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| | Defining Terrorism |
 | | All forms of state involvement in terrorism are usually placed under the general category of terrorist states, or state sponsored terrorism. Such a designation has taken on the character of a political weapon; rival states ascribe it to one another, and terrorist organizations use it against states acting against them. | | | The proposed definition emphasizes that terrorism is not the result of an accidental injury inflicted on a civilian or a group of civilians who stumbled into an area of violent political activity, but stresses that this is an act purposely directed against civilians. | | | The present view, claiming it is unnecessary and well-nigh impossible to agree on an objective definition of terrorism, has long established itself as the politically correct one. |
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| | CUBA'S REPRESSIVE MACHINERY |
| | Cuban prison authorities provide political prisoners with minimal opportunities for visits from their family members and often restrict these visits further as a punitive measure. | | | Every political prisoner we spoke to stressed that Cuba's confinement of non-violent prisoners with prisoners convicted for violent crimes, often in maximum-security facilities with Cuba's most hardened criminals, is degrading and dangerous. | | | Most political prisoners serve out their entire sentences and virtually all are detained for more than one-third of their term, when Cuban convicts become eligible for parole. |
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| | Oscar Lopez, a Puerto Rican political prisoner reported being searched rectally three times going to a window visit and three times returning. | | | Throughout the country, for instance, when control unit prisoners leave their cage, they are strip-searched, even when there is no contact with anyone but prison staff. | | | The syndrome is least severe in prisoners incarcerated for shorter periods of time in rehabilitation oriented programs, who have reasonable access to educational and vocational training, and who have not been subjected to solitary confinement, and who have not experienced frequent or severe episodes of institutional abuse. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/fl3/starke/isolation.html
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| | Land of the Blind film movie trailer review at The Z Review |
| | The project is the story of a prisoner who recounts his life as a soldier turned political dissident and his eventual role in the overthrow of his unnamed country's totalitarian government. | | | The story of a prisoner who recounts his life as a soldier turned political dissident and his eventual role in the overthrow of his unnamed country's totalitarian government. | | | Fiennes will play the narrator, Joe, a guard at a notorious prison housing the famous political prisoner, a playwright named Thorne (Sutherland). |
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http://www.thezreview.co.uk/comingsoon/l/landoftheblind.htm
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| | Abbreviations used in Dachau List |
| | - Political Prisoner suspect of having given false identification. | | | - "Nacht und Nebel" (which means night and fog - these words are used for segret military missions); Political Prisoners considered as hostages and marked for executions as reprisal for underground activities in Western European Countries. | | | - Prisoners kept in Main Camp for further disposition by Gestapo. |
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| | Alastair's Place: Abuse of Prisoners in Iraq |
| | Like all citizens of the United States and United Kingdom, I have been appalled by the tales of our troops abusing Iraqi prisoners, and I trust that our leaders, both political and military, will take any necessary action to prevent... | | | Like all citizens of the United States and United Kingdom, I have been appalled by the tales of our troops abusing Iraqi prisoners, and I trust that our leaders, both political and military, will take any necessary action to prevent recurrence of these problems. | | | The photographs apparently showing British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners were faked. |
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http://www.alastairs-place.net/archives/000049.html
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| | Prisoner abuse scandal |
| | The accusations of gross misconduct directed at a handful of U.S. soldiers guarding prisoners in Iraq have thrown the administration into a graver political crisis than the deaths of more than 760 of their fellow troops in the war. | | | The U.S. civilian interrogators questioning prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq work not under a military contract but on one from the Department of the Interior, a bureaucratic twist that could complicate any effort to hold them criminally responsible for abuse of detainees or other offenses. | | | Lynndie R. England surrendered yesterday her right to challenge the charges against her in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, moving her a step closer to a new military trial. |
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http://www.dailypress.com/business/bal-prisonerabuse,0,5330431.storygallery
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| | Henriette Roosenburg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Roosenburg convinced a Dutch captain to give her group documentation stating that they were political prisoners and should have priority in transportation home; the paperwork she suggested did not mention their nationality, and so left them free to impersonate French or Belgian political prisoners. | | | In 1944 she was caught and sentenced to death, and became a Night and Fog prisoner in a German prison at. | | | Henriette and the other prisoners were released on May 6, 1945; Henriette and four other Dutch NN prisoners (Dries, Nell, Joke, and Fafa, a Dutch NN prisoner with severe arthritis) had a chance to return to Holland a few days later when the U.S. Army arrived with trucks to carry people through the Russian lines. |
