cbc.ca - 1/22/2009
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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 sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin, ...
whitehouse.gov - 1/20/2009
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Afghanistan: Obama and Biden will refocus American resources
on the greatest threat to our security -- the...
resurgence of al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They will increase our troop levels in Afghanistan, press our allies in NATO ...
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Foreign Policy
reuters.com - 1/29/2009
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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 ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/18/2009
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KABUL, Afghanistan U.S. Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton
's use of the term "narco state" to describe...
Afghanistan in a recent Senate testimony has caught the attention of her Afghan counterpart. Foreign Ministry Rangin Dadfar Spanta said ...
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Afghan foreign minister unhappy with Clinton - Yahoo! News
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Andy Worthington: Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The question of dubious confessions arose when a female agent, identified only as "Interrogator 11," who had interrogated Khadr at Guantánamo, testified that he had admitted throwing the grenade that killed Sgt. Speer. According to the agent, the incident took place after three other men had been killed and Khadr "cowered under a bush as the soldiers moved in," as a CBC News report explained. "He pulled the pin and just chucked it over his shoulder," the agent said. "He had never thrown one before, so he just threw it over his shoulder, like he had seen in the movies." ...
Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right to Halt the Guantanamo Trials
Antiwar.com Original —
... incriminating statements through coercion, or as an attempt to avoid punishment or gain favors from his interrogators. The question of dubious confessions arose when a female agent, identified only as "Interrogator 11," who had interrogated Khadr at Guantánamo, testified that he had admitted throwing the grenade that killed Sgt. Speer. According to the agent, the incident took place after three other men had been killed and Khadr "cowered under a bush as the soldiers moved in," as a CBC News report explained . "He pulled the pin and just chucked it over his shoulder," ...
Torture²
Open Left - Front Page —
... In prosecution testimony on Monday, FBI Special Agent Robert Fuller claimed that during interrogations of Khadr in Afghanistan back in October 2002, Khadr claimed to know Arar, identified him by name from a photograph and claimed he had seen him in Al Qaeda safe houses in Afghanistan during September-October of 2001. This appeared to re-implicate Arar and vindicate at least his detention by US authorities. Then came Tuesday, and the cross-examination of Fuller. ...
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windsofchange.net 1/15/2009 — I saw this the other day, and waited for it to get picked up and commented on. It wasn't, so I'll raise it here.
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thestar.com 1/22/2009 — THE KHADR FILE July 27, 2002 Omar Khadr, 15, is shot three times in a battle with American troops in Afghanistan. Sept. 16, 2004 The U.S. Department of Defence releases unclassified documents that claim Khadr has admitted to being a "terrorist."April ...
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washingtonindependent.com 1/12/2009 — Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the ...
Thoughts on Afghanistan
corner.nationalreview.com 1/30/2009 — The Democrats, and President Obama in particular, have backed themselves into a corner in Afghanistan. For several years the Afghan effort served as the rhetorical counterpoint to the war in Iraq; since they did not want to support "Bush's War," it ...
17k More Troops To Get Orders To Afghanistan
blogs.abcnews.com 1/28/2009 — ABC's Luis E. Martinez reports: When President Obama visits the Pentagon tomorrow he will be presented with plans that by week's end could see as many as 17,000 additional US troops receiving their deployment orders for Afghanistan. Testifying on ...
Pakistan welcomes appointment of U.S. envoy —
Reuters: Politics 1/23/2009
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan welcomed on Friday the appointment of Richard Holbrooke as a special U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan while analysts said he would have to confront Pakistan-India tension if his aim was regional peace.
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