As part of a move to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center the Obama administration has announced that it will no longer unilaterally hold all Taliban and al-Qaeda suspects as "enemy combatants." Under the new detention guidelines only terror suspects who gave...
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An alleged al-Qaeda sleeper agent has appeared in a US criminal court after more than five years in military custody. Ali al-Marri was charged with supporting terrorism and conspiracy after President Obama ordered a review of his case. " The 43-year-old confirmed he...
Presidential candidate, Senator Chris Dodd introduced a bill on February 13, 2007 that would restore habeas corpus rights to all detainees in U.S. custody and narrowly define who is an “enemy combatant.”
This is the second in a series of articles examining the Timothy Lynch’s article, Doublespeak and The War on Terrorism. George Orwell, who introduced the concept of doublespeak in his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, depicted a totalitarian state where posters everywhere...