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12.11.2006 X 25 although Donald Rumsfeld is resigning as US Secretary of Defense, steps
should be and will be taken to hold him accountable for breaches of int. law
and war crimes sanctioned in Iraq and Guantanamo during his tenure
14.11.2006 BBC 25 Donald Rumsfeld, who quit as US defence secretary this week, may face
criminal charges in Germany for alleged abuses in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq
... a Saudi detained in Cuba and 11 Iraqis held in Baghdad
14.11.2006 ABC 25 The Bush adm. said Monday that Guantanamo Bay prisoners have no right to
challenge their detentions in civilian courts and that lawsuits by hundreds of
detainees should be dismissed
15.11.2006 Raw Story 25 In response to an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, the CIA has finally
acknowledged the existence of a presidential order authorizing the agency to
detain and interrogate terror suspects overseas
15.11.2006 Wash Post 25 After years of denials, the CIA has formally acknowledged the existence of two
classified documents governing aggressive interrogation and detention policies for
terrorism suspects ... But CIA lawyers say the documents -- memos from President
Bush and the Justice Department -- are still so sensitive that no portion can be
released to the public - Then we are free to assume the worst
16.11.2006 MM 25 Federal prosecutors responded for the first time this week to the accusations,
telling US District Judge Marcia Cooke in a written motion that Padilla was not
tortured or abused. But even if he had been tortured, they added, there is no
legal support for Padilla's request that all charges against him be dismissed
16.11.2006 MM 25 Gitmo Captives Say Medical Personnel Approved, Participated in Abuses
18.11.2006 Telepolis 25 Guantanamo wird weiter ausgebaut - Neben Camp 6, einem neuen
Gefängnis, will das Pentagon für 100 Millionen Dollar einen Gerichtskomplex
errichten, um schon nächstes Jahr mit den geplanten Militärgerichten zu
23.11.2006 New
Statesman
beginnen
25 More than 7,000 prisoners have been captured in America's war on terror.
Just 700 ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Between extraordinary rendition to
foreign jails and disappearance into the CIA's "black sites", what happened to
the rest?
26.11.2006 Wash Post 25 Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib
prison in Iraq ... Former Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told Spain's El Pais
newspaper she had seen a letter apparently signed by Rumsfeld which
allowed civilian contractors to use techniques such as sleep deprivation
during interrogation
29.11.2006 Guardian 25 Britain's role in CIA "torture flights" was roundly condemned by the Eur.
Parliament ... [in particular] Michael Wood: "receiving or possessing"
information extracted under torture, if there was no direct participation in the
torture, was not per se banned under int. law ... At least 1,245 CIA rendition
flights used European airspace or landed at European airports
30.11.2006 MSNBC 25 the Justice Department asked a federal judge to block any public testimony
about the circumstances of Padilla‘s interrogations during the >3 years he
was detained and interrogated in a military brig in South Carolina
01.12.2006 Spiegel 25 Khaled El-Masri was innoncently detained in a secret CIA prison. Now US
civil liberties advocates are helping him take the intelligence service to court.
His chances of winning the trial are slim -- but his case is stirring up negative
publicity for the Bush adm.
03.12.2006 Daily Kos 25 Jose Padilla was accused of wanting to set off a "dirty bomb" for Al Queda.
After being held incommunicado in solitary confinement and tortured for 3
years, the gov. dropped the bomb charge and now wants to put him away on
vague charges of supporting terrorism ... wants to silence Padilla's attorneys,
not allowing them to bring up Padilla's treatment, and not allowing public
testimony of any kind
04.12.2006 ABC 25 1,245 Secret CIA Flights Revealed by European Parliament
07.12.2006 Blog 25 At issue is when Zaccardelli discovered the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
had passed on misleading information to US authorities that Canadian citizen Maher
Arar had ties to al-Qaida. Arar was arrested in New York in 2002 and ultimately flown
to Syria, where he was tortured and imprisoned for a year
07.12.2006 Boston Globe 25 When President Bush last week signed the bill outlawing the torture of
detainees, he quietly reserved the right to bypass the law under his powers as
commander in chief
08.12.2006 Telepolis 25 Verantwortlicher für Guantanmo [General Craddock, der seit 2004 das US-
Südkommando leitete] wurde zum Oberbefehlshaber der Nato ernannt