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...most pressing issues facing the world? It's easy to dismiss Europe's current, curdled view of things American as something that will change over time. After all, it has done so before. Sure, the argument goes, the Bush Administration has alienated Europe - over Iraq and Guantánamo and global warming, to name but three salient issues - but so did Dwight Eisenhower when he pulled the plug on the British-French-Israeli invasion of Suez, Lyndon Johnson with the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan when he deployed Pershing and cruise missiles despite Continent-wide protests. So maybe if we just...
...work ... the dark side" in order to destroy Osama bin Laden's network. Just what the dark side could mean became clearer last month when George Bush suddenly announced that 14 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists had been shipped from mysterious overseas locations to the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was the first White House confirmation of a secret CIA-operated network of overseas prisons, places where unorthodox methods of interrogation were not unknown. "Were it not for this program," Bush said, referring to the secret prisons and the things done there, "al-Qaeda and its allies...
...drawing board. "The Supreme Court has made clear on three recent occasions that those whom the White House labels enemy combatants are entitled to challenge their detention before a federal judge," says Eric Freedman, a law professor at Hofstra University who is a legal consultant to Guantánamo detainees. "This new law was passed in outright defiance of those rulings...
...list of techniques with odd names like "water boarding" to match up with grainy head shots above long Arabic names. But we learned from President Bush last week that the CIA's 14 high-value detainees have been moved to a U.S. base, the Cuban outpost of Guantánamo Bay. And because they will face some kind of trial, the issue of torture moves closer to our political shore. When you look at their faces and learn more about them--which you will in the coming months--it will be for you to decide how you really feel about their...
That would have worked, even in this case of such overpowering emotions, had those on our side fighting the so-called war on terrorism not made certain tactical decisions early on. As the dusty rabble of Afghan fighters moved to the newly opened Guantánamo in early 2002 and the first al-Qaeda operative--the pint-size Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi--was picked up, debate raged inside the Administration as to what would produce the highest-quality "yield" from interrogation with the greatest speed. There was fear of a second-wave attack, after all, and U.S. intelligence was panicked...