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"War on terror is undermining democracy"

Political repression and the war on terror are expected to be amongst issues discussed at the five-day CIVICUS World Assembly that begins in the Scottish city of Glasgow on June 21. Kumi Naidoo, CIVICUS secretary general, said that some of civil society's most important activists could not be there as they were in prison. The conference will look at the state of civil society, including "the war on terror and how it is undermining democratic space." (Moyiga Nduru - IPS/TerraViva, 10 June 2006)

http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/civicus/viewstory.asp?idnews=632

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"War on terror" has made world worse -Amnesty

By Gideon Long LONDON, May 28 (Reuters) - Washington's "war on terror" has made the world more dangerous by curbing human rights, undermining international law and shielding governments from scrutiny, Amnesty International said on Wednesday. Releasing its annual report into global human rights abuses in 2002, the London-based watchdog made one of its fiercest attacks yet on the policies pursued by the United States and Britain in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001. If the war on terror was supposed to make the world safer, it has failed, and has given governments an excuse to abuse human rights in the name of state security, it said.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/052903E.shtml

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9/11 Report: Joint Congressional Inquiry

(Findlaw) Report of the Joint Inquiry into the Terrorist Attacks Of September 11, 2001 - by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence July 24, 2003.

http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/911rpt/index.html

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A More Secure World: Our Shared Resposibility

Report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, United Nations 2004. "In its report, the High-level Panel sets out a bold, new vision of collective security for the 21st century. We live in a world of new and evolving threats, threats that could not have been anticipated when the UN was founded in 1945 - threats like nuclear terrorism, and State collapse from the witch's brew of poverty, disease and civil war ... The report is the start, not the end, of a process. The year 2005 will be a crucial opportunity for Member States to discuss and build on the recommendations in the report, some of which will be considered by a summit of heads of State."

http://www.un.org/secureworld/

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Al-Jazeera Journalist Freed From Guantanamo After 6 Years

"The situation is very bad and getting worse day after day," Sami al-Haj, who had been on a hunger strike for 16 months, said of conditions in Guantanamo. He claimed guards prevent Muslims from practicing their religion and reading the Quran. (Common Dreams, May 2, 2008)

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/02/8663/

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Amnesty Barred From Guantanamo Trials

Amnesty International and two other leading human rights organisations are protesting to the Pentagon about its decision not to let them attend the planned trials of al-Qaida suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The US defence department, in a written response to the organisations published today, refused to allow them to send representatives, citing the lack of courtroom space and other logistical problems. Journalists and the International Committee of the Red Cross will be able to attend.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1154427,00.html

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An article by John Pilger - THIS WAR IS A FRAUD

The war against terrorism is a fraud. After three weeks' bombing, not a single terrorist implicated in the attacks on America has been caught or killed in Afghanistan. Instead, one of the poorest, most stricken nations has been terrorised by the most powerful - to the point where American pilots have run out of dubious "military" targets and are now destroying mud houses, a hospital, Red Cross warehouses, lorries carrying refugees. From The Mirror (Mirror.co.uk.), 29 October 2001. Cited 19 Dec 2001.

http://www.zmag.org/hiddenpilger.htm

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An article by Mumia Abu-Jamal - SECRET WARS

Secret wars have dotted the history of the U.S., and made her the enemy of millions, on several continents. For the poor in Latin America, in the Caribbean, in Africa and parts of Asia, the U.S. is seen as a powerful, yet schizophrenic child. She will arbitrarily remove leaders of governments, insert agents of disorder, and wage vicious propaganda wars against other countries through her media machine. 12 Oct 2001. From Tactical Media Crew. Cited 19 Dec 2001.

http://squat.net/tmc/msg02253.html

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An article by Mumia Abu-Jamal - WHY?

T(he) almost willful ignorance of millions of Americans allows them to look at the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, and the veering jet liners of 11 September, 2001, and ask, "Why?". If you, the reader, don't want to hear an answer to this rhetorical question, feel free to turn the page, for the writer's response will not please you. From a cell in Waynesburg, Pa. Afrikan Frontline Network, Friday, 21 September 2001. Cited 19 Dec 2001.

http://www.peacenowar.net/Sep%2021%2001--Mumia.htm

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An Interview with Noam Chomsky - Chomsky In First Person

In this exclusive interview, Noam Chomsky speaks to V.K. Ramachandran about the 'new war against terrorism', imperialism, the media and the role of intellectuals. From 'Frontline' - Volume 18 - Issue 25, Dec. 08 -21, 2001. India's National Magazine, from the publishers of THE HINDU. Cited 20 Dec 2001.

http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm

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An Interview with Noam Chomsky - THE UNITED STATES IS A LEADING TERRORIST STATE

The U.S. is the only country that was condemned for international terrorism by the World Court and that rejected a Security Council resolution calling on states to observe international law. It continues international terrorism. That example's the least of it. Cited 19 Dec 2001. Interview conducted by David Barsamian. From Monthly Review, Nov 2001, Vol 53, No. 6.

http://www.monthlyreview.org/1101chomsky.htm

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An Interview with Noam Chomsky on the September 11 Tragedy

