US president Bush has given an interview to The Wall Street Journal, where he showered Egypt’s “young reformers” with praise. He doesn’t mean of course the Youth For Change secular activists who brave police beatings, torture, and sexual abuse, demanding an end to Mubarak’s autocratic rule, and calling for freedom of expression and association. Neither …
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 …
Following up on the previous posting, the new US army manual has been issued finally yesterday, supposedly “banning torture” and other inhumane treatment of prisoners in the army’s, but not the CIA’s custody. Here’s a report from Al-Jazeera website: Updated US Army manual bans torture, mock executions and electric shocks Thursday 07 September 2006 A …
From the BBC: President Bush has acknowledged the existence of secret CIA prisons and said 14 key terrorist suspects have now been sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The suspects, who include the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, have now been moved out of CIA custody and will face trial. Mr Bush …