Word: namo
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...between short-term security interests and longer run diplomatic goals.To do away with the department itself is not an option; America obviously requires an inward-looking security service. The term “Homeland Security,” however, has been so stigmatized by abuses at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and by invasive customs procedures at American ports of entry that a change in terminology would be a significant symbol of America’s desire to reconnect with the world. And history shows precedence for such a symbolic action: it is not for nothing that...
...that claim is now coming under additional scrutiny, in part because of a classified briefing that will soon be delivered to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Sources tell TIME that lawyers for one detainee currently being held at Guantnamo plan to present evidence that he was tortured and videotaped in secret CIA prisons--after his arrest...
Majid Khan, 27, a former suburban-Baltimore high school student, was seized by authorities in Pakistan. He then spent over three years in a secret overseas CIA "black site" before being transferred to Guantnamo. Also transferred was reputed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who allegedly ordered Khan to research attacks on American reservoirs and gas stations...
Khan's lawyers, armed with more than 500 pages of top-secret notes taken during recent sessions with their client at Guantnamo, will describe his interrogation to the intelligence committee. Though details of Khan's detainment are classified, his lawyers claim that he and others were tortured and videotaped, charges that Hayden and CIA special-interrogation officials deny. Hayden, however, admitted on Feb. 5 that the CIA had used waterboarding against Mohammed and two others...
...Catholic-school girl to ever be disruptive. The only thing that gives me the courage to do things-because I'm a shy person-is the idea of living with myself afterward. At the 1993 Academy Awards, when we talked about the Haitian refugees being held in Guantánamo, I could barely breathe...