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...value of global flows of foreign direct investment grew by a remarkable 29% in 2005. Yet a quick look around the planet might lead to the impression that globalization is in crisis. Ahead of Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Washington next month, U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told China that it must shape up on a host of issues if it is to continue to benefit from its trade with America. (See story.) Last week, indigenous people in Ecuador protested against a proposed free-trade agreement with the U.S. that they thought would deliver their economy and culture...
...size of the trade deficit in 1985, when the U.S. took the drastic step of devaluing the dollar?and the rate at which the gap is expanding is accelerating. China trade alone accounts for more than one-fourth of the deficit. That's why U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has bluntly warned Beijing that something has to give. "China's failure to address economic frictions will have consequences," he said in a speech last week. "Without concrete results, the Administration, and the American people, may be forced to reassess our bilateral economic relationship...
Meanwhile, Gutierrez, a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York City--based nonprofit organization that al-Qahtani's father approached last year for help, has challenged his detention in federal court in Washington on the grounds that it is illegal. According to Gutierrez, al-Qahtani insists that he is innocent and that he made many false statements to appease his interrogators. She says he told her he had informed interrogators of his false declarations, a contention supported in part by his interrogation...
...for Detainee 063, according to his lawyer, he is a broken man. In her first meetings with al-Qahtani, says Gutierrez, his mind wandered, and he engaged in rambling monologues. She found him fearful and at times disoriented. Her descriptions called to mind reports by FBI agents who said al-Qahtani, upon arriving at Guantánamo in 2002, resisted interrogation and so was subjected to intimidation by a military dog and "intense isolation over three months" that led to "behavior consistent with extreme psychological trauma (talking to non-existent people, reporting hearing voices, crouching in a cell covered with...
When al-Qahtani still didn't break, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally authorized a series of harsh interrogation techniques for him. Concern about the legality of some of those methods prompted the Pentagon to outlaw their use in January 2003, barely a month after Rumsfeld authorized them. Gutierrez says al-Qahtani "painfully described how he could not endure the months of isolation, torture and abuse, during which he was nearly killed, before making false statements to please his interrogators." As documented in the interrogation log, at one point al-Qahtani became seriously dehydrated because of his refusal to drink...