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Which may help explain why the White House so excitedly trumpeted Bush's announcement last week that the Administration was transferring 14 high-profile al-Qaeda terrorists to the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Bush had to acknowledge that the 14 had been held in secret CIA facilities in undisclosed locations, a fact that had been reported and had generated international controversy. But the value for the Administration in bringing these men into the light was to remind Americans of the very real enemies they face...
President Bush's announcement that 13 top al-Qaeda suspects are to be moved to Guantanamo Bay to face military tribunals, and his call for Congress to prioritize legislation to beef up the legal foundation of those tribunals, is aimed at bolstering the legal basis of U.S. detainee policy. But the President's timing - some two years after the Supreme Court first challenged the legal basis for the practices at Guantanamo, and on the eve of an election season in which his own party is expected to suffer losses at the polls, partly because of the situation in Iraq - will...
...detention and interrogation program, giving a peek at how it has operated and why it has been invaluable. The second document (both can be found on the DNI's website is a compilation of the bios of the 14 CIA captives being sent to the U.S.'s Guantanamo Bay detention facility to await trial by military tribunal - and a possible execution if convicted. Though much biographical information about the terrorists in question has been previously disclosed, today's document musters it all in one place in the CIA's official version of history...
...Walid Bin 'Attash, for instance, "is the scion of a prominent terrorist family," whose father was close to Osama bin Laden. Several of his brothers trained and fought in Afghanistan in the 1990s, the bio notes; two of them were killed, and another brother has been detained at Guantanamo Bay since 2004. Bin Laden "reportedly selected" Bin 'Attash, who lost a leg in a 1997 battlefield accident in Afghanistan, to be a 9/11 hijacker. But ultimately Bin 'Attash was limited to helping pick other hijackers, after he was arrested and briefly detained in Yemen in 2001, the bio says...
...prophet. Democracy, justice and freedom are found on every page of his 50 novels. Mahfouz would have been angered by his funeral procession, which prevented his true public from paying its last respects as he had wished. Behind him walked a dictatorship's politicians, while security forces kept at bay tens of thousands of Egypt's poor. They loved him and traveled great distances in the hope of taking a last look at a man who had written of the misery of their lives and who had defended with his art, as no one else had ever done, their rights...