands tied behind their backs in stifling heat, was "Like seeing a picture of Guantanamo Bay for the first time.

• Tapped: More Cheneyist Stenography At Politico. 2010-03-17

  Do the military commissions that she favors handle such information differently? It's not like there aren't any objective answers.

• NPR: Police Commandos Crack Down On Afghan Drug Trade 2010-03-17

  Drug dealers, seeking to keep US, NATO and Afghan forces off their trail, pour hundreds of millions of dollars into the militant group's coffers each year.

• Firedoglake: Due Process = Preventing Attacks, Cheney = Epic Fail 2010-03-17

  Torture doesn't work and military commissions hand out slap on the wrist sentences. If you want to get tough on terror, go the pros at DOJ.

• Firedoglake: The Roundup 2010-03-17

  ... Congressional committee, but the discordance of that stand with the use of military commissions when the evidence isn't as strong really harms the case.

• Common Dreams: Attorney General Holder Defends Decision To Try 9/11 Suspects In Federal Court 2010-03-17

  Since 9/11, the military commissions have resulted in three terrorism-related convictions. Federal courts, on the other hand, have produced over 300.

• Los Angeles Times: An Obama secret: They're rejecting more Freedom of Information requests th ... 2010-03-17

  That was the same day he issued an executive order promising to shut the Guantanamo Bay detention facility by the end of calendar 2009, which hasn't ...

• Boston Globe: Suspected US attack kills 9, Pakistan reports 2010-03-17

  AP / March 17, 2010 MIR ALI, Pakistan — An apparent US missile attack destroyed a suspected militant compound in a tribal region of northwestern Pakist ...

• Boston Globe: Palestinians take to streets in Jerusalem 2010-03-17

  In the Gaza Strip, the Islamic militant Hamas group held a rally to protest what it claimed was an assault on Muslim holy places in Jerusalem.

• Telegraph.co.uk: MI5 and MI6 have to deal with torturers, government says 2010-03-17

  It follows a number of high profile court cases, notably that of Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantanamo Bay detainee, claiming MI5 officers have been ...

• GMA news.tv: Supreme Court allows Arroyo to appoint next chief justice 2010-03-17

  Civic, militant, and law groups have repeatedly insisted that the move was Mrs. Arroyo's last card to tighten her hold on the judiciary once she bows out ...

• New York Magazine: Holder Still Supports Criminal Trials for Alleged 9/11 Plotters 2010-03-17

  ... he may be leaning toward holding the trials of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged plotters in military tribunals.

• The Hill: Healthcare harbinger 2010-03-17

  ... it is moving to embrace after Obama's decisions on Guantánamo Bay and a civilian trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed were roundly rejected by Republic ...

• BBC News: A US citizen accused of preparing targets in the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, pl ... 2010-03-17

  According to court documents, he passed on information to his contacts with the Pakistan-based Islamic militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba.

• The Sun: Half the Cabinet are paid by Unite 2010-03-17

  They said Whelan's return to the heart of power showed how Labour has retreated to the class-war days of the Militant Tendency. The Tories also revealed ...

• Daily Mail: Foreign Office said Britain can't afford 'luxury' of ignoring intelligence ... 2010-03-17

  A dozen former Guantanamo Bay detainees, 11 of whom now live in Britain, have launched legal cases against the government accusing it of condoning their ...

• BBC News: Shia rebels in northern Yemen are reported to have released 178 civilians ... 2010-03-17

  The government of Yemen is also facing two other militant groups - al-Qaeda and southern secessionists. South and North Yemen were united in 1990 and fought ...

• London South East: African Markets - Factors to watch on March 17 2010-03-17

  Nigeria would like its OPEC output quota adjusted because its current target was agreed at a time when production was hampered by militant attacks on oil ...

• Inter Press Service: RIGHTS: EU Selling Torture Equipment 2010-03-17

  2001 attacks on New York and Washington, the US has used leg irons and leg cuffs on prisoners held in Afghanistan and Cuba's Guantanamo Bay.

• Reuters: US missile strikes kill 6 militants in Pakistan 2010-03-17

  The first strike, made up of five missiles, targeted a militant compound and a vehicle in Mazoni village, about 10 km (6 miles) west of North Waziristan' ...

• Gazette Newspapers: Prosecutorial Candidates Take Gloves Off At Debate 2010-03-17

  ... spent 15 years as a criminal defense attorney in Long Beach (mostly through his private practice) before he was deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cub ...

• india-server.com: US Attorney: Osama Bin Laden Won't Be Alive For US Court Trial 2010-03-17

  ... Obama administration's that some terrorist suspects on trial in civilian courts should be planned rather than military commissions at Guantanamo Bay.

• Hindustan Times: Bin Laden won't be caught alive, says US Attorney General 2010-03-17

  ... to defend the Obama administration's plan to put some terrorist suspects on trial in civilian courts rather than military commissions at Guantanamo Bay.

• The Associated Press: US military: Goal still to capture bin Laden alive 2010-03-17

  ... taken on new meaning as President Barack Obama pushes to try suspected terrorists in civilian courts instead of more secretive military tribunals.

• Sri Lanka Guardian: The Similarities and Differences between the Vietnam War and the Eelam War 2010-03-17

  A tension between the government and Tamil militant groups had been looming since the 1970s and developed up to a major arm conflict.

• The Associated Press: UK can't guarantee allies don't torture detainees 2010-03-17

  A dozen ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees — 11 of whom now live in Britain — have begun legal cases against Britain, accusing the government of being involved ...

• Financial Times: Pakistan resists call to squeeze Taliban 2010-03-17

  They have urged Pakistan's army. which in the past has supported militant groups as a part of a wider military strategy in Afghanistan and Indi ...

• newjerseynewsroom.com: Petraeus says Israeli-Palestinian tension causing anti-American sentiment 2010-03-17

  "Meanwhile, al Qaeda and other militant groups exploit that anger to mobilize support. The conflict also gives Iran influence in the Arab world through ...

• AFP: US strikes kill seven in NW Pakistan: officials 2010-03-17

  "US drones fired five missiles on two militant vehicles around 7:15 am," a senior security official told AFP. "Five militants were killed in the missile ...

• Press TV: 8 al-Qaeda commanders arrested in Wasit, Iraq 2010-03-17

  Al-Qaeda in Iraq was headed by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi until he was killed in a US air strike in June 2006.

• Crikey: Spare a thought for the Japanese voice of anti-whaling 2010-03-17

  The organisation takes great care to distance itself from the more militant protest boat — a prominent red banner on the organisation's website declares “We ...

• Peninsula On-line: Kidnapped UK boy freed in Pakistan 2010-03-17

  ... or simple quests for money — particularly for the wealthier victims — by criminal gangs, some of whom are connected to Islamist militant networks.

• Daily Mirror: Politicizing the military and militarizing the political 2010-03-17

  We hear of military tribunals and court martial procedures and we hear about him being tried outside the ambit of the Army Act. All of this, we have to keep ...

• Tampabay.com: Internet video: Muslims must rise up in Nigeria 2010-03-17

  AP LAGOS, Nigeria — A video posted on a militant Web site calls for Muslims in Nigeria to use "the sword and the spear" to rise up against Christians ...

• Bisnow: GET RID OF MEMBERS? 2010-03-17

  ... served as Marine Corps spokesperson for the first post-9/11 deployment to Afghanistan and later for terrorist detainee operations at Guantanamo Bay.

• Sify: Militants kill five police at Pakistan checkpoint 2010-03-17

  Khan blamed the attack on Lashkar-e-Islam, a militant group active in the neighbouring district of Khyber, which is part of Pakistan's lawless ...

