Post by Cageprisoners on Nov 8, 2005 15:38:15 GMT -5
"It hurts when we sit at the Iftar table and his chair is empty" (Khalid Al Odah, father of Kuwaiti Guantanamo detainee, Fawzi Al Odah)
Eid Greetings from Cageprisoners.com
Cageprisoners.com extends greetings to all the Muslims on the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr. May Allah accept our good deeds and yours.
While the Muslims mark this joyous occasion with family and friends, the prisoners will celebrate Eid alone, behind bars in their cells, separated from their loved ones. Let them know that they have not been forgotten on this blessed day. If you didn't get time during Ramadhan to send them a card or make a donation to Hhugs, there is still time to make a difference.
Interviews
Lawyer: Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike Tortured and Violently Force-Fed by Guards, Medical Staff
Democracy Now speaks with attorney Julia Tarver who is representing detainees at Guanatanamo Bay. She says her clients - who are participating in a hunger strike to protest their mistreatment and indefinite detention - told her guards and medical staff forcibly shoved large feeding tubes up their noses and down into their stomachs, and used the same tubes from one patient to another.
Guantanamo Ordeal of AlJazeera Cameraman
Sami Muhy al-Din al-Hajj, a Sudanese national, was arrested by the US military while working for Aljazeera during the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and detained in Guantanamo for four years without trial. Aljazeera.net spoke to al-Hajj's lawyer, Clive Stafford-Smith, regarding his case and the prospects for his release.
An Interview with John Yoo
John Yoo, a professor of law at UC Berkeley, served in the Office of Legal Counsel from 2001 to 2003, giving advice to the president and the Department of Justice on matters ranging from war powers to the legal definition of torture
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, 35, is head of the New York-based legal team representing Bahraini detainees at Guantanamo Bay "pro bono". He works for Dorsey and Whitney and has been representing the Bay Six since July 2004. His fourth and latest visit to Guantanamo Bay to see his clients was on October 15. He has repeatedly criticised their detainment and called on the Bahrain government to intervene on their behalf.
Events
Protest Against Howard's Terror Laws and the War in Iraq
As more and more of the detail of Howard's new terror laws leaks out public concern about this monumental attack on democratic rights continues to mount. Howard's new laws are both a vicious attack on the Muslim community and a profound threat to the right to dissent.
Campaigns
Terrorism Bill - Lobby Your MP
The Terrorism Bill 2005 passed its first reading with cross party Conservative support on Wed 26 October. The second reading is going to be on Wednesday 9 November. It is crucial that lobbying should be done between now and 9 November.
Legal Issues
What Bush Wants To Hear: A Consideration of Yoo's 'The Power of War and Peace'
by David Cole
Few lawyers have had more influence on President Bush's legal policies in the "war on terror" than John Yoo. This is a remarkable feat, because Yoo was not a cabinet official, not a White House lawyer, and not even a senior officer within the Justice Department. Yet by all accounts, Yoo had a hand in virtually every major legal decision involving the U.S. response to the attacks of September 11, and at every point, so far as we know, his advice was virtually always the same -- the president can do whatever the president wants.
Iraq and the Laws of War
by Francis A. Boyle
On 19 March 2003, President Bush Jr. commenced his criminal war against Iraq by ordering a so-called decapitation strike against the President of Iraq in violation of a 48-hour ultimatum he had given publicly to the Iraqi President and his sons to leave the country. This duplicitous behavior violated the customary international laws of war set forth in the 1907 Hague Convention on the Opening of Hostilities to which the United States is still a contracting party.
A Two Part Series on the PMO and Bush Detainee Policy
An in-depth account of the illegal White House detainee policies after 9/11.
Saifullah Paracha's Request To Be Allowed A Bible and Other Books
Pdf. United States Court for the District of Columbia.
War Counsel
by Christopher Shea
Conservative legal scholar John Yoo, whose memos helped shape White House policy, says the framers gave the president all the war powers of a king
Hear Me, Hear Me
by Emily Bazelon
For weeks, the justices have been avoiding one of the term's most far-reaching and explosive cases, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Downloads
Juma Al Dossary's Guantanamo Diary (Arabic)
The 17 unclassified pages of Bahraini detainee, Juma Al Dossary's 20 page handwritten account, detailing the horrific ordeal he has endured in Guantanamo
British Anti-Terrorism: A Modern Day Witch-hunt
by Fahad Ansari
From Control Orders, proposals to ban HizbutTahrir and other Muslim organisations, new legislation and police powers, this report covers the gamut of the British government's latest anti-terrorism proposals. This clear analysis not only makes the case that the government's anti-terrorist strategy violates basic human rights and curtails civil liberties, it powerfully argues, that it is also counter-productive. A must read for all those concerned with the British government's new measures
Commission of inquiry into the actions of Canadian officials in relation to Maher Arar
Report of Professor Stephen J. Toope, 14th October 2005.
