In a decision dated April 7 and released on April 11, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ruled that Southern California Muslim community leader Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan can be removed to Jordan, partially reversing a Feb. 12, 2005 ruling by immigration… Read moreJordan deportation approved —despite torture claim
On June 1, after six months in detention–with much of that time spent in solitary confinement–Seattle Muslim leader Abrahim Sheikh Mohamed gave up his legal battle against deportation. Mohamed was arrested Nov. 14 on immigration violations at Sea-Tac Airport, where… Read moreSeattle imam faces deportation to Somalia
On June 14, Assistant Secretary for ICE Julie Myers announced that ICE agents had apprehended 2,179 immigrants in a nationwide sweep between May 26 and June 13. Virtually every ICE field office in the US took part in “Operation Return… Read more2,179 arrested in fed “fugitive” sweep
This man did not die in vain. He was a necessary sacrifice, just like the 2,500 servicemen in Iraq. If there is any rethinking whatsoever of our way of life predicated on profligate fossil fuel consumption, the terrorists win. From… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
Another New York Times op-ed piece, “Dealing With the Devil in Darfur” by Julie Flint (IHT, June 17), warns of US support for Minni Arcua Minnawi, leader of the ethnic Zaghawa faction of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), who seems… Read moreDarfur: US “dealing with the Devil”
Nepal’s Maoist rebels agreed June 16 to lay down arms and join the government, ending the 10-year guerilla insurgency. The accord, announced following a daylong meeting between Maoist leader Prachanda (“the fierce one”) and interim prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala,… Read moreNepal: Maoists chill out; Hindu backlash next?
It was nice to see this story on the front page of the New York Times, Metro Section June 14. But the Times fails to grasp that this parking lot must be built. It is a moral imperative so that… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
The US military has flown in two forensic specialists to examine the body of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi “to see how he actually died,” a US general said. The autopsy was ordered after it was made public that he survived an… Read moreAbu Ayyub al-Masri: kinder, gentler jihad?
Scotland Yard’s anti-terror chief is awarded “Commander of the British Empire”—in the wake of a controvesial shooting of a young Muslim man in a police raid that turned up nothing. From The Telegraph, June 17: There has been a storm… Read moreUK honors anti-terror chief after shooting
Zapatista leader Subcommander Marcos told the Spanish TV show “El Loco de la Colina” in a special broadcast Mexico City that it is “possible to build another Latin America” based in popular movements and new political actors emerging in the… Read moreMarcos: “Another Latin America is possible”
The dust is being blown off one of the more bizarre schemes to emerge from Washington’s so-called “War on Drugs”—which is really a war on plants, on biotic life. Jeremy Bigwood writes for In These Times, June 6: On April… Read moreUS revives Colombia bio-war plan
The Presbyterian church is currently meeting in Birmingham, AL, to decide the fate of its initiative to divest its holdings in companies directly involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. The following was received via e-mail: Open Letter to… Read moreJewish group supports Presbyterian divestment initiative
