Tag: guantanamo

  • Obamessiah Updates: Secrets, Lies and the Give & Take Act

    Obamessiah Updates: Secrets, Lies and the Give & Take Act

    obama swaps teleprompters for giant tv monitor obama is a ‘manchurian candidate’ because he uses a teleprompter o’reilly: if cheney really had an ‘executive assassination squad,’ he would have killed seymour hersh a long time ago ‘give’ act strips 1st amendment from ‘volunteers’from kurt nimmo: On March 18, Rep. George Miller, a Democrat from California,…

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  • obamessiah: downhill dictatorship, definitions & detainments

    obamessiah: downhill dictatorship, definitions & detainments

    president obama: a fraud you can believe infrom the bulletin: The hopes and prayers of the American people have finally been answered with the election of a new president: A fraud they can believe in. Yes, and even as Barack Obama demonstrates he is a fraud, phony and hypocrite par excellence – who also happens…

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  • 3/11 Newspurge

    9/11 updatesvideo: america’s next top model is a crazy conspiracy theorist*councillor fujita publishes a book on 9/11*detainees say they planned 9/11*video: gitmo inmates admit planning 9/11*guantanamo detainees admit to 9/11 plot* obamessiahwebster tarpley: obamavilles in america*web-savvy obama ‘rarely’ reads blogs, says they’re misleading*wired, wikipedia, wnd & fox: whitewashing obama’s past*obama engages in eugenics*obama takes on…

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  • obamessiah gives team america a pep talk

    obamessiah gives team america a pep talk

    here’s a couple of telling takes on the big speech: first a sports analogy, as if it’s all a big game…from time: Rarely has a pep talk come with so much pomp. The setting, for starters, was no high school locker room at halftime, with sweaty teenagers scratching their gym socks. Robed Supreme Court justices…

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  • obamessiah: 9/11, taxes & the ‘buy american’ remorse

    obamessiah: 9/11, taxes & the ‘buy american’ remorse

    obama to meet victims & relatives of 9/11 attacksfrom washington post: President Obama will gather tomorrow with victims and families of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and U.S.S. Cole bombing for a face-to-face meeting as his administration struggles to decide how to handle detainees at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, several of those invited said. The previously undisclosed…

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  • 9/11: debates, project censored, tribunals & truth videos

    9/11: debates, project censored, tribunals & truth videos

    video: excerpt from ‘zero’ follow-up debate in russia part1 (part2) 9/11 makes the top 25 censored stories for 2009from 9/11 blogger: #24-Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror: Testimony in the Japanese parliament, broadcast live on Japanese television in January 2008, challenged the premise and validity of the Global War on Terror. Parliament…

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  • 9/11 + 7: truth, lies & everything else

    9/11 + 7: truth, lies & everything else

    video: 7 years on, osama bin laden still at largefrom raw replay: Seven years after the attacks on the World Trade Centre, Afghanistan is again the frontline of the US-led “war on terror” with extremist unrest intensifying and Osama bin Laden is still on the run. This video is from AFP, broadcast September 10, 2008.…

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  • bin laden driver seeks leniency from gitmo jury

    from raw replay: Osama bin Laden’s former driver is expected to ask the Pentagon jury that convicted him of a war crime to spare him from life in prison on Thursday, his defense lawyers said. This video is from The Associated Press, broadcast August 7, 2008. related: bin laden driver knew 9/11 target: prosecutor &…

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  • driving bin laden: not guilty plea in war crimes tribunal

    driving bin laden: not guilty plea in war crimes tribunal

    from dpa: The former driver for Osama bin Laden pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges on Monday as the first trial under US President George W Bush’s controversial military commissions got under way in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni national, has been charged with conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism and faces…

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  • 9/11: no-show defendants & classified evidence

    9/11: no-show defendants & classified evidence

    hearing delayed after 9/11 defendant wouldn’t come, lawyer saysfrom miami herald: Alleged 9/11 hijack conspirator Ramzi bin al Shibh reportedly refused to leave his prison camp cell Thursday, causing a military judge to postpone his hearing by a month. “He wouldn’t come,” said attorney Anthony Romero of the American Civil Liberties Union. Romero said military…

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  • collateral 47: ship to nowhere

    from collateral news: This week’s story fits perfectly with what we’ve learned about Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay: According to UK-based human rights organization ‘Reprieve’ the U.S. has used navy ships as prisons throughout the world. Apparently abuses on these ships were more severe than in Guantanamo.

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  • 9/11: tribunals, patsies, martyrs, mccain & more

    9/11: tribunals, patsies, martyrs, mccain & more

    judge critical of gitmo trials is dismissedfrom thinkprogress: Army Col. Peter Brownback III, a judge who was hearing a war crimes case at Guantanamo Bay and “publicly expressed frustration with military prosecutors’ refusal to give evidence to the defense,” has been dismissed. Brownback had threatened to suspend the proceedings against Omar Khadr “unless prosecutors handed…

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  • 9/11 updates: tribunals, torture, toxic dust & fahrenheit

    9/11 updates: tribunals, torture, toxic dust & fahrenheit

    uk government loses case against supposed ‘9/11 pilot trainer’ demolition to resume at new york skyscraper damaged by 9/11 after deadly fire “the government has made it impossible to defend them” military judge denies motions to delay arraignment of 9/11 suspects US military officers challenge official account of 9/11 case against 9/11 mastermind in jeopardy…

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  • US soldiers did ‘dirty work’ for chinese interrogators

    US soldiers did ‘dirty work’ for chinese interrogators

    from abc: U.S. military personnel at Guantanamo Bay allegedly softened up detainees at the request of Chinese intelligence officials who had come to the island facility to interrogate the men – or they allowed the Chinese to dole out the treatment themselves, according to claims in a new government report. Buried in a Department of…

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  • collateral 42: ultra sick

    from collateral news: Project Artichoke. MKULTRA. The CIA has a long & sordid history of using mind-altering drugs on unsuspecting victims. But until recently, many thought that that’s just what it was: history. Yet new reports from more than two dozen Guantanamo detainees indicate that forced drugging may be routine practice once again.

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