Murat Kurnaz

                   

George Clooney to Make Movie About Gitmo Detainee Salim Hamdan

netscape.com     18-Aug-2008   1 related          

Hamdan's sentence was the first to be delivered in a full war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, the American prison in Cuba. Proponents of Washington's "war on terror" considered the 66-month jail term too lenient; human...                    

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The war on terror, does it add up?

newsvine.com     10-Aug-2008          

News Type: Opinion — Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:27 AM EDT The current administration is about to be voted out of office and it is about time to look back on the "achievements" of this administration. Since we engaged in the war on...                    

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What It Feels Like... To Be a Prisoner at Guantánamo Bay

esquire.com     30-Jul-2008          

By Murat Kurnaz, 26, Author, Activist They used to beat everybody. There was a man -- he was really old and couldn’t see and couldn’t hear. If the guards told him something to do and he didn’t do it because he couldn’t hear,...                    

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Moazzam Begg Interviews Murat Kurnaz

islamictube.net     27-Jul-2008          

Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish national born and raised in Germany, was sold into the hands of torturers for $3,000 by Pakistani bounty hunters in late 2001. Only 19 years old at the time, he was detained in Kandahar military base in...                    

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Book Excerpt: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo

esquire.com     21-Jul-2008          

Read this exclusive excerpt from Murat Kurnaz's book, Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo, about his years in the notorious prison. By Murat Kurnaz, 26, Author, Activist "After the incident with the Koran, we...                    

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Presidents Speak Out Against Government Condoned Torture

looktothestars.org     10-Jul-2008          

Written by Elizabeth Willoughby Amnesty International, in challenging the arguments for torture, has posted interviews on YouTube of former US president Jimmy Carter, former Ireland president Mary Robinson, government officials...                    

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Go & Do - Cool stuff going on

seacoastonline.com     02-Jul-2008   1 related          

Grab a bite to eat from the Piscataqua Grill in Prescott Park and enjoy a mid-week concert featuring everything from soul, rhythm & blues, jazz to big band music. Concerts will be held every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in the...                    

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Brutality taints U.S. role in world

baltimoresun.com     29-Jun-2008          

I have just finished reading the autobiography of Murat Kurnaz, a young Turkish man who was imprisoned without cause at the American prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for five years. Mr. Kurnaz lived in conditions literally worse...                    

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The Supreme Court vs. The Unitary Executive

leisureguy.wordpress.com     24-Jun-2008   13 related          

The view of the Bush Administration is one that encompasses limitless powers for the president: indefinite detention of suspects with no right habeus corpus but with torture included, the right to spy on citizens with no...                    

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The "Captured on the Battlefield" Myth [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]

scienceblogs.com     20-Jun-2008   13 related          

In the wake of the Supreme Court's Boumediene ruling, we've heard a familiar lie from the Bush supporters. John Yoo, author of the infamous torture memos, delivers it here: Until Boumediene, the Supreme Court had never allowed...                    

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