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...part because of a classified briefing that will soon be delivered to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Sources tell TIME that lawyers for one detainee currently being held at Guantánamo plan to present evidence that he was tortured and videotaped in secret CIA prisons--after his arrest...
...sees only a military solution. He used the rebel attack as a pretext to arrest the leaders of Chad's civil opposition. They are alive - for now. On Feb. 4, Paris won the U.N. Security Council's authorization to send weapons to Chad. France is fast becoming a belligerent in Chad's war, and an accomplice to a crackdown on the faint hope of a democratic future...
...unspecified "systematic torture" when he was held in secret CIA prisons. The lawyers, from the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based legal non-profit with a long record of advocacy for prisoners at Guantanamo, have asserted in court filings that the videotaping occurred after their client's arrest...
...Vries showed chief Aruban prosecutor Hans Mos some of the video material beforehand. Apparently acting on these leads, Mos reopened the case last Friday. So far, no arrest has been made, nor has the prosecutor's office given an official statement on the developments. Interviewed in De Vries' show, Mos deemed the taped confessions "convincing," but urged caution in taking the case to court. "This calls for additional research and that is what we are going to do," he said...
...rebounded. Some 800 guns and more than 40,000 wire snares have been turned in to COMACO, and many former poachers are now being retrained as wildlife guides. (Lewis notes that it costs a little more than $200 to retrain a poacher, but as much as $800 to catch, arrest and jail him.) Those traps are even being recycled, with a local jeweler refashioning the wire as necklaces and bracelets called Snarewear. (The jewelry isn't available in the U.S. yet, but you can make advance orders on COMACO's website.) "These are better ways of making an income [than...