February 18, 2005 | 9 Muharram 1426 Hijriah
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House arrest in Britain in one month
The government intends to get the home secretary's controversial new powers to order the house arrest of terror suspects on the statute book within the next four weeks, the Guardian has learned. The home secretary, Charles Clarke, will announce next...
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Arabs: 'it's the foreign policy, stupid'
This has been said many times before, but it bears repeating. Arabs and Muslims don't "hate our freedoms". They hate our foreign policy: A new regional study identifies Arab reactions to Western, and most specifically US, foreign policy in the...
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'Nobody is talking'
This month, British readers get the chance to study in full the catalogue of leaked memos and government investigations which track the evolution of the White House's torture policy from 9/11 to Afghanistan, Guantánamo and Iraq, with the publication here...
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The Clipboard
Fatal secrets of Honduras
Along with Amelia Mackay, the nation of Honduras has begun to confront a truth it has long suspected - that hundreds of its citizens were kidnapped, tortured and killed in the 1980s by a secret army unit trained and supported...
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The Clipboard
Our Friends, the Torturers
The United States has long purported to be outraged over Syria's bad behavior, the latest flash point being the possible Syrian involvement in the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri. From the U.S. perspective, Syria is led...