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...have lost everything but their lives. Prasanna Aryaprema Panadura, Sri Lanka Torture and Terrorists In his column "where's the outrage?," about the Senate confirmation hearings on Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales [Jan. 17], Joe Klein wondered why there was no outrage over the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and elsewhere or over Gonzales' complicity in the Bush Administration decision to use severe physical interrogation techniques. A similar apathy was the response to the excesses of the Patriot Act, the question of immigrant rights, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's ineptness and arrogance, the need for affordable...
...Belgian Connection? Last March 13, just two days after bombs destroyed three commuter trains in Madrid, Spanish investigators were directed to a video recording stuffed in a trash can near Madrid's main mosque. On it, a man calling himself Abu Dujan al-Afghani, the self-styled "military spokesman for al-Qaeda in Europe ," claimed responsibility. Last week in Brussels , police arrested a Moroccan-born Belgium resident named Youssef Belhadj, 28, after receiving an arrest warrant from a Spanish judge who suspects Belhadj of being the man in the video. He hasn't been charged and has made no comment...
Khan's right-hand man, what an intelligence official calls the managing director of his operation, was Buhary Sayed Abu Tahir, 44, a Sri Lankan whom Khan first met in Dubai in the mid-'90s. Tahir idolized Khan, mimicking him in sometimes expensive ways. In homage to the boss's vintage fleet, Tahir tooled around Dubai in a luxury car. To Khan, Tahir became indispensable. He divided his time between Kuala Lumpur (his wife is Malaysian) and Dubai. Through his connections in Malaysia, Tahir arranged for centrifuge components to be manufactured at a publicly traded company called Scomi Precision Engineering...
...troops to open fire on peaceful demonstrators to blocking the publication of certain newspapers to shutting down the offices of Iraq’s trade unions and other civic groups. We have simply failed to pave the path towards a free society. Instead, we have followed the road to Abu Ghraib...
...Army Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr. was sentenced last month to 10 years in prison for his role in the outrages against human dignity inflicted on Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib. Over the course of Graner’s trial, the prison guard painted a macabre picture of superiors’ instructing their subordinates to torture prisoners in violation of international law, of “ghost detainees being held without documentation to avoid their being examined by the International Red Cross, and of Army Rules of Engagement that instructed guards to follow a frightening escalating sequence of coercive tactics...