Word: guant
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...kill Jews back in Australia and crash an airplane into a building. Abbasi's resentful and deeply unflattering account of his Australian comrade, David Hicks, is contained in a 148-page memoir he wrote for anti-terrorism investigators while incarcerated in the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba...
...attack by the new generation of Islamic terrorists, but it cannot avoid the universal struggle to balance civil liberties with security. Allegations surfaced recently, for instance, that the former Social Democratic government of Gerhard Schröder deliberately left German-born Turkish national Murat Kurnaz in U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay despite the absence of evidence against him. Current Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was Schröder's chief of staff at the time, says he acted appropriately with the knowledge available to him then...
...bypassed the courts and began to secretly track telephone, e-mail and banking records. The separation of church and state no longer exists because politicians have imposed their beliefs on the public. The right to a fair trial exists only as long as we are not secretly flown to Guantánamo Bay or a secret prison. I can no longer defend my country's policies. I hope the world understands that the Republicans are not representative of all the American people. Christine Buxton Geneva Equal Time I had to laugh at time's asking News Corp. chairman...
...commemorated the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the U.S. government continued to hold several hundred people in an illegal prison at Guantánamo Bay. Don't Americans realize the damage they inflict on their own image, democracy and ultimately Western civilization? If we ever come to a "clash of civilizations," as some historians have suggested is possible, or to the religious war imagined by others, we will owe that exclusively to the hypocrisy and criminal behavior of the U.S. government. Roberto Hollnagel São Paulo...
...Ferguson's fast-forward history of 9/11 from the vantage point of 2036, neglected to mention that the Iraq invasion was illegal and that, as a consequence, George W. Bush is a war criminal. Ferguson also left out Abu Ghraib, the killings at Haditha and the concentration camp at Guantánamo Bay. When people look back on this decade, they will see that Bush and the neoconservatives destroyed the ability of the U.S. to champion human rights, freedom and democracy and made it morally bankrupt. John Devere-Loots Kloof, South Africa...