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Republicans walk out of House hearing on Patriot Act
GOP House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner abruptly adjourned a Committee hearing on the Patriot Act Friday, leaving Democrats objecting into dead air after their microphones had been turned off. The hearing had been called at the (More) |
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Spanish anti-terror judge criticizes US tactics
In an apparent dig at the US, a veteran Spanish anti-terror judge emphasized the necessity of international cooperation, law and reason in the pursuit of terrorism Thursday in a special UN-sponsored meeting in New York . Baltasar Garzon [BBC profile (More) |
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Rumsfeld says no plans to close Guantanamo
Despite increasing pressure to close the US military prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that the government did not have any plans to shut down the facility any time soon. Rumsfeld told (More) |
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Bush noncommittal on Guantanamo shutdown
When asked about the fate of the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay during a Fox News interview Wednesday, President Bush insisted that all prisoners there are being treated in accordance with international standards, but did say that the government (More) |
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Prisoners begin hunger strike as Israeli officials deny Koran abuse
Palestinian detainees at Israel's Megiddo prison [Jerusalem Post report] began a hunger strike on Wednesday as Israeli officials denied reports that prison guards there had abused the Koran, echoing similar stories from Guantanamo Bay . Prisoner (More) |
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Cleared Guantanamo detainees still being held
Fifteen Guantanamo detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing in March by Combatant Status Review Tribunals that concluded they were not properly classed as "enemy combatants" are still being held at the facility more than two months (More) |
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Carter calls for Guantanamo Bay shutdown
Former US President Jimmy Carter closed a two-day human rights conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta Tuesday by saying that the US should close the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp and two dozen other secret detention centers in order to (More) |
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Biden: US should close Guantanamo Bay prison
US Senator Joseph Biden said Sunday on ABC-TV's This Week that the US should begin efforts to close down the military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. Biden, head Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , also suggested that an indepen (More) |
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Specter committee to hold hearings on detainee treatment
In response to ongoing reports of prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib prisons , the US Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) will hold hearings on the matter next month. Committee sources say that witnesse (More) |
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Gitmo Koran inquiry incidents report [US Southern Command]
Koran Inquiry: Description of Incidents, US Southern Command, June 3, 2005 . Excerpt:During an interrogation in FEB 02, a detainee complained that guards at Camp X-ray kicked the Koran of a detainee in a neighboring cell four to five days earlier.Th (More) |
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
Pay a virtual visit to The King Center in Atlanta.