A Glimpse Inside Guantanamo
Frontline producers Michael Kirk and Jim Gilmore traveled with their camera crew to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in August 2005. Here are video excerpts from their tour of the base with members of the military's public affairs department.
The Torture Question
In mid-August, a Frontline documentary crew made the perilous journey to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Entering the 280-acre compound in the middle of the night, escorted by helicopters and a convoy of armed Humvees, the crew was following 50 detainees fresh from the battlefield. As they were ordered to kneel in formation on the concrete floor, one detainee nervously asked the Frontline cameraman, "Is this Abu Ghraib?" The answer brought a shudder.
Articles
Detainee Policy Sharply Divides Bush Officials
by Tim Golden and Eric Schmidt
The Bush administration is embroiled in a sharp internal debate over whether a new set of Defense Department standards for handling terror suspects should adopt language from the Geneva Conventions prohibiting "cruel," "humiliating" and "degrading" treatment, administration officials say.
After 3 Years, Afghan Writers Freed From Gitmo
by James Rupert
Badr Zaman Badr and his brother Abdurrahim Muslim Dost relish writing a good joke that jabs a corrupt politician or distills the sufferings of fellow Afghans. Badr admires the political satires in "The Canterbury Tales" and "Gulliver's Travels," and Dost wrote some wicked lampoons in the 1990s, accusing Afghan mullahs of growing rich while preaching and organizing jihad.
U.S. Made "Inappropriate" Allegations of Terrorism Before Sentencing Iraqi-American Doctor Rafil Dhafir to Prison
by Democracy Now!
Iraqi-American doctor Rafil Dhafir is sentenced to 22 years in prison for violating the Iraqi sanctions through his charity “Help the Needy.” We speak with Barrie Gewanter of the NY Civil Liberties Union about the case, who has publicly questioned the fairness of the trial.
Hell in Gitmo
by Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Horrid stories of force-feeding at Guantanamo highlight the systematic abuse of prisoners of America's war on terror
Letter to Tony Blair Re: Memorandum of Understanding with Libya
by The Libyan League for Human Rights (LLHR)
The LLHR a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network and of the International Federation of Human rights, is writing to you to add its name to the list of those human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and others, who condemned the signing by the United Kingdom Government of a "Memorandum of Understanding" with Libya over the treatment of Libyan refugees who may be deported from the UK to Libya.
Bush Administration Seeks Legal Sanction For Torture
by Joseph Kay and Tom Carter
On Tuesday, the Washington Post published a front-page article revealing that Vice President **** Cheney and CIA Director Porter Goss met with Arizona Senator John McCain last week to urge the modification of a Senate provision banning the US government from carrying out “cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment” of prisoners in its custody.
‘My Life is Ruined,’ Says Muslim Pilot
by Elham Asaad Buaras
Lotfi Raissi, the Algerian pilot who spent five months in jail fighting off claims that he trained the September 11 hijackers, has spoken candidly to The Muslim News about his treatment by British authorities and the uphill struggle to clear his name.
[More Articles at Cageprisoners.com]
News
GUANTANAMO
Returned Guantanamo Inmate Jailed for Five Years
Five Kuwaitis To Be Released From Guantanamo, Identified
Guantanamo Desperation Seen in Suicide Attempts
UN Rights Envoys Want To Quiz Guantanamo Prisoners
'Bahraini Guantanamo Detainees To Be Released'
Hicks Sexually Abused, Says Father
UK Seeking Hicks Escape Clause, Says Lawyer
I Am Losing My Mind Behind These Horrible Prison Walls
UK
Clarke 'Flexible' on Terror Laws
Terrorism Law Detainees 'Depressed'
Terror Bill Clears First Hurdle
Delays Prevent UK Terror Extradition
GHOST
CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
Arar Was Tortured, Inquiry Fact-Finder Concludes
US
Saudi Warden Says Abu Ali Was Well Treated, Not Tortured
Muslim Doctor Sent To Prison For Charity Fraud
U.S. Supreme Court Is Asked to Consider Padilla Terrorism Case
MISCELLANEOUS
Afghan Prisoner Abuse Charges Filed Against Two U.S. Soldiers
New Australia Terror Laws Delayed
[More News on the War on Terror at Cageprisoners.com]
Eid Greetings from Cageprisoners.com
Cageprisoners.com extends greetings to all the Muslims on the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr. May Allah accept our good deeds and yours.
