2008 ‘deadliest’ year for Palestinians

On 26 April, 2009, in Current events, by joe

The torture trail starts and ends in the White House.

The big open question is whether we have an attorney general who enforces the law, or a Democratic version of Alberto Gonzales. That will become apparent soon enough.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22491.htm

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Torture?
It Probably Killed More Americans Than 9/11

By Patrick Cockburn

A US major reveals the inside story of military interrogation in Iraq.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22497.htm

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Of Tea Parties and Teleprompters

by David Michael Green

What we’re seeing, is a political movement that is utterly bankrupt, literally and figuratively, and is desperately searching for any sort of remotely plausible line of attack, but only managing to make itself look absurd in the process, at least outside of Appalachia.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22492.htm

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What is the Difference Between Zionism and Racism?

Video

BBC reporter for Newsnight, Jeremy Paxman grills the UK Ambassador.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22495.htm

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2008 ‘deadliest’ year for Palestinians: rights group:

More than 1,000 Palestinians were killed in 2008 in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, making it the deadliest year since Israel was founded in 1948, a Palestinian rights group said on Saturday.
http://snipurl.com/gq8se

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Jordan’s King Abdullah: Israel must choose integration or isolation:

“Events are already testing U.S. credibility. These include the Israeli voice for turning back the clock on negotiations,” he added.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080913.html

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Hamas leader to address British parliament:

Khaled Mashaal is set to address a meeting of MPs and peers in the British Parliament via a video link from Damascus on Wednesday.
http://snipurl.com/gq8t6

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Hezbollah win in Lebanon poll would be big upset: -

With quiet campaigning and moderate talk, Hezbollah is building its strength for Lebanon’s June 7 parliamentary elections _ and the militant Shiite Muslim group and its allies stand a good chance of winning.
http://snipurl.com/gq8w6

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Torture Tape Implicates UAE Royal Sheikh:

A video tape smuggled out of the United Arab Emirates shows a member of the country’s royal family mercilessly torturing a man with whips, electric cattle prods and wooden planks with protruding nails.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=7402099

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Dozens of CIA “Ghost Prisoners” Missing: :

At least three dozen detainees who were held in the CIA’s secret prisons overseas appear to be missing – and efforts by human rights organisations to track their whereabouts have been unsuccessful.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46629

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UK High Court demands U.S. torture documents:

The chief justice of the British High Court on Wednesday gave the British government one week to obtain the U.S. release of classified information about the alleged torture of a British resident who’d been detained at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba .
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090422/wl_mcclatchy/3218126

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US Must Prosecute Bush Torture Memo Lawyers: UN Envoy:

The U.S. is obligated by a United Nations convention to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who allegedly drafted policies that approved the use of harsh interrogation tactics against terrorism suspects, the U.N.’s top anti-torture envoy said Friday.
http://snipurl.com/gq95w

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US lawmakers vow public probe into torture:

Representative Jan Schakowsky, Democrat of Illinois on Friday announced a decision to lobby for an open inquiry by the House Intelligence Committee.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92501&sectionid=3510203

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Attorney General Holder Says He Will “Follow The Law” And Investigate Torture:

Attorney General Eric Holder said today that the Justice Department will “follow the law wherever it takes us” in investigating the U.S. officials behind the CIA torture policies under the Bush administration
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/39439prs20090422.html?s_src=RSS

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Court Of Appeals Rules Detainees Are Not “Persons” :

Court Agrees with Obama Administration that Detainees Still Have No Constitutional Right Not to Be Tortured
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Appeals_court_rules_Gitmo_detainees_are_0424.html

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Sweden spied on CIA ‘terror flights’: report:

“The assignment to carry out this operation came from the defence ministry to the defence forces,” according to an Expressen source who confirmed that the Swedish government harboured suspicions that the CIA was using so-called rendition flights to force people out of the USA against their will.
http://www.thelocal.se/19050/20090424/

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U.S. Soldier Who Killed Herself–After Refusing to Take Part in Torture:

With each new revelation on U.S. torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Gitmo, I am reminded of the chilling story of Alyssa Peterson.
http://snipurl.com/gq9dx