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Detainees Say They Planned Sept. 11

Author Asif

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."

 

Obama Orders Secret Prisons and Detention Camps Closed

Author Asif

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.
 
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.

 

Taxi To The Dark Side

Author Asif

Oct12

A must see documentary that show how the US government has developed a policy of using torture while at the same time spreading its message of democracy around the world. The ease with which ideas fundamental to the rule of law were subverted in the process, provokes difficult questions about the kind of future American-style democracy will bring. Everyone must see this movie!
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