news.bbc.co.uk - 10/7/2009
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US Attorney-General John Ashcroft says he will ask Congress for stronger anti-terrorism laws, including wider phone-tapping powers Pakistan is sending a delegation to Afghanistan to persuade the Taleban to hand over Osama Bin Laden, the Saudi-born dissident who has been their guest since 1996 Mr ...
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Losing the Moral High Ground
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... ." This out-of-court judgment was a de facto life sentence since no one expected that a "global war on terror" fought in as many as 60 nations would be settled any time soon. For six Guantánamo inmates, death has already come — five by suicide and one from cancer. Thousands of billable hours of painstaking work later, legal activists have ascertained the names and nationalities of all of the men detained at Guantánamo and filed habeas corpus writs and other legal challenges to grant them access to the U.S. courts. Multiple ...
Frida Berrigan: Losing the Moral High Ground
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... ." This out-of-court judgment was a de facto life sentence since no one expected that a "global war on terror" fought in as many as 60 nations would be settled any time soon. For six Guantánamo inmates, death has already come — five by suicide and one from cancer. ...
Losing the Moral High Ground
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... ." This out-of-court judgment was a de facto life sentence since no one expected that a "global war on terror" fought in as many as 60 nations would be settled any time soon. For six Guantánamo inmates, death has already come — five by suicide and one from cancer. Thousands of billable hours of painstaking work later, legal activists have ascertained the names and nationalities of all of the men detained at Guantánamo and filed habeas corpus writs and other legal challenges to grant them access to the U.S. courts. Multiple ...
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The other side of the mountain (part one)
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Talking point: al-Qaeda is in Pakistan . And we spend $30 in Afghanistan for every dollar in Pakistan.
That's from Fareed Zakaria's Washington Post piece , but I've heard it parroted on the TeeVee News several times today - along with the statement - delivered straight-faced - that ...
The real thing
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OK, be clear…
upper-left.blogspot.com 9/4/2009 — …but you'll have to try again, because clarity seems to have eluded you this time. Adam Bink writes at Open Left… Let me be clear: I'm for having the necessary amount of troops on the ground to win the war, within reason. My problem is with the ...
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