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Guantanamo: Using Religion As A Tool For Torture

Fahad Faruqui | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Quran, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Faith, Torture, Islam, Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, War on Terror, Geneva Convention, Religion News
Fahad Faruqui

Speaking to former Guantanamo detainee 727 was like talking to a prisoner of Azkaban, that terrible prison guarded by soul-sucking Dementors from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

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Red Cross: Gamers Safe From War Crimes Prosecution

AP | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Video, Ihl, Hague Convention, UK News, Human Rights, Weird News, Geneva Convention, Red Cross, UK World, Modern Warfare, Weird Video Games, Gaming, Video Games, International Humanitarian Law, Weird News News

(ASSOCIATED PRESS) GENEVA -- Gamers worried their actions on the virtual battlefield could land them at the Hague war crimes tribunal can relax. Th...

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Man Argues Iran Killed His 91-Year-Old D.C. Socialite Wife

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: Albrecht Muth, Video, Iraq Embassy, Geneva Convention, Crime, Georgetown Murder, Viola Drath, Iraqi Embassy, Iraq, DC News

WASHINGTON -- The German man authorities say killed his 91-year-old Georgetown socialite wife says her death was the result of an Iranian plot. Al...

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Georgetown Murder Suspect Disputes U.S. Claims He Has Fake Iraqi Ties

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Albrecht Muth, Video, Iraq Embassy, Geneva Convention, Crime, Georgetown Murder, Viola Drath, Iraqi Embassy, Iraq, DC News

WASHINGTON -- The German-born Georgetown man charged with the murder of his 91-year-old socialite wife is claiming that his affiliation with the Iraqi...

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Muhammad Never Tortured Prisoners Of War

Dr. Faheem Younus | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Islam, Pakistan, Waterboarding, Ethics of Torture, Muhammad and Torture, Osama Bin Laden Death, Geneva Convention, Islam and Torture, Battle of Badr, Prophet Muhammad, Asif Ali Zardari, Religion News
Dr. Faheem Younus

Not only did Muhammad categorically reject torture, but he espoused equal treatment -- both physically and emotionally -- for prisoners of war in an era plagued with enslavement.

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Japan's Grief Is the World's Grief. It Wasn't Always Like This.

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Japanese Army, Jitterbug, Hubba Hubba, Geneva Convention, Olympic Winner, Pow, Wwii, Greatest Generation, Louis Zamperini, The Bird, Olympic Gold, Laura Hillenbrand, Perry Como, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Medical Experiments, Judo, B-29 Bomber, Random House Audio, Edward Herrmann, Hogan's Heroes, Beriberi, Denue Fever, Books News
Tom Alderman

The reason Unbroken sits atop various best seller lists is, like all well-told stories, it pits a compelling and tenacious hero against an unrelenting and sadistic villain.

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U.S. Expands 'Shadow War' On Terror

The New York Times | By SCOTT SHANE, MARK MAZZETTI and ROBERT F. WORTH | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yemen, Pakistan, Terrorism, John Brennan, Middle East, Obama, Taliban, Anwar Al Awlaki, North Africa, White House, Cia, Geneva Convention, Al Qaeda, Somalia, World News

In roughly a dozen countries -- from the deserts of North Africa, to the mountains of Pakistan, to former Soviet republics crippled by ethnic and reli...

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From Istanbul: Outrage Over a Massacre on the High Seas

Phyllis Bennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Netanyahu, Turkey, Flotilla, Geneva Convention, West Bank, United Nations, Istanbul, Palestine, Obama, UN Security Council, Nato, Gaza, Middle East, Israel, Gaza Strip, Civil Society, World News
Phyllis Bennis

Israel has decided that it is better to be perceived as savage than as weak. In its initial attack on the boats carrying human rights activists and h...

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Southern Exposure: Conversations With Bo Bice and Widespread Panic's John Bell

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Black Crowes, The James Gang, Michael Houser, The Red Cross, Luftwaffe, Geneva Convention, Bo Bice, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, Greg Barnhill, Blues-Rock, Charlie Daniels, Widespread Panic, Lynyrd Skynyrd, John Bell, Vic Chesnutt, Southern Rock, Lenny Kravitz, Entertainment News, Second Harvest, Leon Russell, The Salvation Army, Faces, American Idol, Itunes, The Band, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

The following are interviews with Bice and Panic's John Bell during which they talk about their new projects, parenthood, the late Vic Chesnutt, a little social consciousness, and The Little Prince.