• Kuensel, Buhutan's National Newspaper: Bodo militant apprehended 2010-03-17

  The soldiers apprehended a militant after the action. The soldiers from the Taraythang outpost were returning, on foot, from Kanamakura outpost ...

• AFP: US missiles kill 7 in NW Pakistan: officials 2010-03-17

  "US drones fired five missiles on two militant vehicles around 7:15 am (0215 GMT)," a senior security official told AFP. "Five militants were killed in ...

• Deseret News: World datelines 2010-03-17

  LAGOS — A video posted on a militant Web site calls for Muslims in Nigeria to use "the sword and the spear" to rise up against Christians in Africa's most ...

• Afrik.com: Chomsky's optimism of the will 2010-03-17

  ... up to the UN Convention Against Torture has allowed the type of abuse recently exposed in Guantanamo Bay and Bagram airbase, but dating back decades.

• Pew Research Center: Indonesia: The Obama Effect 2010-03-17

  While most Indonesians approved of his proposals to close the American military prison at Guantanamo Bay (66%) and to withdraw troops from Iraq by 2011 ...

• Newton TAB: Hurwitz: Newton's other terrorism connection 2010-03-17

  The buzz about the aldermen's decision to invite a released Guantanamo Bay prisoner to live in Newton has died down ...

• RTT News: U.S. Probing LeT-Jamaat Links: Bangladesh Law Minister 2010-03-17

  Ahmed reportedly discussed many issues, including money-laundering, identifying the financial sources of militant organizations, and mutual assistance ...

• Chicago Tribune: Have you no shame, Ms. Cheney? 2010-03-17

  Seattle attorney Harry H. Schneider Jr. and Chicago attorney Thomas P. Sullivan have represented prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

• Resource Investor: Damage done by Nigeria's contentious oil bill may be tough to undo 2010-03-17

  The country was already hurting, as militant activity in the Niger Delta forced production off shore. The government instituted an amnesty program last year ...

• Politico: Another Paul nettles GOP 2010-03-17

  In an interview, Conda noted that Paul once advocated for closing down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and sending some suspected terrorists to ...

• SFStation.com: Gil Scott-Heron 2010-03-17

  Scott-Heron's recording work is often associated with black militant activism and has received much critical acclaim for one of his most well-known ...

• Saudi Gazette: Indonesian new militant group recruits fighters 2010-03-17

  BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – From the safety of a forest camp, a commander of a new Indonesian militant group looks into a camera and ridicules the notoriou ...

• Uptrend SEO Company: Book Reviews> Food for Thought – Full Story 2010-03-17

  Jennifer L. Michana has deployed to the US Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a member … Army National Guard Sgt. Daniel K. Pelletier has returned to ...

• 9&10 News: Missile strikes in Pakistan...US, Israel step back...Weekend vote? 2010-03-17

  The CIA has repeatedly targeted militant positions in Pakistan's tribal regions since December, when a suicide bomber killed seven CIA employees ...

• DAWN.com: Five security personnel killed in Bara Tehsil 2010-03-17

  –Photo by AFP KHYBER AGENCY: At least five security personnel were killed in a militant attack on a check post near Bara Tehsil on Wednesday ...

• The Nation, Pakistan: Hillary vows help for Pakistan stability 2010-03-17

  She said the ultimate goal of the US strategy is to defeat Al-Qaeda and prevent the militant organisation's return to the region.

• The Associated Press: Officials: 2 US missile attacks kill 7 in Pakistan 2010-03-17

  The CIA has repeatedly targeted militant positions in Pakistan's tribal regions since December, when a suicide bomber killed seven CIA employees ...

• The Associated Press: Indonesian militants recruit fighters in video 2010-03-17

  BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — From the safety of a forest camp, a commander of a new Indonesian militant group looks into a camera and ridicules the notoriou ...

• PW-Philadelphia Weekly: Specter & His Peeps Are On This Whole Webcamgate Thing 2010-03-17

  Specter has a long history of voting for spying regulation and secrecy (Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, Bush-era warrantless eavesdropping ...

• istockAnalyst.com: Suspected militants kill 5 security men in NW Pakistan 2010-03-17

  Several militant groups including the Tehriki Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are active in Khyber agency and they often attack security forces.

• Lew Rockwell: Entitlements and Employment: Why Bob Herbert Is Clueless 2010-03-17

  ... upon the stock market and housing bubbles of the last decade – have been shrinking, the unions have become more militant, more violent, and greedier.

• The Moderate Voice: John Bellinger: 'Bush and Obama Terrorism Policies Very Similar' 2010-03-17

  The military commissions have been maintained. The policy of rendition has been maintained. The idea of holding people indefinitely under the laws of war ...

• Zee News: Four persons killed in Pak violence 2010-03-17

  Three persons, including a retired official of the Balochistan Constabulary Force, were gunned down in two incidents of targeted killing in the provincial ...

• Ottawa Citizen: Terror case against Harkat hits snag 2010-03-17

  He was held for seven years as an enemy combatant at the US-run Bagram prison on suspicion that he offered money and loans to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

• New York Times: Pakistan: Drone Strikes Reported 2010-03-17

  The CIA has repeatedly taken aim at militant positions in Pakistan's tribal regions since December, when a suicide bomber killed seven Americans at a CI ...

• New York Times: McChrystal Disagrees With Holder: bin Laden Is Wanted Alive 2010-03-17

  ... fire for deciding to treat some terrorist suspects as criminals by prosecuting them in courts rather than as enemy combatants in military tribunals.

• The Irrawaddy News Magazine: Indonesian Militants Recruit Fighters 2010-03-17

  By AP BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — From the safety of a forest camp, a commander of a new Indonesian militant group looks into a camera and ridicules ...

• New York Times: Terror Suspect Likely to Change Plea 2010-03-17

  Some Republicans have criticized the administration for not using military commissions more frequently. A version of this article appeared in print on March ...

• Vanguard: Warri bomb explosions sadden Togo, Tompolo 2010-03-17

  EX-MILITANT leaders are angry with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, for aborting Monday's post-amnesty dialogue ...

• The Associated Press: Officials: 2 US missile attacks kill 9 in Pakistan 2010-03-17

  ISLAMABAD — Suspected US drones fired missiles at vehicles and hit a militant hide-out in a tribal region of northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday ...

• THISDAY: MEND: We Stopped Third Explosion to Save Lives 2010-03-17

  A statement sent online by the spokesman of the militant group, Gbomo Jomo, said their combatants at the venue to monitor and detonate the bombs ...

• HorrorMovies.ca: Retro Rewatch – The Burbs 1989 2010-03-17

  In these opening moments of the film, we get introduced to the neighborhood goofball Art (Rick Ducommun), the militant Rumsfield (Bruce Dern)

• Lankaweb: Some thoughts on – “Missing the wood from the trees” 2010-03-17

  Further, the inhuman treatment and torturing of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay had been swept under the carpet.

• Jakarta Globe: KPK Rapped for Halting Case Against Military Lawmakers 2010-03-17

  Johan said the KPK was prohibited from investigating the three due to the Law on Military Tribunals. “The military has their own process and we respect th ...

2010-03-16: Headlines

• Washington Observer Reporter: Shades of McCarthy in Liz Cheney antics 2010-03-16

  ... of an advocacy group that's been smearing Justice Department lawyers who previously defended detainees at Guantanamo Bay as the "Al Qaeda Seven.

