Al Qaeda

Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations

October 4, 2007
This article is by Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen.
original article @ www.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.

Torture; the dirty business

Channel 4's shocking documentary, "Torture; the dirty business" was broadcast on Tuesday 1 March 2005. In the documentary, Craig Murray talks in detail about the torture cases he investigated as Britain's Ambassador to Uzbekistan, and his objections to the use by the UK government of information gained by the Uzbek authorities through torture.
http://www.craigmurray.co.uk


"Al Qaeda" - Lawrence Wright speaks at Princeton University

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Lawrence Wright
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Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and a current fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. He is a graduate of Tulane University, and for two years, taught at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Robert Fisk on Democracy Now, Monday, March 5th, 2007

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original article @ www.democracynow.org
Monday, March 5th, 2007
Robert Fisk is a veteran war correspondent and one of the world's most experienced journalists covering the Middle East. He has reported from across the Arab world for the past thirty years. His latest book is "The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East." He joins us in our Firehouse studio. [includes rush transcript]

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