Held Hostage For Six Years In Guantanamo

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Sami El Haj, Al Jazeera Journalist, Tells His Story

By Silvia Cattori

Standing straight and tall, an impressive and deeply introspective
man, Sami El Haj walks with a limp and the help of a walking stick.
Neither laughter nor smiles light up the refined face of this man, old
before his time. A deep sadness pervades him. He was 32 years old
when, in December 2001, his life, like that of tens of thousands of
other Muslims, became a horrific nightmare.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20409.htm

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The Ongoing Persecution of Sami al-Arian

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

There are few prospects in the justice system so grimly awful as when
the feds decide never to let go. Rebuffed in their persecutions of
some target by juries, or by contrary judges, they shift ground,
betray solemn agreements, dream up new stratagems to exhaust their
victims, drive them into bankruptcy, despair and even suicide. They
have all the money and all the time in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20411.htm

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British Territory Used for US "Terrorism Interrogation"

In 2002 and possibly 2003, the U.S. imprisoned and interrogated one or
more terrorism suspects on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean
controlled by the United Kingdom.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1828469,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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An Interview with Laila al-Arian

"What Did My Father Do to Deserve Such Treatment?"

By NANCY WELCH

IN 2006, after a Florida jury refused to return a guilty verdict on
any of the charges that the Bush Justice department had brought
against him, your father signed a plea agreement with federal
prosecutors to secure his release from prison. Why wasn't your father
released and deported as agreed? What's happened since?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20437.htm

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Prisoner 650

By Yvonne Ridley

The FBI has now moved into the realms of fantasy land with the news
that Dr Aafia Siddique has "conveniently" been found outside a
governor's office in Afghanistan with her 12 year old son ... FIVE
years after her disappearance in Karachi.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20439.htm