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Obama to Close Gitmo
Barack Obama has announced that he will close Guantanamo. Throughout the world, this announcement will be understood as an introduction to a new kind of American leadership, a repudiation of the...
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In the Afterword to her book The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, Jane Mayer states: “The number of patriotic critics inside the administration...
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Why Are These People Dancing?
AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti It is Monday, March 16, 2009. These two lawyers are dancing in celebration outside the home of Iftikhar Chaudhry , Chief Justice of the Pakistani Supreme Court. Why? Because...
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What's A Uighur?
Corrected 2/4/10 This question was part of the opening remarks in a talk given several years ago by one of the attorneys representing the Uighurs at Guantanamo. We didn’t know the answer. But since...
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Imminent Execution
Kenneth Mosley is scheduled for execution on September 24. He has been on death row for the past twelve years. Mr. Mosley was convicted of killing a police officer while attempting to rob a bank in...
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Relief funds help Guantanamo Uighur move forward
Corrected 2/4/10 An attorney with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel contacted me two months ago to ask for my assistance on behalf of one of her firm’s Uighur clients who had recently been released...
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