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"Friending" Binyam Mohamed

Naomi Wolf | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

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Naomi Wolf

Recently I have been in touch with Binyam Mohamed, who was released from Guantánamo in February -- after seven years' captivity without charges.

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Obama Administration Still Fighting Release of Torture Evidence

The Washington Independent | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: CIA Torture, Central Intelligence Agency, War on Terror, Guantanamo Detainees, Black Sites, Great Britain, Binyam Mohamed, Gitmo, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Cia, San Francisco Chronicle, Hillary Clinton, Bob Egelko, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Jeppesen Dataplan, Politics News

This case has dropped a off the radar screen lately, but Bob Egelko at the San Francisco Chronicle today reminds us that the Obama administration is s...

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Guantanamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Defense, War on Terror, President Obama, Guantanamo, Fbi, Binyam Mohamed, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Detention Policy Task Force, World News, Habeas Corpus, Obama Detention Policy, Politics News, Sabir Lahmar, Umar Abdulayev, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, Judge Gladys Kessler, Pentagon, Yemen, World, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Saudi Rehabilitation, Ayman Batarfi, Justice Department, US District Court, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Uighurs, Yasim Basardah, Cia, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Prisoners who do not face ill-treatment on return to their homelands are still held, no matter how many times their release is approved by various representatives of the U.S. government.

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US, UK on Collision Course Over Detainee Court Cases

Frank Naif | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Cia, Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni, United Kingdom, David Milliband, CIA Torture, Hillary Clinton, United States, Binyam Mohamed, Extraordinary Rendition, World News
Frank Naif

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is pressing the UK to protect US detention and torture secrets, but British courts may have the last word as two major torture cases move ahead.

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Hillary Clinton Pressured British Government To Not Reveal Details Of Gitmo Detainee's Treatment

Telegraph | John Bingham | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

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Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, warned David Miliband that America would consider cutting security co-operation with the UK if a British c...

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Binyam Mohamed Torture Claims To Be Investigated By UK

The Independent | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

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The Metropolitan Police are to investigate claims that British agents colluded in torture, Scotland Yard said today. ...

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Former Gitmo Detainee Launches Legal Fight To Stop US From Destroying Alleged Torture Photos

Guardian | Richard Norton-Taylor | Posted 08.05.2009 | World

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Former Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed has launched an urgent legal attempt to prevent the US courts from destroying crucial evidence that he says...

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Obama's First 100 Days: A Start On Guantanamo, But Not Enough

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.

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UK Gitmo Torture Claims Investigated

BBC NEWS | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

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Police are to investigate whether an MI5 officer was complicit in the torture of ex-Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed....

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US Asked Binyam Mohamed To Drop Torture Claim In Exchange For Freedom: British Court

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

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LONDON — U.S. authorities asked a Guantanamo Bay detainee to drop allegations of torture and agree not to speak publicly about his ordeal in exc...

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UN Condemns Britain's Role In US Torture Cases

The Independent | By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

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Britain was condemned last night for its complicity in the American programme of rendition and alleged torture of hundreds of terror suspects, in a hi...

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Binyam Mohamed: Release Of Detainee Fuels Demands For UK To Clarify Its Role In Gitmo Detention

The Independent | Robert Verkaik, Law Editor | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

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The seven-year ordeal of a British resident who claims he was brutally tortured before being sent to Guantanamo Bay was brought to an end last night d...

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Who Is Binyam Mohamed, The British Resident Released From Guantanamo?

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.26.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

I thought it appropriate to relate a few anecdotes that bring Binyam the human being, rather than Binyam the prisoner, to life.

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My Role in the Torture of Binyam Mohamed

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Freedom of Speech, Post 9/11, Binyam Mohamed, Hydrogen Bomb, Jose Padilla, Torture, Politics News
Barbara Ehrenreich

We had a government so vicious and impenetrably stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell.

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Binyam Mohamed Freed After 4 Years In Guantanamo

AP | PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 03.26.2009 | World

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LONDON — The first Guantanamo detainee released since President Barack Obama took office returned to Britain on Monday, saying his seven years o...

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Obama's Refusal To Reverse Bush Policy In Afghanistan Angers Human Rights Groups

The Independent | By Stephen Foley | Posted 03.25.2009 | World

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Less than a month after signing an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, President Barack Obama has quietly agreed to keep denying ...

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Binyam Mohamed To Be Returned To Britain

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

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LONDON — A former U.K. resident who alleges he was tortured while in U.S. custody will soon be released from Guantanamo Bay and sent back to Bri...

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Who's Running Guantanamo?

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

On January 20, the answer to that question seemed obvious. However, on January 29, the Commissions' recently appointed chief judge provided the first challenge to the president's plans.

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Gitmo Detainee's 'Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel,' Waterboarding 'Far Down The List Of Things They Did': British Paper

Daily Telegraph | Posted 03.12.2009 | Politics

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Material in a CIA dossier on Mr Mohamed that was blacked out by High Court judges contained details of how British intelligence officers supplied info...

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Miliband: No US Threat To Suppress Torture Information

BBC World Service | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

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David Miliband has disputed claims by two judges that the US threatened to stop sharing intelligence with the UK over an alleged torture case. In a...

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Britain: US Threatened To Cut Off Intelligence If Torture Evidence Released

The Raw Story | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

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As if President Obama didn't have enough to worry about with the economy in turmoil and his cabinet nominees under fire. Now the British government...

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Last(ing) Days of Indignity..?

Ross Tuttle | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Binyam Mohamed, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo, Barack Obama Guantanamo, Human Rights, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Gitmo, Torture, Politics News
Ross Tuttle

The Pentagon reports that 42 GTMO detainees are on a hunger strike. Human rights lawyers estimate the total is closer to 70, roughly 30% of those remaining in this netherworld prison.

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A History of Music Torture in the "War on Terror"

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ruhal Ahmed, Dr. Dre, Trent Reznor, Cia, Donald Vance, Britney Spears, Music Torture, Nine Inch Nails, Eminem, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Rage Against the Machine, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Tom Morello, David Gray, David Addington, Drowning Pool, Binyam Mohamed, Metallica, Pamela Anderson, Abu Ghraib, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Guantanamo Music Torture, Dark Prison, Bob Singleton, William J. Haynes II, Iraq, Sere, Deicide, Politics News
Andy Worthington

U.S. military personnel were ordered to keep prisoners awake by blasting ear-splittingly loud music at them -- for days, weeks or even months on end -- at prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay.

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U.S. Justice Department drops "dirty bomb plot" allegation against Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisone...

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British Court Rules Against UK and US in Case of Guantanamo Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Clive Stafford-Smith, John Bellinger, David Miliband, CIA Secret Prisons, US State Department, UK High Court, Terrorism, American Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley, Susan Crawford, Binyam Mohamed, Military Commissions, Politics News
Andy Worthington

In the lawless world of Guantánamo -- and the United States' even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA -- it has taken si...

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