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FOIA requests regarding torture taking place by U.S. personnel on those they hold captive--the over-whelming majority of whom are innocent civilians	The Salvador Option	A court and execution chamber could be built at the US detention camp in Cuba under plans being drawn up by military officials.
	From Secrecy News:TORTURE POLICY DOCUMENTS IN CONTENTION
September 2007

Raytheon invents the perfect torture/oppression device 9-21

Hessians Redux: Blackwater, U.S. and England: If the Russians or Chinese came into America tomorrow with their troops and over 150,000 mercenaries to take over our country, brutalize our wives and children and take over our lives, wouldn't you fight back? Of course we would. That what the Iraqis are doing. 9-21

Satellites confirm reports of Myanmar violence 9-29

Myanmar Troops Retake Streets, Locking Monks In Monasteries 9-29

At Guantanamo, a chaplain’s story 9-29

Former Ghost Detainee At Guantánamo To Receive Lawyers 9-29

Pictures: It's Not Happening Here But it is Happening Now 9-28

Supreme Court Halts Texas Execution 9-28

US lets key terrorism suspects request lawyers 9-28

Torture Flights Could Land Again 9-28

Germany gives up on trying to extradite CIA agents who kidnapped a German citizen, tortured him, then released him without pressing charges 9-24

Our new AG could be a fan of prisoner beatings as well 9-24

Suu Kyi greets protesters: Burma's largest anti-government protest in nearly two decades has taken place in the former capital Rangoon, led by Buddhist monks and nuns. 9-24

Guantanamo lawyers to seek appeal on ruling that restricted access 9-24

The Boys from Baghdad: Iraqi Commandos Trained by U.S. Contractor 9-24

Wheelchair-Bound Woman Dies After Being Shocked With Taser 9-20

Did CIA kidnap vacationer? It's a state secret. 9-20

Dodd, Leahy reintroduce Habeas Corpus Restoration Act. 9-18

Israelis side with detainees at Gitmo 9-18

UT law students defending terrorism suspects at Guantanamo 9-18

Israelis side with detainees at Gitmo 9-18

Not that they're admitting they may have used it in the past, but the CIA wants you to know that it has removed water-boarding from the list of approved interrogation techniques 9-15

An al-Jazeera journalist captured in Afghanistan six years ago and sent to Guantanamo Bay is close to becoming the fifth detainee at the US naval base to take his own life 9-15

Not that they're admitting they may have used it in the past, but the CIA wants you to know that it has removed water-boarding from the list of approved interrogation techniques 9-15

An al-Jazeera journalist captured in Afghanistan six years ago and sent to Guantanamo Bay is close to becoming the fifth detainee at the US naval base to take his own life 9-15

School bus driver refuses to pick up kids on Indian Reservation due to poor quality roads 9-14

An 8-year-old boy whose mother was deported to Mexico led a chanting crowd of about 150 pro-immigration activists through the halls of Congress on Wednesday. Saul Arellano and other children carried a banner that read: "Born in the USA. Don't take our moms and dads away." 9-13

The Bush administration’s top intelligence officials have notified a federal appeals court that “a July ruling requiring the government to disclose virtually all its information on Guantánamo detainees could cause ‘exceptionally grave damage to the national security.” 9-13

Guantanamo Detainees Tell of Abuses 9-12

Human Rights And Advocacy Groups Blast Bush’s Torture-Approving CIA Nominee 9-12

US Prisons gradually being purged of books on religion to prevent prisons from becoming breeding grounds for radical religious groups 9-11

As a prosecutor at Nuremberg, Sen. Chris Dodd’s father charged the Nazis with doing many of the same things George Bush claims he does in the name of freedom 9-11

Maine denies tribe has sustenance fishing rights 9-10

Sixteen Saudis have arrived in Riyadh after being released by US authorities from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. More than 90 Saudi detainees have now been sent home from the camp in Cuba. 9-10

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour: The U.S. War on Terror is Constantly Being Used By Other Countries as Justification for Torture and Other Violations of International Human Rights Laws 9-7

Village Voice: Leaked Red Cross report sets up Bush team for international war-crimes trial 9-3

