Est. Oct. 3, 2010
Source: Reuters. Lawyers for five alleged conspirators who attacked America on September 11 and say they were tortured in secret CIA prisons have asked a U.S. military judge to order that the prisons be preserved as evidence.
Source: Reuters. A U.S. appeals court on Friday overturned the Guantanamo war crimes conviction of an al Qaeda videographer, a ruling likely to lead to dismissal of conspiracy charges in the pending trial of five men accused of plotting the September 11 attacks.
Source: Oregon Live. Mohamud’s defense team pointed out that the FBI’s attempt to record that key conversation failed, when its audio recorder malfunctioned, and that Chan wrote up an electronic report of that conversation and destroyed his original notes.
Source: WRMEA. In this decade during which our civil liberties have steadily eroded, Americans have seen their government claim, under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the right to hold citizens without charges indefinitely, and we’ve seen the president of the United States claim the right to assassinate American citizens anywhere in the world without due process by using a presidential “kill list.” Now the government can convict any American of terrorism crimes he or she was not even aware of committing—based on information provided by an “anonymous expert” who can be neither challenged nor confronted.
Source: Daily Mail.
-First shocking interview with Mahdi Hashi from his New York cell
-Told how he was made to watch a Swedish detainee being beaten
-He was stripped and blindfolded, and told he would be sexually abused
-Was forced to sign a confession agreeing to waive his right to silence
Source: Ceasefire. A key demand of the Algerian hostage takers is the release of a Pakistani mother-of-three currently serving an 86-year sentence in a US prison. So why has her case gone virtually unmentioned in the mainstream media? Journalist Yvonne Ridley, herself a former hostage, reports.
Source: Washington Post. Abdel Rahman, the 74-year-old spiritual leader of Gamaa Islamiya, or the Islamic Group, has been a revered figure in Islamist extremist circles since the early 1980s, when he was charged on suspicion of involvement in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat. He was later acquitted. But it was only after the fall of Hosni Mubarak — who kept many Islamists imprisoned or under close surveillance during his nearly 30 years as Egypt’s president — that calls for Abdel Rahman’s release have become so public and persistent.
Source: Miami Herald. A federal judge threw out the U.S. government’s case charging that a Margate imam aided the Pakistani Taliban in a plot with his father, a Miami imam. But the trial continues against the father.
Source: Chicago Tribune. Federal prosecutors are seeking a sentence of 30 years in prison for a Chicago businessman who supported a Pakistani terrorist group and its aborted plot to attack a Danish newspaper for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Source: NYT. Military prosecutors preparing to try Pfc. Bradley Manning said on Wednesday that they would introduce evidence that Osama bin Laden requested and received from a Qaeda member some of the State Department cables and military reports that Private Manning is accused of passing to WikiLeaks.
