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2011-11
[edit]2011-11-21
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| 20:05, 21 November 2011 (UTC) | NYTimes2011-11-21a | http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/tortures-future/ | ||
| 20:05, 21 November 2011 (UTC) | NYTimes2011-11-21b | http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/reneging-on-justice-at-guantanamo.html | ||
| 22:01, 21 November 2011 (UTC) | SanJoseMercury2011-11-21 | http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_19368154 |
2011-11-18
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References
[edit]- ^ Eric Lewis (2011-11-21). "Torture's Future". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-11-21. mirror
- ^ "Reneging on Justice at Guantánamo". New York Times. 2011-11-19. Retrieved 2011-11-21. mirror
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Beth Van Schaack (2011-11-20). "Guantánamo hearing shows stark deficiencies of military justice". San Jose Mercury. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
And yet, committed individuals cannot compensate for a fundamentally flawed military commission system. Upon superficial examination, this hearing -- which was held in a room with all the trappings of a standard courtroom -- resembles proceedings you might observe in any federal district court. Upon closer examination, however, the deficiencies of the military commission scheme become starkly apparent.
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Thomas Josceyln (2011-05-13). "John Brennan Is Still Wrong on Gitmo Detainee". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
In justifying the transfer, John Brennan claimed that President Obama's Guantanamo Review Task Force "thoroughly reviewed all information available" on Batarfi and found no ties to al Qaeda's anthrax program. Four memos prepared at Guantanamo and Batarfi's own indicate otherwise.
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Frank R. Wolf (2011-07-15). "IN OPPOSITION TO THE PRESIDENT'S NOMINATION OF MATHEW OLSEN TO LEAD THE NATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER". Federation of American Scientists. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
In early 2010, I wrote White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan about one detainee, Ayman Batarfi, whom the DOD believed to be closely connected to al Qaeda's anthrax program.
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Mark H. Buzby (2008-04-28). "Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for Guantanamo Detainee, ISN US9YM-000627DP (S)" (PDF). Joint Task Force Guantanamo. p. 10. Retrieved 2011-11-17.
Detainee's mentor, Doctor Amer Aziz, personally treated UBL and noted detainee was "quite keen" on fighting and "fully believed in al-Qaida." Doctor Aziz also stated that he and detainee attended a luncheon with UBL hosted by al-Qaida military commander Abu Hafs al-Masri. Doctor Aziz is suspected of having connections to the al-Qaida chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) programs.54 (Analyst Note: Detainee has denied attending this luncheon.)
Media related to File:ISN 00627, Ayman Batarfi's Guantanamo detainee assessment.pdf at Wikimedia Commons
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"Patricio Henriquez: You Don't Like the Truth wins documentary prize at Gémeaux Awards". Montreal Gazette. 2011-09-14. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
Montreal filmmakers Luc Coté and Patricio Henriquez's deeply disturbing film You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo won as best documentary about society at the first Gémeaux Awards gala Tuesday night.
mirror - ^ Norman Wilner (2010-10-28). "Movie Q&A: Luc Côté and Patricio Henriquez". Now Magazine. Retrieved 2011-11-18. mirror
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"The Guantanamo Trap". CBC News. 2011-04-29. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
We started this segment with a clip from Diane Beaver, now a retired lawyer who was a Lt. Col. and legal advisor in the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General Corps. And she's speaking about the prisoners she saw while working at the U.S. Military Prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and the dark days after 9/11 and the pressure she and others say they felt to get those prisoners to talk.
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"The Guantanamo Trap". Four Corners. 2011-08-01. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
The second person in this story is Diane Beaver, a Judge Advocate for the US Defence Forces. Deployed to Guantanamo she is responsible for drafting a legal memorandum that would later be nicknamed the 'torture memo'. Beaver, a self confessed conservative, supports the war on terror and simply tries to follow orders creating a document that defines what interrogators can and cannot legally do to inmates.
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"The Guantanamo Trap". Encounters magazine. 2011-06-26. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
Judge Advocate Diane Beaver volunteers for Guantanamo and becomes the international press's 'torture lady'.
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"HotDocs 2011: The Guantanamo Trap". Hot Docs. 2011-05-23. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
Not that you need to be completely even-handed when discussing torture, but it's quite fascinating to hear Diane Beaver (appointed legal advisor to the camp command at Guantanamo in early 2002) talk about why she wrote that initial memo and why she does not believe that any of those techniques bordered on torture (by what she terms as "any definition" of the word you'd care to name). The film itself is quite careful to never explicitly state that any of these methods are actually torture, but it's hard to escape that conclusion when you hear people who have experienced it talk to the camera about it.
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David Silverberg (2011-05-12). "Op-Ed: The Guantanamo Trap a powerful intelligent documentary on torture". Digital Journal. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
What elicited the most reaction during the film was the story of Diane Beaver, someone consistently linked with torture if you Google her name. Also a Judge Advocate for the U.S. military, she is best known as the author of a legal memorandum that would later be nicknamed, 'The Torture Memo.' That act has forever shadowed her, even though she never regrets listing the many new ways prisoners can be interrogated at Gitmo, which Donald Rumsfeld approved. Consider Beaver responsible for tactics such as stripping prisoners naked and exposing them to phobias such as barking dogs.