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| | Night and Fog Prisoners by Peter Hassall |
| | For three days, the surviving NN moved along roads clogged with German refugees, political prisoners, concentration camp inmates and vicious SS, and as there was no shelter, they slept in open fields during raging snowstorms, in the clothes in which they had been arrested, which meant that hardly any had overcoats. | | | , where a Soviet/United States prisoner of war exchange point was set up. | | | It was a bitterly cruel winter, and despite the shelter of the prison walls, many more young NN died of starvation and TB. |
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| | ZNet Haiti Haiti and Abu Ghraib |
| | Today, the jails are refilled with hundreds of political detainees affiliated to Aristide's Family Lavalas party. | | | "Stewart was charged with knowingly turning a blind eye to repeated incidents of sexual abuse by guards against female prisoners ranging from sexual assault and rape to watching female prisoners undress and use the restroom," Schumer said in his letter. | | | The suit was settled out of court with no guilt admitted, but Arizona agreed to make major changes in prison policies. |
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http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=55&ItemID=5727
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| | Congressman Steve King - Iowa 5th Congressional District - Newsroom |
| | Washington, D.C. Iowa Congressman Steve King today issued the following statement in response to this weeks unveiling of additional images of Iraqi prisoner abuse to Members of Congress: | | | If Tom Harkin and his Democrat allies want to continue to act like political cannibals and pitch partisan hooey to anyone wholl listen, then theyre eating their own. | | | What amounts to hazing is not even in the same ballpark as mass murder. |
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| | The Marxist-Leninist Daily |
| | Fight for the Release of Haiti's Political Prisoners - Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti | | | Cuban Political Prisoner Locked Down for No Reason | | | More Revelations of Prisoner Abuse by U.S. Marines |
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| | INTERNATIONAL PRESS CENTER |
| | As for the political detianess whose trials were in progress, the israeli military courts have made a tremendous effort in recent months to wrap up their cases so they can be given prisoner status. | | | Israel Refuses to Release the Political Prisoners from the Strip in Terms of Geneva Convention | | | The three detainees were identifed as Salah Mahmoud Khalil Ziam, Jamal Abu-Zino and Ahmad Mustafa Sarsour were set free Wednesday by an order of the Israeli military court of Ofra prison of the West Bank. |
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| | Abuse scandal âterribleâ for U.S., Powell concedes - Iraq Abuse Scandal - MSNBC.com |
| | But defense sources said Monday that the memo was used to provide the legal justification for the Defense Department to adopt its new approach in interrogations of prisoners in Iraq. | | | The report had been scheduled for publication May 5, but it was postponed out of concern that anger over the prisoner scandal would eclipse any positive news. | | | In the face of worldwide outrage at photographs and video clips depicting Iraqi prisonersâ being mistreated at Abu Ghraib, the State Department went ahead Monday and released its annual report on the Bush administrationâs efforts to advance human rights and democracy in 101 countries, Iraq included. |
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| | Politics1 - Guide to the Inactive 2004 Democratic Presidential Prospects |
| | LaRouche was convicted and imprisoned for five years on felony fraud charges in the late 1980s related to the fundraising activities of his political organization -- although his supporters maintain he was a political prisoner unfairly prosecuted by vindictive federal government agents. | | | Not only has Dean refused to back down from his support for civil unions, he stated that his political career would have been "meaningless" had he had not been willing to risk everything to stand up for that significant civil rights law. | | | Frequent candidate and purported political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche, 81, was back for an eighth Presidential run in 2004. |
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| | Best Nonprofit Sites |
| | Human Rights: Amnesty International USA An independent woldwide human rights movement working impartially for the release of all prisoners of conscience, fair and prompt trials for political prisoners, and an end to torture and executions. | | | Prison Issues: Stop Prisoner Rape Stop Prisoner Rape, Inc. (SPR) is a small but growing national non-profit organization dedicated to combatting the rape of male and female prisoners and providing such assistance as we can to survivors of jailhouse rape. | | | At present, the Center operates 13 core programs and initiatives active in more than 30 countries, including the United States. |
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| | LookSmart - Directory - Bill Clinton Political Scandals |
| | Puts forth that Susan McDougal is a political prisoner of Kenneth Starr and is being held as a hostage of the religious right. | | | Join the Zeal community and help build the "Bill Clinton Political Scandals" Directory Category. | | | LookSmart - Directory - Bill Clinton Political Scandals |
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| | BIGpedia - Abu Ghraib - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | See also: Abu Ghraib prison and Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse | | | See also: Coalition prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison | | | The name is also associated with the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in the city which was the site of the torture and execution of political dissidents under Saddam Hussein. |
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| | Prisoner Abuse Scandal in Iraq Hits U.S. Troops on Front Line (washingtonpost.com) |