Professor Noam Chomsky, Professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and one of the world's most incisive thinkers and a vociferous critics of American foreign policy gives an exclusive interview to to George Iype.

http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/nov/24inter.htm

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Anatomy of a State Security Case: The 'Victorious Sect' Arrests

A high-profile terrorism case announced by the Egyptian authorities in 2006 was likely based on torture and false confessions, Human Rights Watch says in a 76 page report that examines the case of 22 young Egyptians charged with plotting to carry out violent attacks on tourists and other civilian targets in Cairo.

http://hrw.org/reports/2007/egypt1207/

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Angry Young Men, Veiled Young Women

Corner House Briefing 34, by Anne Hendrixson. December 2004. This briefing sets out a short history and critique of youth bulge theory in the context of the attack on New York's World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 and the subsequent growth of US militarism at home and abroad. It aims not only to call attention to how the theory reflects, and is reflected in, racial, gender and age discrimination, but also to suggest how it is being contested.

http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/item.shtml?x=85999#index-08-00-00-00

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Bali? Blame 40 Years Of US State Terrorism - John Pilger

John Pilger on the West's grim role in Indonesia's turmoil. "Last week's atrocity in Bali, like the September 11 attacks on America, did not happen in isolation. They were products, like everything, of the past. According to George W Bush, Tony Blair and now Australia's prime minister, John Howard, we have no right to understand them. We must simply get the criminals, dead or alive."

http://www.muhajabah.com/islamicblog/archives/the_clipboard/001250.php

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Bin Laden, Who is he?

12 September 2001. by Michel Chossudovsky. Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa.

http://context.nelson.org.nz/stories/storyReader$1280

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Calculating tragedy : assessing the costs of terrorism

Institute for Empirical Research in Economics working paper, no. 205, September 2004 by Bruno S. Frey, Simon Luechinger and Alois Stutzer. The trends and consequences of terrorist activities are often captured by counting the number of incidents and casualties. More recently, the effects of terrorist acts on various aspects of the economy have been analysed. These costs are surveyed and put in perspective. As economic consequences are only a part of the overall costs of terrorism, possible approaches for estimating the utility losses of the people affected are discussed. Results using the life satisfaction approach, in which individual utility is approximated by self-reported subjective well-being, suggest that people's utility losses may far exceed the purely economic consequences.

http://www.iew.unizh.ch/wp/iewwp205.pdf

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Chomsky,Noam. 21 September 2001 interview

How do you see the media coverage of this event? Is there a parallel to the Gulf War in "manufacturing consent?"

http://www.zmag.org/chomint2.htm

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Counter-Terrorism Measures and Development

A section of the INTRAC website holding the findings of workshops held by INTRAC alongside analysis of the impact of counter terrorism measures in Europe, South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East.

http://www.intrac.org/pages/noticeboard.html

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Desert Faux: The Sahara's Mirage of Terrorism

When two U.S. Marine helicopters recently went down off Djibouti, a tiny slice of desert at the entrance to the Red Sea, they exposed a low-profile program that has poured money and troops into a broad swath of northern Africa from the Indian to the Atlantic Oceans, which encompasses some nine nations in the region. The Bush administration claims the target of this program, called the Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Initiative, is the growing presence of al-Qaida-influenced organizations in the region. Critics, however, charge that the enterprise has more to do with oil than with Osama bin Laden. FPIF Commentary, By Conn Hallinan March 2, 2006.

http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3136

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Double Jeopardy: CIA Renditions to Jordan

This 36-page report documents how Jordan's General Intelligence Department (GID) served as a proxy jailer and interrogator for the CIA from 2001 until at least 2004. While a handful of countries received persons rendered by the United States during this period, no other country is believed to have held as many as Jordan (Huamn Rights Watch, April 2008).

http://hrw.org/reports/2008/jordan0408/

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Ending Secret Detention (pdf)

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 17) - A new report from Human Rights First (the new name of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) outlines the scope of the global network of U.S. detention facilities holding suspects in the "war on terror." The report lists more than two dozen facilities that have been reported by Human Rights First sources and the media; at least half of these operate in total secrecy. The report, called "Ending Secret Detention," concludes that the secrecy surrounding this network of detention facilities, as it has been constructed and operated by the United States, makes "inappropriate detention and abuse not only likely, but inevitable."

http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/media/2004_alerts/0617.htm

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Guantanamo Canadian case dropped

A US military judge has dropped charges against a Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay, saying he could not be tried under new laws governing military tribunals.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6720315.stm

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How to defeat bin Laden

The U.S. should drop its war rhetoric and convince the Islamic world that he is a dangerous fugitive from justice. By Michael T. Klare [09/13/01] Salon.com

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/09/13/justice/index.html

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Human Rights Watch Publication: AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, AND PAKISTAN

This report documents some of the key problems that Afghan refugees now confront. These relate both to the causes of their flight from Afghanistan and their treatment in exile in Pakistan and Iran. February 2002 Vol. 14, No. 2(G).

http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/pakistan/index.htm

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