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The News on Sunday
January 13, 2018
The Pakistani state did this quite well and, by 2002, about 500 suspected al-Qaeda operatives were in Pakistani jails while others had been shipped to Guantanamo or to Bagram where, for instance, Aafia Siddiqi was solitary confined as ghost prisoner #650. Thus, initially this practice targeted suspectedÃâà...
The News on Sunday (blog)
October 21, 2017
He maintained that the Taliban didn't treat prisoners the way the inmates at the prison in the US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay were treated. The Haqqani network, founded by the Afghan mujahideen commander Maulvi Jalaluddin Haqqani and now led by his son SirajuddinÃâà...
The News on Sunday
September 9, 2017
The horrible phenomenon of enforced disappearances in Pakistan has been in public debate for more than 25 years and there is hardly any aspect of the matter that has not been discussed threadbare and from different points of view. If the demand for an end to enforced disappearances, criminalisation ofÃâà...
Outlook India
July 1, 2017
... Hall Of Parliament. Amidst opposition's protest, the GST was launched with an aim to create a seamless unified market for the $2 trillion Indian economy. Jul 01, 2017. An illuminated Parliament ahead of midinight launch of 'Goods and Services Tax (GST)', in New Delhi. PTI Photo by Manvender Vashist. Jul 01, 2017Ãâà...
Lawfare (blog)
June 27, 2017
After two years of grooming, Saudi Arabia's King Salman last week appointed his son, Mohammed bin Salman, to be next in line for the crown. The decision cuts out the current crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef, who has worked closely with the United States to reform the Kingdom's counterterrorismÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
April 11, 2017
In 2009, Mohammed Abdullah Warsame (10) pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaeda. Warsame attended an al-Qaeda training camp near Kabul in 2000 and met Osama bin Laden at another training camp, al Faruq. In the U.S., Warsame kept up email contact with personsÃâà...
The Guardian
March 11, 2015
Moazzam Begg of Cage is one of the signatories to the public statement. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA. Anti-Muslim rhetoric and “endless 'anti-terror' laws” are in danger of creating a McCarthyite witch-hunt against Muslims, according to the signatories of a strongly worded public statement, who includeÃâà...
Long War Journal
December 2, 2014
Harakat Sham al Islam was founded in 2013 by Ibrahim bin Shakran, Ahmed Mizouz, and Mohammed Alami, three Moroccans who were captured in Afghanistan after the US invasion in 2001, detained at Guantanamo Bay, and then released to the custody of the Moroccan government in 2004. Bin ShakranÃâà...
Democracy Now
July 25, 2013
Then-Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced his intention to pardon Shaye in 2011, but apparently changed his mind after a phone call from Obama. In a statement, the White House now says it is “concerned and disappointed” by Shaye's release. “We should let that statement set in: The WhiteÃâà...
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