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...prisoner flown to Syria in December 2001 was no ordinary criminal: 42-year-old Mohammad Haydr Zammar, a businessman who had immigrated to Germany and was living in Hamburg, was wanted by U.S. officials on suspicion of helping to recruit some of the 9/11 hijackers, as part of Al Qaeda's Hamburg cell. According to the report, after a U.S. request Zammar was arrested in Morocco by local police. He was questioned in Morocco by CIA officials and then flown to Damascus; the intelligence report does not specify which aircraft transferred...
...Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM) was one of 14 "high value" prisoners recently moved to the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from secret CIA prisons overseas. In announcing the transfer on Sept. 6, President Bush also promised to try some of the most important captives in military tribunals, a plan that Congress approved last month...
...video montage of some of the IOP’s most memorable moments, including a clip of Robert McNamara’s trip to the Institute during the Vietnam War. Other highlights of the IOP over the past forty years include the recent visit by former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami and past visits by President Bill Clinton and actress Barbara Streisand, according to information provided by IOP communications director Esten Perez. Kennedy’s speech was followed by an interview with Judy Woodruff, former host of CNN’s “Inside Politics.” Shaheen...
...under police protection and in hiding with his family since the newspaper Le Figaro published his op-ed piece about Islam on Sept.19. Entitled "Faced with Islamist intimidations, what should the free world do?," Redeker's article called the Koran "a book of extraordinary violence" that shows the prophet Mohammad to have been "a pitiless warlord, pillager, massacrer of Jews and polygamist." The very day the piece came out, Redeker started receiving e-mail death threats. In a letter to a friend published this week in Le Monde, Redeker wrote that one website condemning him to death included...
...those that committed crimes during the former regime brought to justice." But Saddam hasn't made a friend on the bench. Just before he was ejected Monday, Saddam got personal. Handing out one of the most insulting slurs in post-Saddam Iraq, the former dictator told Judge Mohammad he remembered his father: as an informer for his intelligence service...