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Adrian Mack (2011-11-17). "The Guantanamo Trap plays Amnesty International Film Fest". Georgia Strait. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
She's not without sympathy, since Beaver was hung out to dry in the time-honoured fashion by everybody further along the chain of command.
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"Documentary holds up four-sided mirror to Guantanamo Bay". Deutche World. 2011-08-29. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
As a Navy lawyer at Guantanamo Bay, Matt Diaz copied a list of prisoners and posted it to a human rights organization in New York, morally compelled to speak out against the atrocities he had witnessed at Guantanamo. His thanks came in the form of deafening silence from human rights defenders and a six-month prison sentence for defying his superiors and his government.
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Frank Bruni (2011-11-14). "Torture and Exceptionalism". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
If we truly believe ourselves to be exceptional, a model for all the world and an example for all of history, then why would we practice torture?
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Tracy Rucinski (2009-03-28). "Spain may decide Guantanamo probe this week". Reuters. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
One of the lawyers who filed the complaint which triggered the review told Reuters: 'It's not that we think the High Court might accept the complaint, they must accept it,' Gonzalo Boye said.
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Andrew C. McCarthy (2009-03-31). "Spain's Universal Jurisdiction Power Play". National Review. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
Unmentioned is how Boye came to be a Madrid lawyer. He obtained his law degree in a Spanish prison. According to reports in the Spanish press (read here), Boye, a Chilean, was a member of the terrorist Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) when, in collusion with the ETA, Spain's Marxist-Leninist Basque terrorist outfit, he participated in the abduction of a Spanish businessman, Emiliano Revilla.
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Andrew Hurst (1988-10-31). "Basques free hostage in slap at Spanish reign". Houston Chronicle. p. a10. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
The boldness with which the Basque separatist guerrillas released Revilla in the heart of the capital, after holding him for eight months in Spain's longest politically motivated kidnapping, appeared calculated to demonstrate ETA's strength and to embarrass the government.
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Emma Roig (1988-02-25). "Secuestrado en Madrid, en el portal de su domicilio, el empresario Emiliano Revilla". Periódico El País. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
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"FUE CONDENADO POR COLABORAR CON ETA: Gonzalo Boyé está detrás de la querella contra el ex ministro de Defensa israelí". Libertad Digital Internacional. 2009-01-30. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
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Emma Roig (1988-10-30). "La presión policial provocó la negociación más larga". Periódico El País. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
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"An ETA kidnap victim turns to art". Typically Spanish. 2008-03-24. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
All the work on show was produced in 1988, at a time when Revilla had never drawn or painted before – at least, not since his childhood – and 17 years later he was persuaded to exhibit them by the local Town Hall.
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Paul Delaney (1988-11-03). "Left in Spain Is in Disarray; So Is the Right". New York Times. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
As if to rub it in, the kidnappers released Mr. Revilla Sunday within sight of his apartment. For months, the police conducted raids and roadblocks with no success.
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"The Guantanamo trap". Hot Docs. 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
Taxi to the Dark Side and Standard Operating Procedure hallmark a growing catalogue of documentaries emerging from the War on Terror. The Guantanamo Trap is a vital addition, highlighting four interconnected biographies that reveal the impact of gross injustice.
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Joanna Lavoie (2011-04-29). "The Guantanamo Trap is about people, not politics, says its director". Inside Toronto. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
Wallner said he first started thinking about this concept when he attempted to travel to the United States, after former president George W. Bush was reelected, to research a film on Mozart. His refusal to give up his biometric data by submitting to an eye scan at Pearson International Airport resulted in an interrogation, the withholding of his passport and his placement on the American "terror list." More than five years later, Wallner's name has now been removed from that list.
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"Thomas Wallner – NATP 1991-92". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
Thomas also brought his expertise to the creation of the online documentary Beethoven's Hair, which accompanied the feature film of the same title for which Thomas won a Gemini Award for "Best Writing in a Documentary".
mirror - ^ "Documentaries, Current Affairs & Politics, People & Society". First hand films. mirror
- ^ Craig Pyes, Josh Meyer and William C. Rempel (2001-10-15). "Bosnia – base for terrorism". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2010-05-25. mirror
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John M. Glionna (2005-11-20). "'We Are Not Such Monsters'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
Aziz met Bin Laden for the second time in November 2001, two months after the terrorist attacks on the U.S. Aziz was in the process of establishing a surgical unit at the University of Jalalabad in Afghanistan to treat people injured during the U.S. bombing there.
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"Doctor says bin Laden is healthy: Well-known Pakistani physician told agents, terrorist is strong". Lubbock online. 2002-11-28. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
Aziz said that when he went to Afghanistan last November to set up a surgical unit at the University of Jalalabad, near the border with Pakistan, he had no idea that he was going to meet bin Laden. 'I was stunned,' he said. 'I thought, "This is the most wanted man in the world." But he seemed so calm.'
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"Bosnian Federation TV views forgotten terror suspects". BBC News. 2006-04-21. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
Following the concrete moves by the US administration and the threat of economic sanctions, Izetbegovic agreed to deport Abu Ma'ali, who would subsequently - according to US sources - nevertheless occasionally come back to Bosnia-Hercegovina. Abu Ma'ali is believed to be active today at the Al Qai'dah HQ in Afghanistan, although various unchecked sources report his possible presence in B-H, and even detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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