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...report and a separate internal Army probe lay out a series of dubious decisions that fostered the abuses, starting with President Bush's 2002 order suspending the Geneva Conventions for captured al-Qaeda and Taliban members. Rumsfeld then doubled the number of harsh strategies U.S. forces could employ in Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan, allowing measures like stripping prisoners and using dogs to terrify them. Pressured by Pentagon lawyers, the Schlesinger report said, Rumsfeld ultimately banned the worst techniques. But some slipped back into use at Abu Ghraib after those who had used them in Afghanistan and Guantanamo arrived in Iraq...
...world history. Now it runs alongside the American limo, as its Labour government does our military and political bidding. Whether from moral outrage or sour grapes, British playwrights have made attacking the Bush-U.S. worldview, and the Blair-U.K. subsidiary role in it, a top priority. ?Guantanamo,? the documentary play about British citizens detained at the U.S. base in Cuba for years without being charged, has transferred from a successful run in London to New York?s off-Broadway. In a kind of Equity trade, the West End gets Tim Robbins? play ?Embedded,? after lengthy stints...
...chatter. "They've gotten good at not only picking up possible messages between plotters but analyzing information more quickly to determine what is just radical railing and what has substantial hidden meaning," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard. Despite the continued debate over the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, CIA and FBI officials insist that some high-level detainees have proved valuable in decoding talk among operatives. The war in Afghanistan and the global dragnet have taken out of circulation about half of bin Laden's senior lieutenants. "The kinds of people who are coming in simply...
Those are just some of the questions raised by the Guantanamo ruling, and by another one concerning Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen imprisoned since his capture in Afghanistan in 2001. In that case, the court decided that while the President can deem American citizens "enemy combatants," he cannot deny them access to a lawyer and a chance to answer the charges before a "neutral decision maker." The Supreme Court left it to the Bush Administration and lower courts to devise a way for Hamdi to challenge his detention...
...only lawyers for the 14 detainees who brought suit in the Guantanamo case have been given permission to visit their clients, and it's unclear how the other detainees will find legal representation. It's also unclear where hearings will be held for the flood of petitions from all the captives now seeking their release. Officials are considering shifting detainees to the U.S. mainland, since--contrary to the hopes of the Bush Administration--the court ruled that Guantanamo falls well within the reach of U.S. law. Government officials say it is not likely that any more detainees will be sent...