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<title><![CDATA[Rebels Table Amendment To Block 42-Day Detention Plans]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Labour rebels yesterday stepped up their campaign against government plans to allow terrorist suspects to be detained without charge for 42 days by tabling an amendment to a Commons bill to block the change.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24482]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-17]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Nottingham 'Student' Detained Under Terrorism Act]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two men aged 22 and 30 have been arrested on the University of Nottingham's campus under the Terrorism Act, police confirmed today.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24483]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-17]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[FBI Assists With Detainee Cases]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The FBI is helping to get information from detainees and prepare terrorism cases against suspects at Guantanamo Bay, despite differences with the CIA over harsh interrogation techniques, the bureau's director said on Friday.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24484]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-17]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[US Military Lawyers Want Sept. 11 Charges Dropped]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Charges against five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks should be thrown out because they were improperly influenced by a Pentagon legal adviser, U.S. military lawyers said in documents filed on Friday.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24485]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-17]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Shame of Guantanamo Bay  ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When will the U.S. and the world wake up to the shame of Guantanamo Bay? This gulag and all that goes on there fly in the face of all that America and the civilized world believe in.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24486]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-17]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Guantanamo Detainee Transfers Put US in Tight Spot]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last week the Department of Defense confirmed that Abdullah Saleh Ali al Ajmi, a former Guantanamo detainee, was one of the people responsible for three suicide bombings in Mosul in April, which reportedly killed seven members of the Iraqi security forces.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24475]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-16]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Government Rushes Guantánamo Cases While Delaying Detainees’ Access To Prospective Counsel]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The American Civil Liberties Union expressed outrage today at the Pentagon’s announcement of a June 5 date for the arraignment of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other detainees accused of crimes related to September 11 before all of the defendants have met with their prospective lawyers.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24476]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-16]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[New Government Report Reveals 2,500 Youths Held In Military Custody Abroad]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In a supplemental report to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) made public today, the U.S. government revealed that it has no comprehensive policy in place for dealing with youth detained by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, including nearly 2,500 youths under the age of 18 that have been held in U.S.-run facilities overseas to date.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24477]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-16]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[US Abuses]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Two Men in Campus Terror Arrest]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two men have been arrested at the University of Nottingham campus under the Terrorism Act, police have said.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24478]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-16]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Pakistan To Deport Al-Qaeda-Linked Arab Princes]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two Arab princes arrested in Pakistan for their alleged links to Al-Qaeda – Prince Abdul Karim of Morocco and Yemen’s Prince Abdul Haq – are to be deported.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24479]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-16]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Maze Prison Was As Bad As Guantanamo, Say Producers]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A film documenting the final weeks of the IRA gunman Bobby Sands has been defended by its makers at the Cannes Film Festival as a useful insight into the mindset of modern suicide bombers.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24480]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-16]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[The Plight of Abousfian Abdelrazik]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Getting on the UN's terrorist list is easy. Getting off is next to impossible.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24481]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-16]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[US Offloading Guantanamo Detainees To Face Uncertain Justice in Afghanistan]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Supreme Court said in 2006 that military commissions to try Guantanamo detainees were unconstitutional because they violated Common Article 3, Geneva Conventions, which states that detainees must be treated humanely and be afforded the same judicial guarantees "which are recognized as indispensable by civilized people."]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24452]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Our Shame]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Before we deplore America's treatment of foreign terrorist suspects, we should remember how Baha Mousa was tortured and died in British custody]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24453]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Pentagon Accused of Delays in 9/11 Terror Trials]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[With charges ready for this summer's Guantánamo arraignment in the Sept. 11 conspiracy trial, legal defense groups are protesting that the Pentagon has not cleared approved civilian lawyers to work on the cases.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24454]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[MoD Launches Inquiry Into Iraqi's Death in Army Custody]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Defence has announced a public inquiry into one of the most notorious episodes involving British soldiers in Iraq: the death of Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist, and the abuse of other civilians in Basra in September 2003.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24455]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Attorney Who Defended Guantanamo Law To Leave]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Paul Clement, who defended President George W. Bush's policies restricting the legal rights of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners, is resigning as the administration's top lawyer before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24456]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[ACLU Obtains Defense Department Documents About Prisoner Deaths and Interrogations]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The American Civil Liberties Union has obtained previously withheld documents from the Defense Department, including internal investigations into the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody overseas.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24457]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[US Abuses]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[New 42-Day Terror Detention Laws Are Confused and Flawed, Say MPs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Government's determination to hold terror suspects for 42 days without charge was yesterday torn apart by MPs and Peers for being 'confused' and 'fundamentally flawed'.