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Entries by Andy Worthington from 04/2009

Britain's Guantanamo

| Posted 04.03.2009 | World
Read More: Abdullah Bin Omar, Lotfi Bin Ali, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Terrorism, Tony Blair, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, David Addington, Abu Qatada, Ahmed Belbacha, Lotfi Lagha, Britain's Guantanamo, Politics, Libya, UK Government, UN Convention Against Torture, Return to Torture, World News

There are many unnerving similarities between the Bush administration's policies and those implemented in the U.K., which have caused barely a ripple of protest.

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Justice Extends To Bagram, Guantanamo's Dark Mirror

| Posted 04.06.2009 | World
Read More: US Supreme Court, Amin Al-Bakri, Haji Wazir, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo, Redha Al-Najar, Obama Administration, Justice Department, US District Court, International Justice Network, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Fadi Al-Maqaleh, Bagram, Enemy Combatants, Bagram Detainees, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Afghanistan, Cuba, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

Whereas Gitmo prisoners had, over the years, secured habeas corpus rights, none of these privileges had been extended to the prisoners in Bagram.

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Who Authorized The Torture of Abu Zubaydah?

| Posted 04.24.2009 | World
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For the defendants of the use of torture by U.S. forces -- still led by former Vice President Dick Cheney -- this has been a rocky few weeks.

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Even For Cheney, The Al Qaeda-Iraq Torture Story Is A New Low

| Posted 04.29.2009 | World
Read More: Dan Coleman, Jack Cloonan, War on Terror, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Fbi, Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi, Maj. Paul Burney, Dick Cheney, Politics, Newsweek, New Yorker, Vice President Dick Cheney, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo Bay, David Rose, Colin Powell, Terrorism, Vanity Fair, Guantanamo Detainees, Arkan Al-Karim, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Al Qaeda, Paul Wolfowitz, Iraq War, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Al Qaeda Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Cia, Jane Mayer, New York Times, Waterboarding, Iraq, Vice President Cheney, War Wire, World News

Coercive and illegal techniques were used widely at Gitmo in an attempt to secure information linking al Qaeda to Saddam Hussein.

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