In 1953, Uncle Sam, at the behest of his British ally, stepped through the looking glass to attack Iran. The CIA’s month-long covert war deposed the popularly elected Mohammad Mossadegh and ended the Middle East’s oldest constitutional democracy.
Fmr. Chief Guantanamo Prosecutor Says Military Commissions “Not Justice”
As the first military tribunal conducted by the United States in more than half a century is scheduled to take place next week in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, we speak with Air Force Colonel Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo.
Led by conservative judges, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has just affirmed the Bush administration’s “enemy combatant” doctrine, a doctrine that allows President Bush and his military forces to designate anyone anywhere in the world as an “enemy combatant” in the so-called war on terrorism and treat him accordingly. While the case that the Court was deciding involved a foreigner, Ali al-Marri, the Court’s reasoning applies to American citizens as well.
The bodies of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters, returned as part of an exchange deal with Israel, are heading towards Beirut from southern Lebanon.
Lawyers acting for Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister, have started questioning a US millionaire in an Israeli court as part of an investigation into corruption allegations against the Israeli leader.
Alvaro Uribe, Colombia's president, has said his army used the Red Cross emblem in its June 2 operation to rescue 15 hostages including Ingrid Betancourt.
Pope Benedict XVI has opened a huge Catholic youth festival in Sydney praising the Australian government's recent apology to the country's Aborigines as a "courageous" move.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has urged followers of the world's leading faiths to embrace reconciliation, saying at the start of an inter-faith conference that history's great conflicts were not caused by religion itself but by its misinterpretation.
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The bodies of nearly 200 Lebanese and Palestinian fighters, returned as part of an exchange deal with Israel, are heading towards Beirut from southern Lebanon.
Pope Benedict XVI has opened a huge Catholic youth festival in Sydney praising the Australian government's recent apology to the country's Aborigines as a "courageous" move.
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has urged followers of the world's leading faiths to embrace reconciliation, saying at the start of an inter-faith conference that history's great conflicts were not caused by religion itself but by its misinterpretation.
A quarter of the world's Anglican bishops are boycotting a once-in-a-decade gathering of church leaders in a row over gay clergy.
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