War against terror

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[*] The prisoners do not have to give out any information apart from name rank and serial number. Interrogation of POWs is forbidden.

Obviously this would make the various interrogations rather problematic, should the US respect this Geneva rule.

[*] Prisoners are not to be subjected to any form of humiliation

Hmm, kept in cages? Drugged and hogtied during transport?

Yeah I think as a general rule they are trying to make nutcases of everyone in that camp by drugging them up and cutting them off from any sort of reality and advice.  Also they have specialists there that regularly tell them they are insane... there you go, tell someone they are insane for two years and keep them isolated, they might think they really are.  

I hope you were being sarcastic, but what would be the point in turning the prisoners into fruit loops? Look at the running costs and staffing levels of a psychiatric hospital in comparison to a regular prison, psychos take more and better trained staff to be looked after. Secondly what kind of useful information about al Qaeda or ansar al-Islam or any other terrorist organisation these people allegedly belong to can you get if they are incapable of rational thought. You need reliable minds for reliable intelligence.

I was not, it's true.  They will just deport the prisonners once they are deemed useless to anyone.

EDIT: I find you are wrong about how information is best extracted.  

Please elaborate...

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No I will not elaborate on torture and information extraction techniques, I'm not qualified.

Anyway, the war on terrorism rings into Canada, but in a surprizing way. The terrorists are not the usual "arabic alquada", but some institution which is coalition friendly. What happened is a prissoner was released from Quantanamo bay concentration camp ( because I think that's what prisonners do there, they concentrate on how not to go nuts) a few weeks ago, 20-year-old Abdurahman Khadr. he was denied any contact with Canadian officials to arrange return to Canada instead of Afghanistan. He wanted to go to Canada, but they deported him to Afghanistan anyway saying Canda did not want him. This guy had some friends of the family though and got his butt back to Canada eventually through the UK. And now he has a lawyer representing him in order to straighten out what the Americans call justice over there.

story on emprisonment and return to Canada http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/CBC/2003/12/01/Khadrnewser_031201

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Yesterday his lawyer received death threats from what he says was an "institution", and so he has decided to stop defending/representing the 20 year old. (makes sense) He was basically tearfull when speaking, he says because there is not justice in this supposed Democracy in Canada. Depending on who and from which institution made the call, it seems he is right. And the terrorists are now the person/people who made the call to him.

Story on the threat

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/12/04/galati_031204

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet....Stories

video there

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6 Afghani children killed in US blunder

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Now this, this is one of the most interesting discussions I have seen. It is a 50 minute recording, and not a bore at all.

I am unsure how many of you have already seen it, perhaps not so many, or I have missed yet another important post.

The Riverside Conversations: a series of conversations for television hosted by Jim Rogers. Each installment will be 50 minutes long and concentrate, in depth, on one important issue.

It has a lot to do with the state of the world and it's economic workings, this has close relations to terrorism obviously and fits in this thread quite nicely.

Don't thank me all at the same time

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More films to watch from that site, I would say they are worth the time...

The Carlyle Group (financial scandal deal)

and remember our dear Al Jazeera? who kind of got silenced through cracking and bombed by the US. yeah that AL Jazeera

AJ

And this, I was surprized someone had recorded this of our CBC TV, a Nazi sounding treatment of 1000+ Taliban prisonners, you be the judge.

Afghanistan POW's, what containers?

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The most interesting part about this is to in practice see how a civilized country that is based on a well defined fair legal system is willing to throw away all its rules and resort to barabarism once it feels threatened enough. Face it, the willingness to throw away the basic ideal defined through the constitution was an effect of post-WTC attack hysteria.

The irony of it is that it's exactly what bin Laden and his merry men had wet dreams about. They managed to shake America so much that it's willing to throw away all its basic ideals. Bin Laden could have not hoped for more.

You are so right but what should they do just don't care?

And just say oh well 3000 people here and there that dosen't matter so much we are so meany

And even if its bad to torture someone aint it better than being dead or if you could save sombody from getting killed, that where on your side??

Can you use a man ho wants to kill you to enything??

Aint it just kill or be killed some times??

STGN

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/29/saudi.explosion/index.html

Quote[/b] ](CNN) -- A car owned by a Saudi intelligence officer exploded Monday in a residential neighborhood of Riyadh, destroying the car and shattering nearby windows but causing no injuries, sources in Saudi Arabia said.

Sources said the intelligence officer was driving when he suspected something was wrong. He quickly parked the car and got out seconds before it exploded, they said.

The sources said the explosion came from underneath the parked car, but further details were not available. Authorities immediately sealed off the area.

The blast happened just as evening prayers ended, the sources said. The car was parked along the street near a mosque in the al-Salam neighborhood in east Riyadh, a Saudi official said.

Civil defense chief Gen. Saad bin Abdullah al-Towaijiri was quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency as saying a Lexus exploded, but no one was harmed.

feel sorry for the Saudi intel officer now he has to live in seclusion...

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feel sorry for the Saudi intel officer now he has to live in seclusion...

And it was a Lexus!

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Here's how to fight terror: tell the world what you're looking for.

FBI Issues Alert Against Almanac Carriers

Quote[/b] ]FBI Issues Alert Against Almanac Carriers

Mon Dec 29, 9:29 PM ET

By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning.

