truthdig.com - 23 days ago
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By Amy Goodman “Extraordinary rendition” is White House-speak for kidnapping. Just ask Maher Arar. He’s a Canadian citizen who was “rendered” by the U.S. to Syria, where he was tortured for almost a year.
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nytimes.com - 24 days ago
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A federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on
Monday that Maher Arar , a Canadian man who...
claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because Congress has not authorized such suits. The case has ...
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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Rendition Suit by Maher Arar
ccrjustice.org - 25 days ago
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ccrjustice.org —
November 2, 2009, New York – Today, a
federal Court of Appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s...
case against U.S. officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured and interrogated for a year. Arar is represented by the Center ...
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No Justice for Canadian Rendition Victim Maher Arar
outsidethebeltway.com - 23 days ago
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outsidethebeltway.com —
There’s a fascinating article in Spiegel Online (in
English) on “Operation Orchard”, the operation in September 2007...
in Syria in which the Israeli air force destroyed what many have termed a “nuclear plant”, what the ...
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Destruction of a What?
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Digest for November 3rd through November 4th
The Republic of T. —
Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for November 3rd through November 4th:
Op-Ed Contributor: A Job Too Big for One Man –
Tonight’s big lesson –
What Do You Mean "We" White Man?<br><br>by digby<br><br>This is pretty –
The Tortured Logic Continues –
RJ Eskow: Base to Obama: Come In, Please –
The Swine Flu Screw-up –
Applying a single standard – ...
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Is the U.S. About to Dump Syria?
michaeltotten.com 9/20/2009 — Hussain Abdul-Hussain reports in Kuwait's Arabic-language daily Al Rai that the Obama administration has quietly decided not to return an ambassador to Syria as promised. "He quotes unnamed officials":http://alraimedia.com/Alrai/Article.aspx?id=155949 ...
Is the Obama Administration Fed Up with Syria?
beirut2bayside.blogspot.com 9/15/2009 — Hussain Abdul-Hussain has a very interesting report in the Kuwaiti Al-Rai today (Arabic): As a result of its frustration with Assad's negative behavior, Abdul-Hussain writes, the Obama administration has decided against sending its ambassador back to ...
Pelosi to Syria.
thinkprogress.org 8/18/2009 — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is set to visit Syria, a country President Bush has shunned, “ despite being asked by the administration not to go .” “In our view, it is not the right time to have these sort of high-profile visitors to Syria,” State ...
Is the U.S. About to Dump Syria?
commentarymagazine.com 9/21/2009 — Hussain Abdul-Hussain reports in Kuwait’s Arabic-language daily Al Rai that the Obama administration has quietly decided not to return an ambassador to Syria as promised. He quotes unnamed officials who say president Bashar Assad is blackmailing ...
Full Appeals Court Rejects Suit in Rendition Case
cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com 25 days ago — The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that Maher Arar, a Canadian man who claimed that American officials sent him to Syria in 2002 to be tortured, cannot sue for damages because Congress has not authorized such suits.
Does our president have a moral compass?
powerlineblog.com 9/7/2009 — Barry Rubin describes the latest example of the Obama administration's hard-wired inability to take the side of an ally if it means offending a bloodthirsty enemy. In this instance the parties are Iraq, for whose stability we have sacrificed ...
German Ship Caught Smuggling Iranian Arms to Hezbollah & Syria
gatewaypundit.blogspot.com 10/13/2009 — So much for those new relations with Syria. The Obama Administration restored the ambassador to Syria this year after a four year absence marking an acceleration of Washington's engagement with the brutal regime. ...Guess it didn't work out so well. ...
The West is tough terrain for Democrats —
CNN Political Ticker 23 days ago
Denver, Colorado (CNN) – The western United States, with its independent streak and growing population, is the terrain both political parties are hoping to mine for electoral gains in the coming years.
With Denver hosting the 2008 ...
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