While the Muslims mark this joyous occasion with family and friends, the prisoners will celebrate Eid alone, behind bars in their cells, separated from their loved ones. Let them know that they have not been forgotten on this blessed day. If you didn't get time during Ramadhan to send them a card or make a donation to Hhugs, there is still time to make a difference.
Interviews
Lawyer: Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike Tortured and Violently Force-Fed by Guards, Medical Staff
Democracy Now speaks with attorney Julia Tarver who is representing detainees at Guanatanamo Bay. She says her clients - who are participating in a hunger strike to protest their mistreatment and indefinite detention - told her guards and medical staff forcibly shoved large feeding tubes up their noses and down into their stomachs, and used the same tubes from one patient to another.
Guantanamo Ordeal of AlJazeera Cameraman
Sami Muhy al-Din al-Hajj, a Sudanese national, was arrested by the US military while working for Aljazeera during the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and detained in Guantanamo for four years without trial. Aljazeera.net spoke to al-Hajj's lawyer, Clive Stafford-Smith, regarding his case and the prospects for his release.
An Interview with John Yoo
John Yoo, a professor of law at UC Berkeley, served in the Office of Legal Counsel from 2001 to 2003, giving advice to the president and the Department of Justice on matters ranging from war powers to the legal definition of torture
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, 35, is head of the New York-based legal team representing Bahraini detainees at Guantanamo Bay "pro bono". He works for Dorsey and Whitney and has been representing the Bay Six since July 2004. His fourth and latest visit to Guantanamo Bay to see his clients was on October 15. He has repeatedly criticised their detainment and called on the Bahrain government to intervene on their behalf.
Events
Protest Against Howard's Terror Laws and the War in Iraq
As more and more of the detail of Howard's new terror laws leaks out public concern about this monumental attack on democratic rights continues to mount. Howard's new laws are both a vicious attack on the Muslim community and a profound threat to the right to dissent.
Campaigns
Terrorism Bill - Lobby Your MP
The Terrorism Bill 2005 passed its first reading with cross party Conservative support on Wed 26 October. The second reading is going to be on Wednesday 9 November. It is crucial that lobbying should be done between now and 9 November.
Legal Issues
What Bush Wants To Hear: A Consideration of Yoo's 'The Power of War and Peace'
by David Cole
Few lawyers have had more influence on President Bush's legal policies in the "war on terror" than John Yoo. This is a remarkable feat, because Yoo was not a cabinet official, not a White House lawyer, and not even a senior officer within the Justice Department. Yet by all accounts, Yoo had a hand in virtually every major legal decision involving the U.S. response to the attacks of September 11, and at every point, so far as we know, his advice was virtually always the same -- the president can do whatever the president wants.
Iraq and the Laws of War
by Francis A. Boyle
On 19 March 2003, President Bush Jr. commenced his criminal war against Iraq by ordering a so-called decapitation strike against the President of Iraq in violation of a 48-hour ultimatum he had given publicly to the Iraqi President and his sons to leave the country. This duplicitous behavior violated the customary international laws of war set forth in the 1907 Hague Convention on the Opening of Hostilities to which the United States is still a contracting party.
A Two Part Series on the PMO and Bush Detainee Policy
An in-depth account of the illegal White House detainee policies after 9/11.
Saifullah Paracha's Request To Be Allowed A Bible and Other Books
Pdf. United States Court for the District of Columbia.
War Counsel
by Christopher Shea
Conservative legal scholar John Yoo, whose memos helped shape White House policy, says the framers gave the president all the war powers of a king
Hear Me, Hear Me
by Emily Bazelon
For weeks, the justices have been avoiding one of the term's most far-reaching and explosive cases, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Downloads
Juma Al Dossary's Guantanamo Diary (Arabic)
The 17 unclassified pages of Bahraini detainee, Juma Al Dossary's 20 page handwritten account, detailing the horrific ordeal he has endured in Guantanamo
British Anti-Terrorism: A Modern Day Witch-hunt
by Fahad Ansari
From Control Orders, proposals to ban HizbutTahrir and other Muslim organisations, new legislation and police powers, this report covers the gamut of the British government's latest anti-terrorism proposals. This clear analysis not only makes the case that the government's anti-terrorist strategy violates basic human rights and curtails civil liberties, it powerfully argues, that it is also counter-productive. A must read for all those concerned with the British government's new measures
Commission of inquiry into the actions of Canadian officials in relation to Maher Arar
Report of Professor Stephen J. Toope, 14th October 2005.