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West Jerusalem Tram: Palestinians Use Courts To Fight Light Rail Linking Settlements To City

AP | KARIN LAUB | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: City Pass Consortium, Mecca, France, Palestinians, Alstom, Settlements, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Plo, West Jerusalem Tram, Mahmoud Abbas, Anti-Apartheid, Geneva Convention, Occupation, West Jerusalem, Veolia, Medina, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Psgat Zeev, World News

JERUSALEM — Jerusalem's first light rail starts test runs this spring, with its sleek silver cars gliding across the city and promising to relie...

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Gen. Petraeus: US Violated Geneva Convention

Crooks And Liars | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Foreign Affairs, Guantanamo Detainees, General David Petraeus, David Petraeus, Guantanamo, Gitmo, Geneva, Geneva Convention, Guantanamo Bay, Petraeus, Gitmo Detainees, General Petraeus, Advocacy, Torture, World News

Gen. Petraeus joined FOX News and Martha MacCallum today and gave a blockbuster interview, but not one Fox expected. Once again, he called for the res...

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Waterboarding Sean Hannity

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Reality Television, Reality TV, Geneva Convention, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Fox, Keith Olbermann, Justice Department, Bush Torture Memos, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Talk-Show-Host, Cnn, Sean Hannity, Talk Shows, Extraordinary Interrogation Techniques, Fox News, Bush Torture, Waterboarding, Cable News, Torture Memos, Extraordinary Rendition, Torture, Media News
Hoyt Hilsman

Sean Hannity's offer to undergo waterboarding for charity is almost too good to refuse.

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Torture Revelations Will Leave the Left Frustrated

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Qaeda, President Obama, Red Cross, Geneva Convention, Afghanistan War, Abu Zubaydah, Cheney, Status of Forces Agreements, Judge Bybee, Congress, Rumsfeld, Sen. John McCain, Abu Ghraib, Detainees, Bush, Iraq War, Pows, Michael Hayden, George Washington, Ali Soufani, Robert Mueller, Dennis Blair, Fbi, Matthew Alexander, Torture, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

The most likely outcome of this whole business will be that nobody will be punished.

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Arguing Whether Torture "Works" Is a Dangerous Dialogue

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Constitution, President Obama, Geneva Convention, Torture, Rule of Law, Hermann Goering, Politics News
Paul Abrams

The political dialogue on the Bush administration's torture policy seems inappropriately focused on whether it "works." Can anyone seriously contend that there is a yes-or-no answer to that question?

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Guantanamo Meets Geneva Rules: Pentagon

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Pentagon report requested by President Obama on the conditions at the Guantánamo Bay detention center concludes that the prison complies with the h...

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Smooth Sailing For Panetta

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Convention, Cia, Pakistan, Dianne Feinstein, Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Iran, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Bay, George W. Bush, Central Asia, Dick Cheney, Russia, Afghanistan, A.Q. Khan, Leon Panetta, Politics News
William Bradley

Panetta has a more than full plate as the next CIA director. It's good he's going to be starting out without all the political distractions that many thought would derail him last month.

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No Choice But to Prosecute Cheney, for the Good of the Country

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Gonzales, Yoo, Geneva Convention, Addington, Rule of Law, Bush, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Paul Abrams

With his admission on television to having authorized waterboarding, Dick Cheney will not be able to travel outside the United States without fearing arrest as a war criminal.

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War Crimes and Incompetence -- the Real Shoes Thrown at Bush

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sere, Stuart Bowen, Inspector General, Abuse, Kucinich, Geneva Convention, Reconstruction, Guantanamo, Armed Services Committee, Bush, Detainee, Prisoner, Chris Weigant, Few Bad Apples, Abu Graib, Waterboard, Waterboarding, Iraq, Carl Levin, Shoes, Shoe, National Security Council, Senate, Torture, War Wire, Bowen, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee released a report which basically called Bush and his entire National Security Council war criminals.

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Obama Should Take a Hard Look at Bush's Terrorism Executive Orders

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Military, Geneva Convention, Cia, Bush, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Supreme Court, Executive Orders, Constitution, Iraq, Terrorism War, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

A start and end point should be the 31 Bush executive orders that deal with Iraq and the terrorism war.

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