Lebanon Daily Star columnist Rami Khouri gives his analysis of the latest polling data on Muslims by Gallup and contrasts with the ignorant rhetoric of the current American presidential candidates:
- A Poll That Disproves Western Myths About Muslims (Lebanon Daily Star)
Waterboarded Gitmo detainee Abu Zubaydah finally gets a lawyer after being held for 6 years, meanwhile one of the administration’s chief legal defenders of torture and anti-habeus corpus resigns:
- Held 6 Years, Al Qaeda Suspect Sees Lawyers (Miami Herald)
- Pentagon General Counsel Resigns (The Nation)
Big Brother gets beaten back by parliament, rejecting a bill to detain terrorism suspects for 42 days without charges:
- Gordon Brown Faces Defeat On 42-Day Anti-Terror Law (London Times)
Egypt political motivations perpetuate the delay 40 Muslim Brotherhood members and cause the detention of another 16:
- Egyptian Military Tribunal Puts Off Trial of Muslim Brothers Held Since 2006 (Lebanon Daily Star)
- Egypt Detains 16 Brotherhood Members (The News)
President Bush uses fear-mongering to goad the House of Representatives into renewing the warrantless spy law, however one telecom lawyer finds “he had seen little practical effect on the industry’s surveillance operations since the law expiredâ€:
- Bush Pushes House to Renew Surveillance Law (Washington Post)
- In Wiretap Law’s Stead, Uncertainty (New York Times)
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