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Thread #119343   Message #2607022
Posted By: CarolC
07-Apr-09 - 09:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama caters to neo-cons - more war
Subject: RE: BS: Obama caters to neo-cons - more war
These are dissappointing...


"Guantanamo Attorneys Face Possible Prison Time for Letter to Obama Detailing Client's Allegations of Torture
Clive-web

Attorneys Clive Stafford Smith and Ahmad Ghappour could face six months in a US prison because of a letter they sent to President Obama explaining their client's allegations of torture by US agents. Smith and Ghappour represent Binyam Mohamed, the British resident recently released after seven years in US custody, where he claims he was repeatedly tortured, first in a secret CIA prison and later at Guantanamo."

More here...

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/7/guantanamo_attorneys_face_possible_prison_time


President Obama is not allowed to see classified information?


And then there's this...


"Florida Student Arrested by Immigration Three Days After Acquittal on Bomb Charges
Youssef-web

Immigration officials have arrested a twenty-three-year-old Florida student just three days after a jury acquitted him on federal explosives charges. Youssef Megahed was arrested in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store Monday, where he had gone shopping with his father. He had just begun a fast to celebrate his acquittal. Megahed's attorneys say he now faces deportation proceedings, apparently on the same charges for which he was found not guilty."


More here...

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/7/youseff