jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com - 1/29/2009
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I'm sure if they make a healthy contribution (properly laundered, of course) to Obama 2012, anything's negotiable.CUBA'S Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque has called for the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay to be returned to Cuba and said he will invite the UN special investigator on torture to ...
reuters.com - 1/29/2009
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reuters.com —
BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
on Thursday urged U.S. President Barack Obama to return...
the military base of Guantanamo to Cuba after applauding his decision to close the prison for terrorism suspects there. The anti-U.S. ...
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Chavez tells Obama to give Guantanamo back to ...
cbc.ca - 1/22/2009
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cbc.ca —
Omar Khadr pointed out Canadian Maher Arar, who
was cleared of any links to terrorism by a...
public inquiry in 2006, as someone he saw at al-Qaeda safe houses and possibly training camps in Afghanistan, an FBI agent has testified. In this photo of a ...
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Khadr saw Arar at al-Qaeda sites in Afghanistan: FBI agent
google.com - 1/29/2009
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google.com —
23 hours ago HAVANA (AP) Cuban Foreign Minister
Felipe Perez on Wednesday demanded that the U.S. return...
the Guantanamo naval base to Cuba, though he welcomed President Barack Obama's order to close the detention center there. "We have always said ...
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The Associated Press: Cuba: closing Gitmo prison ...
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ACLU: Supermax Prison Too Harsh for Battlefield Detainees [Dan Collins]
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protein wisdom Return to Protein Wisdom homepage It’s Not Me; It’s You [Dan Collins] | Home | January 28, 2009 ACLU: Supermax Prison Too Harsh for Battlefield Detainees [Dan Collins] Just as we predicted, it constitutes another form of torture . John Stephenson’s got the story at STACLU . Meanwhile, Cuba would like very much to have Guantanamo back , now that Jimmy Carter’s back in office. Posted by Dan Collins @ 7:37 pm | Trackback No Comments ::: Post a comment No comments yet. RSS feed for comments on ...
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