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June 23, 2005 | 16 Jumada al-Awwal 1426 Hijriah

From: The Clipboard The Clipboard

UN Experts Cite Credible Reports of Torture at Guantanamo

Four U.N. human rights experts said Thursday that they will investigate all aspects of detention at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where some 500 prisoners are being held without charges, despite the U.S. government's failure to...


~ posted by Al-Muhajabah, a fair and balanced niqabi, at 09:05 PM to guantanamo, torture
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From: The Clipboard The Clipboard

Pentagon Creating Student Database

The Defense Department began working yesterday with a private marketing firm to create a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and all college students to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment...


~ posted by Al-Muhajabah, a fair and balanced niqabi, at 08:51 PM to privacy, pentagon
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From: The Clipboard The Clipboard

The Real News in the Downing Street Memos

Put simply, U.S. aircraft patrolling the southern no-fly zone were dropping a lot more bombs in the hope of provoking a reaction that would give the allies an excuse to carry out a full-scale bombing campaign, an air war, the...


~ posted by Al-Muhajabah, a fair and balanced niqabi, at 08:33 PM to britain, iraq, intelligence, deception, war
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From: veiled4allah veiled4allah

double standards?

I'm kind of bemused at the sudden excitement over banning desecration of the American flag. Wasn't it just a short time ago that many of these same people were blaming Muslims for being upset over desecration of the Quran? Now,...


~ posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 08:26 PM to commentary, thoughts, desecration
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