A high-level al-Qaeda suspect who was in CIA custody for more than four years has alleged that his US captors tortured him into making false confessions about terrorist attacks in the Middle East, according to newly released Pentagon transcripts of… Read moreGitmo tribunal reveals torture charge
From the Center for Constitutional Rights, March 27: First Military Commission at Guantanamo Deeply Flawed The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today released a statement on the military commission proceedings at Guantánamo Bay against Australian David Hicks that began yesterday…. Read moreFirst Gitmo military tribunal opens
In the March 25 Washington Post, Trilateral Commission ideological guru and former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski once again sounds like he was bitten by a radioactive Noam Chomsky. What’s really sad is that the remnants of the American left… Read moreBrzezinski disses GWOT —again
As we have argued before, the paradigmatic metaphor for the global struggle is jihad against the robots: equally anti-human, exterminationist forces battling for control of the Earth—one zealous to the point of insatiable bloodlust, the other sterile and devoid of… Read morePentagon plans cyber-insect army
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, purportedly the highest-ranking al-Qaeda operative in US custody, has now confessed to being “responsible for the 9-11 operation from A to Z,” as well as being the mastermind of the 1993 WTC attack, Richard Reid’s attempted shoe-bombing,… Read moreKhalid Shaikh Mohammed invokes US annexation of Mexico
Democrats are urging President Bush not to pardon Lewis “Scooter” Libby following his conviction on perjury charges in the Valerie Plame case. His lawyers pledge to seek a retrial, or appeal. Significantly, Libby was never charged with leaking Plame’s identity—whoever… Read moreScooter takes hit for Dick: juror
From the Center for Constitutional Rights via Buzzflash, March 6: US to Put 14 Ghost Detainees From CIA Black Sites Before Sham Tribunals at Guantanamo Today the Center for Constitutional Rights issued a statement in response to the news that… Read more“Ghost detainees” from secret CIA gulag to Gitmo tribunals
Some recent gaffes or revelations (depending on your point of view) by Big Names in the media are providing more fodder for the always-eager conspiracy set. First is Seymour Hersh‘s latest in the March 5 New Yorker, “The Redirection: Is… Read moreSy Hersh, Zbiggy Brzezinski embrace conspiracy theory?
The arrogance of invoking Cuban “sovereignty” to justify this trangression when the Cubans oppose everything Washington is doing at Guantánamo Bay is staggering even by the standards of our deeply cynical age. Oh and by the way, freedom’s on the… Read moreCourt: no habeas corpus for Gitmo detainees
Francis Boyle has had some good stuff to say in recent years, but he now seems to be losing it. He is going way overboard here, but this is the stuff that the relentlessly annoying Alex Jones laps up. Yes,… Read moreFrancis Boyle: “Neo-Nazis have signed us onto WWIII”
Canada caves in—the US remains intransigent. From This Week of Kamloops, BC, Jan. 28: Maher Arar is Kamloops’ newest millionaire, but in an impassioned speech Friday, his lawyer reminded potential detractors that no amount of money will help Arar and… Read moreCanada: compensation and apology for “rendition” victim
Freedom’s on the march. From AlJazeera, Jan. 18: The US defence department has released new rules allowing terror suspects to be convicted and possibly executed on the basis of hearsay evidence and some coerced testimony. The rules, which the department… Read morePentagon terror trials to allow hearsay evidence
