DhafirTrial

A picture of an armed sheriff moving through an American home after an eviction due to a mortgage foreclosure was named World Press Photo of 2008 on Friday. (more…)

by William Fisher Inter Press Service 2/13/09

A prominent British-American lawyer who represents an Ethiopian-born Guantánamo detainee is charging that U.S. Defense Department officials are intentionally concealing evidence of his client’s rendition and torture from President Barack Obama. (more…)

Muslim Solidarity Day Film: “Waiting for Mercy: The Case Against Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain.” With a special appearance by the filmmaker, Ellie Bernstein

—Thursday, February 26, at 7 pm at ArtRage Gallery (505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse)

— $5-10 donation (sliding scale) (more…)

Katherine: Below are letters to the Syracuse Post-Standard sent on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of Dr. Rafil Dhafir’s arrest. I will add more letters to this post as people send them to me.

To the editor: (more…)

Letter from The Dr. Dhafir Suport Committee, sent to the Syracuse Post-Standard on 2/11/09

To the editor:

February 26, 2003, marks the sixth anniversary of the arrest of prominent local oncologist, Dr. Rafil Dhafir. On that same day, 150 Muslim families were interrogated because they had donated to his charity “Help the Needy.” Dr. Dhafir was “guilty” of sending aid to Iraq during the brutal embargo on that county, the effects of which very few Americans know. (more…)

By MICHAEL HUDSON Counterpunch 2/12/09

Martin Wolf started off his Financial Times column for February 11 with the bold question: “Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed?” The stock market had a similar opinion, plunging 382 points. (more…)

Alana Smith reports on the case of Fahad Hashmi, a 29-year-old man whose life has been been turned upside down by the “war on terror.” Socialistworker.org 2/02/09

DURING BARACK Obama’s inauguration speech, it was striking to hear him declare that “we are a nation of Christians and Muslims”–indicating that both have the right to live and practice their religions in America, free from discrimination. (more…)

Glenn Greenwald Salon 2/10/09

From the Obama/Biden campaign website, mybarackobama.com, here was what the Obama campaign was saying — back then — about the State Secrets privilege: (more…)