ACLU Challenges Prison-Like Conditions at Hutto Detention Center 9-4

John Edwards: “No more secret prisons, no more torture or condoning torture.” 9-4

Marine says he was ordered to kill a roomful of women and child during the alleged Haditha massacre. 9-1

September 2006

A British lawyer who represents detainees at Guantánamo Bay yesterday claimed he was threatened with internment at the notorious camp by a US military officer. 9-29

Those possible terrorists we've got locked up in Guantanamo Bay? Yeah, they're just random people the local warlords sold to us for $5000 apiece 10-02

Detaining People Indefinitely, Even After Acquittal, Plus A Little Torture A-OK With Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist Because “We Don’t Want Them To Have Everyday Rights” 9-29

Roll call of the Senate vote for the Torture Bill 9-29

The Flaws in the Military Commissions Act 9-29

Republicans reject amendment by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) to allow terrorism suspects to challenge their imprisonment in court. 9-28

Cafferty struck a somber tone tonight after the House passed legislation that includes a war crimes immunity clause. He rightfully asks, "what are we becoming?" 9-28

Torture: a Family Value 9-27

U.S. gets ‘Sovietized’: The White House insisted that anyone — including Americans — could be kidnapped and tried in camera using information obtained by torturing other suspects 9-27

Bush's 'Dirty War' Amnesty Law: The United States is following the lead of “dirty war” nations, such as Argentina and Chile, in enacting what amounts to an amnesty law protecting U.S. government operatives, apparently up to and including President George W. Bush, who have committed or are responsible for human rights crimes. 9-27

Gitmo from the Inside: An innocent man talks about his three years as a detainee, and wonders if he can ever learn to forgive his American captors. 9-27

The following letter was sent today to the Judiciary Committee to the attention of Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT). It represents the views of former U.S. Government and military officials who served in the CIA, in the Army, in the Air Force, at the Department of State, and the FBI. It represents a consensus view that torture is an ineffective and immoral practice that injures our ability to combat the threat of terrorism. 9-27

The US Central Intelligence Agency paid Pakistan millions of dollars for handing over more than 350 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists to the United States- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf The US government has strict rules banning such reward payments to foreign powers involved in the war on terror. 9-27

Specter to press for detainees' habeas corpus rights 9-26

Habeas Corpus is ancient. It precedes Magna Carta in 1215 and we have to fight the republicans for it in 2006 9-26

Bush Offers Himself Amnesty for Human Rights Crimes 10-25

Irish man deported to Dublin to face charges in the 1988 bombing deaths of two British soldiers. Oddly, the option of permanently incarcerating him at Guantanamo bay without formal charges, never came up 9-26

When U.S. authorities rendered a Canadian citizen to Syria, where he was tortured for months, the deportation order stated unequivocally that the man was a member of Al Qaeda. But a few days earlier, Canadian investigators had told the F.B.I. that they had not been able to link him to the terrorist group.

Human rights violations in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Israel and Yemen 10-25

Secret CIA Prisons in Your Backyard: The largest covert CIA operation since the Cold War is run not only by shadowy government contractors in the darkest corners of Afghanistan, but also by unassuming Americans in places like Dedham, Mass. 9-22

US Government Called On To Clear Tortured Suspect's Name 9-22

House committee flip-flops on its vote against Bush terrorist detainee bill. 9-21

Pentagon Ordered To Disclose Guantanamo Names, Treatment. 9-21

The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention centre at Guantánamo this month in part because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and run the secret facilities 9-21

United Nations human rights investigators said on Thursday that legislation proposed by President Bush for tough interrogations of foreign terrorism suspects would breach the Geneva Conventions. Also said Washington's admission of secret detention centers abroad pointed to "very serious human rights violations". 9-21

Torture, human rights abuses in Iraq are worse now than under Saddam Hussein's government 9-21

Bill 'Nuclear Option' Frist threatening to fillibuster in defense of torture 9-20

Legislation supporting Bush on interrogation techniques could subject Congressional leaders to war crimes prosecution 9-20

