AFP
May 06, 2006 |
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN and MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press May 6, 2006 ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Even with Zacarias Moussaoui's trial in federal court complete, legal experts don't expect to see top captured al-Qaida operatives brought into civilian courts soon, or perhaps ever.
Moussaoui, the inept al-Qaida conspirator who was in jail on Sept. 11, 2001, was sentenced this week to consecutive life sentences after a 4 1/2-year legal battle that cleared hurdles many thought were insurmountable. Defense lawyers questioned how fair it was for Moussaoui to face a potential death penalty while a handful of so-called "high value" al-Qaida captives, like Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and coordinator Ramzi Binalshibh, are held at secret locations with no charges. Prosecutor David Raskin told jurors: "True, they don't face the death penalty now, but they are giving information. What do think is going to happen to them when the information runs dry?" |
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS
Associated Press Fri May 5, 2006 GENEVA - The United Nations urged the United States to set an example in combatting torture, saying it must be more open in addressing allegations of prisoner abuse stemming from the war on terror.
The U.N. Committee Against Torture asked U.S. officials about a series of issues ranging from Washington's interpretation of a global ban on torture to its interrogation methods in prisons such as Abu Ghraib, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
John Eggerton
Broadcasting & Cable 4/27/2006 Reporters will be embedded with the government during natural disasters, according to a plan outlined by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at the Radio-Television News Directors Association convention in Las Vegas.
Chertoff said that it is not a battleground so "we're not going to be censoring information." But he also said that he doesn't want "interference with our physical operations," according to RTNDA. The administration came in for some heavy criticism from the media during its handling, or arguably mishandling, of the Katrina Hurricane crisis. Often, reporters seemed to know more about what was happening on the ground than the administration did, which led to some high-profile frustration from the journalists, most notably CNN's Anderson Cooper. Comment: Did you catch that? Chertoff said that because natural disasters are "not a battleground", information will not be censored, which of course suggests that information from real battlegrounds in the American war on terror ARE censored! You had it from the horses' mouth folks! Of course, if the next natural disaster in America is handled as badly as the relief effort for Hurricane Katrina, and with the US military likely to be deployed, there is a good chance that battleground America and censored news will soon be all over your TV screens.
|
www.chinaview.cn 2006-05-08 08:44:49
U.S. President said in an interview broadcast on Sunday that he would like to close the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to have the detainees there tried.
"I very much would like to end Guantanamo; I very much would like to get people to a court," Bush said in an interview with the German television ARD on Thursday. |
Have a question or comment about the Signs page? Discuss it on the Signs of the Times news forum with the Signs Team.
Some icons appearing on this site were taken from the Crystal Package by Evarldo and other packages by: Yellowicon, Fernando Albuquerque, Tabtab, Mischa McLachlan, and Rhandros Dembicki.
Remember, we need your help to collect information on what is going on in your part of the world!
Send your article suggestions to:
Contact Webmaster at signs-of-the-times.org
Cassiopaean materials Copyright ©1994-2014 Arkadiusz Jadczyk and Laura Knight-Jadczyk. All rights reserved. "Cassiopaea, Cassiopaean, Cassiopaeans," is a registered trademark of Arkadiusz Jadczyk and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.
Letters addressed to Cassiopaea, Quantum Future School, Ark or Laura, become the property of Arkadiusz Jadczyk and Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Republication and re-dissemination of our copyrighted material in any manner is expressly prohibited without prior written consent.
The Gladiator: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John F. Kennedy and All Those "isms"
John F. Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover, Organized Crime and the Global Village
John F. Kennedy and the Psychopathology of Politics
John F. Kennedy and the Pigs of War
John F. Kennedy and the Titans
John F. Kennedy, Oil, and the War on Terror
John F. Kennedy, The Secret Service and Rich, Fascist Texans
Recent Articles:
New in French! La fin du monde tel que nous le connaissons
New in French! Le "fascisme islamique"
New in Arabic! العدوّ الحقيقي
New! Spiritual Predator: Prem Rawat AKA Maharaji - Henry See
Top Secret! Clear Evidence that Flight 77 Hit The Pentagon on 9/11: a Parody - Simon Sackville
Latest Signs of the Times Editorials
Executing Saddam Hussein was an Act of Vandalism
Latest Topics on the Signs Forum |
Signs Monthly News Roundups!
June 2005
July 2005
August 2005
September 2005
October 2005
November
2005
February 2006
March 2006
April 2006
May 2006
June 2006
July 2006
August 2006
September 2006