He said he was kept awake for 16 days straight, and physically abused repeatedly.
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22792.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22792.htm
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Hold Your Applause
By Chris Hedges
Did they play Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world in the prison corridors of Abu Ghraib, Bagram air base, Guantanamo or the dozens of secret sites where we hold thousands of Muslims around the world?
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22793.htm
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22793.htm
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Pakistani refugees doubt army victory over Taliban:
Pakistan’s claims that it has defeated the Taliban and regained control of the Swat Valley ring hollow for many of the 3 million refugees and others who fear the government is exaggerating its battlefield successes.
http://snipurl.com/jpv40
http://snipurl.com/jpv40
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90% tribesmen have left South Waziristan:
More than 4, 500 houses and shops had been damaged in the current operation. staff report
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=200968\story_8-6-2009_pg7_8
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=200968\story_8-6-2009_pg7_8
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Pakistan: United Nations says 60 per cent of Swat’s schools destroyed:
Sixty per cent of the schools in Swat in Pakistan’s restive northwest, where the military is now focusing its anti-Taliban operations, have been destroyed, the UN said.
http://snipurl.com/jpv5j
http://snipurl.com/jpv5j
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Hezbollah warns Lebanon not to touch its weapons:
“The majority must commit not to question our role as a resistance party, the legitimacy of our weapons arsenal and the fact that Israel is an enemy state,” Hezbollah official Mohamed Raad told Agence France-Presse.
http://snipurl.com/jpv9t
http://snipurl.com/jpv9t
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Former President Carter plans Gaza visit:
Former President Jimmy Carter will visit Syria, Israel, the West Bank and Gaza this week to promote constructive dialogue on the Israeli-Arab conflict, a spokeswoman for the Carter Center said Sunday.
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/060809/loc_0608090008.shtml
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/060809/loc_0608090008.shtml
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.S. May Permit 9/11 Guilty Pleas in Capital Cases:
The provision could permit military prosecutors to avoid airing the details of brutal interrogation techniques. It could also allow the five detainees who have been charged with the Sept. 11 attacks to achieve their stated goal of pleading guilty to gain what they have called martyrdom.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/us/politics/06gitmo.html?_r=3&hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/us/politics/06gitmo.html?_r=3&hp
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Top Chinese banker Guo Shuqing calls for wider use of yuan:
The head of China’s second-largest bank has said the United States government should start issuing bonds in yuan, rather than dollars, in the latest indication of the increasing importance of the Chinese currenc
http://snipurl.com/jpvm3
http://snipurl.com/jpvm3
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600,000 Seniors About To Lose Their Homes:
More than 600,000 seniors are delinquent in their mortgage payments or already in foreclosure, USA Today reports.
http://snipurl.com/jpvn5
http://snipurl.com/jpvn5
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Unemployment rate highest since 1983:
The U.S. economy cut 345,000 jobs last month alone. The count of total jobs lost in the current economic recession is 6 million. The unemployment rate, at 9.4 percent in May, has risen to the highest level since 1983.
http://snipurl.com/jpvos
http://snipurl.com/jpvos
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