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Abu Ghraib inmates sue contractors, claim torture
Should the cases be heard in the courts it could expose even more details of the abuses at Abu Ghraib. The plaintiff's lawyers keep the door open for more CACI workers being sued and more former prisoners adding to...Hamas arrests al-Aqsa spokesman
" Hamas forces in Gaza have arrested Mohammed Abu Irmana, the Al-Aqsa Martyr Brigades spokesman, after the group claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on Israel. The arrest of Irmana, also known as Abu Qusai,...TURBO charged event set to give petrol heads a buzz in Abu Dhabi
"Abu Dhabi (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - The internationally acclaimed CMPi, is set to captivate car and bike enthusiasts from around the world with their recently announced festival; 'TURBO: For A Custom Nation'.'For avid motor enthusiasts looking to experience the very...Sons of Abu Sayyaf
Below is a piece from an unnamed Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist. It seems that the government is fighting a losing battle--almost complacent with the killings of Abu Sayyaf leaders...only to be replaced by theirs sons. The cycle will continue unless the...Drilon on ordeal: A ‘sobering experience’
" MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE 2) A “sobering experience” was how a television reporter who was freed late Tuesday night by her Abu Sayyaf captors described her nine-day ordeal as she thanked friends and...Abu Qatada's bail
" Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says an appeal will be lodged against a ruling preventing the deportation of radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada from the UK. Ms Smith said she was "disappointed" at the decision to grant him bail. Abu Qatada, 47, was freed from Long Lartin...Abu Dhabi mounts $3bn Picasso exhibition and plans a cultural revolution « P...
" Picasso remains an enigma and Abu Dhabi wants to be seen as more than an oil reserve. Yet for most of Picasso’s life Abu Dhabi was a tiny village on the edge of the Persian Gulf with an impoverished population. As late as 1966 Sheikh Shakhbut was deposed because he...Al-Qaeda Iraq leader 'arrested'
" The leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been arrested, according to media reports quoting the country's defence ministry. Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was detained in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the reports said. There has so far been...Reading The National, Abu Dhabi’s new newspaper « Peterjcooper’s Weblog
This broadsheet is like The Guardian in design and content partly follows the populist modern Telegraph with an almost tabloid style. It is easy to read and find your way around the pages. The challenge is clearly thrown down to Gulf News, although the business section must...Abu Dhabi five-year plan to underpin real estate market confidence
Over the next five years the emirate is committed to spending $275bn on infrastructure and real estate projects, with heavy investment in both the oil and non-oil sectors of the economy.Two Indonesian Muslim militants face life sentences
""We urged the court to hand down a life jail sentence to the defendant," said Payaman, who like many Indonesians goes only by one name.At another court hearing hours later, chief prosecutor Bayu Nugroho also urged...Ba`asyir`s call for violence againts Islamic teachings
"He said such a statement from Ba`asyir violated Muslim teachings because the latter said foreign tourists acted like animals and their morality was far from that which was reflected by the Prophet...New Yorker: Abu Ghraib abuses were 'de facto US policy'
Some of the most iconic images of the Iraq war came not from photojournalists on the front lines, but US soldiers carrying point-and-shoot digital cameras. In its latest issue, the New Yorker profiles the woman who...
Sderot near Gaza and Google Earth
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To begin with I mention that in my office in kibbuts Massada there is an areal image of the whole kibbuts, with a pretty good resolution, revealing many minute details,the areal image serving... Former US general confirms high-level knowledge of Abu Ghraib torture
Former US Major General Antonio Taguba, who headed the first military investigation into torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, has now alleged that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top officials...
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