Some statistics from AP on the US-run global gulag… A look at the U.S. overseas detention system that has developed since 2001: NUMBERS OF DETAINEES Iraq (Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper, Fort Suse) – 13,390 Afghanistan (Bagram air base) – Estimated 500 Guantanamo Bay – 455 NATIONALITIES Iraq – U.S. command last year counted 325 “foreign …
With the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the US nearing, and well after three years from the start of the war on Iraq, the US Senate’s Intelligence committee has stated the OBVIOUS fact that many of us in the Arab World who’ve been following the Islamist scene believed–There were no links between Iraq’s …
A Reuters report by Summer Said about the recently announced crackdowns on alleged militants in Alexandria and the northern provinces: Egypt arrests 95 over suspected militant links CAIRO, Sept 5- Egyptian security forces have arrested close to 95 people suspected of links to Islamic militancy in sweeps north of the capital, security sources said on …