Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 243
04.02.2006 Antiwar 25 No one has ever been charged with any misconduct at Guantanamo. 7 low ranking
soldiers were later convicted at Abu Ghraib. No commissioned officers have yet to be
charged in that case. Neither have any of the military medical personnel that,
according to a report in both the Jan. 2005 issue of NEJM and the Aug. 2005 issue of
Lancet, collaborated with interrogators during the abuse and torture and in some
cases, actually facilitated it
04.02.2006 Guardian 25 The gov. is considering weakening laws designed to capture alleged war crim-inals
and torturers who enter Britain, after pressure from the Israeli gov.
09.02.2006 NY Times 25 Pentagon documents indicated that the military had determined that only 45%
of the detainees had committed some hostile act against the US or its allies
and that only 8% were fighters for Al Qaeda
12.02.2006 Uruknet 25 House Committee Kills Torture Inquiries - Opening the hearing, Committee
Chair Henry Hyde ... cited the Bush adm.‘s repeated insistence that the US
does not condone torture as evidence that the resolutions were unnecessary
12.02.2006 Times 25 The US is helping Morocco to build a new interrogation and detention facility
for Al-Qaeda suspects near its capital, Rabat
12.02.2006 Times 25 The CIA‘s top counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he
opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending
them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as
―water boarding‖, intelligence sources have claimed
13.02.2006 Telegraph 25 A UN inquiry has called for the immediate closure of Guantanamo .. and the
prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are
accused of torturing detainees
16.02.2006 BAZ 25 Nach den UNO- Menschenrechtsexperten fordert auch UNO-Generalsekretär
Kofi Annan die Schliessung [von Guantánamo] ... Tony Blair sei {angeblich}
ebenfalls für die Schliessung
17.02.2006 Independant 25 3 British residents held in Guantanamo have won a legal battle which could
lead to the [UK] Government demanding that they are freed by the US ... the
US' view of what constitutes torture "is not the same as ours and doesn't
appear to coincide with that of most civilised countries"
17.02.2006 X 25 Reporters Without Borders has appealed to the Swiss justice and defence
ministers to drop complaints against three journalists who revealed the
existence of secret CIA prisons in Europe
17.02.2006 J_lem Post 25 Citing national security concerns, a US federal judge tossed out a civil rights
lawsuit brought by a Canadian man who claimed US counterterrorism officials
deported him so he could be tortured in Syria
20.02.2006 Indymedia 25 Boy, 12, recounts days as terror inmate Youngest captive spent 17 months at
Guantanamo ... He was just 10 years old when [captured] ... On Jan. 29
[2004 he was] released with two other young detainees
22.02.2006 BAZ 25 Bei seinen Ermittlungen in der Affäre um angebliche CIA-Geheimgefängnisse
und Gefangenenflüge kommt der Europarat schleppend voran. 5 der 46
Mitgliedsländer [Belgien, Italien haben] nicht fristgerecht geantwortet
23.02.2006 BAZ 25 Der gewaltsame Tod von Gefangenen in US-Gewahrsam im Irak oder in
Afghanistan ... In nur 12 von 34 Todesfällen sei es bislang zu einer {symbolische}
Bestrafung gekommen ... in fast der Hälfte von 98 .. Todesfällen
wurde nie eine Todesursache bekannt gegeben
23.02.2006 Berlingske 25 Udenrigsminister kender ikke til, at danske embedsmænd har hjulpet med til
CIA's fangetransporter. Oppositionen kritiserer ham for ikke at have
undersøgt det
23.02.2006 Telepolis 25 Deutsche Geheimdienst-Agenten arbeiten offenbar enger mit US-Stellen
zusammen, als man in Berlin zugeben möchte ... Bei einer Gegenüberstellung
will [al-Masri] den deutschen [BKA-]Beamten wiedererkannt haben,
der ihn während seiner Haft in Kabul mehrfach verhört hatte
23.02.2006 NY Times 25 Mr. Masri told the police that he was "90%" certain that a senior German
police official was the interrogator who had visited him three times inside the
prison in Kabul but had identified himself only as "Sam"
27.02.2006 Telegraph 25 An American-run prison for terrorist suspects in Afghanistan .. in legal limbo
... Bagram now houses ~500 detainees ... Conditions at Bagram have
improved since the violent deaths of two inmates in late 2002 but they remain
harsher than at Guantanamo
01.03.2006 Arab News 25 US Agrees to Pay 9/11 Detainee $300,000 in Damages - I bet the Mossad
agents in that white van who were arrested on 9-11 are calling their lawyers