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Visiting Ground Zero, Asking Allah for Comfort by Sam Dolnick
September 19, 2010 – 12:36 pm | Comments Off

New York Times
September 9, 2010
Nearly every Sept. 11 since Sept. 11, Hadidjatou Karamoko Traoré has made sure that her three children were dressed in their best clothes, and taken them from their tidy brick home …

Getting Away with Torture
January 10, 2010 – 5:01 pm | No Comment
Getting Away with Torture

By David Cole
In the fall of 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen on his way home from Tunisia, was pulled out of line by US officials while changing planes at New York’s John F. Kennedy …

A Glimmer of Justice for Wrongly Detained Terror Suspects – Benamar Benatta’s victory in Canada would be denied, still, in America
December 22, 2009 – 1:58 pm | No Comment
A Glimmer of Justice for Wrongly Detained Terror Suspects – Benamar Benatta’s victory in Canada would be denied, still, in America

By Edward Alden
Benamar Benatta was mysteriously handed over by Canada to U.S. authorities the day after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, and spent nearly five years in American jails without ever being convicted of a crime.
Earlier …

U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse
November 4, 2009 – 4:31 pm | No Comment
U.S. settles suit with Muslims in post-9/11 abuse

By Christine Kearney
NEW YORK – The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers …

OTTAWA CITIZEN EDITORIAL: The U.S. can do better
November 4, 2009 – 4:24 pm | No Comment
OTTAWA CITIZEN EDITORIAL: The U.S. can do better

The Ottawa Citizen
Americans viewed the attack of 9/11 as an act of war, and no fair-minded person should blame them for doing so. And because there has never been a war in which even the …

FBI Blows It: Supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues Is Bogus
May 24, 2009 – 11:34 am | No Comment
FBI Blows It: Supposed Terror Plot Against NY Synagogues Is Bogus

By Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation.

Turns out it is really the handiwork of a creepy FBI informant. The story strengthens the narrative that the “homeland” is under attack. It’s not.
By the now, it’s maddeningly familiar. …

FBI ‘lured dimwits’ into terror plot – The arrest of petty crooks over a plan to target Jews has put the use of sting operations under fire
May 24, 2009 – 11:27 am | No Comment
FBI ‘lured dimwits’ into terror plot – The arrest of petty crooks over a plan to target Jews has put the use of sting operations under fire

By Tony Allen-Mills, New York

ON the steps of New York city hall on Friday, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor, praised the police officers and federal agents who helped disrupt an apparent terrorist plot to …