Month: November 2007

In a letter to the Washington Post, MFI responds to the witch hunt against the Islamic Saudi Academy as immoral, ineffective and counterproductive to the efforts of the United States and Muslim organizations to promote religious freedom: How Not to Promote Religious Freedom (Washington Post) New York Times editorial slams certain congressional leaders for their…

Both the British State and the City of Los Angeles use Islamophobia and racial profiling as tools for dismantling liberties and real security in the name of fighting terrorism: Security Plan To Map Muslim Areas Draws Skepticism (Los Angeles Times)  UK Terror Tactics ‘Create Unease’ (BBC News)  Seeking to assert some sort of competency and…

Musharraf let’s Bhutto go only after quashing her party’s demonstration and blacking out the media and jeopardizing the U.S. plan for dealing with insurgents in the border provinces with Afghanistan… Detention Order Lifted on Benazir Bhutto (Washington Post) Pakistani Police Thwart Massive Demonstration (LA Times) Keeping Pakistanis in the Dark (Washington Post) Pakistan Strife Threatens…

Mukasey causes unease among some members of Congress by mimicking previous attorney generals by not only remaining ambiguous on waterboarding torture but also on his views of expanded presidential power: · Wartime Powers and Mukasey (Christian Science Monitor) In another shooting incident involving Blackwater in Iraq, the State Department conducts only a slipshod investigation of…

America’s ongoing saga with torture continues as Senators give Mukasey the green light despite his failure to give a definite opinion on whether or not waterboarding constituted torture and against the concerns of 24 former intelligence and national security officials, meanwhile the ACLU finds out that three, not two torture memos under Gonzales’ DoJ exist:…

Scion of Pakistan’s resistance to Musharraf’s authoritarian rule, Iftikhar Chaudry, exhorts fellow lawyers and other opposition activists to continue their protests, meanwhile Bush continues to criticize the general over martial law, but stops short of saying he’ll cut military aid to the general and is likely to continue this stance: Ousted Pakistani Chief Justice Urges…

CBS investigation reveals that a key human intelligence source of fabricated and exaggerated claims about Iraqi biological weapons capabilities used to justify the 2003 invasion was a scientist with poor academic record and an arrest record for theft who simply wanted asylum in Germany: Faulty Intel Source “Curve Ball” Revealed (CBS News) Seen as too…

Under the pretext of security interests, Musharraf invokes “Emergency Rule”, but uses his de-facto martial law powers to crackdown on the political opposition instead: Musharraf Cracks Down On Opposition (Al-Jazeera International) As part of a move to avoid further legal setbacks and perhaps finally close the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison, the Bush administration decides it…