Brian Stelter profiles Sami al-Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman who was held for six years at the terrorism detention centre Guantanamo Bay , and looks at how Al Hajj’s experience has shaped his reporting: “The captive has become the correspondent.”
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BBC Radio 4 has produced a programme featuring Al Jazeera journalist Sami al-Hajj who was arrested on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2001. It’s available on iPlayer for another six days and repeated on Radio 4 on Sunday (25/10).
“For more than six years he was held in the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention centre until, in 2008, he was suddenly released. In an exclusive interview, he talks to Gavin Esler about what happened to him, and why.”
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A Call For Volunteers
In order to expedite the ensuing decline of modern civilization and prevent an unseemly last minute rush to annihilation: an appeal is hereby issued as follows;
_ Volunteer now because an orderly "Planetary Die-off" to sustainable numbers is
desirable to avoid overtaxing existing funerary facilities: therefore;
* All First World inhabitants are requested to volunteer early as your impact on
Planet Earth is the most dire and your passing will no doubt be... Read Full Story
Wild animals who have knowledge of mankind have an instinctive recognition of man as predator and behave accordingly. Recently discovered species are often trusting or disinterested until they learn the truth about us. The information becomes operative over generations and we are accurately marked as dangerous. Perhaps this same predator/prey sense clouds the relationship between men and women. Women as they mature seem to have an inborn sense over and above early childhood training that men... Read Full Story
In what I call the "Peoples History of Violent Death: 20th Century" counting the numbers of deaths caused by wars and violence has produced a tie score for first place and one surprising result. Our late lamented century, old number 20, stands highest in the Pantheon of relentless carnage. In the numbers game it has no close competitor. Genghis Kahn had his fling as did the old Romans and many ghastly others whose benighted despotism spilled lakes of blood to be sure. But alas, no contest in... Read Full Story
On Tuesday, January 2o, 2009, UN Special Rapporteur called on the US to pursue former President Georege W. Bush, along with former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, for the torture and ill treatment of prisoners held at Guantanamo. Evidence shows that the torture of Guantanamo detainees was ordered by Rumsfeld, and was known about within the highest levels of government. Peace.
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In a break from the Bush administration, President Barack Obama yesterday ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison within a year, the immediate closure of secret overseas CIA prisons and for all agencies, including the CIA to abide by the Army Field Manual’s acceptable interrogation tactics. Obama also nullified every legal order and opinion on interrogations issued by any lawyer in the executive branch after Sept. 11, 2001. We speak with Vincent Warren, executive director of the... Read Full Story
EXECUTIVE ORDER — ENSURING LAWFUL INTERROGATIONS
By the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to improve the effectiveness of human intelligence gathering, to promote the safe, lawful, and humane treatment of individuals in United States custody and of United States personnel who are detained in armed conflicts, to ensure compliance with the treaty obligations of the United States, including the Geneva Conventions, and to take... Read Full Story
EXECUTIVE ORDER — REVIEW OF DETENTION POLICY OPTIONS
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to develop policies for the detention, trial, transfer, release, or other disposition of individuals captured or apprehended in connection with armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations that are consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and the interests of justice... Read Full Story
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