Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil el-Banna are among eight British residents who remain prisoners at the U.S. Naval Air Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They are jailed because British officials rendered them into the hands of the CIA in Africa, a fact that may explain why the British government refuses to intercede on their behalf. Bisher and Jamil have been wrongfully imprisoned now for more than three years. This is the story of their betrayal by the British government and their appalling treatment at the hands of the CIA and the U.S. military. Several weeks after 11 September 2001, two MI5 agents arrived at Bisher al-Rawi's family home to recruit him to work for British Intelligence. The visit was part of an effort to recruit scores of individuals from London's Muslim community for reconnaissance work and to assist the war on terror. In particular, MI5 sought contacts with some of the Muslim clerics preaching in London. ...
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 FBI documents raise new questions about extent of surveillance |
An FBI counterterrorism unit monitored - and apparently infiltrated - a peace group in Pittsburgh that opposed the invasion of Iraq, according to internal agency documents released on Tuesday. The disclosure raised new questions about the extent to which federal authorities have been conducting surveillance operations against Americans since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Previous revelations include FBI monitoring of environmental and animal rights organizations, scrutiny of anti-war organizations by a top-secret Pentagon program and eavesdropping by the National Security Agency on domestic communications without court authorization. Federal officials insist that the efforts are legal, although the Pentagon has admitted that the top-secret TALON program mistakenly retained in its database reports on scores of anti-war protests and individuals ...
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14098211.htm
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| Prosecutors Scramble to Salvage 9/11 Case After Ruling |
Federal prosecutors yesterday implored a judge to reverse her decision banning key witnesses from testifying at the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, saying the misconduct of a government lawyer they labeled a "lone miscreant" should not imperil the case.Calling it unprecedented and "grossly punitive," prosecutors said her ruling devastates their argument that Moussaoui should be executed for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema on Tuesday barred seven witnesses and all aviation security evidence from the trial, saying the actions of Transportation Security Administration lawyer Carla J. Martin had tainted the process beyond repair....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/15/AR2006031501121_pf.html
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| Abbas says Israeli raid is an unforgivable crime |
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday condemned Israel's raid on a West Bank prison and seizure of a militant leader as a crime that would not be forgiven. Across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Palestinians went on strike over an Israeli operation that has boosted interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ahead of March 28 general elections. Israeli security forces were on high alert after Ahmed Saadat's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Islamist militant group Hamas promised retaliation. However, militants released the four remaining foreign hostages seized in response to the Israeli raid. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1731087
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| Iraq's Turn for the Worse Brings U.S. and Baathists Closer |
TIME Baghdad Bureau Chief Michael Ware reflects on the changes he sees in Iraq after a two-month furlough. I've spent the last three years immersed in this conflict, but after only two months away I'm amazed at how quickly this war has mutated into something even worse than it was before. We're now seeing a sectarian element nothing like we've previously seen. Even ordinary families, people who are in no way combatants are suddenly talking about fellow Iraqis in terms of "us" and "them." A senior Baathist commander of the insurgency told me that while they're maintaining their own focus on fighting Coalition forces and trying to stay out of the sectarian dynamic, they fear that Iraq is on course toward civil war, which they view as being fueled by Islamist extremists on both sides — the imported al-Qaeda fighters and their Iraqi acolytes on the Sunni side, and the militias of Moqtada Sadr and the Iran-backed Badr organization among the Shi'ites. And ...
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1173647,00.html
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| US urges restraint over Jericho jail raid |
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday that the United States had been in touch with Israel and the Palestinians to urge restraint after Israeli forces raided a West Bank jail this week. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday condemned Israel's raid on a Jericho jail to seize a militant leader as a crime that would not be forgiven and accused British and U.S. monitors supervising the prison of complicity with Israel."We have, in the face of the recent actions and difficulties in Jericho, been in touch with all the parties to urge calm and restraint," Rice told reporters during a trip to Australia.Across the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Palestinians went on strike over an Israeli military operation that has boosted the standings of interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ahead of March 28 general elections....
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