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Adil Charkaoui sues feds for $24.5 million
Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL — Adil Charkaoui, the Moroccan-born Montrealer detained for almost two years under a security certificate without charge or trial, is suing the federal government for $24.5 million.
Charkaoui spent years under strict bail conditions until he was finally cleared in September.
His case sparked outrage, as have those of others held under the certificates, which [...]
Lawsuit vs Rumsfeld allowed to continue
It’s not the war crimes trial he deserves, but it’s a start in proving that he isn’t immune, and shouldn’t be:
A federal judge in Chicago ruled on Friday that a lawsuit against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, brought by two Americans who had worked for an Iraqi contractor, can be allowed to proceed.
In his ruling [...]
US running intl. network of secret detentions
PressTV
A United Nations report on the existence of secret detention facilities in countries around the world puts most of the blame on the US and its Central Intelligence Agency.
The report says that the CIA, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, runs scores of secret prisons in foreign countries where suspected terrorists are held, a Deutsche [...]
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US: Torture
A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm.
U.S. District Judge Wayne R. Andersen’s ruling did not say the two contractors had proven any of their claims. But [...]
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Pacific Region
Tsunami warning cancelled: Expert says Hawaii ‘dodged a bullet’
Initial predictions may have overestimated tsunami size
Experts say tsunami becoming more powerful as it hits
Chile
Chileans fearful of aftershocks camped outside on Sunday as rescuers battled to find survivors of a huge earthquake that shattered roads and airports and triggered a tsunami across the Pacific.
One of the [...]
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Bush’s torture psychologists wanted to use ‘mock burials’: report
Raw Story
Two psychologists working on the Bush administration’s enhanced interrogation techniques pushed for the use of “mock burials” on terror suspects, according to documents released by the Department of Justice.
Poland releases details on CIA ‘black sites’
Globe and Mail/StatismWatch
February 22, 2010
Human rights groups receive confirmation planes associated with the CIA’s secret detainee program landed in Poland in 2003
Human rights groups say the Polish government has for the first time provided official records confirming the landing of planes associated with the CIA’s secret detainee program.
The Open Society Justice Initiative and the Helsinki [...]
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MI5 may face new torture inquiry
TimesOnline/David Leppard
21 Feb 2010
AS befits Britain’s most senior spy, Jonathan Evans is noted in Whitehall for being cool under fire. That quality will be tested this week when MI5’s director-general learns whether his service is about to be engulfed by one of the biggest crises in its 100-year history.
Dick Cheney Admits to Torture Conspiracy
If the U.S. had a functioning criminal justice system for the powerful, former Vice President Dick Cheney would have just convicted himself with his Sunday comments.
Consortium News / Robert Parry
On Sunday, Cheney pronounced himself “a big supporter of waterboarding,” a near-drowning technique that has been regarded as torture back to the Spanish [...]
Proud of Waterboarding