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November 30, 2001
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Ali
The
Afghan King and the Nazis
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Rebuilding
Afghanistan?
November 29, 2001
Phillip
Cryan
Defining
Terrorism
Robert Fisk
We Are the
War Criminals Now
November 28, 2001
Tom Turnipseed
A
Continuum of Terror
Patrick Cockburn
Tribal
Council:
Don't Blame It All on Taliban
Robert
Fisk
At
Last, The Truth about the Sabra and Chatila Massacres
Harry Browne
The Bill of
Rights:
They Threw It All Away
Sunil
Sharma
Suffer
Palestine's Children
November 27, 2001
Paul Coggins
Kafka and
the Patriot Act
Tariq
Ali
Tigris
and Euprhates
November 26, 2001
Robert Fisk
Blood and
Tears in Kandahar
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Boeing's
Sweet Deal
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Human
Rights Abuses and
Nuke Waste Shipments
Alexander
Cockburn
Harry
Potter and Terrorism
November 25, 2001
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The Crisis
in Leadership
Sam Bahour
Israel's
Choice
November 24, 2001
Patrick Cockburn
He Who
Has
the Guns Rules
November 23, 2001
Phyllis
Pollack
Long
Live The Clash
Cockburn/St. Clair
The Press
and
the Patriot Act
November 22, 2001
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Gonzalez
A
Homeland Thanksgiving
November 21, 2001
CounterPunch Wire
Rep. Chambliss
Calls for Arrest of Every Muslim That Enters Georgia
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Broadcasting
and Bombing
David Price
Academia Under
Attack
Molly
Secours
Modern
Day Witch Trials
Tariq Ali
Killing
Mr. Biswas
November 20, 2001
Sam Bahour
Plain
Truths About Palestine
Michael Ratner
Moving Toward
a
Police State
A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
November 19, 2001
Edward
Said
Suicidal
Ignorance
November 18, 2001
John Farley
Shame on You,
Chelsea!
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November 30,
2001
Suspicious
Minds
Disappeared in the Southland
By Jordan Green
Facing
South
A virtual shroud of silence has been cloaked over
the detention of at least 600 immigrants, some held on visa charges,
who have been detained following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A consortium of groups, including the
ACLU and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, announced
on Oct. 29 that they filed a Freedom Of Information Act request
to the FBI, Justice Department and Immigration & Naturalization
Service to determine the identities, countries of origin, and
the charges against the detainees. The request was denied, and
they are now in the process of appealing.
"The secret detention of over 800
people over the past few weeks is frighteningly close to the
practice of 'disappearing' people in Latin America," said
Kate Martin, director of the Center for National Security Studies,
one of the groups seeking information.
Across the South, a small number of cases
have come to light, mostly involving suspects who have been released,
giving clues to the treatment of the "disappeared."
On Oct. 3, Newsweek reported on the case
of Al-Badr Al-Hazmi, a Saudi Arabian doctor who was taken from
his home in San Antonio, Tex. by agents of the FBI one day after
the Sept. 11 attacks. As he was handcuffed in front of his house,
Al-Hazmi asked, "What is my guilt?"
He was never told why he was being held.
Throughout his ordeal he was moved from administrative arrest
at the San Antonio FBI office to a jail in nearby Comal County,
and eventually to Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center
in New York City. Al-Hazmi said FBI agents routinely kicked him
in the small of his back while shouting at him as he was being
interrogated. The fourth-year radiology resident at the University
of Texas Health Science Center was unable to speak with his family
or a lawyer for 11 days. He was released on Sept. 28.
On Sept. 29, the Houston Chronicle reported
on a 20-year old Pakistani student, Hasnain Javed, who was detained
by INS agents at a Mobile, Ala. bus station. He was taken to
a prison in Mississippi, where he said he was placed in an open
dormitory with hardened criminals who called him "bin Laden."
The other inmates stripped him naked and beat him so badly that
they ruptured his eardrum, broke out a tooth, and fractured his
ribs, said Javed. Twenty to 25 minutes after he pleaded through
the intercom for help, four guards appeared and stood in the
doorway watching the conclusion of the beating.
Two days later, Javed was transported
to INS headquarters in New Orleans and released on a $5,000 bond.
In Kentucky, federal law enforcement
efforts have targeted ethnic communities that would seem to have
little to do with Islamic fundamentalism.
Four Mauritanian nationals were detained
by the INS in Louisville, Ky. following the Sept. 11 attacks,
as reported in the Courier-Journal. Attorney Rusty O'Brien said
the INS was moving to deport all four. One was released on bond
while another, thought by authorities to have requested flying
lessons, was held in the Grayson County Jail. The other two were
taken to an immigration court in New Orleans. All have subsequently
been released, according to Courier-Journal reporter Tom Loftus,
with deportation hearings set for early next year.
The week following the Louisville detentions,
a coordinated round-up consisting of federal and local law enforcement
swept through northern Kentucky, detaining 25 Mauritanians. All
were released within eight hours, but a confiscated computer
was never returned.
"They never apologized to us or
told us why they took us to the police station. We feel very
mistreated by the police, and we would like to know why we were
taken in," said Mohamed Daheye, a technology student at
Northern Kentucky University who is from Mauritania.
The raid focused on Burl Park Apartments
in Burlington, unsettling the ethnically diverse community. One
resident, Josh Boling, told the Lexington Herald-Leader that
he met a group of white men outside the apartments who said they
had come to beat up Muslims. Another resident, Robin Sanchez,
said her Mexican-American fiancée was scooped up by federal
agents and hasn't been heard from since.
In addition to detaining individuals
without trial, the State Department now wants to talk to 5,000
young male foreigners who have sought entry into the country
since Jan. 1, 2000, on tourist, student and business visas. Justice
officials say the men, all age 18 to 33 and with non-immigrant
visas, are not suspects but are wanted for voluntary interviews.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee says the list
is based on age, sex and national origin and "smacks of
racial profiling." The committee said the interviewing is
open to serious abuse if civil liberties are not respected.
Aggressive White House initiatives on
the domestic front of the anti-terrorism war this week have also
caused concern from civil libertarians. On Wednesday, President
Bush issued an executive order establishing military tribunals
to try foreigners charged with terrorism. Kenneth Roth, executive
director of Human Rights Watch, expressed concern that "a
defendant could be sentenced to death without a public trial."
Jordan Green
is Editorial & Research Associate at the Institute
for Southern Studies.
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