December 19, 2004 | 7 Dhu-l-Qidah 1425 Hijriah
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The ClipboardQC for detainees quits over terror law
A leading QC plans to resign from the panel of barristers representing terrorist suspects held without trial today, saying last night he expected others to follow suit in protest against a law he called "an odious blot on our legal...
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The ClipboardRumsfeld faces Iraq letters row
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has pledged to personally sign letters of condolence to the families of American soldiers killed in action. He spoke shortly after his admission that he had used a machine to sign letters to relatives of...
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The ClipboardSelling Out the Uyghurs
A four-day ride on the westbound express train out of Beijing takes you to China's Wild West. The massive Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, hundreds of miles beyond an eroded mound that was once the Great Wall, lies southwest of Mongolia,...
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The ClipboardAt Guantanamo, a Prison Within a Prison
Within the heavily guarded perimeters of the Defense Department's much-discussed Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, the CIA has maintained a detention facility for valuable al Qaeda captives that has never been mentioned in public, according to military officials and several...
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The ClipboardA Flood of Troubled Soldiers Is in the Offing
The nation's hard-pressed health care system for veterans is facing a potential deluge of tens of thousands of soldiers returning from Iraq with serious mental health problems brought on by the stress and carnage of war, veterans' advocates and military...
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The ClipboardBritish judges' verdict on terror laws provokes constitutional crisis
A scathing law lords judgment condemning the indefinite detention of foreign terror suspects as a threat to the life of the nation left anti-terrorist laws in tatters yesterday. The ruling by an 8-1 majority held that the indefinite detention without...
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The ClipboardBritain's law lords back terror detainees
Detaining foreigners without trial under emergency anti-terror powers breaks European human rights legislation, law lords ruled today. A specially-convened committee of nine law lords upheld an appeal by nine foreigners who have been detained without charge or trial, most of...
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The ClipboardCan Bush notice the Palestinian olive branch?
For Arabs, the remarkable thing is the way that, historically, the West has repeatedly ignored or overridden the centrality of Palestine in their psyche, with Iraq as the latest and most blatant example of it. True, the sickness that was...
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The ClipboardBalance in the service of falsehood
The British and US governments stand accused of lying their way to war on Iraq, both at home and abroad. But while a series of what were widely regarded as nobbled inquiries have at least gone through the motions of...
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