News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 57
RIGHTS-US: Obama to Approve Indefinite Detentions
- Inter Press Service
As President Barack Obama struggles with the political backlash from a Congress determined to keep Guantanamo terrorism suspects out of the U.S., his administration is reportedly preparing an executive order that would give him authority to hold prisoners indefinitely without trial, according to weekend media reports.
US-AFGHANISTAN: Bagram Detainees Treated 'Worse Than Animals'
- Inter Press Service
An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed that former detainees at the U.S. Bagram airbase in Afghanistan were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs.
RIGHTS: U.N. Asked to Probe CIA Rendition
- Inter Press Service
Human rights groups are asking United Nations officials to investigate the case of an Italian citizen and victim of the 'extraordinary rendition' programme of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency who is currently being held in a Moroccan prison based on a confession coerced from him through torture.
EXCLUSIVE-PART 5: Freeh Became 'Defence Lawyer' for Saudis on Khobar
- Inter Press Service
In early November 1998, Louis Freeh sent an FBI team off to observe Saudi secret police officials interviewing eight Shi’a detainees from behind a one-way mirror at the Riyadh detention centre. He planned to use the Shi’a testimony to show that Iran was behind the bombing.
SOMALIA: U.S. Confirms Arms Shipments to Bolster Besieged Gov't
- Inter Press Service
The U.S. State Department Thursday confirmed that Washington is providing arms and ammunition to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia in a bid to thwart its defeat by a loose coalition of radical Islamist militias which, according to some analysts, are linked to al Qaeda.
US-AFGHANISTAN: Airstrike Report Belies 'Blame Taliban' Line
- Inter Press Service
The version of the official military investigation into the disastrous May 4 airstrike in Farah province made public last week by the Central Command was carefully edited to save the U.S. command in Afghanistan the embarrassment of having to admit that earlier claims blaming the massive civilian deaths on the 'Taliban' were fraudulent.
EXCLUSIVE-PART 4: FBI Ignored Compelling Evidence of bin Laden Role
- Inter Press Service
Osama Bin Laden had made no secret of his intention to attack the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia. He had been calling for such attacks to drive it from the country since his first fatwa calling for jihad against Western 'occupation' of Islamic lands in early 1992.
POLITICS: Some Drug Trades Easing Up, U.N. Says
- Inter Press Service
While worldwide production of heroin and cocaine appears to be slowing, there has been an increase in the use of synthetic drugs, especially in the Middle East, according to the latest report by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released Wednesday.
POLITICS: U.S. to Name Ambassador to Damascus after Four Years
- Inter Press Service
After informing the Syrian embassy in Washington on Tuesday night, the U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday that President Barack Obama will be sending an ambassador to Damascus for the first time since 2005.
U.S. Officials Leaked a False Story Blaming Iran: EXCLUSIVE-PART 3
- Inter Press Service
In March 1997, FBI Director Louis Freeh got what he calls in his memoirs 'the first truly big break in the case': the arrest in Canada of one of the Saudi Hezbollah members the Saudis accused of being the driver of the getaway car at Khobar Towers.
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