• Press Trust of India: Nationwide manhunt for journo friend of 'Pepsi Bomber' 2010-03-16

  New Delhi, Mar 16 (PTI) A nationwide manhunt has been launched to nab a Kashmiri journalist who is alleged to be an accomplice of Hizbul Mujahideen militant ...

• AFP: Kidnapped British boy released in Pakistan 2010-03-16

  ... or simple quests for money -- particularly for the wealthier victims -- by criminal gangs, some of whom are connected to Islamist militant networks.

• Sydney Morning Herald: Abbott poor man's John Howard: Keating 2010-03-16

  "It was bad enough having the real John Howard ... at least Howard was a militant, aggressive conservative driving in reverse through the rear-vision mirr ...

• Firedoglake: In 2007, Rahm Opposed Indefinite Detention 2010-03-16

  It said, among other things, Since the time that captured “enemy combatants” were first brought to Guantanamo Bay in 2002, the detainment facility h ...

• Daily Beast: Holder's Next Headache 2010-03-16

  ... under fire from Democrats and Republicans alike for his apparent flip-flopping on where to try terror suspects—in civilian courts or military tribunals.

• MWC News: US drone attack kills Pakistanis 2010-03-16

  "US drones fired three missiles on a militant compound," a Pakistani security official said. The identity of the suspected opposition fighters was ...

• The Guardian: Unions have 'unprecedented grip' on Labour, claim Tories 2010-03-16

  Labour is now controlled by militant trade unionists who are determined to reverse the modernising policies championed by Tony Blair, the Conservative ...

• NPR: AG Eric Holder: Bin Laden Won't Ever Be Tried In US Court 2010-03-16

  ... to defend the administration's against harsh criticism of its plans to try some terrorist detainees in civilian courts and not military tribunals.

• NPR: Should Lawyers Represent Terrorists? 2010-03-16

  And indeed, some of these people who were released from Guantanamo Bay and other detention facilities, were shown - there was no evidence against them.

• Huffington Post: Shadow Prisoners 2010-03-16

  There is the testimony of those held in places like Guantanamo Bay and Bagram, and later released by the US military. And then there are those horrifying ...

• AlterNet: Fear and Loathing in Jesusland: Christian Right Propaganda and the Quiverfull ... 2010-03-16

  Lurking beneath the QF/CP lifestyle lies the teachings of RJ Rushdoony, the leading exponent of a dire and militant form of Calvinism called “Christi ...

• CounterPunch: The Supreme Courtship 2010-03-16

  ... on the legality of the Military Commissions Act. Given that a president has, at most, less than a decade, and a Supreme Court appointment is for life ...

• McClatchy Washington Bureau: Commentary: Another 'reset' to Obama's foreign policy? 2010-03-16

  After all, the targeted killing of hundreds of suspects is far more questionable than waterboarding three confessed killers. The Obama administration seem ...

• Independent: Operation Panther's Claw: 'Out of 130 men, we have had four deaths, 35 ... 2010-03-16

  One of the primary purposes of Panther's Claw was to clear militant fighters from centres of population in preparation for the forthcoming Afghan national ...

• Independent: Nigeria is falling apart, says Nobel prize-winning author 2010-03-16

  Mr Soyinka's warning came yesterday as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) – the leading militant group in the delta region – set ...

• Foreign Policy: Clinton to possibly be in Ireland on St. Patrick's Day 2010-03-16

  Ireland was among the first nations to accept and resettle detainees from Guantánamo Bay, which was an important step and vote of confidence in President ...

• Foreign Policy: Daily brief: suspected US drone strikes northwest Pakistan 2010-03-16

  However, the general said the Army would remain present in some areas to prevent a militant resurgence. And in the latest round of drama between Pakistani ...

• AllAfrica.com: Nigeria: Bomb Blasts Rock Warri Amnesty Talks 2010-03-16

  But unknown to the militant group that somebody was killed, it insisted it had no apology for its actions. In an electronic mail to Vanguard inquiry ...

• New Statesman: The Tories' attack on the unions lacks credibility 2010-03-16

  ... with the Tories also launching an attack document on the subject and Michael Gove delivering a speech on "Charlie Whelan's new militant tendency".

• World Socialist Web Site: An exchange of letters concerning the state repression of India's Telang ... 2010-03-16

  To me it appeared that there are militant masterminds who advised and prepared the students in this operation. Finally the State Budget was presented ...

• Telegraph.co.uk: Leaked email shows how BA strike union is campaigning for Labour 2010-03-16

  This is Labour's new militant tendency.” It comes as Gordon Brown finally condemned the planned BA strike as “unjustified.” The Daily Telegraph has ...

• The Daily Star: US search for LeT link with Jamaat: Shafique 2010-03-16

  Law Minister Shafique Ahmed on Tuesday said the US government was examining if Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami had any link with Pakistan based militant ...

• SINDH TODAY: US drone strike kills 11 militants in Waziristan 2010-03-16

  Three missiles slammed into a militant compound in the hills near Datta Khel village, some 20 km west of North Waziristan's main town of Miranshah ...

• Radio 1: India soldier killed in Kashmir grenade blast 2010-03-16

  Reports say a local militant group has admitted it carried out the attack. Despite a decline in violence in Kashmir in recent years, there are fears th ...

• The News International: PAL MOOT ON 'SUFISM & PEACE' 2010-03-16

  ... called for focussing attention on the teachings of peace, love and tolerance of the Sufi saints so as to counter extremism and the militant mindset.

• The News International: How Indonesia tackles terrorism 2010-03-16

  He is presently imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay after being delivered to the US by Thailand where he was captured in 2003. Hambali, referred to by the CIA ...

• The Australian: Leadership needs to take care of ally 2010-03-16

  The Pentagon may be coming to the conclusion that the failure to achieve an Arab-Israeli peace deal is the best recruiting sergeant for militant Islam.

• DAWN.com: Sufi teachings can counter extremism: Zardari 2010-03-16

  ... Monday called for focussing attention on teachings of peace, love and tolerance of the Sufi saints so as to counter extremism and the militant mindset.

• The People's Voice: America's Secret Prisons 2010-03-16

  (It) looks like the pictures we have seen of Guantanamo Bay." A Tuzla detainee said he was also held at a secret Diego Garcia facility.

• Gulf Daily News: 'Free terror suspect' call 2010-03-16

  Mr Al Murbati, whose brother Isa was a former inmate at Guantanamo Bay, is one of three Bahrainis currently being held in Saudi Arabia for alleged terr ...

• Scotsman: Guantanamo Bay prisoner to speak at film night 2010-03-16

  A FORMER prisoner of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is to speak at an event on 24 March. Omar Deghayes will join a discussion after a screening of ...

• Thaindian.com: Two killed, four wounded in Sopore guerrilla attack 2010-03-16

  “One special police officer (SPO) named Ishaq Hussain and a civilian were killed in the militant firing while three civilians and a police constable ...

• Thaindian.com: Civilian killed in Srinagar's Lal Chowk firing (Third Lead) 2010-03-16

  Srinagar, March 16 (IANS) A shop worker was killed and four people, including two troopers, were injured Tuesday in a militant attack in the capital' ...

• Reuters India: One killed, five wounded in Srinagar attack 2010-03-16

  SRINAGAR (Reuters) - A pedestrian was killed and five others wounded on Tuesday in a second militant attack on security forces in the heart of Srinagar ...

• Reuters South Africa: Nigeria says most militants on board with amnesty 2010-03-16

  The attacks, claimed by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), are the first by Nigeria's biggest militant group since the amnesty ...

• Reuters: Holder defends criminal trials for 9/11 suspects 2010-03-16

  Faced with the prospect of Congress withholding funds for both the trials and closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the White House has intervened ...

