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Everyone called the stranger with all the money “Maqsood.” He would sit
in his Mercedes, waiting in the parking lot of the mosque in Newburgh,
N.Y., until the Friday prayer was over. Then, according to members of
the mosque, the Masjid al-Ikhlas, he approached the young men.
The Business of Detention project is a U.S.-based online publication
created by reporters Stokely Baksh and Renee Feltz, while graduate
students at Columbia University’s Graduate of Journalism. Our desire
was to create an innovative way to present the business of privatized
detention services — using solid reporting skills and pairing that up
with video and interactive info graphics. This was also an experiment
for us in creating a platform for a news product, that largely went
under reported in mainstream news when we started the Corrections
Corporation of America investigative project in late 2007. That project
became the first investigative-new media project for the University and
has since won the Melvin Mencher Award for Superior Reporting and James
A. Wechsler Award for National Reporting, and a finalist at the 2009
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The five detainees at Guantánamo Bay
charged with planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have filed
a document with the military commission at the United States naval base
there expressing pride at their accomplishment and accepting full
responsibility for the killing of nearly 3,000 people.
The “9/11 Shura Council,” and it says their actions were an offering to
God, according to excerpts of the document that were read to a reporter
by a government official who was not authorized to discuss it publicly.
Oh really? So, after 8 years of torture we finally get a confession from five men who sound like pagans with their "offering to God."
Has peace in the Middle East become nothing more than a pipe dream? As
Bob Simon reports, a growing number of Israelis and Palestinians feel
that a two-state solution is no longer possible.
This only shows a fraction of what the people in the occupied territories have to deal with, here is an excellent piece the hardships faced in this area.
Jewish settler: "I think settlement prevents establishment of a
palestinian state in the land of Isreal."
How fitting that on inaugaration day, people like Dick Cheney is seen rolling himself out on a wheelchair. For too long has the American justice system handicapped by destructive policies of the Bush Administration. I say award detainees their due process. Treat them as prisoners of war and follow the Geneva conventions. If there isn't sufficient proof of conviction then send them back to where they were probably inhumanly captured. If they want to prosecute, then they must do so in a most legal, open, and transparent manner. The illegality of CIA prisons should have been declared by the Supreme Court a long time ago.
President Obama signed executive orders Thursday directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons and ordering the closing of the Guantánamo detention camp within a year.
Saying that “our ideals give us the strength and moral high ground” to combat terrorism, President Obama signed executive orders Thursday ending the Central Intelligence Agency’s secret overseas prisons, banning coercive interrogation methods and closing the Guantánamo Bay detention camp within a year.
JERUSALEM – Human Rights Watch said Sunday that Israel's military has fired artillery shells with the incendiary agent white phosphorus
into Gaza and a doctor there said the chemical was suspected in the
case of 10 burn victims who had skin peeling off their faces and bodies.
Researchers in Israel
from the rights group witnessed hours of artillery bombardments that
sent trails of burning smoke indicating white phosphorus over the
Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. But they could not confirm injuries on the ground because they have been barred from entering the territory.
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I currently work for a non-profit by day and freelance as a web designer by night.
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