A Glimpse Inside Guantanamo
Frontline producers Michael Kirk and Jim Gilmore traveled with their camera crew to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in August 2005. Here are video excerpts from their tour of the base with members of the military's public affairs department.
The Torture Question
In mid-August, a Frontline documentary crew made the perilous journey to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Entering the 280-acre compound in the middle of the night, escorted by helicopters and a convoy of armed Humvees, the crew was following 50 detainees fresh from the battlefield. As they were ordered to kneel in formation on the concrete floor, one detainee nervously asked the Frontline cameraman, "Is this Abu Ghraib?" The answer brought a shudder.
Articles
Detainee Policy Sharply Divides Bush Officials
by Tim Golden and Eric Schmidt
The Bush administration is embroiled in a sharp internal debate over whether a new set of Defense Department standards for handling terror suspects should adopt language from the Geneva Conventions prohibiting "cruel," "humiliating" and "degrading" treatment, administration officials say.
After 3 Years, Afghan Writers Freed From Gitmo
by James Rupert
Badr Zaman Badr and his brother Abdurrahim Muslim Dost relish writing a good joke that jabs a corrupt politician or distills the sufferings of fellow Afghans. Badr admires the political satires in "The Canterbury Tales" and "Gulliver's Travels," and Dost wrote some wicked lampoons in the 1990s, accusing Afghan mullahs of growing rich while preaching and organizing jihad.
U.S. Made "Inappropriate" Allegations of Terrorism Before Sentencing Iraqi-American Doctor Rafil Dhafir to Prison
by Democracy Now!
Iraqi-American doctor Rafil Dhafir is sentenced to 22 years in prison for violating the Iraqi sanctions through his charity “Help the Needy.” We speak with Barrie Gewanter of the NY Civil Liberties Union about the case, who has publicly questioned the fairness of the trial.
Hell in Gitmo
by Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Horrid stories of force-feeding at Guantanamo highlight the systematic abuse of prisoners of America's war on terror
Letter to Tony Blair Re: Memorandum of Understanding with Libya
by The Libyan League for Human Rights (LLHR)
The LLHR a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network and of the International Federation of Human rights, is writing to you to add its name to the list of those human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and others, who condemned the signing by the United Kingdom Government of a "Memorandum of Understanding" with Libya over the treatment of Libyan refugees who may be deported from the UK to Libya.
Bush Administration Seeks Legal Sanction For Torture
by Joseph Kay and Tom Carter
On Tuesday, the Washington Post published a front-page article revealing that Vice President **** Cheney and CIA Director Porter Goss met with Arizona Senator John McCain last week to urge the modification of a Senate provision banning the US government from carrying out “cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment” of prisoners in its custody.
‘My Life is Ruined,’ Says Muslim Pilot
by Elham Asaad Buaras
Lotfi Raissi, the Algerian pilot who spent five months in jail fighting off claims that he trained the September 11 hijackers, has spoken candidly to The Muslim News about his treatment by British authorities and the uphill struggle to clear his name.
[More Articles at Cageprisoners.com]
News
GUANTANAMO
Returned Guantanamo Inmate Jailed for Five Years
Five Kuwaitis To Be Released From Guantanamo, Identified
Guantanamo Desperation Seen in Suicide Attempts
UN Rights Envoys Want To Quiz Guantanamo Prisoners
'Bahraini Guantanamo Detainees To Be Released'
Hicks Sexually Abused, Says Father
UK Seeking Hicks Escape Clause, Says Lawyer
I Am Losing My Mind Behind These Horrible Prison Walls
UK
Clarke 'Flexible' on Terror Laws
Terrorism Law Detainees 'Depressed'
Terror Bill Clears First Hurdle
Delays Prevent UK Terror Extradition
GHOST
CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
Arar Was Tortured, Inquiry Fact-Finder Concludes
US
Saudi Warden Says Abu Ali Was Well Treated, Not Tortured
Muslim Doctor Sent To Prison For Charity Fraud
U.S. Supreme Court Is Asked to Consider Padilla Terrorism Case
MISCELLANEOUS
Afghan Prisoner Abuse Charges Filed Against Two U.S. Soldiers
New Australia Terror Laws Delayed
[More News on the War on Terror at Cageprisoners.com]