Tag: 9/11

The Mauritanian: 14 years in Guantánamo detention camp—the horrifying reality of America’s “war on terror”

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Mauritanian: 14 years in Guantánamo detention camp—the horrifying reality of America’s “war on terror”

In an interview with Forbes, the filmmaker talked about Barack Obama not closing Guantánamo—one of his election promises. “Most of the people in Guantánamo—the vast majority—were just farmers. They were people sold down the river by somebody they thought was a friend who accused them of being al-Qaida for $50,000 or $100,000. I think something like 80 percent of the people sent to Guantánamo were basically just victims of that.”

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Guantánamo Diary author released after 14 years in illegal detention

If you loved the first War on Terror, just wait until you get a load of the sequel.

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Feds: Let’s Launch a Domestic Terror War!

The law would create new “dedicated offices” within each of these agencies to deal with internal threats to the country. These divisions would have a sunset clause of 10 years, meaning that—for the next decade at least—we would potentially have new police cadres conducting intelligence missions and investigations, trying to sniff out extremists and radicals in our midst. It might be safe to assume that, with time, such programs would grow—garnering more funding, personnel, and resources.

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Bipartisan support emerges for domestic-terror bills as experts warn threat may last ‘10 to 20 years’