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	<title>Faisal Kutty.com &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>Omar Khadr’s defender sees ‘no way’ for fair trial &#8211; Nathan Whitling argues that Bush-era military tribunals leave no room for an impartial verdict for a Canadian he believes was tortured</title>
		<link>http://faisalkutty.com/editors-picks/omar-khadr%e2%80%99s-defender-sees-%e2%80%98no-way%e2%80%99-for-fair-trial-nathan-whitling-argues-that-bush-era-military-tribunals-leave-no-room-for-an-impartial-verdict-for-a-canadian-he-believes-w/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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By Paul Koring
In shackles and flanked by military guards, Omar Khadr will be taken this week from the razor-wire-ringed Guantanamo Bay prison compound where he has spent almost a third of his life to a ...]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian emerges as voice for detainees &#8211; With the American Civil Liberties Union, Canadian Jameel Jaffer has forced revelations about prisoner torture and death in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Globe and Mail
After clerking for the Chief Justice of Canada, Jameel Jaffer moved to Manhattan from Ottawa to start a career in corporate law. The Harvard-educated lawyer was poised to reap a small ...]]></description>
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		<title>Community&#8217;s Voices Heard, Travel Policy Rescinded</title>
		<link>http://faisalkutty.com/editors-picks/communitys-voices-heard-travel-policy-rescinded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Janet Napolitano]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Racial Profiling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muslim Advocates welcomes the Obama administration&#8217;s announcement rescinding its policy of targeting travelers from 14 primarily Muslim countries for mandatory enhanced screening.  Since this misguided policy was implemented in January, Muslim Advocates had been ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ottawa knew of alternative prison transfer proposal &#8211; Memo shows government was briefed on NATO campaign to create stronger safeguards for detainees</title>
		<link>http://faisalkutty.com/editors-picks/ottawa-knew-of-alternative-prison-transfer-proposal-memo-shows-government-was-briefed-on-nato-campaign-to-create-stronger-safeguards-for-detainees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By STEVEN CHASE
OTTAWA — The Harper government has always  insisted it heard no warnings of torture risks facing Afghan detainees  in 2006, but documents show that in the same year it was carefully ...]]></description>
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		<title>Court must distinguish between jihadists, terrorists: expert &#8211; Man linked to Mohamed Harkat never swore allegiance to bin Laden, historian says</title>
		<link>http://faisalkutty.com/editors-picks/court-must-distinguish-between-jihadists-terrorists-expert-man-linked-to-mohamed-harkat-never-swore-allegiance-to-bin-laden-historian-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Williams]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mohamed Harkat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrew Duffy
OTTAWA — A U.S. historian who specializes in the war on terror has urged the judge in the Mohamed Harkat case to carefully distinguish between jihadists and terrorists.
Professor Brian Williams, associate Professor of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian spies interrogated Afghan prisoners, insiders reveal &#8211; Security experts stunned by CSIS&#8217;s role in questioning Taliban fighters who may have been tortured</title>
		<link>http://faisalkutty.com/editors-picks/canadian-spies-interrogated-afghan-prisoners-insiders-reveal-security-experts-stunned-by-csiss-role-in-questioning-taliban-fighters-who-may-have-been-tortured/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
By Murray Brewster and Jim Bronskill
Officers of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service have played a crucial and long-standing role as interrogators of a vast swath of captured Taliban fighters, The Canadian Press has learned.
The spies ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Taliban Would Applaud &#8211; President Nicolas Sarkozy is foolishly inciting anti-Muslim prejudices as a way to deflect public anger over high unemployment</title>
		<link>http://faisalkutty.com/editors-picks/the-taliban-would-applaud-president-nicolas-sarkozy-is-foolishly-inciting-anti-muslim-prejudices-as-a-way-to-deflect-public-anger-over-high-unemployment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Editorial in The New York Times
It is easy to see that a woman’s human rights are violated when a government requires her to wrap her body and face in an all-concealing veil, as the Taliban ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rubbing Salt in Guantanamo&#8217;s Wounds: Task Force Announces Indefinite Detentions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
By Andy Worthington
With a stunning lack of sensitivity, President Barack Obama&#8217;s Guantánamo Review Task Force chose the anniversary of the president&#8217;s failed promise to close the prison to announce its conclusions regarding the eventual fate ...]]></description>
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		<title>Community Advisory: New Airport Security Measures Target Muslim Travelers</title>
		<link>http://faisalkutty.com/editors-picks/community-advisory-new-airport-security-measures-target-muslim-travelers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Community Advisory:
New Airport Security Measures Target Muslim Travelers
President Obama stated yesterday that &#8220;we will strengthen our defenses, but we will not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values ...]]></description>
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		<title>Racial profiling begins</title>
		<link>http://faisalkutty.com/editors-picks/racial-profiling-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By The Economist &#124; LONDON
AMERICA  has firmed up its response to the security failures that allowed Umar Farouk  Abdulmutallab to board a Detroit-bound flight with an explosive device in  Amsterdam on Christmas ...]]></description>
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