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...determining factor in detention." Colonel MATTHEW BEEVERS, chief spokesman for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, explaining why juveniles are in custody there and in Guantánamo...
...this month. But that success was overshadowed by the victory in neighboring Carinthia of Jörg Haider's far-right Freedom Party. One step left, two steps right. Free at Last U.K. The U.S. released five Britons held as terror suspects for two years at the Guantánamo Bay detention center. The five were briefly detained by British antiterrorist police on their arrival back in the U.K., and then released without charge. One of the men, Jamal Udeen, said he had been subjected to beatings and ?psychological torture? in the camp. Mending Fences? MIDDLE EAST Israeli Prime Minister...
...pointed at each other, stable government can still be a matter of life and death - By Chris Thornton Britons Freed U.K. Home Secretary Jack Straw announced that five of nine British prisoners held on suspicion of terrorism for two years at the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay are to be released. Straw said it would be up to police and prosecutors to decide whether the men would face any charges in the U.K. Families Find Fault AUSTRIA Relatives of the 155 people who died in a ski train fire in 2000 reacted with anger to the acquittal...
...discriminatory, harsh and, paradoxically, ineffective at targeting homegrown terrorists, British Home Secretary David Blunkett said he was thinking of changing it - by extending the same stern measures to British citizens. Which approach makes Europe safer? The American camp at Guantánamo Bay may be the most notorious attempt to bypass legal protections for the accused in the name of fighting terrorism, but many European countries are marching smartly in that direction. "It's just a matter of degree," says Michel Tubiana, president of France's Human Rights League. While visiting India last week, Blunkett proposed a tough antiterror package...
...Caucasus told TIME. Abu-Ayat was an alleged explosives specialist who claimed to be close to Osama bin Laden and had been on the run for over a year. He was handed over to the U.S., local officials say, and has probably been transferred to Guantánamo Bay. Peace Setback ISRAEL A suicide bomb attack at a restaurant in the northern port of Haifa killed at least 19 people and injured up to 50. The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. Hours later, Israeli helicopter gunships struck two locations in the Gaza Strip. The violence...