Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 247
30.06.2006 Seattle Times 25 The decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that the detainees must be treated
according to int. standards sent officials scrambling to evaluate options for
the approximately 470 detainees at Guantánamo, some of whom have been
held for >4 years without trials
30.06.2006 BAZ 25 Trotz der Entscheidung des Obersten Gerichtshofs, der die Militärtribunale in
Guantanamo für illegal erklärt hat, wollen die USA vorerst an dem
Häftlingslager auf Kuba festhalten
02.07.2006 X 25 Geneva Conventions are "Quaint" and "Obsolete" – except, of course, when
the other side violates them
05.07.2006 SF_Gate 25 Prosecutors said they had arrested two Italian intelligence officers and were
seeking four more Americans as part of an investigation into the alleged CIA
kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003
06.07.2006 BAZ 25 Das Europ. Parlament ... billigten einen Zwischenbericht, in dem die CIA und
andere US-Geheimdienste direkt für Entführungen von Terrorverdäch-tigen in
Europa verantwortlich gemacht wurden
10.07.2006 X 25 Report on Torture at Gitmo - Groundbreaking 51-Page Report Details Recent
Torture and Inhumane Treatment in Violation of US Law and the Supreme
Court‘s Recent Hamdan Decision
10.07.2006 Raw Story 25 The 51 page "Report on Torture and Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment of Prisoners at
Guantánamo Bay, Cuba" is drawn from primary accounts given by current detainees and their
American attorneys at the Guantánamo Bay prison. It catalogues conduct by U.S. officials in
violation of the Geneva Conventions, which the Supreme Court recently applied to detainees in
the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision - If ever there was a day that the current Adm. needed a
distraction ...
11.07.2006 Raw Story 25 The White House says Guantanamo cannot be closed until its prisoners are
either repatriated or tried - So what happens if they are neither repatriated or
tried? Untried, unconvicted, yet serving a life sentence?
11.07.2006 Guardian 25 US today reversed policy when it said all detainees at Guantánamo Bay and all other
prisoners in US military custody were entitled to protection under the Geneva
conventions. The Bush adm. had previously claimed terrorism suspects were "noncombatants"
because they were fighting for a sect or faction and not a state and were
therefore not subject to the Geneva conventions ... the policy change, outlined in a
new Pentagon memo, reflected the recent supreme court decision to block military
tribunals
12.07.2006 BAZ 25 [Pentagon:] USA halten in ihrem Anti-Terror-Kampf weltweit rund 1000
Häftlinge fest. 450 davon seien [in] Guantánamo
12.07.2006 Boston Globe 25 Bush adm. officials asked Congress to endorse the special military tribunals
established by the president to try prisoners captured in the war on terror, but
Republicans and Democrats alike balked at giving the White House quick
legislative approval to a controversial system that the Supreme Court
invalidated just two weeks ago {yesterday's lie ...}
30.07.2006 Independent 25 New maximum-security jail to open at Guantanamo Bay - Camp 6, a state-ofthe-art
maximum-security jail built by a Halliburton subsidiary, will be able to
hold 200 prisoners {enlarging instead of closing it}
03.08.2006 Wash Post 25 White House Proposal Would Expand Authority of Military Courts - Bush adm. plan
for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such
"commissions" to include trials of people who are not members of al-Qaeda or the
Taliban and are not directly involved in acts of int. terrorism. The plan, which would
replace a military trial system ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in June, would also
allow the secretary of defense to add crimes at will to those under the military court's
jurisdiction
18.08.2006 LA Times 25 the trial of CIA contractor David A. Passaro, the first and, so far, only individual
connected with the CIA to be charged with abusing a detainee in US custody .. was
implicated in the June 2003 death of Abdul Wali at an Army base in Asada-bad,
Afghanistan. Wali .. turned himself in to US forces because he had heard they
wanted to question him about a rocket attack on the base. 3 days later, he was dead
... US soldiers testified that Passaro kicked Wali in the groin and repeatedly beat
him, at times with a metal flashlight, over a period of 2 days
19.08.2006 X 25 Top Italian telecom security official involved in Abu Omar rendition case
commits suicide in Naples. Adamo Bove's expertise was mobile telecom
surveillance. "It was Adamo Bove who helped the Milan magistrates identify
and reconstruct the mobile phone traffic during the kidnapping of Abu Omar
in Milan on February 17, 2003 ... that led to arrest warrants for 26 American
agents and many of their Italian accomplices."
25.08.2006 Guardian 25 Judges clear the way for foreign terror suspects to be sent back to Algeria
despite fears that they could be tortured