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December 11, 2001
Robert Fisk
Why I Was
Beaten
December 10, 2001
Robert
Dunham
Race
and the Death Penalty:
Partners in Injustice
Andy Kershaw
Chamber of
Horrors
Near the Garden of Eden
John Touchie
Isaac's
on Chomsky
December 9, 2001
Jo Dillon
Journalist:
The CIA Wanted
Me Killed
John Chuckman
High-Tech
Puritanism
December 8, 2001
Laurence Tribe
Military Tribunals
Undermine the Constitution
Patrick
Cockburn
The
End of a Strange War
December 7, 2001
John Troyer
Blacklist Me!
Sen. Edwards
v. Ashcroft
Military
Tribunals
George Naggiar
Occupation
as Terrorism
Hugo von
Sponek
and Denis Halliday
Iraq
the Hostage Nation
David Vest
The Coen
Brothers'
Minstrel Show
Alexander
Cockburn
Sharon
or Arafat:
Who's the Terrorist?
December 6, 2001
CounterPunch Wire
Hampshire
College the First
to Condemn the War
Robert
Jensen
University
Teaching After
September 11
Jack McCarthy
Does
Tom Friedman Read
the New York Times?
Sam and
Leila Bahour
The
Psychology of a Suicide Attacker
December 5, 2001
Edward Hammond
The Only
Real Way to
Prevent Biowarfare
Harvey
Wasserman
Atomic
Treason in the House
Carl Estabrook
America's
Israel
Don Williams
Questions
Barbara Walters Didn't Ask George Bush
Cockburn/St. Clair
Liberals
Hail War as
Return of Big Government
Robert
Fisk
The
Last Colonial War?
Bahour/Dahan
It's About
the Occupation
December 4, 2001
Dave Marsh
A
Plea for Byron Parker
Rep. Ron Paul
Keep Your
Eye on the Target
Susan
Herman
Ashcroft
and the Patriot Act
Tariq Ali
The Afghan
King and the Nazis
November 30, 2001
Jordan
Green
Disappeared
in the Southland
Willliam Blum
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
CounterPunch Wire
Human
Rights Abuses and
Nuke Waste Shipments
Alexander
Cockburn
Harry
Potter and Terrorism
A Photographic Journal of Life
in an Afghan Refugee Camp
By Judith Mann
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December 11,
2001
University of Wisconsin
Will Not Aid Interviews
By Joshua Orton
Citing a lack of specific criminal information,
UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley announced in a written statement
Thursday that UW Police will not assist the U.S. Attorney's Office
in the questioning of international students.
"University officials, including
me, believe the criteria to select individuals for interviews
... is broadly based and appears to consist of people who are
not suspected of any crimes or suspicious activities," Wiley
said.
Wiley's announcement came after recent
reports that two or three UW-Madison students had been questioned
in conjunction with terrorism investigations ordered by U.S.
Attorney General John Ashcroft to interview 5,000 Middle Eastern
men who have entered the country since Jan. 1, 2000.
In addition, university officials say
they will maintain a policy of only providing federal officials
with already public information, unless legally bound to do otherwise.
UW-Madison University Communications
spokesperson John Lucas said that to the best knowledge of UW-Madison
administration, any contacting of students by federal authorities
thus far has been "obtained in a manner other than [through]
a records request to the UW."
Other local authorities are taking similar
positions. For instance, Madison Police Department Public Information
Officer Larry Kamholz said police would not assist federal authorities
questioning individuals unless there is a specific suspicion
of criminal activity. Kamholz cited departmental concerns regarding
the use of racial profiling to question individuals.
"We're not going to start violating
people's rights just because of their ethnic background or wherever
they're from," Kamholz said. "Just on that basis, you
won't see involvement from this department."
Cathy Fahey, a spokesperson for the Milwaukee
field office of the FBI, also denied Thursday having conducted
the reported student interviews.
In addition, Grant Johnson, U.S. attorney
for the Western District of Wisconsin, who is overseeing Justice
Department investigations in Madison, denied that student questioning
was related to Ashcroft's orders regarding the list of Middle
Eastern men.
Johnson would not comment on who might
have conducted the interviews or for what reason, only saying
that the reported student interviews "[have] nothing to
do with the list of people that we're supposed to interview at
the direction of the attorney general through the District Terrorism
Task Force."
The UW-Madison Office of International
Student Services, which originally reported the questioning of
students, did not respond to media inquiries Thursday.
According to Lucas, the questioned students
originally saw an adviser in the Office of International Student
Services after being sought for interviews.
The identity of the questioned students,
as well as who questioned them, still remains unknown.
Johnson said he was aware that "some"
of the men on the list were university students, who have yet
to be questioned. He said his office was taking the list given
to it by the U.S. Attorney General's Office and cross-matching
it to local public directories, such as UW-Madison's student
directory, in order to find accurate contact information.
Outlining the procedure for interviewing
individuals, Johnson said agents from his office, or cooperating
local officials, would visit individuals at home. If no contact
was made, a note would be left directing the individual to call
the U.S. Attorney's Office. Once contact was made, he said, agents
would ask if the individual would like to be interviewed, and
would also explain what was wanted from the interview.
If the individual declined to answer
questions, agents would "smile and say 'thank you,'"
Johnson said. If personal legal counsel was requested by the
interviewee, both individual and counsel would be directed to
the assistant U.S. Attorney and the U.S. Attorney assigned to
the task force.
"We'd figure out what they wanted
to do and move on with life," Johnson said.
"This is truly a voluntary program."
Micabil Diaz, the legal director of the
Wisconsin American Civil Liberties Union, said students should
not answer any questions without the presence of a lawyer.
"If any of these investigatory agencies
approach you, seek a lawyer," he said.
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