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Here's how to fight terror: tell the world what you're looking for.

FBI Issues Alert Against Almanac Carriers

Quote[/b] ]FBI Issues Alert Against Almanac Carriers    

Mon Dec 29, 9:29 PM ET

By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning.

Farmers are the real terrorists.

[theavonlady 2]

@ Dec. 30 2003,09:46)]Farmers are the real terrorists.

I thought poor Richard was.

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6 Afghani children killed in US blunder

Not working for me this one, article removed?

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Here's how to fight terror: tell the world what you're looking for.

FBI Issues Alert Against Almanac Carriers

Quote[/b] ]FBI Issues Alert Against Almanac Carriers    

Mon Dec 29, 9:29 PM ET

By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning.

That is quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard.  You can do a lot of things with almanacs, so a lot of people carry them.  And no terrorist would be stupid enough to walk around with an almanac now.

Now some poor librarian is going to get mugged for walking around with a new almanac.

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Quote[/b] ]The FBI noted that use of almanacs or maps may be innocent, "the product of legitimate recreational or commercial activities." But it warned that when combined with suspicious behavior — such as apparent surveillance — a person with an almanac "may point to possible terrorist planning."

   

Actually it's scary that people that come up with things like that are allowed to have children and to pollute the human gene pool.  

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Quote[/b] ]Actually it's scary that people that come up with things like that are allowed to have children and to pollute the human gene pool.

Well they just follow and copy their leader.

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">"The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the—the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice."—Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2003

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6 Afghani children killed in US blunder

Not working for me this one, article removed?

Yeah... they removed it.. wtf (but this was confirmed news, not like that source is the only one)

[theavonlady 2]

Must be a lot of almanacs around. According to Debka:

Quote[/b] ]Las Vegas to close its airspace over New Year’s Eve. Chicago’s closure in place since heightened alert. New York City, Disney World and other US cities expected to follow. Federal helicopters to patrol NYC’s skies.

[theavonlady 2]

Busy day:

Germany Raises Security at Hospital

Quote[/b] ]Germany Raises Security at Hospital

22 minutes ago

BERLIN - Police said Tuesday they received a tip-off that Islamic extremists planned car bomb attacks on a German military hospital in Hamburg, prompting them to shut off several streets around the building.

Hamburg police received the information from unidentified "security sources," a city police statement said. It stated that authorities had "concrete indications of people who want to carry out attacks by means of a car bomb" on the facility, in the suburb of Wandsbek.

"Those potentially involved are believed to be from an Islamic, terrorist background," it added, without elaborating.

State officials evaluated the threat as "very serious," it added, and immediately ordered enhanced security at the hospital. That will remain in place until further notice, police said.

Letter Bombs to EU from Bologna

Quote[/b] ]Letter Bombs to EU from Bologna -Investigators

58 minutes ago

By Patrick Lannin

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Investigators said on Tuesday four letter bombs delivered in four days to top European Union officials and EU bodies involved in crime-fighting came from Bologna in Italy.

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Raising the stakes. (From Yahoo News).

Quote[/b] ]British Airways cancels Washington flight

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LONDON (Reuters) - British Airways has cancelled one of its three daily flights from London to Washington following security advice from the government, a BA spokesman says.

The same flight, BA 223, was detained on the tarmac at Washington's Dulles International Airport on Wednesday for several hours shortly after landing.

FBI and Transportation Security Administration agents questioned passengers and crew for several hours aboard the flight and no arrests were made.

"We cancelled the flight for security reasons given to us by the UK government," the BA spokesman told Reuters. He did not give further details about the type of information given by the government.

A spokeswoman for the Department of Transport said she was unable to comment on whether the cancellation was a result of a specific threat.

The BA spokesman said alternative arrangements had been made for the 180 passengers on Thursday's flight, which had been scheduled to leave Heathrow airport at 10:05 a.m.

Neither of the other two daily flights had been cancelled, the spokesman said.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20040101/ts_nm/security_usa_dc

Quote[/b] ]FLIGHT CANCELED

There were other indications of unusually tight security. The Washington Post reported that F-16 fighter jets escorted at least two Air France flights into Los Angeles airport late Tuesday and on Wednesday. One aviation official told the newspaper that fighter jets had been trailing specific Mexican airline and Air France flights into Los Angeles all week

Wtf trailing for weeks?

Damn i dont wanna be on a plane with a trigger happy F-16 behind me ....

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Well it´s Air France. Must be the reason why  

Maybe they had possible WMD´s onboard ?

See ?

I have proof

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Now those are WMD's i can take anytime

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Damn i dont wanna be on a plane with a trigger happy F-16 behind me ....

What makes you think they're trigger happy? They've been trailing planes for weeks and never fired a shot. Sounds like media-induced hysteria to me.

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I'd rather a trigger happy fighter behind my flight than a trigger happy Air-marshal in my jet.

Which brings me to this.

Quote[/b] ]

US air marshals demand resisted: BBC News

The US measure has taken immediate effect

A new order by the US Government for foreign airlines to use armed guards if intelligence suggests a terror threat has drawn a mixed response.

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What's everyones problem? Why do you think the guys in F-16s or the air marshals are trigger happy? They haven't even fired a shot yet.