• Agoravox: Home page > News > Damage Done By Nigeria's Contentious Oil Bill May Be Tough ... 2010-03-16

  The country was already hurting, as militant activity in the Niger Delta forced production off shore. The government instituted an amnesty program last year ...

• US Department of State: Remarks With Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin 2010-03-16

  Ireland was among the first nations to accept and resettle detainees from Guantanamo Bay, which was an important step and vote of confidence in President ...

• Media Newswire: Forces in Afghanistan Kill, Capture Militants 2010-03-16

  A combined force captured a Taliban subcommander and another militant in Kandahar's Zharay district March 13. The combined force found bomb-making material ...

• Daily Mail: Ministers will have the final say on whether spies can torture 2010-03-16

  The guidelines that were in place when former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mr Mohamed was allegedly tortured will remain secret. But the Cabinet Office sent ...

• In Entertainment: 'Harold and Kumar 3' Movie: Shooting May Begin by June 2010-03-16

  If you enjoyed the first two “Harold & Kumar” movies – “Harold & Kumar Got To White Castle” and “Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay” – then you may ...

• Daily Mail: Millions of BA passengers in limbo as Labour is accused of being 'in hock' ... 2010-03-16

  He and Mr Whelan were hampered by the fact that Unite bosses seem unable to control militant shop stewards in the branch of the union that represents BA air ...

• Daily Mail: ANDREW PIERCE: Mr Brown daren't confront the BA union bullies because h ... 2010-03-16

  The candidates have been called Gordon Brown's new Militant Tendency, a reference to the extremists whose influence on the Labour Party in the Eightie ...

• Socialistworker.co.uk: Tortured for 7 years - and the British government knew it 2010-03-16

  He was quietly released from Guantanamo Bay with the explanation that he was no longer considered an “enemy combatant”. He had been arrested early in 2002 ...

• UK Express: ED BALLS' PLOT TO HIT THOUSANDS MORE WITH 50P TAX RATE 2010-03-16

  Tory chairman Eric Pickles said: “Labour's lurch to the Left is clearly unstoppable, as the unions trade cash for militant policies.

• RedOrbit: Online Presence Of Hate Groups On The Rise 2010-03-16

  Blogs, online forums, and social networking websites are increasingly being utilized by hate groups and other militant factions, according to a report ...

• Ceylon Daily News: Hats off to President 2010-03-16

  ... human rights of those arrested in the fight against 'global terror' and incarcerated and tortured in places like Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons.

• FTC Publications: US spooks plotted to destroy Wikileaks 2010-03-16

  ... violations of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq, the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay.

• TPMCafé: David Shorr: A Terror Trials Pep Talk 2010-03-16

  Graham's years-long effort to salvage the controversial and hapless military commissions see this HuffPo post from Human Rights First's Daphne Eviatar.

• Wired News: Secret Document Calls Wikileaks 'Threat' to U.S. Army 2010-03-16

  Notable leaks include the 238-page US military manual detailing operations of the Defense Department's Guantánamo Bay detention facility, and a Central ...

• Longmont Daily Times-Call: Right to legal defense is a bedrock value 2010-03-16

  ... would call into question the fact that the Department of Justice employs people who have defended terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

• Monday Morning: Call for a Marshall Plan to end Taliban militancy 2010-03-16

  ... to encourage Taliban and other insurgent leaders to lay down their arms, but has pledged no reconciliation with the militant network Al-Qaeda.

• Brunei News, Brunei Headlines from Brunei fm: INDONESIA: JOINT MILITARY-POLICE ANTI-TERROR EXERCISE CLOSED 2010-03-16

  ... and maritime border regions following the discovery of terrorist activity led by a militant previously known to be operating in a neighboring country.

• CBS 11: Holder: 9/11 Trial Decision 'Weeks Away' 2010-03-16

  8, 2008, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In this photo reviewed by US military officials, a detainee whose name, nationality, and facial identification are ...

• Zee News: Water dispute: MEA exposes Pak doublespeak 2010-03-16

  Another interesting aspect of the MEA report is that it showcases how banned militant outfit chiefs are trying to capitalise on this row and garner maximum ...

• DAWN.com: Pakistan-trained terrorists behind Pune blast: India 2010-03-16

  “All the evidence which is coming currently is showing that it is the IM (Indian Mujahideen), rather than a Hindu militant group, involved in the Pune blast ...

• The Washington Independent: Petraeus Rejects Sending Guantanamo Detainees to Bagram 2010-03-16

  David Petraeus demurred when asked if it made sense to send Guantanamo Bay detainees to the Bagram detention facility that this year the US military ...

• THISDAY: Bombs Disrupt Post-Amnesty Conference 2010-03-16

  Militant group, the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), has claimed responsibility for the attack. The first explosion went off at ...

• China Daily: Shootout erupts at Indian space center 2010-03-16

  ... forces outside a high security space center in southern India early on Tuesday but it was too early to link it to a militant attack, police said.

• AOL News: The Filter: Small Quake Rattles The Daily Beast 2010-03-16

  ... the Court's counteroffensive against the Bush Administration's treatment of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay," writes the New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin.

• The Australian: Defamation win for Habib 2010-03-16

  Mr Habib, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee cleared by the Federal Court last month to sue the Australian government over his alleged torture in captivity ...

• The News Record: Obama losing chance to reshape judiciary 2010-03-16

  Obama's top lawyer, Gregory Craig , who departed in November, was consumed with issues such as the Guantanamo Bay prison. The judicial nomination machinery ...

• ARNnet: Did Uncle Sam try to kill Wikileaks? 2010-03-16

  In other words, Wikileaks produced a 238-page torture manual used by the US Army at Guantanamo Bay, a map of the Abu Ghraib secret prison in Iraq ...

• Sydney Morning Herald: Mamdouh Habib wins defamation case 2010-03-16

  Mr Habib, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate who also recently got permission to sue the federal government over his treatment at the notorious US jail in Cub ...

• Geek.com: US Army considered hacking Wikileaks to expose whistleblowers 2010-03-16

  ... such as a military operations manual for the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and a CIA document detailing procedures for ”extraordinary rendition”  ...

• Montreal Gazette: Henry Rollins: the full Q&A 2010-03-16

  Or Guantanamo Bay. Or NAFTA. And so Americans, we're not stupid; I think we're information-deprived at times. Gazette: Is that something you're proud to ...

• Thaindian.com: Filming Of “Harold & Kumar 3? Likely To Begin In June 2010-03-16

  ... of the flick would be focusing on the time frame of few years from the last film “Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, which was released in 2008.

• Bangkok Post: Japan says China also opposes bluefin tuna trade ban 2010-03-16

  Okada also said it was difficult to take preemptive action against expected protests by the militant environmental group the Sea Shepherd Conservati ...

• TIME: Is AIPAC Putting Israel First? 2010-03-16

  Enemy combatant is designed to be a 3rd option similar to a POW. I thought Israel did treat their captured terrorist the same way as the USA and a lot ...

• The Manly Daily: Keating says Abbott is an intellectual nobody 2010-03-16

  ``It was bad enough having the real John Howard ... at least Howard was a militant, aggressive conservative driving in reverse through the rear-visi ...

• Transitions Online: Cultivating a Martial Spirit 2010-03-16

  This initiative amounts to militarization, and the idea that everyone must be a militant is the wrong approach,” Zurabishvili said.

• Xinhua: US refrains from full dip in Somalia's murky waters 2010-03-16

  But while the terror threat is higher now than in the past, Somalia is ultimately hostile to foreign militant groups, the analyst said.

