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...feeding has long been standard policy for hunger strikes at Gitmo, which first began in 2002. The facility's top physicians have told TIME that prisoners who resist are subjected to what critics call especially forceful methods. According to medical records obtained by TIME, a 20-year-old named Yusuf al-Shehri, jailed since he was 16, was regularly strapped into a specially designed feeding chair that immobilizes the body at the legs, arms, shoulders and head. Then a plastic tube, sometimes as much as 50% bigger than the type commonly used for feeding incapacitated patients, was inserted through...
...Administration (TSA) is hitting increasingly bumpy skies. On the list are the names of people regarded as such serious threats that they should not be allowed on an airplane. Last month a United Airlines plane from London to Washington was forced to land in Maine because a barred passenger, Yusuf Islam, formerly known as the singer Cat Stevens, was onboard. Last week, in an unpublicized but potentially dangerous incident, a Royal Jordanian Airlines flight was allowed to take off from Amman with a Middle Eastern passenger whose name was on the list. Though U.S. officials discovered while the plane...
...last of 24,000 nonlocal troops departed in accordance with a peace deal prompted by the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami, which killed as many as 170,000 in Aceh; 14,500 local troops will remain. "I hope this really means peace is at hand," said G.A.M. spokesman Irwandi Yusuf...
...justify acting in this way." It's easy to get British Muslims to agree on one thing; few seem to view U.S. foreign policy with anything but despair. High profile gaffes feed a sense that the U.S. is insensitive to Muslim views, as when the plane carrying Yusuf Islam, better known as the rock star Cat Stevens, was diverted to Bangor, Maine, on its way to Washington from London in September 2004 because his name turned up on a watch list of people with suspected ties to terrorists. Just last week, Zaki Badawi, an internationally renowned British Muslim scholar...
...powerful combination of experts talking about the crisis and others talking about the pandemic as it affected their own lives,” said Yusuf W. Randera-Rees ’05, another co-director...