News headlines for “War on Terror”, page 64
POLITICS: Cleared of Terrorism, Canadian Stranded in Khartoum
- Inter Press Service
The murky post-9/11 sharing of information between western security and intelligence agencies and Sudan's notorious human rights-abusing regime appear to be at the heart of a year-long marooning of Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik at his country's embassy in Khartoum.
RIGHTS: U.S. Judge Gives Bagram Prisoners Right to Appeal
- Inter Press Service
In what could become an historic decision, a federal judge has ruled that non-Afghan citizens rendered by the U.S. to Bagram prison in Afghanistan have a constitutional right to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
POLITICS: In Reversal, U.S. to Engage With Human Rights Council
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration’s decision this week to seek a seat on the world’s top human rights body has affirmed the hopes of many activist groups that the United States will take a far more multilateral approach to diplomacy than in the past.
Q&A: 'If I Were Chairman of the U.S. National Intelligence Council'
- Inter Press Service
Appointed two months ago by the Director of National Intelligence Adm. Dennis Blair to chair the National Intelligence Council (NIC), the body charged with producing analyses on key issues on behalf of all 16 agencies of the U.S. intelligence community, ret. Amb. Charles 'Chas' Freeman withdrew his name in mid-March after a sustained campaign against the appointment by right-wing leaders of the so-called 'Israel Lobby' concerned about his past criticism of Israel’s relations with its Arab neighbours, and particularly its treatment of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
PAKISTAN: Another Terror Attack For TV Cameras
- Inter Press Service
The brazen armed attack on a police academy near Lahore on Monday underlines the danger that the Pakistani state faces from militancy linked to the ‘war on terror’, but with historic roots in the earlier Afghan war of liberation from Soviet occupation, or ‘jihad’ against ‘God-less communists’.
CAMBODIA: Trial of Khmer Rouge Leader Starts Healing Process
- Inter Press Service
Om Chantha,69, says she has waited far too long before finally seeing, with her own eyes, Khmer Rouge leader Duch face trial for torture, crimes against humanity and murder.
Q&A: 'Khmer Rouge Trials Important for All Humanity'
- Inter Press Service
Theary Seng, orphaned by the Khmer Rouge, believes in the invisible bonds that suffering weaves among people. She calls it the 'fellowship of suffering'.
PAKISTAN: Under Siege by Taliban
- Inter Press Service
Authorities in Pakistan have vowed to deal sternly with Taliban militants who have this month mounted a series of deadly attacks apparently aimed at weakening this country that has close links with neighbouring Afghanistan.
POLITICS-US: Let Spy Laws Fade into the Sunset, Group Urges
- Inter Press Service
One of the nation’s leading legal rights groups is calling on the U.S. Congress to make major changes in the USA Patriot Act to reverse parts of the hurriedly passed law that have been found unconstitutional or have been abused to collect information on innocent people.
CAMBODIA: Khmer Rouge Trials May Expose US, China
- Inter Press Service
Limits placed on a United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal in prosecuting surviving leaders of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime may not prevent revelations about international actors linked to Cambodia's dark period.
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