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...King’s message to Asian Americans. “Injustice and inequality affect everyone,” she said, citing the large gap between the rich and poor in her community. “We must unify what is a fragmented Asian American community.” Khalid M. Yasin ’07, president of the Harvard Islamic Society, said the fight for civil rights is not over, especially for Muslim Americans. But Tulita M. Papke ’06 said she thought that the ceremony may have focused too much on King’s political...
...then the President went on. ?The short-term objective is to use our intelligence and our allies to hunt these people down.? He noted the victories, the capture of Al Qaeda leaders like Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Muhammed. ?One of the lessons of September the 11th is, when you see a threat out there, you can't assume that it's not going to come to our shore anymore...
...Eastern Europe and elsewhere, where high-level al-Qaeda operatives were kept incommunicado and under stress in conditions well below even Motel 6 standards. Which followed reports of various "coercive interrogation" techniques (most notoriously, water boarding, or mock drowning) used to get information out of the likes of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of the 9/11 attacks...
...think we caught Jose Padilla, who was sent to the U.S. to explode a dirty bomb and spread radiation throughout an American city? He was sent by a couple of captured al-Qaeda big shots, Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheik Mohammed, whom we interrogated using techniques that Senators have ostentatiously decried and that sparked the McCain amendment. You connect the dots. And then there were the two attacks thwarted by the NSA eavesdropping: a plot to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge and a plot to bomb pubs and train stations in Britain. Historians will have to tell you about...
...agreed to back an amendment--sponsored by Arizona Senator John McCain and, until recently, vehemently opposed by the White House--that would ban the torture of prisoners held by the U.S. anywhere in the world. But CIA spooks who interrogate terrorist suspects, such as alleged Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, may not need to don kid gloves just yet. U.S. officials conceded to TIME that the White House and McCain, a former Navy POW in Vietnam, made certain the amendment imposes no new penalties for any CIA operatives who violate the ban. "The McCain legislation does not create...