The U.S. decision to kidnap and send Maher Arar to Syria for torture was "very likely" based on inaccurate and misleading information, according to an inquiry report released Monday 9-19

The White House is trying a new tactic in its battle with Senate Republicans over proposed interrogation rules for suspected terrorists. In other news "alternative interrogation techniques" is CNN code for torture. 9-19

A British soldier pleaded guilty today to a war crime for inhumanely treating Iraqi civilians, in the first prosecution of its kind in the U.K. 9-19

U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000 9-17

US Imprisoned AP Photographer For 5 Months In Iraq 9-17

Sen. Lindsey Graham: "What is being billed as 'clarifying' our treaty obligations will be seen as 'withdrawing' from the treaty obligations. It will set precedent which could come back to haunt us." 9-16

Dubai Ruler Allegedly Ran Small Boy Slave Trade. 9-15

Powell blasts Bush’s plan for brutal interrogations 9-14

High-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, according to the Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne. Any questions as to whether the military could be turned on the citizens now? 9-13

A report by Human Rights Watch says that Palestinian refugees in Iraq have increasingly become targets of violence and persecution. With no country willing to accept them, they remain trapped in Iraq and living in fear. 9-13

Worried CIA Officers Buy Legal Insurance 9-11

Bush administration quietly circulating draft legislation to eliminate crucial parts of the War Crimes Act. 9-11

Detention conditions at Guantanamo 'worsening' 9-11

Pakistani man who once lived in Maryland among high-value terrorism suspects transferred from secret CIA prisons to the US base in Guantanamo. 9-11

Malaysia awaits information on 2 nationals held at Guantanamo Bay 9-11

Pentagon Lawyers Challenge Detainee Plan: Key Republicans and top military lawyers say that some provisions would not withstand legal scrutiny or do enough to repair the nation’s tarnished reputation. 9-8

Bush acknowledges secret CIA prisons 9-7

New Army interrogation manual explicitly bans beating prisoners, sexually humiliating them, threatening them with dogs, depriving them of food or water, performing mock executions. But not for the CIA or for the secret CIA prisons. 9-7

Guantanamo Kangaroo Court Tribunals May Resume in Early '07 9-7

The Senate on Wednesday rejected a move by Democrats to stop the Pentagon from using cluster bombs near civilian targets. Cheney still endorsing F-bombs 9-7

Bush Aims to Kill War Crimes Act: Why are they doing it, and how can they be stopped? 9-6

Bush to unveil proposal on Guantanamo detainees 9-6

September 2005

NY judge orders Abu Ghraib abuse pictures released again 9-30

Apartheid-justice in America; Krugal vs. Padilla The Padilla case is of particular interest now that we have a genuine case of domestic terrorism we can use for comparison. 9-29

Pentagon Sets Hicks Show Trial Date: David Hicks, the only Australian held at Guantanamo Bay, will face a "hearing" before a special US military commission on November 18, the Pentagon says. 9-28

Gitmo Judge Rejects Claim He's Interfering: A federal judge Monday rejected a government argument that he was interfering with the president's constitutional authority to wage war by insisting that Guantanamo Bay detainees be asked if they want their names to be made public. 9-28

Where do American religious leaders stand on torture? Their deafening silence evokes memories of the unconscionable behavior of German church leaders in the 1930s and early 1940s. 9-28

Two sergeants and a captain in one of the U.S. Army's most decorated combat units have come forward with accounts of routine, systematic and often severe beatings committed against detainees at a base near Fallujah from 2003 through 2004. 9-27

Lynndie England convicted at Abu Ghraib trial 9-27 Rummy still in his bunker -ed.

