Word: namo
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...foreign leader, the entire British political establishment - Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat - united last week to pressure the Prime Minister into doing exactly that. The reason: the Pentagon's announcement that two Britons held for months at Camp Delta, the U.S. military prison for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, won't be returned to Britain for trial, despite repeated requests by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. Instead, the two will soon face American military tribunals whose due-process standards are derided almost universally throughout Europe as shameful. Among the shortcomings of the tribunals, which are designed to choke...
...Chamber of Human Rights, a panel established under the Dayton peace accords, not only endorsed the verdict but issued an order barring the government from exiling the prisoners. But the men were still handed over to U.S. troops. After many months, postcards began to arrive from Guantánamo. Mustafa Idr's wife Sabiha Delic, a Bosnian, says U.S. embassy officials told her they would never reveal why they sent him to Camp Delta. "But, that is not fair," she says. "Show me that he is a terrorist, and I hate him more than anybody. I would not want such...
AFGHANISTAN Movement on the Diplomatic Front The newest group of detainees arriving at Guantánamo Bay knew one thing: they would not be treated as prisoners of war. But U.S. officials acknowledged that the decision to apply the Geneva Conventions to Taliban fighters, but not al-Qaeda members, would not materially affect their circumstances. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the step was rather intended as a "precedent for the future," implying it might help protect captured U.S. soldiers. In Afghanistan, the U.S. renewed missile strikes on suspected al-Qaeda targets while heavy snow left thousands of villages without access...
...don’t think [torture] takes place in Guantánamo,” he says, “but I do think it takes place in the back rooms of police stations to get confessions. It might take place on the field in Afghanistan. It would take place in the ticking bomb scenario...
UNITED STATES What's Going on Inside Camp X-Ray? As international criticism intensified over U.S. treatment of alleged al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters flown to the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross arrived there. The four delegates - including a doctor - were to interview the 110 men regarding their capture, detention and transfer to what the U.S. calls Camp X-Ray. The Pentagon refers to the detainees as "unlawful combatants" - not prisoners of war entitled to the legal protections of the Geneva Conventions. Amid speculation that the Philippines...