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War Is Terrorism

War Is Terrorism : " 'They told us this was one of the world's worst terrorists, and he got the sentence of a drunken driver,' said Ben Wizner, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, referring to David Hicks, a 31-year-old Australian who in a plea bargain with a US military court will serve nine months in prison, largely in Australia. That's after five years at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba without being charged with a crime, without a trial, without a conviction. Under the deal, Hicks agreed not to talk to reporters for one year (a slap in the face of free speech), to forever waive any profit from telling his story (a slap -- mon Dieu! -- in the face of free enterprise), to submit to US interrogation and testify at future US trials or international tribunals (an open invitation to the US government to hound the young man for the rest of his life), to renounce any claims of mistreatment or unlawful detention (a requirement which would be unconstitutional in a c...

Al Jazeera English - News

Al Jazeera English - News : "An influential Iraqi Sunni armed group has called on al-Qaeda in Iraq to 'review' its behaviour in the country. The Islamic Army in Iraq, believed to be the largest group of former Baathists and army officers fighting Iraqi and US forces, called on Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, to take more responsibility for al-Qaeda in Iraq."

The Long Ordeal of Sami Al-Arian - Civil and Human Rights Advocate and Political Prisoner - The Smirking Chimp

The Long Ordeal of Sami Al-Arian - Civil and Human Rights Advocate and Political Prisoner - The Smirking Chimp I always believe America is a terrorist state. The invasion of countries, the wiping of tribes of native people, taking of big chunks of lands from Mexico, the slavement and lynching of black people, the deportation of Chinese and Mexican Americans to their lands of their ancestry by force, the use of nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians, the internment camp ordeal of Japanese Americans and now the torture, killings and invasion of any thing of Islam and Muslims! Sami Al-Arian is one unfortunate Muslim who paid and paying a heavy price by Zionist and Christian fascist led government of America. If I affect a change I would be picked up tortured and deported somewhere in Arab countries (oh! Ethiopia too contracting a torture agreement with America. Ethiopia is where I was born and raised a country I have no fondness) to be tortured and disappeared forever! But so far many peopl...

ContraCostaTimes.com | 04/04/2007 | U.S. agents interrogate terror suspects in Ethiopia

ContraCostaTimes.com | 04/04/2007 | U.S. agents interrogate terror suspects in Ethiopia By Anthony Mitchell ASSOCIATED PRESS NAIROBI, Kenya - CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaida militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and abuse, according to an investigation by the Associated Press.