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24458]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Airport 'Terror' Arrest Man Held]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Police are continuing to question a man on suspicion of terror offences after arresting him at Manchester Airport on Friday afternoon.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24459]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Bush Assassination Plotters Jailed in Jordan]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Three Jordanian militants were today found guilty of plotting to assassinate the US president, George Bush, and jailed for 15 years by a Jordanian military court.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24460]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Everclear Announce Gig at Guantanamo Bay]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Everclear have announced that they will perform at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba over Memorial Day weekend.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24461]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Philippe Sands: Use of Torture Undermines International Law]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The barrister answers questions from readers about his new book on the interrogation of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24462]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Torture]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Five Charges Approved and One Rejected in 9/11 Show Trials]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Charges against one of the six alleged 9/11 conspirators in the US military commissions system at Guantánamo Bay were rejected last week, as the five others were allowed to proceed.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24463]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the Gitmo Cases Are in Disarray]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Mohammed al-Qahtani, reputedly one of the most dangerous prisoners held at Guantanamo and one of six to who might have faced the death penalty for alleged participation in the 9/11 plot, has just had charges against him dropped by the top legal authority at the base.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24464]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[The Face of Torture]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[For weeks after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when images of twisted metal and smoldering debris still filled television screens and the wail of bagpipes at firefighters’ funerals sounded day after day, there was one face that seemed to embody the terror]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24465]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Has Detained 2,500 Juveniles as Enemy Combatants]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The United States has detained approximately 2,500 people younger than 18 as illegal enemy combatants in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay since 2002, according to a report filed by the Bush administration with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24467]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[US Abuses]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Ottawa Feared Khadr Faced U.S. 'Rendition']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Officials wrote to Washington and Islamabad in 2005 demanding due process for Canadian al-Qaeda suspect, court filings show
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24468]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Spain: UN Expert Demand More Legal Rights For Terror Suspects]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A senior United Nations human rights official has expressed concern about allegations of torture and ill-treatment of terrorism suspects held in Spanish jails.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24469]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[June 5 Arraignment Set For Gitmo 9/11 Suspects]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The chief judge of the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, war court has set June 5 for the first court appearances of reputed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four suspected conspirators.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24470]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Guantanamo: 'We Will Close' Promises Not Enough- Ming Campbell in Washington]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Sir Menzies Campbell speaks out after Amnesty delegation meets US government to discuss future of notorious prison camp
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24471]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Guantanamo Official Says He's Not Resigning]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A Pentagon official said Wednesday he will not resign as legal adviser to war-crimes tribunals at Guantanamo, despite his removal from the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver because of a lack of impartiality.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24472]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[AFP Chief Keelty Cleared Over Habib Case]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Federal Police chief Mick Keelty has been cleared of parliamentary contempt charges.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24473]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Guantanamo Policy is Winning Few Friends in the Muslim World]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[IN 2006, I visited the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University in Jakarta. Before you reach for your National Security Hotline fridge magnets and mobile handsets, I should disclose that I was on an exchange program organised by the Australia-Indonesia Institute and funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24474]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-15]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Five To Be Tried For 9/11 Attacks; Charges Against 6th Dropped]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The US has referred five accused co-conspirators in the September 11 attacks for military trial but dropped charges against the alleged "20th hijacker" without explanation, the Pentagon said Tuesday.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24439]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-14]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Sept. 11 Families Fear War-Crimes Trial]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[People who lost relatives in the Sept. 11 attacks fear alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will use his upcoming war-crimes trial to boast about his role and rally support for al-Qaida.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24440]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-14]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Dallaire Compares U.S. Actions To Those of Terrorists]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Liberal Senator Roméo Dallaire has compared the actions of the U.S. administration in trying Omar Khadr and other Guantanamo detainees to those of terrorists that "don't play by the rules."]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24441]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-14]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Police Recovered 7/7 Bomb Plans]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Evidence of the planning and thoughts of the four 2005 London suicide bombers was recovered in the aftermath of their attacks, a jury has heard.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24442]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-14]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Two Ex-Guantanamo Detainees To Sue US]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Two Sudanese nationals speak of their ordeal, from the time they were picked up in Peshawar, through the horrors of interrogation and torture in Bagram and Guantanamo
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24443]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-14]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[Guantanamo]]></category>
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<title><![CDATA[Jury Shown Airline 'Bomb Impact']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Jurors have seen a video of the likely impact of liquid explosives prosecutors say were to be used to blow up a number of transatlantic planes.
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<link><![CDATA[http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=24444]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[2008-05-14]]></pubDate>
<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>
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