Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

22.04.2006 Huffington
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What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 245
25 Of these 141 detainees among the 490 still at Guantanamo, various military
reviews have cleared 22 to be freed in their home countries and the
remaining 119 for transfer to the control of their home governments ... remain
jailed because the U.S. government has been unable to arrange for their
return to their home countries, the Pentagon said
24.04.2006 X 25 firing of the CIA officer who leaked the secret prisons story to Dana Priest... The CIA
officer, identified by the Washington Post as one Mary O. McCarthy
25.04.2006 LA Times 25 The Pentagon plans to release ~ 1/3 [141] of those held [in Gitmo] because they pose no threat
to U.S. security ... Charges are pending against about two dozen of the remaining prisoners ...
Only 10 of the roughly 490 alleged "enemy combatants" currently detained at the facility have
been charged; none has been charged with a capital offense ... About 250 detainees have been
released since the prison camps were established in 2002
26.04.2006 Guardian 25 The CIA has carried out >1,000 undeclared flights over Eur. territory since
2001, European parliament investigators said today ... incidents in which
terror suspects were handed over to US agents did not appear to be isolated
... CIA planes made numerous undeclared stopovers on European territory,
violating an international air treaty
28.04.2006 Raw Story 25 US prepares to face UN on torture as Amnesty report blasts 'war crimes' - As
of now, the US has yet to prosecute a single official, military officer or private
contractor for "torture" or "war crimes" related to its occupations of Iraq and
Afghanistan, or the "war on terror"
02.05.2006 Raw Story 25 New Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union today
reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez ordered interrogators to "go
to the outer limits" to get information from detainees. The documents also
show that senior government officials were aware of abuse in Iraq and
Afghanistan before the Abu Ghraib scandal broke
03.05.2006 BAZ 25 Kofi Annan hat eine neue Strategie zum Kampf gegen Terrorismus vorgestellt.
Darin dringt er besonders auf die Einhaltung der Menschenrechte
03.05.2006 Berlingske 25 Guantanamobasen er en svaghed for den amerikansk ledede koalition,
fastslår statsminister Fogh Rasmussen ... USA afviser Foghs kritik
09.05.2006 USA today 25 U.S. officials told a U.N. watchdog panel that it forbids all employees from
torturing detainees and has improved measures to prevent any mistreatment -
Which is why we outsource it
09.05.2006 X 25 The U.S. Army will prohibit water-boarding -- the controversial practice of submerging
a prisoner's head in water in an effort to make him talk -- when it issues its new
interrogation manual ... [this] wasn't an admission U.S. interrogators had used the
technique on detainees during the war on terrorism
10.05.2006 BAZ 25 der britische Generalstaatsanwalt Lord Goldsmith [hat] die USA wegen
Guantanamo kritisiert. Das Lager diskreditiere die amerikanische
Freiheitstradition und sollte geschlossen werden
12.05.2006 BAZ 25 Im Streit um geheime CIA-Flüge hat sich eine Delegation des
Europaparlaments frustriert über die Auskünfte der US- Regierung geäussert
... weder bestätigt noch dementiert, ob sich an Bord der CIA-Flugzeuge
mutmassliche Terroristen befunden hätten
12.05.2006 BAZ 25 USA geben dem IKRK weiterhin keinen Zutritt zu allen inhaftierten
ausländischen Terrorismus-Verdächtigen
13.05.2006 X 25 US gov. urged a judge to dismiss [Khaled El-Masri's] lawsuit that claims he
was kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured by the CIA because the US
16.05.2006 Aljazeera
Dubay
mistakenly believed he was a terror suspect
25 The Pentagon issued its most extensive list of detainees currently or formerly
held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, naming 759 prisoners
and their nationalities ... there are "~480" prisoners at [Gitmo], refusing to
give a specific number .. A total of 272 detainees have left the prison since
2002 {leaving 487 minus the ~7 dead}
19.05.2006 BAZ 25 El-Masri müsste nachweisen, dass er von der CIA verschleppt und inhaftiert
wurde ... Allerdings hielt Richter Thomas Ellis fest, dass El-Masri
Wiedergutmachung zustehe, wenn seine Vorwürfe sich als wahr
herausstellten. Diese müsse aber von der US-Regierung geleistet werden
und könne nicht auf dem Gerichtsweg geltend gemacht werden
19.05.2006 Times 25 A powerful UN panel today made the strongest call yet on the US to close
down Guantanamo .. and to disclose the locations of all of its rumoured
secret prisons abroad
19.05.2006 BAZ 25 Mehrere der Gefangenen [in Gitmo] hätten in einer Gemeinschaftsunter-kunft
die Wachen angegriffen und mit .. Einrichtungsgegenständen auf sie
eingeschlagen ... Der Revolte voraus gingen 4 Selbstmordversuche