Word: guant
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...Monday afternoon, a military flight touched down at an airbase on the outskirts of London. A frail man disembarked for an undisclosed location. This was the quiet homecoming of Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian refugee and British resident, who has finally been released after more than four years in Guantánamo Bay. "I have been through an experience that I never thought to encounter in my darkest nightmares," said Mohamed in a statement, read out by his British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith at a hastily arranged press conference. (See pictures from inside Guantánamo...
...fragile to face press and public. Indeed, he has always been the absence at the heart of his own story, a complex swirl of accusations and counter-claims. Arrested in Pakistan in 2002, Mohamed was allegedly subject to rendition to Morocco and Afghanistan, before ending up in Guantánamo. U.S. officials said he had trained at terror camps and planned a dirty bomb campaign. Last May the Pentagon formally charged Mohamed with conspiring to commit terrorism and war crimes. The charges were dropped five months later, but not before Mohamed's defense team used the British courts...
...core. It was a high drama game of cat and mouse: The terrorists would act and the state would react with laws that many Germans felt curbed civil liberties, helping lift the Baader-Meinhof members to mythical status. It's a uniquely German story, but in the age of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, many of the themes also resonate with American audiences. "Eichinger has demonstrated that it is possible to treat stories that are inherently German in film in a way that they are interesting for people in other countries," says Alfred Hürmer, president...
...promise to "sincerely" listen to Europe, he is likely to hear a cacophony of confusion. For Europe - be it the European Union or the European members of NATO - has no clear consensus on strategic priorities or how they should be pursued. That applies to challenges from Afghanistan and Guantánamo to Iran and Russia. The Obama Administration may want to cast aside the hawkish unilateralism of the Bush era and its divide-and-rule methods that so jarred European sensitivities. But as the new President will quickly find, Europe is quite capable of dividing itself without outside help...
...something we're going to be able to do overnight," Barack Obama said as he sent his Middle East envoy, George Mitchell, off to the region. Or was it when he was talking about closing Guantánamo? Or, perhaps, when he was discussing the impact of his stimulus package on the cratering American economy? Actually, the President used a version of the line multiple times during his first week in office - a week that, rather than offering the catharsis of a bright new American morning, summoned the groaning image of a supertanker attempting a U-turn in a tiny...