• Sydney Morning Herald: Former Guantanamo inmate has second win with defamation victory 2010-03-16

  THE courts have delivered another win to former Guantanamo Bay inmate Mamdouh Habib, declaring that he was defamed by the News Ltd columnist Piers Akerm ...

• Above the Law: Leading law firm attacked in controversial WSJ op-ed. 2010-03-16

  Lawyers who have represented Guantanamo Bay detainees have talked before about the need to build trust with their clients, sometimes by discussing new ...

• Express Buzz: 'Manipuri theatre facing uncertain future' 2010-03-16

  `Black Orchid' tells the story of an isolated village and its people, who suffer the effects of violent militant activities. Shila Devi said that she wanted ...

• The Nation: Slain policeman's son transferred 2010-03-16

  An internal warning has been issued over more targeted killing attempts on key security officials based in the deep South. Sompian has been promoted to ...

• Virtue Online: Atheists' ridicule won't win friends and influence people 2010-03-16

  It probably does mark in some way a coming of age for the militant atheist movement: they are visible and vocal, energetic and starting to become organised.

• The BLT: Blog of Legal Times: No Decision Yet on Venue for KSM, Holder Says 2010-03-16

  In response to a separate question, Holder said that he still has the authority to determine the trial venue for detainees at Guantanamo Bay ...

• Bates Student: Yale Prof. uses lit. to trace history of American prisons 2010-03-16

  After Smith's presentation, he answered several questions pertaining to his book's relevance to the infamous American military prison, Guantanamo Bay.

• Crikey: State of the media? Not pretty 2010-03-16

  The appeal court's ruling today gives Mr Habib, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate, the right to compensation from the newspaper's publisher, Nationwide News.

• Stuff.co.nz: Gunbattle at Indian space centre 2010-03-16

  Two men fired at security guards outside a high security space centre in southern India on Tuesday but it was too early to link it to a militant attack ...

• Bloomington Pantagraph: Another step taken in selling Thomson prison to feds 2010-03-16

  Despite the possibility of bringing jobs to the area, opponents say terrorist detainees now housed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should not be shipped to ...

• Fresh Business Thinking: Charlie Whelan's New Militant Tendency 2010-03-16

  Michael Gove has spoken about "Charlie Whelan's New Militant Tendency" in a speech setting out how dependent the Labour Party is on Unite ...

• NRC International: Bellinger: 'Obama's terror policy identical to Bush's' 2010-03-16

  But Guantanamo Bay remains open. The practice of 'rendition' by the CIA continues to be part of US policy. And Republican Senator Lindsay Graham confirmed ...

• Zee News: Nigerian militants threaten more attacks 2010-03-16

  Abuja: The militant group, which claimed responsibility of detonating two car bombs in the Nigerian oil city of Warri, has threatened of more attacks.

• Daily News & Analysis: Militant killed in Manipur encounter 2010-03-16

  PTI Imphal: An unidentified militant was killed in an encounter with police commandos at Taothong, 25 km west of here, today. Police said commandos attached ...

• New York Times: Jerusalem Construction Notice Raises Tensions 2010-03-16

  The clashes broke out after Hamas, the Islamic militant group, called on Palestinians to make Tuesday a “day of rage” to protest Israeli measures in East ...

• DAWN.com: National games postponed due to security fears 2010-03-16

  The games are the latest sporting event to be affected by security worries in a country that has been hit by a series of militant attacks, including ...

• Dispatch Online: World Briefs 2010-03-16

  Yesterday's bombing is the most daring attack claimed by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, the most prominent militant group in ...

• Earthtimes: Karzai, Obama hold teleconference to discuss war in Afghanistan 2010-03-16

  Afghan intelligence has also blamed a Pakistani-based militant group for an attack two weeks ago against two guesthouses in Kabul, which killed 17 people ...

• Adnkronos International English: Columbia: Documentary reveals violence in FARC 2010-03-16

  Rome, 16 March (AKI) - A powerful new documentary has revealed the violent face of Columbia's outlawed armed militant group FARC.

• Thaindian.com: Talks start with Meghalaya militant outfit 2010-03-16

  The banned militant group, fighting for creation of Garoland Autonomous Council, had entered into a tripartite ceasefire with the central and the state ...

• ScienceBlogs: Andrew McCarthy, Meet Gen. Petraeus 2010-03-16

  General David Petraeus, architect of the Iraq War surge, believes that Guantanamo Bay should be closed, and that the interrogation tactics favored by Mr.

• The Australian: Katter skittish 2010-03-16

  ... in the Liberal Party" or honoured his successor John Howard as a "militant, aggressive conservative driving in reverse through the rear-view mirror" ...

• Alibaba News Channel: Q+A-The implications of bomb attacks in Nigeria's oil delta 2010-03-16

  Last year's amnesty programme was the most comprehensive attempt yet to end years of unrest in the Niger Delta, where militant attacks have prevented ...

• The First Reporter: FieldTurf Installs First Artificial Turf Sports Field in Iraq for U.S. Embassy ... 2010-03-16

  In addition to the recently installed field for the US Embassy in Baghdad, other US Government installations completed by FieldTurf include Guantanamo Bay ...

• Outlook: Palestinians Clash With Israeli Police on 'Day of Rage' 2010-03-16

  ... locations in East Jerusalem neighbourhoods, hurling stones at security forces, with Islamist militant faction Hamas declaring it a "day of rage".

• ScienceBlogs: Thoughts From the Interface of Science, Religion, Law and Culture 2010-03-16

  General David Petraeus, architect of the Iraq War surge, believes that Guantanamo Bay should be closed, and that the interrogation tactics favored by Mr.

• HSToday: PERSPECTIVES ON AVIATION SECURITY FOLLOWING THE CHRISTMAS DAY PLOT 2010-03-16

  The upshot of this, according to the analyst, is that "militant organizations - including groups like the FARC and Al Qaeda - have the "power to move people ...

• CathNews Asia: Indian police warn Vicar-General over Christian literature 2010-03-16

  “The attacks are carried out by Hindu militant organizations in the area, with political cover for such attacks being guaranteed by the government of ...

• KMPH Fox 26: AP Top News at 7:56 am EDT 2010-03-16

  MIR ALI, Pakistan (AP) - An apparent US missile attack destroyed a suspected militant compound in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least nine ...

• Global Times: Bombing occurs in Nigeria despite amnesty conference 2010-03-16

  Nigeria's main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), said shortly before the bombing that it would be making ...

• Press Trust of India: Cop among two killed in militant attack in Sopore 2010-03-16

  Srinagar, Mar 16 (PTI) Two persons including a policeman were killed and four others injured when militants opened fire on a police party at the crowded ...

• RTT News: Suspected US Drone Attack Targeting Militants Kills 11 In Pakistan 2010-03-16

  Several others were injured and two militant hideouts were destroyed in the aerial strike in the tribal district, a known hub of Islamic militancy.

• IBNLive.com: '93 bomber was terror duo's handler: Cops 2010-03-16

  In October 2003, the US Treasury Department found out that Dawood Ibrahim was financially supporting Islamic militant groups working against Indi ...

• CNN: Palestinians riot to protest synagogue reopening 2010-03-16

  About 3000 officers were deployed in the city after the militant group Hamas declared Tuesday a "Day of Rage." The group was protesting the reopening of ...

• People's Daily Online: Police on red alert in Nigeria's Bayelsa after bomb attack 2010-03-16

  Nigeria's main militant group the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Deltahas (MEND) claimed responsibility for Monday's explosion that rocked ...

