Lawyer for Afghan Detainee at Guantanamo Says Courtroom Outbursts ... From ABC News Guantanamo Bay, CUBA: A guard checks on a detainee in a recreational area inside Camp V and part of Camp Delta at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 24 April 2007. The attorney for Mohammed Jawad said his client's outbursts at his arraignment Wednesday reflect the effects of his imprisonment from a young age at Guantanamo Bay, where he is being prosecuted for allegedly throwing a grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers in 2002.

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Nigeria: Senate Lauds Amaechi On War Against Militants From AllAfrica.com Emmanuel Aziken and Laide Akinboade Lagos The Senate yesterday commended Governor Rotimi Amechi of Rivers State for what it described as his relentless war against militancy and cultism in the State and urged other Governors to emulate him. At a press briefing yesterday following the visit of the Senate President, Senator David Mark to Rivers State, the Senate spokesman, Senator Ayogu Eze said that the case for the development of the Niger Delta area was not being helped by the activities of...

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Inside Gitmo with Detainee 061 From Mother Jones NEWS: Shortly after German-born Murat Kurnaz arrived at Camp Delta, intelligence reports show the plan was to let him go. One of the detainees being considered for release was Murat Kurnaz, a German-born Turkish citizen who had been pulled off a bus in Pakistan the year before and turned over to U.S. forces. During a stopover in Washington, D.C., one of the agents visited the local branch of Germany s foreign intelligence service, the BND, and reported back to headquarters via a secure phone...

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Wikileaks censored by US Court From www.indymedia.org/or/mainfeaturescontent.rss Transparency website Wikileaks has been muzzled with a legal injunction by a US court following the publication of leaked documents about a Swiss bank implicated in alleged money laundering. Swiss banking whistleblower purportedly showing that Bank Julius Baer and its Cayman Islands subsidiary had been involved in offshore tax evasion and money laundering by extremely wealthy and, in some cases, politically sensitive clients from the US, Europe, China and Peru.

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Wikileaks Exposes Corporate and Government Secrecy, So It Has Been ... From BuzzFlash An attempt by a Swiss bank to shut down Wikileaks, a website that publishes secret military and corporate documents, has backfired into a fiery debate over Internet freedom. The documents, allegedly given to Wikileaks by a former bank vice president, purport to show money laundering and tax evasion by the venerable Geneva-based institution, which manages an estimated 405 billion Swiss francs (GBP 189.7 billion). Hundreds of bloggers, online columnists and websites decried the bank's move as...

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