Guantánamo inmate says US told him to spy on al-Jazeera : The US military told an al-Jazeera cameraman being held at Guantánamo Bay that he would be released as long as he agreed to spy on journalists at the Arabic news channel, according to documents seen by the Guardian. 9-27

A branch of the U.S. Navy secretly contracted a 33-plane fleet that included two Gulfstream jets reportedly used to fly terror suspects to countries known to practice torture, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. 9-26

Leadership Failure: Firsthand Accounts of Torture of Iraqi Detainees by the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division 9-26

Another Abu Ghraib? 9-26

Jose Padilla, constitutional 'unperson'? 9-26

Two more US soldiers have been charged after an Afghanistan prisoner abuse investigation centred on two detainees who died in custody, the Army announced in Fort Bliss, Texas. 9-23

Bush waves sanctions on Saudi Arabia for slave trade and trafficking. 9-23

A lawyer for 11 Kuwaiti detainees at Guantanamo Bay asked a federal judge yesterday to hold a fact-finding hearing about a five-week hunger strike at the military prison, saying the health of detainees is increasingly dire. 9-23

Military judge bars release of Abu Ghraib photos: day before the trial of Lynndie England, the U.S. soldier who held an Iraqi prisoner on a leash at Abu Ghraib prison, a military judge on Tuesday barred the release of photos which have already been published around the world. 9-22

UN Human Rights Body to Scrutinize U.S. Abuses 9-22

The Navajo Nation is lobbying against government plans to mine uranium, citing Navajo law and deaths caused by radiation. 9-22

officers with the Chicago Police Department beat and shocked a mentally retarded man but never charged him with any crime. 9-22

The new U.S. ambassador to Canada is making no apologies for the deportation of a Canadian Citizen to Syria, arguing that it's better to be safe than sorry and if you're innocent and wind up getting tortured for a few months, that's just too damn bad 9-21 In America, we have you tortured for who you are, not something you did. -ed.

Kuwait chastises US over Guantanamo 9-21

Saudi rights group banned from Guantanamo 9-21

Group gets ACLU training for Minuteman activities 9-21

Let them Die or Let them go: I have a word of advice I would like to offer Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon chieftains who currently preside over the hunger-strikers at Guantanamo Bay, 20 of whom are near death. For God's sake, let them die. 9-20

5 Guantanamo inmates to go free 9-19

Guantánamo hunger strike has directors worried : A hunger strike at the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has unsettled senior commanders there and produced the most serious challenge yet to the military's effort to manage the detention of hundreds of terrorism suspects, lawyers and officials say. 9-19

A new U.N. declaration grants the world community the right to intervene and prevent governments from committing massive crimes against their own citizens. 9-19

The Bush Faction seized upon the congressional resolution as an "Enabling Act" justifying a broad range of unconstitutional measures, including torture, kidnappings, mass roundups, secret hearings, secret prisons, arrests without charge, indefinite detention, kangaroo courts, "extrajudicial killings" and, finally, aggressive war. 9-16

21 detainees treated in Guantanamo hunger strike: All 21 detainees are being force-fed through their noses 9-16

The proposal in the new Terrorism Bill to enable terrorism suspects to be held by the police for up to three months without charge is draconian and unnecessary, Amnesty International said today. 9-16

Gitmo Hunger Strike Grows To 128, Military Starts Force-Feeding Detainees 9-15

Torture Them. Then rig their trials. Joshua Frank on Gitmo. 9-15

Woman executed for slayings of husband, children in Texas: First time a black woman was executed in Texas since the Civil War. 9-15

Guantanamo hunger strike is in its second month 9-14

Today, Padilla. Tomorrow, Who 9-13

Diary of a British man on hunger strike in Guantanamo 9-13

Many detainees and their lawyers believe some fasters may starve to death to protest conditions at the controversial military outpost in Cuba. Thirteen inmates are being force-fed intravenously. 9-13

Even if acquitted at trial, he will still be detained as an enemy combatant, the department said. 9-8

A consortium of western oil companies, led by ExxonMobil, has drawn up legal agreements with African governments that potentially override the human rights of the local populations 9-7

IRAQ: PRISONER TORTURED IN ABU GHRAIB INVITED TO ITALY 9-7

BAHRAINI detainee at Guantanamo Bay has pleaded his innocence and urged rights activists to continue campaigning for his release 9-6

Lawyers for the inmates said at least 210 men had been on hunger strike for the last three weeks. 9-3

A cameraman for Reuters in Iraq has been ordered by a secret tribunal to be held without charge in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison until his case is reviewed 9-1

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