DhafirTrial

[A slightly shortened version of this article with pictures was first published by Fellowship of Reconciliation in the Fall edition of their magazine Fellowship. The article is available here.  If you republish this article please do it with full credit to FOR and a link to the original article on their site and please let them know.]

By Katherine Hughes

“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But … the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’” Martin Luther King, Jr.[1] (more…)

Dr. Dhafir’s case is highlighted:

The human toll in the so-called “war on terror” has a much broader reach than the deaths of those who have died in Afghanistan and Iraq, the tortures, indefinite detentions and extraordinary renditions. The U.S. government is also responsible for human rights abuses throughout the U.S. You’ll recognize some of these from your own community, yet others you may never have heard about before. (more…)

By Frida Berrigan inthesetimes.com 11/8/06

Inside the White House, President George W. Bush sat at a small desk. Surrounded by generals, congressmen and members of his administration, he signed the Military Commissions Act (MCA) into law. “It is a rare occasion when a president can sign a bill he knows will save American lives,” he declared. (more…)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE aclu.org 11/14/06

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NEW YORK – In response to an ongoing lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, the CIA has acknowledged the existence of two documents authorizing it to detain and interrogate terrorism suspects overseas. (more…)

Felicity Arbuthnot uruknet.com 11/14/06

May I first say how honoured I am by this invitation and thank Imam Suliman Gani for his kindness in extending it.

Incidentally, it occurred to me on the way here, that we are just days past the seventeenth anniversary of the falling of the Berlin Wall, amid vibrant, memorable scenes of jubiliation, marking a world whole again and not divided,the end of the ‘cold war’. How naiive we were; the U.S., with Britain as ever, tagging along, went out in search of new enemies and immediately began building new walls, psychological and actual. (more…)

[A look behind the philosophy and practice of Americas push for domination of the worlds economy and culture. First published From Parameters, Summer 1997, pp. 4-14: US Army War College]

US Army War College Quarterly

“There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.” (more…)

It is time again to ask for your support for Pere Jean-Juste.

From Bill Quigley

Fr. Jean-Juste has completed a series of chemotherapy treatments in Miami and is hoping that he will receive permission from his doctors to return to Haiti in the next couple of weeks. (more…)

I hang my head in shame.

By Carl Strock dailygazette.com 10/12/06

Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain, two local Muslim men who were minding their own business until the FBI came into their lives, have been convicted of supporting terrorism, of all things. (more…)