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...attacks of 9/11 shifted Washington's foreign policy focus for the next three years almost entirely to the Middle East and the al-Qaeda challenge. China was an eager and willing ally against al-Qaeda, facing its own problems from Muslim separatist groups backed by al-Qaeda and the Taliban in its westernmost provinces...
...role most psychologists and psychiatrists play in these interrogations may be relatively benign. One military psychologist described for TIME the help he gave intelligence officers in Afghanistan in getting an unruly Taliban prisoner to cooperate--coaxing information from the prisoner by starting "very gently" with innocuous questions about his family history, until the prisoner "talked and talked...
Yaser Esam Hamdi November 2001 A Louisiana-born Saudi captured in Afghanistan with Taliban fighters, he was labeled an enemy combatant The Supreme Court ruled last June that Hamdi had the right to challenge his status. After talks, the government agreed to release him in Saudi Arabia if he renounced his U.S. citizenship...
John Walker Lindh November 2001 Found in Afghanistan, he was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and providing support to al-Qaeda Lindh agreed to plead guilty to aiding the Taliban and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. After Hamdi's release, lawyers for Lindh petitioned the court to give him a shorter sentence...
...enlightenment and those of religious fundamentalism will determine whether we slide back into the shadowed past when religion and the state were one. Our children are depending on us to preserve their civil liberties and prevent them from having to grow up under a Christian version of the Taliban...