• Rupee News: Bal Thackeray should be handed over to Pakistan to face trial 2010-03-16

  Urging the Hindus to start referring to India “Hindu Rashtra” (Hindu nation), the Shiv Sena militant leader maintains that only “our religion [Hinduism] ...

• The Associated Press: Holder: Osama bin Laden will never face US trial 2010-03-16

  _ The attorney general also acknowledged an ongoing probe into whether defense teams representing Guantanamo Bay detainees may have wrongly obtained ...

• VEXNEWS: FRIENDLY FIRE: Mercury aims at Labor over Greens party drugs scandal but h ... 2010-03-16

  O'Connor is considered in Tasmanian political circles to be an extreme-left militant, once working for Socialist Left Labor MPs before leaving them ...

• Calgary Sun: Public Enemy to play Calgary 2010-03-16

  Known for their militant social criticism in such songs as 911 Is a Joke and Fight the Power, Public Enemy is still considered one of hip hop's greatest ...

• Crikey: State of the media? not pretty … censorship in China, and Australia … Pier ... 2010-03-16

  The appeal court's ruling today gives Mr Habib, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate, the right to compensation from the newspaper's publisher, Nationwide News.

• Philippine Star: Philippine new armed forces chief calls for stronger attack on Abu Sayyaf rebels 2010-03-16

  ... assessment on the recent offensive against the militant group, which is deemed as being responsible for a number of deadly bombings and kidnappings.

• Financial Times: Militant legacy 2010-03-16

  "I certainly supported Militant, and Derek and Tony were close friends. I supported them on the issues of no jobs cuts and proper housing.

• The Concordian: Meet the real people of Iran 2010-03-16

  The Poet compares Iranian prisons to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Over dinner, he and his friends laugh hysterically over a story of a political prisoner ...

• Nazret.com: Ethiopia: “Grow up!” Bob Geldof 2010-03-16

  American officials believe that some American aid may have fallen into the hands of Al Shababa, the most militant of Somalia's insurgent groups.

• KMPH Fox 26: AP Top News at 7:42 am EDT 2010-03-16

  MIR ALI, Pakistan (AP) - An apparent US missile attack destroyed a suspected militant compound in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least nine ...

• War On Terror News: IJC Operational Update, March 15 2010-03-16

  ... of buildings north of the village of Chinah in the Chak-e Wardak District of Wardak province after intelligence information indicated militant activity.

• The Nation, Pakistan: 3 militant commanders killed in Khawazakhela 2010-03-16

  SWAT - At least three local militant commanders were killed and several other Taliban arrested in a joint army and police search operation in Khawazakhel ...

• UConn Daily Campus: Public deserved to know names of Guantanamo Bay lawyers 2010-03-16

  The same holds true for attorneys that decided to represent Guantanamo Bay prisoners. The information of who they are, who they represented and what they ...

• Secure Computing: US military plan to destroy Wikileaks leaked 2010-03-16

  ... some of the documents that have appeared on the site, including a manual for prisoner handling from Guantanamo Bay and a map of Abu Ghraib prison.

• Global Security Newswire: Militant Claims Work on Anthrax Bomb in Afghanistan 2010-03-16

  A suspected Taliban operative in Afghanistan claimed recently that the group was working on a bomb that would disperse anthrax, the London Daily Expre ...

• KMOV.com: Pizza and Politics with the Mo. Supreme Court 2010-03-16

  ... how courts function with other branches of government and the press, the imposition of the death penalty, and national issues such as Guantanamo Bay ...

• Socialist Project: The Tekel Strike in Turkey 2010-03-16

  After 78 days of resolute and militant fighting, the heroic battle of the Tekel workers of Turkey has now entered a new phase. At the end of January ...

• A Pakistan News: RAW'S Secret War against Pakistan 2010-03-16

  ... attacks in major cities despite Pakistan's successful military operations against the militants and the death of the renowned militant commanders.

• Herald Sun: Habib wins Piers Akerman defamation bid 2010-03-16

  The appeal court's ruling today gives Mr Habib, a former Guantanamo Bay inmate, the right to compensation from the newspaper's publisher, Nationwide News.

• The Associated Press: Pakistani officials: Suspected US missile kills 9 2010-03-16

  MIR ALI, Pakistan — An apparent US missile attack destroyed a suspected militant compound in a tribal region of northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday ...

• RTT News: Palestinians Clash With Israeli Police In East Jerusalem 2010-03-16

  Earlier, some 3000 Israeli policemen were put on high alert after the militant Hamas urged Palestinians to launch anti-Israel protests.

• Press TV: Explosions rock site of amnesty talks in Nigeria 2010-03-16

  The blasts took place minutes after a bomb threat issued by the region's main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).

• Eurasia Review: Republican Witch-Hunters Embrace Dictatorship 2010-03-16

  Nevertheless, by also reviving the Military Commissions, the administration allowed itself to be ambushed by critics who stirred up opposition to ...

• People's Daily Online: A tour of DPRK, an unforgettable experience 2010-03-16

  The people of the two countries are bound together because of the militant bonds of a friendship that has lasted generations. However, at the same time ...

• ISA: Top Secret Until Leaked 2010-03-16

  It leaked a US military manual detailing dubious dealings at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, as well as a CIA manual on controversial renditi ...

• Financial Times: Premier walks tightrope over BA strikes 2010-03-16

  Describing the union as "Charlie Whelan's Unite", the Conservatives have claimed that he is "fostering a new militant tendency" in Labour - although 160 MP ...

• BusinessDay: One killed as bomb explosions jolt amnesty deal 2010-03-16

  The main militant group, Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), which issued the bomb alert in an email to journalists minutes before ...

• Roll Call: In New Book, Ex-CIA Agent Comes Clean, Falls Flat 2010-03-16

  He calls Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a “national disgrace” and says the executive branch bungled the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and had “more hidden agend ...

• Financial Times: Brown's rebuke to BA strikers sets up clash with Labour's biggest sponsor 2010-03-16

  The Conservatives have also claimed that the union is "fostering a new militant tendency" in Labour, although 160 MPs already belong to Unite.

• SLBC: Retired General Sarath Fonseka appears before the first of the two court martials. 2010-03-16

  The President has appointed two military tribunals on the recommendations of the army commander to examine the charges filed against Mr. Fonseka.

• GMA news.tv: Palace washes hands off 'fake' party-list groups 2010-03-16

  Last Monday, a militant Church-based poll watchdog group sought an investigation into the nomination of presidential son Pampanga Rep.

2010-03-15: Headlines

• RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Yemen: Air Raid Kills Al-Qaeda Militants 2010-03-15

  Separately, the group said in an Internet statement that a Saudi militant -- who it said had been active in raising funds in Saudi Arabia for fighters ...

• Tapped: A Brief Point About Coverage Of The Military Commissions. 2010-03-15

  This has become a habit with coverage of policy disputes: Republicans base an entire argument on an outrageous, verifiable claim -- military commissions ...

• Durham Herald Sun: Race, Reporters and Revolution 2010-03-15

  One of the criticisms of the media was that they were guilty of "giving disproportionate amounts of time to emotional events and militant leaders.

• Huffington Post: Ethiopia: "Grow up!" Bob Geldof 2010-03-15

  American officials believe that some American aid may have fallen into the hands of Al Shababa, the most militant of Somalia's insurgent groups.

• Huffington Post: Dems Should Go For Broke 2010-03-15

  ... a military prisoner camp in Guantanamo Bay, use of enhanced interrogation techniques, and approval for domestic spying on American citizens.

