Dan Coleman

John McCain, Torture Puppet

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jack Cloonan, Dan Coleman, Alberto J. Mora, Mark Fallon, John McCain, Jane Mayer, Cia, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, US Torture, Senate Committee on Armed Services, William J. Haynes II, Carl Levin, Fbi, Barack Obama, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Beyond McCain's stunted historical memory, his outburst flies in the face of the evidence that the entire "War on Terror" imprisonment program has been both chronically brutal and irredeemably flawed.

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The Insignificance and Insanity of Abu Zubaydah

Andy Worthington | Posted 04.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dan Coleman, Cia, Khalid Al-Hubayshi, Abu Zubaydah, The Guantanamo Files, Ron Suskind, Fbi, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Abu Zubaydah, an alleged senior al-Qaeda operative, has been held without charge or trial as a "high-value detainee" for over six years, first in secr...

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Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb on Guantanamo: "We're Making These Things Up as We Go Along"

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dan Coleman, Michael Goldfarb, Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi, Fbi, Weekly Standard, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi's case is central to complaints made in sworn statements last year by military officers, who worked on the tribunals at Guantánamo, that the entire system was rigged.

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Six in Guantánamo Charged with 9/11 Murders: Why Now? And What About the Torture?

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Dan Coleman, Alberto J. Mora, CIA Prisons, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Cia, Walid Bin Attash, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, 9-11 Terror Charges, Al-Qaeda, Waterboarding, 9-11, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Fbi, Politics News
Andy Worthington

It is surely no coincidence, that the charges against the Guantánamo detainees came just six days after the director of the CIA, admitted that three of the "high-value" detainees had been subjected to waterboarding.

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