Guantanamo prisoner is not POW, U.S. judge says --"Unlawful enemy combatant" will face military tribunal at U.S. naval base. Osama bin Laden's driver is not a prisoner of war as defined by the Geneva Conventions and can be tried by a Guantanamo war crimes tribunal, a U.S. military judge ruled in a decision made public on Thursday. The judge said Yemeni prisoner Salim Ahmed Hamdan is an "unlawful enemy combatant" under the law passed by Congress last year to provide a legal basis to try non-Americans on terrorism charges in a special war crimes kangaroo court at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Bush Says "Does Not Recall" Being Briefed on CIA Tapes --Will "Reserve Judgment" on Destruction of CIA Torture Tapes. President [sic] Bush insisted today that he would "reserve judgment" on the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes pending inquiries by the federal government and Congress, and stood by his previous assertion that he does not recall being informed of the matter until he was briefed on it this month. In response to questions about the videotapes at a year-end [?] White House news conference, Bush also suggested that critics ofharsh interrogation techniques torture shown in the tapes want the United States to become isolationist.
Bush Says "Does Not Recall" Being Briefed on CIA Tapes --Will "Reserve Judgment" on Destruction of CIA Torture Tapes. President [sic] Bush insisted today that he would "reserve judgment" on the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes pending inquiries by the federal government and Congress, and stood by his previous assertion that he does not recall being informed of the matter until he was briefed on it this month. In response to questions about the videotapes at a year-end [?] White House news conference, Bush also suggested that critics of
Iraq, Afghanistan War Costs Top Vietnam Congress' approval Wednesday of $70 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan mean the twin conflicts are now more costly to American taxpayers than the war in Vietnam. According to a study by the Washington-based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Congress has now approved nearly $700 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Torture chamber found north of Baghdad Blood-splotches on walls, chains hanging from a ceiling and swords found on the killing floor of a suspected al-Qaida Blackwater in Iraq torture chamber are the latest horrors discovered by U.S. soldiers pushing into Diyala province. The U.S. military -- which discovered the torture site, along with nine weapons caches during a Dec. 8-11 operation north of Muqdadiyah, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad.
Bush's bid to punish Iranian banks stalls The Bush regime's new policy of penalizing Iranian banks is facing a critical challenge as financial institutions in Russia, China and much of the Middle East decline to cut ties, analysts and diplomats say. Even Afghanistan and Iraq have so far declined to take action against Bank Melli, Iran's largest public financial institution, which was among the first foreign banks to open branches in Kabul and Baghdad.
Bush: Patience with Syria's Assad ran out long ago President [sic] George W. Bush on Thursday warned Damascus against interfering in Lebanon's political crisis, saying his patience with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had run out long ago. [Right, and our patience with Bush bin Laden ran out on 20 January 2001.]
Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday. "We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area that encompasses our country are free to join us," long-time Indian rights activist Russell Means told a handful of reporters and a delegation from the Bolivian embassy, gathered in a church in a run-down neighborhood of Washington for a news conference.
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