• Huffington Post: Lindsey Graham's Third Strike? 2010-03-15

  It also ruled that the Bush administration's military commissions were unconstitutional. So Graham helped broker a deal with the White House to pass ...

• Firedoglake: Everything Is Poisoned 2010-03-15

  And we'll close Guantanamo Bay through the Afghanistan quasi-supplemental as planned. Go ahead, vote against the Afghanistan war, hippie.

• Consortium News: Yoo Besmirches Legacy of Jefferson 2010-03-15

  But fewer know that the Convening Authority for the Military Commissions at Guantanamo, military judge Susan Crawford, has said that those techniques meet ...

• Tapped: The Health-Care Strategy for National Security. 2010-03-15

  Republicans are increasingly adamant in using military commissions for all terrorism cases involving foreign nationals, an absurd restriction on ...

• MWC News: Conservatives Hate Trial by Jury 2010-03-15

  After all, it's not as if conservatives couldn't have made trial by jury part of their military-commissions system. But that's the last thing they wanted.

• The News International: Free judiciary, media 'to help end corrupt practices' 2010-03-15

  ... been no militancy as when we closed school doors on our children, they went to madrassahs which finally brought about militant mindsets,” he remarked.

• The News International: FC officer defends dismissals 2010-03-15

  ... February 27 to March 2 and cleared Pashtawani and Musa Darra, a stronghold of banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and other militant organisations.

• BBC News: Two held for Mumbai 'attack plot' 2010-03-15

  More than 170 people, nine of them gunmen, died in militant attacks in the city in November 2008. Mr Shaikh, 29, and Mr Ali, 23, were arrested after ...

• BBC News: Air strike in Pakistan kills nine 2010-03-15

  A number of air strikes have targeted militant positions in Orakzai in recent months. The hideouts destroyed in Sunday's attack were being used by foreign ...

• BBC News: India soldier killed in Kashmir grenade blast 2010-03-15

  Reports say a local militant group has admitted it carried out the attack. There has been a sharp decline in violence in Kashmir in recent years.

• Irish Independent: Voters unlikely to be moved by leaders' wives 2010-03-15

  He knows that no matter how awkward it may be for Unite, Labour cannot afford to be seen as a pawn of a militant wing of the trade union movement.

• DemocracyArsenal.org: Why Horse-Trading on the Terror Trials is a Bad Idea 2010-03-15

  Here's my real question: do progressive poliitical figures realize how a shift to military commissions would undercut progressives' ability to present ...

• EuropeNews: France: Teacher Sprayed with Gas after Denouncing al-Qaeda 2010-03-15

  Al-Qaeda, a global organisation under the nominal leadership of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden, boasted of carrying out the September 11 attacks on New ...

• EuropeNews: Amnesty International Mainstreams the Jihad 2010-03-15

  Begg, a British citizen, moved to Kabul in 2001, was captured in 2002 on suspicion of al-Qaeda links, and ended up at Guantanamo Bay after admitting that he ...

• Kuwait Times: Indonesia crackdown may have foiled major attack 2010-03-15

  Experts said Dulmatin's bomb-making skills surpassed those of his mentor Azhari Husin, a Malaysian professor turned militant who was killed in a shootout ...

• Turkmenistan News: Pakistani helicopters rout Taliban 2010-03-15

  Officials have described the hideouts as militant training centres being run by Taliban commanders. Pakistan has significantly increased operations against ...

• Systems: Air Guard Engineers Help Haitians Return to Homes 2010-03-15

  Air Force Staff Sgt. Oscar Trevino of the 190th Civil Engineering Squadron of the Kansas Air National Guard was with his unit in Guantanamo Bay, Cub ...

• Weekly Blitz: Kim Jong Il Enjoys Performance of KPA Ensemble 2010-03-15

  The ensemble has powerfully encouraged the army and people of the DPRK in the revolution and construction through its revolutionary and militant art ...

• PC Pro: Wikileaks targeted by US Government 2010-03-15

  ... of the Chemical Warfare Convention Treaty in Iraq [in] the battle over the Iraqi town of Fallujah and human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay”.

• V3.co.uk: US military plan to destroy Wikileaks leaked 2010-03-15

  ... some of the documents that have appeared on the site, including a manual for prisoner handling from Guantanamo Bay and a map of Abu Ghraib prison.

• Los Angeles Times: Obama losing chance to reshape judiciary 2010-03-15

  Obama's top lawyer, Gregory Craig, who departed in November, was consumed with issues such as the Guantanamo Bay prison. The judicial nomination machinery ...

• Mission Network NEws: Radio transcends difficult ministry ground 2010-03-15

  Most recently, on January 1 members of the militant group al-Shabaab shot and killed Mohammed Ahmed Ali, a 41-year-old underground church leader.

• St. Augustine Record: Ann Coulter: What's arabic for 'You're no Atticus Finch'? 2010-03-15

  ... litigating cases that range from civil rights claims, to death penalty defense, to claims of access to the courts for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay.

• USA Today: Column: Studying voodoo isn't a judgment 2010-03-15

  ... same question about fundamentalist Islam in the Middle East, conservative Christianity in the Bible Belt, or militant atheism in the land of academia.

• Washington Post: Obama's focus on financial rules, Supreme Court opinion could aid Democrats 2010-03-15

  ... a gap seen clearly in drawn-out efforts to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to pass health-care legislation.

• Washington Post: Obama's foreign-policy success in Pakistan 2010-03-15

  Over the past few months, the Pakistani military has engaged in serious operations in the militant havens of Swat, Malakand, South Waziristan and Bajaur.

• Nagaland Post: ANVC sets condition for talks with Haldar 2010-03-15

  Earlier, the United A'chik Peace Forum (UAPF) also favoured extension of the cease-fire agreement between the banned militant outfit.

• CRIENGLISH.com: CRI Hourly News (updated at 08:00 2010/03/15) 2010-03-15

  Kandahar has long been a militant stronghold. It is also considered the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban insurgency. Ballot counting for Iraq' ...

• Reuters UK: Indonesia Market factors to watch - March 15 2010-03-15

  (Kontan) Indonesian-born militant Umar Patek, believed to have been involved in several attacks in Indonesia, may have returned home from the Philippine ...

• Mail Tribune: Justice for all 2010-03-15

  "Good defense counsel," they said, is "key to ensuring that military commissions, federal juries and federal judges have access to the best arguments ...

• Dallas Morning News: Lawyer appointments suspect 2010-03-15

  The Dallas Morning News derided Liz Cheney for opposing the appointment to the Justice Department of nine lawyers who have defended terrorists.

• Scoop.co.nz: Anthony Ravlich: Freedom from our social prisons 2010-03-15

  Such core minimums may have helped avert the 'torture camps' of Abu Graib and Guantanamo Bay. And also as stated the poor need a far greater voice in both ...

• DAWN.com: Air and artillery attacks in Orakzai kill 13 militants 2010-03-15

  Military planes pounded suspected training camps and hideouts in Merobak area where the houses of Haji Nasrullah, father-in-law of militant 'commander'

• New Yorker: After Stevens 2010-03-15

  ... and the death penalty, and he has led the Court's counteroffensive against the Bush Administration's treatment of the detainees at Guantánamo Bay.

• TPM LiveWire: Inhofe: The Biggest Problem Facing Gitmo Detainees Is Obesity (AUDIO) 2010-03-15

  Jim Inhofe (R-OK) suggests that the biggest problem facing Guantanamo Bay detainees is obesity, "cause these guys have never eaten so well in their lives!

• Springfield News Sun: Area Woolworth's first black sales clerk calls hiring proud moment 2010-03-15

  When the census came, the light-skinned Curries listed their race as mulatto., and in the militant black pride era, they joked about being “high yellow.

