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Category → Politics
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Informer’s Role in Bombing Plot Author → Asif |
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May22
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. |
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Business of Detention Nominated for a Webby! Author → Asif |
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Apr23
 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
SXSW Interactive Awards.
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Detainees Say They Planned Sept. 11 Author → Asif |
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Mar10
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."
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Is Peace Out Of Reach? A Two State Solution Is Not Possible Author → Asif |
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Jan28
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." |
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Obama Orders Secret Prisons and Detention Camps Closed Author → Asif |
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Jan22
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.
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