DhafirTrial

[Dr. Dhafir’s case is mentioned at the end of this article.]

By William Fisher Inter Press Service 1/3/08

High officials in the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and other U.S. Government departments and agencies, love to talk about how good they are at “reaching out” to American Muslim communities. (more…)

[Dr. Dhafir got 22 years for feeding starving children: is this what we call justice?]

…Prosecutors say he paid millions of dollars to Iraqi officials to get an unfair share of contracts connected to the oil-for-food program, which ran from 1996 to 2003. (more…)

“Thank you. Thank you for the wonderful medical care you gave mother and the years that you extended her life and the quality of life that you gave and the time you gave us to spend with her. The dr.s that came after only went thru the process and did not care about he life. Thank you.”

Cheri-lee Waugh

Sent on 9/26/07, published on October 11, 2007

In your paper’s recent article about Glen Suddaby, your two reporters continue to get the facts of Dr. Rafil Dhafir’s case wrong. (more…)

From Denis J. Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the UN Humanitarian Program in Iraq 1997-98

Dear Editor,

Thank you for publishing “Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir at Terre Haute Prison’s New Communication Management Unit” by Katherine Hughes in your May/June issue. The article addresses two issues (more…)

[* The Post-Standard curiously left this out of the letter, “Consequently thousands of U.S. brave troops died, tens of thousands were horribly injured…”]

Published in thePost-Standard 5/14/07 (more…)

Fellowship: a magazine of peacemaking published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Dear Editor:

The Muslim American Society sends sincere thanks to Fellowship magazine for publicizing the article by Katherine Hughes (Fall 2006) and supporting the national campaign demanding justice, and freedom, for Dr. Rafil A. Dhafir. (more…)

By Jennifer Van Bergen Rawstory.com 2/16/07

Program in apparent violation of federal law

The US Department of Justice has implemented a secretive new prison program segregating “high-security-risk” Muslim and Middle Eastern prisoners, tightly restricting their communications with the outside world in apparent violation of federal law, according to documents obtained by RAW STORY. (more…)