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by David Vine
On the small, remote island of Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean halfway between Africa and Indonesia, the United States has one of the most secretive military bases in the world. From its position almost 10,000 miles closer to the Persian Gulf than the [...]
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from Crooks and Liars by SilentPatriot
This is what George Bush and his band of cronies have turned America into. This is on all of our hands, whether we accept it or not.
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CBS:
At the age of 19, Murat Kurnaz vanished into America’s shadow prison system in the [...]
http://www.consortiumnews.com/…
Jason Leopold
March 27, 2008
A classified memo written by the top U.S. military officer in western Iraq reveals that a prison in downtown Fallujah is so overcrowded and dirty that it does not even meet basic “minimal levels of hygiene for human beings.”
“The conditions in these jails are so bad that I think we need to [...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/…
A Yemeni man has described being held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons, or “black sites”, around the world and accused the US of torture.
Khaled al-Maqtari told Amnesty International he was held in isolation for more than 28 months without charge or access to any legal representation.
He said he first became a US [...]
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/…
Thu Feb 28, 7:10 PM
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world and for the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in every 100 American adults is confined in a prison or jail, according to a report released on Thursday.
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from Crooks and Liars
Nicole Belle
AttyTood:
So it was a little interesting when, within days of McCain assuming a commanding lead in the race, and with the Democrats deciding between anti-Gitmo candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, that word was leaked of a secret site within Guantanamo for hard core al-Qaeda detainees, called Camp 7.
That [...]
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from Danger Room by Noah Shachtman
In testimony before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, Director of Central Intelligence Mike Hayden admitted to using contractors for “enhanced interrogation” at the CIA’s secret prisons, the so-called black sites. It was an issue first raised last summer on The Spy Who Billed Me. From Tuesday’s exchange:
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Andrew O. Selsky
Associated Press
Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:34 EST
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE - Somewhere amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base, separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for years, is a place even more closely guarded [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2008 by E Rocha
Since the launch of the “global war on terror,” a large majority of Americans have been encouraged to cower under the pseudo-protective umbrella of a permanent Nation Security State. Last year I wrote several posts about the current prison-industrial complex and the increasing number of privatized prisons being [...]
http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2008/01/floating-prisons-and-other-miniature.html
Floating Prisons, and Other Miniature Prefabricated Islands of Carceral Territoriality
from Subtopia by Bryan Finoki
[Image: The Bibby Renaissance, via Is this the first prison ship?]
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order…John V. Lindsay
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