1. Forget Change
(Newsletter)

...officials were considering deploying troops here in the United States to take suspected terrorists into custody as “enemy combatants.” The suspected terrorists were part of a group that came to be kno...

2. War Criminals, Including Their Lawyers, Must Be Pr
(Newsletter)

...mplete a $60m expansion to its prison at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan, where it holds more than 600 so-called enemy combatants. CONTINUE... Clinton condemns N Korea threats Top_news By Ag...

3. \'Der Spiegel\' on Why Obama is \'President of the
(Newsletter)

...vice, but the report on U.S. torture policy that the committee released on Thursday is noteworthy. CONTINUE... Enemy Combatants and Freedom of Speech Op_ed By MWC NEWS    Thursday, 1...

4. \'Swan Lake\' Painting
(Newsletter)

...t financial crisis should be counting their lucky stars. At least U.S. officials haven’t taken them into custody as enemy combatants and tortured them, as U.S. officials have done to two American citi...

5. Where is Dan Quayle now that we need him?
(Newsletter)

...m in the Middle East, saying democracy is the best way to nurture economic growth. CONTINUE... US lists child 'enemy combatants' Top_news By Agencies    Monday, 19 May 2008 A report...

6. The Military\'s Disintegrating Family Life
(Newsletter)

...epartment of Justice would construe US criminal laws not to apply to the President's detention and interrogation of enemy combatants. According to Yoo, the federal statutes against torture, assault, m...

7. One-third of Palestinians ‘food insecure’
(Newsletter)

... Shssh! Don't Tell Americans Op_ed Written by MWC NEWS    Wednesday, 21 March 2007 How We Treat "Enemy Combatants" The case of accused terrorist Jose Padilla is moving toward a...

8. Targeting Muslim Charities in America
(Opinions/Features)

...(FOIA) requests revealed evidentiary summaries from 2004 military hearings on whether 517 Guantanamo detainees were enemy combatants. They showed that: -- at most, few Afghan Guantanamo prisoners comm...

9. Civilian Trials for 9/11 Suspects Aren’t Enough
(Opinions/Politic)

...fth Amendment includes an alternative justice system only for U.S. military personnel during wartime, not “unlawful enemy combatants.” Thus, despite earlier precedents in U.S. history, including durin...

10. The Washington Times and Ali al-Marri
(Opinions/Politic)

...ach of which has dramatically different consequences. On the one hand, they can now treat suspected terrorists as “enemy combatants,” which can entail permanent military incarceration, torture, kanga...