Salim Hamdan was convicted Aug. 6 by a panel of six US military officers at Guantánamo Bay of “providing material support for terrorism,” but acquitted of “conspiracy.” The sentencing hearing is due to begin immediately. He faces a maximum term… Read moreHamdan convicted at Guantánamo
Five years ago we were told the Justice Department had a “short list” of suspects in the 2001 anthrax attacks, with indications of a sinister intersection of high-level military research and the neo-Nazi ultra-right. Now we learn the name of… Read moreAnthrax suspect takes his secrets with him?
On July 14 former US Congress member James “Jim” Courter (R-NJ, 1979-1991) resigned from the presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), in which he was one of 20 national finance co-chairpeople. The resignation followed a July 9 decision by… Read moreFCC probe of Haiti telcom deal hits McCain backer
The 4th Circuit US Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA, issued a 5-4 ruling July 15 finding that if the government’s allegations against Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri are true, the president is empowered by Congress to hold al-Marri in a… Read more4th Circuit upholds indefinite detention of “enemy combatants”
New York’s Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) protests that detainees are being deported to countries that practice torture. On July 2, two Algerians were transferred from Guantánamo to the custody of the Algerian government—the first Algerians transferred from Guantánamo to… Read moreGitmo deportees “disappeared” in Algeria
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who has admitted to being Osama bin Laden’s chauffeur in Afghanistan, went on trial at Guantánamo Bay July 21, in the first US war crimes trial since World War II. Hamdan pleaded not guilty to… Read moreAfghan interrogations ruled inadmissible in Gitmo tribunal
Panama’s Supreme Court has overturned a 2004 pardon of anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles and three other right-wing Cubans—Pedro Crispin Remon Hernandez, Gaspar JimĂ©nez Escobedo, and Guillermo Novo Sampoll—charged with plotting to kill Fidel Castro at the 2000 Ibero-American summit…. Read morePanama expunges Posada pardon
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has released declassified portions of a June 20 decision that a Combatant Status Review Tribunal had improperly designated a Chinese Uighur detained at Guantanamo Bay as an… Read moreUighur detainees faced Chinese torture methods at Gitmo
On June 23 the Mexican daily La Jornada reported that according to “judicial sources” the Mexican Attorney General’s Office (PGR) has information that the Miami-based Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) has maintained ties for at least three years with the… Read moreCuba: is CANF smuggling migrants?
It is pretty depressing that 29 years after Three Mile Island and 22 after Chernobyl, the nuclear industry has recouped its propaganda losses to the point that both candidates are obliged to pay lip service to the oxymoron of “safe… Read moreMcCain, Obama: both pro-nuke
From Physicians for Human Rights, June 18: Medical Evidence Supports Detainees’ Accounts of Torture in US Custody Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has published a landmark report documenting medical evidence of torture and ill-treatment inflicted on 11 men detained at… Read morePhysicians for Human Rights cite evidence of US “war crimes”
Wired reports June 19 reports from Marlborough, MA, where the US Air Force held a confab to promote its new Cyber Command, which is to go operational in 105 days. While the command’s mission is still “very much in question,”… Read moreWill Air Force Cyber Command quell or fuel conspiracy theories?
