US ‘outsourced’ torture to other countries: probe
By Jon Boyle
24 January 2006 Reuters
The allegations have named Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria as hosts to secret detention centers. No country has acknowledged playing any active role in the network.
Earlier this month, Marty said European states had deliberately turned a blind eye to the “dirty work” that had gone on and were complicit in illegal CIA activities during the war on terrorism.
Hunger strikers close to death
By Sarah Baxter
01/22/06 “The Times” — — Washington — DESPITE force feeding by the American military, several hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay may be close to death, according to lawyers acting for the detainees.
The condition of two emaciated Yemeni hunger strikers who have been refusing solid food since August is causing particular concern. There are also fears for the life of a hospitalised Saudi prisoner.
The wife of a British resident and hunger striker, Shaker Aamer, visited the Commons last week to appeal to MPs for help. Aamer’s wife, 31, who lives in London with her four children and has asked for her name to be withheld, said: “This is the time to do something. My husband is not going to last.”
Military jury recommends no jail time for officer convicted in death of Iraqi general
By Jon Sarche
23 January 2006 Associated Press
FORT CARSON, Colo., Jan. 23 — A military jury has recommended that an officer once facing up to life in prison for the interrogation death of an Iraqi general be given only a reprimand, a decision that drew applause from soldiers.
White House Was Told Hurricane Posed Danger
By Eric Lipton
23 January 2006 New York Times
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 – The White House was told in the hours before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans that the city would probably soon be inundated with floodwater, forcing the long-term relocation of hundreds of thousands of people, documents to be released Tuesday by Senate investigators show.
A Homeland Security Department report submitted to the White House at 1:47 a.m. on Aug. 29, hours before the storm hit, said, “Any storm rated Category 4 or greater will likely lead to severe flooding and/or levee breaching.”
The internal department documents, which were forwarded to the White House, contradict statements by President Bush and the homeland security secretary, Michael Chertoff, that no one expected the storm protection system in New Orleans to be breached.
“I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees,” Mr. Bush said in a television interview on Sept. 1. “Now we’re having to deal with it, and will.”
Bush to anti-abortion activists: ‘We will prevail’
“You believe as I do that every human life has value,” Bush told the anti-abortion marchers.