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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
© 2007 World Net Daily
FBI says jets took Saudis home following terrorism
Members of Osama bin Laden's family, and perhaps even the wanted fugitive himself, were flown out of the United States in the days right after 9/11 after the FBI approved the special flights, according to new agency documents revealed by Judicial Watch.
The public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption has obtained and released new information from the FBI that relates to the "expeditious departure" of Saudi Arabian citizens, including members of the bin Laden family, as soon as flights were allowed again after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
"According to one of the formerly confidential documents, dated 9/21/01, terrorist Osama bin Laden may have chartered one of the Saudi flights," the group's report said. Bin Laden, considered to be the founder of al-Qaida and the confessed driving force behind the 9/11 attacks, has been seen numerous times in videos taunting and challenging the United States since the attacks.
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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
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By Lester Haines
Published June 20, 2007
The Register, www.theregister.co.uk
Texas cops taser diabetic seizure man
'We just took care of him'
A Texas man who called 911 to request medical assistance for a
diabetic seizure earned a tasering from local cops for his trouble, the
Waxahachie Daily Light reports.
Allen Nelms, 52, was suffering said seizure "during the early
morning hours of April 28 when his girlfriend, Josie Edwards, called
911 to request paramedics".
A police officer duly turned up at the house on Waxahachie's east
side, "inquired as to what was going on", then called for back-up.
Shortly after, and as Nelms was "in his bed in the couple's bedroom",
cops "burst in with their guns drawn and yelling at him to get on the
floor".
Edwards recalled "about six or seven police officers kicked the
front door in and stormed the back bedroom where she said she could
hear one telling Nelms to get on the floor". Her statement, which forms
part of an written complaint made by Nelms to the Waxahachie police
department, says: "Allen was shouting, 'Please don't do me like this. I
just need help.' Next thing I heard some 'zing' noise and Allen was
shouting. I asked what were they doing to him. One policeman replied,
'We just took care of him.' ... After they did their shooting and
laughing, they came out [of] the rooms. The paramedics had to pull out
the Tasers."
Nelms claims he was "struck by Taser barbs on his left side, his
back and his shoulder" as he went to roll over, and subsequently
handcuffed, with "paramedics intervening when the officers began trying
to yank the Taser barbs from his skin". The paramedics removed the
barbs, checked Nelms' blood sugar level, and the cuffs came off. He was
neither arrested nor charged.
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
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Sunday, 17 June 2007 |
Source: Z Magazine Online, June 2007
Author: Roberto J. González
As Attorney General Alberto Gonzales struggles to keep his job due to the U.S. Attorney firings scandal, many have forgotten the role he played in creating policies that are profoundly more troubling from a global perspective. These policies—particularly the “torture memos” prepared by Gonzales and his colleagues from 2002 to 2003— led to grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, the UN Convention against Torture, and the UN Charter.
The most infamous memo was a January 25, 2002 letter from Gonzales to Bush, which argued that “the war against terrorism is a new kind of war…. [T]his new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva’s strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions” regarding treatment of suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban members. Gonzales also noted that this would substantially reduce the threat of criminal prosecution of U.S. personnel for war crimes. It is now clear that the memos soon became official policy, leading to the classification of detainees as “enemy combatants” who were stripped of their legal rights, harsh interrogation techniques that eventually included torture, and the escalation of “extraordinary rendition” (state-sponsored abduction) of suspected terrorists to secret overseas prisons.
Once the memos were released in 2004, human rights and civil liberties groups sought to hold the Bush-Cheney legal team accountable for detainee abuses at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and secret overseas prisons. Their efforts reached a climax when the Center for Constitutional Rights and dozens of other organizations filed a criminal complaint in Germany last November on behalf of 12 detainees. The suit alleged that Gonzales, Rumsfeld, and a dozen other U.S. officials committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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