Protesters wearing orange jump-suits and black hoods marched in Washington DC Jan. 11 to mark 10 years since the opening of the military prison at Guantánamo Bay. The grimly attired demonstrators marched down Pennsylvania Ave. from the White House, past… Read moreProtests mark tenth anniversary of Guantánamo Bay prison camp
Despite expressing “reservations” in a signing statement, President Obama approved the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012, with controversial provisions that codify into law the indefinite detention of terror suspects.
Media accounts portray Tarek Mehanna as a dangerous conspirator—but he never actually received “terrorist training” in Yemen, and the texts he apparently translated were al-Qaeda propaganda videos.
Police in Northern Ireland are considering deployment of mini-drones to combat crime and the dissident Republican threat. The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are small enough to fit into a rucksack and will be used for surveillance.
US-born purported al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike in the Yemeni province of Jawf. The American Civil Liberties Union said the killing was part of a US counter-terrorism program that “violates both US and international law.”
Will the 9-11 “Truthers” give any honest reaction to al-Qaeda’s statement telling Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stop trying to deprive the terror network of the glory by blaming the attacks on the US government? We’re waiting, guys…
The hacker group Anonymous has called a boycott of PayPal over its refusal to facilitate donations to WikiLeaks. While we demand answers on WikiLeaks’ apparent collaboration with the Belarus dictatorship, the boycott may still have merit. What do you think?
Some international law experts are calling the Osama bin Laden killing an illegal “extrajudicial assassination”—as the White House equivocates on whether an effort was made to take bin Laden alive.
The ascension to Langley of Gen. David Petraeus—architect of Bush’s Iraq “surge”—comes just as the Obama administration has explicitly taken on a regime change project in Libya.
Will Julian Assange’s connections to the notorious anti-Semite and apparent agent of the Belarus dictatorship Israel Shamir be exposed before he wins a Nobel Peace Prize? We hope so.
A US military tribunal sentenced Sudanese Guantánamo Bay detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed to 14 years in prison following a plea agreement in which he admitted to aiding al-Qaeda.
The City Council of Berkeley, Calif., is to vote this week on a resolution to invite Guantánamo Bay detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing to resettle in the town.
