Author: Alejandro
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News and Analysis (4/24/08)
Federal magistrate judge in Chicago says invoking “state secrets†is an invalid justification to refuse telling Americans whether or not they are on the terrorism watch list: Judge Rules on Terrorism Watch Lists (New York Times) Huge paper trail in Freedom Of Information Act filing by human rights groups underscores depth of CIA’s torture program:…
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News and Analysis (4/23/08)
Caught between ongoing violence and economic deprivation, many of Iraq’s one million widows fight each day to survive and maintain their families, while Iraqi Christians struggle to maintain their presences within Iraq: Iraqi Women Take On Roles Of Dead or Missing Husbands (Washington Post) Iraqi Christians Struggle With Fear After Slayings (Washington Post) Former extremists…
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News and Analysis (4/22/08)
Experts on law and terror financing find government prosecutions of Muslim charities use McCarthyite tactics and reasoning that arrest innocent individuals, erode civil liberties and ineffective in fight terrorist networks: Trials of Muslim Charities Likened to a Witch-Hunt (Inter Press Service/Antiwar.com) The declassified Yoo torture memo gave the government that has increasingly used terror tactics…
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A Metric of Security Failure: America “Bleeding Green” in the Fight Against Al-Qaeda
A few days ago Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad wrote an incisive analysis on the economic costs of the US-led military occupation in Iraq. In it he described how the price tag of empire is hitting the American economy very hard. It is something impossible to ignore despite the administration’s best efforts to systematically spin the ongoing…
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News and Analysis (4/21/08)
Carter returns from his meeting with Meshaal and other Hamas officials saying they are open to a peace deal, but with certain conditions… Carter Says Hamas Open to Peace Deal (Reuters/New York Times) …meanwhile Israel faces a greater military and public relations threat from Hamas as the tactical lessons it learned from Hizbullah lead it…
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News and Analysis (4/19-20/08)
Pentagon’s establishes and uses secret relations with TV military analysts to enact “a coherent, active policy†of systematically spinning media coverage in favor of Bush administration policies: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand (New York Times) Data compiled by US government experts finds 542 out a record-high 658 suicide bombings in 2007 took place in…
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News and Analysis (4/18/08)
Although some unease with the Pope’s earlier comments exists, Muslims at the grassroots level enjoy relations … Wary Reception Among Muslims Who Recall Pontiff’s Remark About Muhammad (New York Times) … while the Minaret of Freedom Institute issues a call to the Pope to adopt a scholarly approach towards interfaith dialog: Our Message to the…
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Democratization in Turkey: Stumbling Blocks and the Prospects
On April 15, 2008 Georgetown University hosted former Turkish Parliamentarian Merve Kavakci to discuss “Democratization in Turkey and Stumbling Blocks and the Prospectsâ€. The event was co-sponsored by the Georgetown Muslim Students Association, the Lecture Fund and the International Students Association. The event kicked off with an introduction by Georgetown senior Hafsa Kanjwal. She provided…
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News and Analysis (4/17/08)
Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar argues that no peace between the Israelis and Palestinians can be achieved without first allowing discussions to begin without any preconditions… No Peace Without Hamas (Washington Post) …meanwhile 20 Palestinians are killed in Israel’s latest bombing campaign, including 13 civilians and among them were 5 children and a Reuters cameraman: Fighting…
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News and Analysis (4/16/08)
The surge shows more limitations of its so-called success as 291 Iraqis are killed or wounded, more Iraqi soldiers continue to desert their posts and disagreements arise between the US military and Iraqi government over what do about Sadr’s political and military presence: Tuesday: 2 Marines, 125 Iraqis Killed; 166 Iraqis Wounded (Antiwar.com) Iraqi Unit…
