SPB News for Sunday
The allegations of torture taken from four UN reports From the JCHR 23rd report: Details of allegations by MSS, Ragzieb Ahmed, Zeeshan Siddiqui, Salahuddin Amin, Rashid Rauf, Azhar Khan, Binyam Mohamed, Tariq Mahmood, and Tahir Shah... Seven people are bringing claims for damages against the Government. The following allege mistreatment by the US in Guantánamo Bay: Feroz Abbasi says he was subjected to very loud music in interrogations, tried to commit suicide and spent over a year in solitary confinement. Tarek Dergoul claims that British intelligence services were aware that he was tortured. Shaker Aamer claims he suffered severe beatings at Bagram Theatre Internment Facility. He says a dozen men beat him, including interrogators who said they were from MI5. Three men known as the Tipton Taleban -- Shafiq Rasul, Ruhal Ahmed and Asif Iqbal -- have made their allegations in their own report
Ex-Gitmo detainees plan to sue US for damages Two Algerian nationals released from Guantanamo Bay, who were picked up from Peshawar, are demanding an apology and planning to file a damages’ suit against the United States after spending several years behind bars at the US detention facility in Cuba. Pakistani wives of the two former Guantanamo prisoners told Daily Times on Thursday that the men were planning and contacting international human rights organisations to file a case against the US for detaining them for many years.
More than 17,000 episodes of troops going Awol since 2003 --Macho culture blamed for soldiers running away rather than asking for help British soldiers have gone on the run from their posts on more than 17,000 occasions since the start of the Iraq war, The Independent can reveal. As resources for the armed forces remain stretched to cope with Britain's commitments in Afghanistan, official figures from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) show that there were more than 2,000 cases of soldiers going absent without leave (awol) last year, with 17,470 incidents recorded since the Iraq invasion in 2003.
Official: FBI Probing Pa. School Webcam Spy Case --Lower Merion officials acknowledged Friday they remotely activated webcams 42 times in past 14 months to 'find missing student laptops' A Pennsylvania school district accused of secretly switching on laptop computer webcams inside students' homes is under investigation by federal authorities, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press. The FBI will look into whether any federal wiretap or computer-intrusion laws were violated by Lower Merion School District officials, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the investigation, told the AP on Friday.
Department of Homeland Security Officers Lost 243 Guns Over 2 Years Absent-minded officers with the Department of Homeland Security lost 243 weapons over a two-year period, a report by the agency's inspector general has found. Officers with two agencies, Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, lost 74 percent of those guns because they failed to secure the weapons, according to the report.
GM Chief Gets $9 Million Pay Package General Motors Co. Chief Executive Ed Whitacre will receive a pay package valued at $9 million to help turn around the government-owned auto maker, according to a regulatory filing. Mr. Whitacre, according to the filing, will receive a $1.7 million base salary this year. The rest of his compensation is comprised of $5.3 million in stock available to him beginning in 2012 and restricted stock units valued currently at $2 million.
Md. borrowing to pay jobless benefits Maryland, its unemployment trust fund nearly empty, is following more than 25 other states in borrowing money from Uncle Sam. The state is about to begin drawing up to $250 million so it can keep its benefit payments going to the tens of thousands of people who are unemployed statewide. In Washington County alone, that could be as many as 4,830 people.
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