• New York Times: Word of the Day | regeneration 2010-03-15

  ”Out there I'ma useless guy, unemployed and cursed by my family,” one militant said. ”Here I'ma commander. My words have weight.

• Associated Press of Pakistan: Improved US-Pakistan coop. a big step forward-Holbrooke, says al-Qaeda under ... 2010-03-15

  On the current state of al-Qaeda militant organizations, he said, they are “under fantastic pressure” and “recently their external operations chief w ...

• postzambia.com: Mercenary, corrupt students 2010-03-15

  It is evil to abuse students and other young people by corrupting them with money and other benefits to obtain their political support and youthful militant ...

• FederalNewsRadio.com: Monday Morning Federal Newscast 2010-03-15

  ... are fighting over a secret investigation that involved photographing CIA interrogators and showing the pictures to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

• Press TV: Pakistani helicopters pound militant hideouts, 13 killed 2010-03-15

  The Pakistani army helicopters have bombed militant positions in the northwest of the country, killing at least 16 people and injuring several others.

• Cato @ Liberty: Playing Chicken Again 2010-03-15

  Citizens cannot be tried by military commissions, and the jurisdictional language in the Military Commissions Act (MCA) reflects this.

• Jakarta Post: US-RI ties Indonesia anticipates Obama visit despite delay 2010-03-15

  Although the planned visit has invoked enthusiasm among Indonesians in general, some militant groups are rejecting it. Islamic group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesi ...

• gair rhydd: Iraq is Britain's biggest fan 2010-03-15

  ... four years of captivity in Guantanamo Bay, the Labour government was threatened by the Obama administration with the cessation of intelligence-sharing.

• Nagaland Post: LeT provides training to Taliban to attack India 2010-03-15

  Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), one of the largest and most active Islamist militant organizations in South Asia, has started providing training to Taliban militant ...

• Viet Nam News: March 15 in History 2010-03-15

  The Islamic militant Hamas and its Fatah rivals forge a unity Palestinian government to end more than a year of political wrangling, isolation and bloodshed ...

• Politico: Why New York's the right place to try Sept. 11 cases 2010-03-15

  Originally, he and other “high-value detainees” were slated for trial before military commissions. Last year, following through on President Barack Obama' ...

• CCTV: Two policemen killed in Russia's Chechnya 2010-03-15

  Russian President Dmitry Medvedev highlighted security and economic problems in the mainly Muslim region late last year and ordered measures to end militant ...

• Newsweek: Absurdly Premature 2012 Watch, Vol. 11: Why We Want Petraeus to Run ... 2010-03-15

  ... policy without being labeled a socialist," "shut[ting] down military tribunals and expand[ing] diplomacy without being called an Al Qaeda sympathist," ...

• ReadMedia: New York State Bar Association Launches New Blog: Guantanamo Bay and Beyond 2010-03-15

  Officially titled "Guantanamo Bay and Beyond: A Blog on Executive Detention, National Security and Due Process," it can be viewed by both attorneys and ...

• Spiegel Online: Obama Unites Israelis and Arabs in Disappointment 2010-03-15

  On his first day in office, Obama promised to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. But it is still in operation today, and Obama doesn't know where ...

• Santa Rosa Press Democrat: NAVARRETTE: Obama embraces Bush terror policies 2010-03-15

  11, 2001, attacks in criminal court and instead ordering the defendants to be tried in military tribunals. The ad reads: “As president, Barack Obama must ...

• Sify: Terror groups, state infringing media freedom in northeast 2010-03-15

  ... officials or anti-militant stories," said Atanu Bhuyan, editor-in-chief of News Live, a leading satellite TV channel in Assam's main city of Guwahati.

• CARIBWORLDNEWS.COM: Reggae To Rock Its Way Into The Hall Of Fame Tonight 2010-03-15

  One of the standouts in his catalog, Give Thankx (1978), included the militant anthem `Stand Up and Fight Back.` In the early Eighties, he returned ...

• New York Times: Health Care Push Will 'Poison the Well' for Obama's Climate Bill Effort ... 2010-03-15

  Graham, who is also working with congressional Democrats on immigration legislation and the push to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay ...

• MMAjunkie.com: Former WWE "Diva" Maria Kanellis joins HDNet Fights broadcast team 2010-03-15

  She kind of looks like the girl from "Harold & Kumar: Escape Guantanamo Bay. The one Kumar ends up with She was always hot in my opinion.

• Geekosystem: WikiLeaks Leaks 2008 Government Plan to "Destroy" WikiLeaks 2010-03-15

  ... naturally, by WikiLeaks — evaluates WikiLeaks as a “counterintelligence threat,” refers to the site's leaks of Guantanamo Bay operating procedures ...

• NBC Chicago: Boehner Says Thomson Prison Will Never Happen 2010-03-15

  President Obama made closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay one of his goals for the first year of his presidency and set a deadline that passed two month ...

• Providence Journal: Inspectors discover more deficiencies at veterans home 2010-03-15

  Rick Baccus, who had previously run the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, was named as the new administrator. But last summer more problems were revealed ...

• The BLT: Blog of Legal Times: AG Holder: DOJ 'On The Right Path' Toward Open Government 2010-03-15

  ... on Capitol Hill recently after the department refused to identify certain lawyers who had either represented or advocated for Guantanamo Bay detainees.

• The Washington Independent: More McCarthyism From Liz Cheney's Crew 2010-03-15

  26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of a Saudi detainee was an 18-page ...

• Mangalorean.com: 16 Taliban militants killed in Pakistani airstrikes 2010-03-15

  The jets also targeted the deserted houses of two militant commanders Haji Nasrullah and Akhtar Jaan and destroyed a nearby school building.

• Atlantic Online: Rationalizing Repression 2010-03-15

  ... extend similar rights to non-citizens; he strongly dissented in Hamdan v Rumsfield, a petition by a non-citizen challenging the military commissions.

• Santa Rosa Press Democrat: No reason for Obama to backtrack 2010-03-15

  Jeffrey Colwell, the Marine lawyer now acting as chief defense counsel at the Defense Department's Office of Military Commissions, had the matter right ...

• Laurel Leader Call: Unintended consequences of compromise 2010-03-15

  Basically, as I understand it, what you have said to the White House is, if you will agree to try these people in military tribunals .

• The Island: War Crimes and the principle of Individual Criminal Responsibility 2010-03-15

  In 1945, after the conclusion of the second world war, military tribunals were set up at Nuremberg in Germany and Tokyo Japan, for the trial and punishment ...

• Southern Pines Pilot: Where Real American Values Lie 2010-03-15

  Both Graham and Sessions, it should be noted, supported the Military Commissions Act. You know, the one that provides for those "tribunals" of which ...

• Montreal Gazette: Yemen says air raid kills two top al Qaeda militants 2010-03-15

  Separately, the group said in an Internet statement that a Saudi militant — who it said had been active in raising funds in Saudi Arabia for fighters ...

• Xinhua: Yemeni forces launch air raid on suspected Qaida hideouts in south 2010-03-15

  According to the security sources, the air raid targeted a hideout believed to be a camp for al-Qaida militant groups. Eyewitnesses said they heard sound ...

• Philippine Star: Gov't told to admit failure in curbing rights abuses 2010-03-15

  MANILA, Philippines – Militant group Bayan said government officials should admit that ...

• JURIST: A Better Course: More on the Court-martial Alternative to Military Commissions 2010-03-15

  In fact, I vividly recall the day that the Department of Defense announced that it would be creating the original military commissions.