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The State Department was fighting terror by posting comments on Arabic blogs.
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The defense department outlined new rules that could allow terror suspects to be imprisoned on the basis of hearsay or coerced testimony.
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A Pentagon advisory group has concluded almost no scientific evidence exists to support several harsh interrogation techniques used in the War on Terror.
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Hilary Clinton said Afghanistan was quite a success story.
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The Bush administration decided to allow an independent court to monitor its warrantless electronic-eavesdropping program.
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U.S. air strikes in Somalia killed seven people.
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Outgoing Republican Senate Judiciary Committee chair Arlen Specter has introduced legislation that would restore legal rights to prisoners in the so-called war on terror. Detainees were stripped of their right to challenge their detentions under October’s Military Commissions Act. In a speech on the Senate floor, Specter said the denial of habeus corpus is illegal because the constitution only allows its suspension in time of rebellion or invasion.
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A German citizen who suffered torture after being kidnapped by the CIA is in the United States to appeal the dismissal of his lawsuit against the US government. Three years ago, Khaled el-Masri was seized along the Serbian-Macedonian border and then flown to Afghanistan where he was tortured inside a secret prison. He was released without charge after five months.
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The U.S. government agreed to pay two million dollars and apologize to Brandon Mayfield. Mayfield is the Muslim attorney in Oregon jailed two years ago after the FBI mistakenly tied him to the Madrid train bombings.
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A top United Nations expert on human rights says the new U.S. Military Commissions Act violates international treaties protecting detainees.
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The President said that the terrorists will win if Democrats get elected.
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Faced with protests across the country, President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday defended a military strike that killed 80 people at a religious school, and insisted that the dead were militants undergoing terrorist training.
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Maher Arar received a U.S. Human Rights award for his fight for justice in torture cases.
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President Bush has signed into law one of the most controversial acts of his time in the White House. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 strips detainees of the right to file habeas corpus petitions to challenge their own detention or treatment. This marks the first time the right of habeas corpus has been curtailed by law for millions of people in the United States.
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The US has been holding a suspected Al Qaeda leader accused of being involved in the Sept. 11 attacks and planning the 2004 Madrid train bombings in a secret jail for the last year, Spain’s El Pais newspaper reported Sunday.
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Terrorists who tried to blow up planes flying from Britain to America used eBay to fund their operation.
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Fugitive Adam Gadahn, 28, a California-born convert to Islam, who is accused of making a series of al Qaeda propaganda videos, became on Wednesday the first American charged with treason since the World War Two era, U.S. Justice Department officials said.
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The Navy attorney who took on the Bush administration in the landmark Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case is being forced to leave the military.
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Bush said that Democrats don’t want to listen to terrorist’s conversations, and that they probably want to wait until the United States is attacked again to defend the country. He also said they will raise taxes.
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In sharp questioning, a three-judge panel yesterday challenged arguments by federal officials seeking dismissal of a Pakistani man’s suit charging that because of his religion, race or national origin, he, like others, was held for months after 9/11 in abusive solitary confinement before being cleared of links to terrorism and deported.
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