| | U.S. officials released 300 Iraqi prisoners Friday in an effort to reduce the prison population after the scandal. | | | At Haggart's outpost and in other troubled areas in Iraq, soldiers are facing new hostilities as they struggle to pacify the country six weeks before the United States hands over limited political authority to an interim Iraqi government. | | | Disclosure of prisoner abuse has further complicated life for front-line soldiers, mostly by giving resistance leaders a new rallying point against the occupation. |
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| | tribuneindia...Book Reviews |
| | Simultaneously, the Dogra soldiers of the contingent were either killed or made prisoners in a surprise attack led by British officers with the help of Muslim troops. | | | Feeding a cat with “finely pointed fingertips” is a fine thing, but ending all conversations about political events which seriously affect the lives of millions of human beings with jokes is not always so interesting. | | | For example, on October 31, 1947, Major Brown, the Commandant of the Gilgit Scouts, rose in revolt, surrounded the residence of Brigadier Ghanshara Singh, Governor of Gilgit, and took him prisoner. |
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| | Abu Ghraib - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The city is the site of Abu Ghraib prison, which was the site of the torture and execution of political dissidents under Saddam Hussein, and the torture and abuse of prisoners by members of the United States Army Reserve in 2003 during the US occupation of Iraq. | | | See also: Abu Ghraib prison and Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse | | | The government of Iraq created the Abu-Ghraib district in 1944. |
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| | WWII_WebQuest |
| | A chronological outline of the major events preceding World War II, the chief military and political occurrences in the various areas during the war, and peace treaties and other postwar developments are presented at this site. | | | Your task is to wear the boots of an American soldier, a citizen at home, or a prisoner of war. | | | List all resources you use during your research (web sites, books, encyclopedias, videos, etc.) in a bibliography listed in correct format. |
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| | Amnesty: Iraqis Complain of Torture by U.S. Forces |
| | The prison had held Saddam's political prisoners, and now is run by U.S. forces to hold detainees. | | | There were also reports of troops shooting detainees, the London-based human rights watchdog said in a report based on interviews with former prisoners of the Americans across Iraq. | | | The organization made several requests to visit detention centers but were denied access by U.S. forces that have struggled to impose law and order since the invasion which toppled Saddam Hussein in April. |
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| | News for Saturday, July 10, 2004 |
| | But, for a group of visiting Iraqi athletes, training in the United States has political value as well. | | | • US Soldier Accused in Prisoner Abuse Scandal Faces Additional Charges A female solider accused of abusing prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison now faces additional obscenity charges that are unrelated to the abuse scandal. | | | • Iraqi Wrestlers Pursue Olympic Dreams Olympic hopefuls from many different countries are regularly invited to train at sports complexes in the United States. |
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| | Rumsfeld under fire in Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal |
| | Rumsfeld under fire in Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal | | | WASHINGTON - US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came under fire Wednesday from members of Congress irate at his handling of the image-tarnishing Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, raising questions about his standing with President George W. Bush. | | | Rumsfeld, who met with Bush at the White House, also appeared on television talk shows to promise investigations and defend the Defense Department's performance amid an international uproar that shows no sign of subsiding a week after CBS television aired shocking photographs of naked Iraqi prisoners in humiliating poses. |
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| | Topica Email List Directory |
| | Later Stephen Donaldson took the resources of POSRIP and formed Stop Prisoner Rape, Inc. (SPR), which is now a news resource organization active in the political arena of prison reform. | | | Together they have reformed and revived POSRIP with its original intent of working to provide resources for prisoners who are raped. | | | People Organized to Stop Rape of Imprisoned Persons (POSRIP) |
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| | Prisoner of Honor |
| | Prisoner of Honor dramatizes the reopening of the case by Col. Georges Picquart (played by Richard Dreyfuss), the new head of Counterintelligence, whose code of honor is stronger than his personal distaste for Jews. | | | The case became a cause célèbre in French political and intellectual circles and focused world attention on antisemitism in an "enlightened" democratic nation. | | | Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden, A |
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| | Political Prisoners in Laos |
| | Chue Ma Vang, Hmong political prisoner and returnee, died in Vientiane, Laos, on December 4, 2002. | | | , June 4, 2001, Forced Repatriation of Political Refugees in Thailand to Laos. |
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| | The Alternative Information Center: Status of Palestinian Political Prisoners |
| | Status of Palestinian Political Prisoners In Israeli Prisons, Detention and Interrogation Centres | | | Prepared by Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association (Palestine) and Sumoud Political Prisoner Solidarity Group (Canada). | | | The Alternative Information Center: Status of Palestinian Political Prisoners |
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