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Weekend Briefing—20th-22nd Aug 2010
Posted: 22 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Alexander Cockburn, Blackwater, BP, Bushehr, Colombia, Constanza Vieira, Daphne Eviatar, David Sirota, drones, economic crisis, general strike, George Donnelly, Gulf oil spill, Hamid Karzai, Iran, Iraq, Iraq election, Iraq War, Israel, Jason Ditz, Kenya, Lebanon, Middle East, Omar Khadr, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, peace process, public opinion, Scott Horton, Somalia, South Africa, Stephen Walt, tea party movement, TF 121, TF 373, TF 42, TSA, Wikipedia, Xe, Zionism
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The Tragedy of Omar Khadr (mp3)
Posted: 22 August 2010 by Editors in International AffairsTags: Afghanistan, AntiWar radio, Bagram Air Base, Bush Administration, Canada, child soldiers, criminal justice, Daphne Eviatar, Guantanamo Bay, human rights, international law, military commissions, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Omar Khadr, rendition, Scott Horton, torture, United States, United States armed forces, war crimes, War on Terror, Warfare and Conflict
Omar Khadr, a 23-year-old Canadian citizen was kidnapped by the military in Afghanistan after being shot to the infirmary at the U.S. detention center at Bagram Air Base, where he was tortured and threatened with rape before being transferred the prison at Guantánamo Bay—all when he was only 15—where he’s been held captive since. The ‘war crime’ was throwing a hand grenade at U.S. troops and allegedly killing one of them, though the cause of the soldier’s death is in question, the burden of proof cannot be met of who threw any grenades, throwing a grenade at a uniformed enemy is not a war crime and child soldiers are legally distinguished as victims.
At AntiWar Radio with Scott Horton, journalist, legal analyst and Human Right First senior associate in law and security Daphne Eviatar discussed the U.S. military commission to try Mr. Khadr for war crimes (25:55):
Rights Lawyer Finds C.I.A. Prevented Detainee Deaths to Prolong Torture (Video)
Posted: 29 October 2009 by Editors in International Affairs, National News, Political ScienceTags: Afghanistan, Bagram Air Base, black sites, CIA, Convention Against Torture, Daphne Eviatar, EITs, enhanced interrogation techniques, Europe, fascism, Guatanamo Bay, human rights, international law, Iraq, Iraq War, John Sifton, Jordan, law, libertarian, lithuania, Middle East, Newspeak, Poland, Romania, secret prisons, stress poitions, Thailand, torture, US, War, War on Terror, waterboarding
John Sifton details ‘grotesque’ C.I.A. torture at secret prisons as models for prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and other military detention centers. (11:01):
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