Articles tagged with: United States
By David S. Cloud
The Obama administration will announce Friday a new screening system for flights to the United States under which passengers who fit an intelligence profile of potential terrorists will be searched before boarding …
By Carl Meyer
The government’s plan to roll out biometric passports next year has been cast in doubt after previous efforts resulted in soaring costs and revised deadlines. At the same time, privacy experts are castigating …
By Mark Potok
The radical right caught fire last year, as broad-based populist anger at political, demographic and economic changes in America ignited an explosion of new extremist groups and activism across the nation.
Hate groups stayed …
By Scott Wilson
Rashad Hussain, President Obama’s new special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, was an avid high school debater in Plano, Tex., where he grew up.
His debate partner and best friend was …
By Sarah Boesveld
The federal government has asked the United States not to use Canadian-collected evidence in prosecutions against Omar Khadr, a gesture observers are calling “inadequate and invalid.”
In a statement released late Tuesday, Justice Minister …
By John Lewandowski
Halifax — A Liberal MP thinks the federal government should investigate a U.S.-based animal rights group under Canada’s anti-terrorism laws after a pie was pushed into the face of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea.
Gerry …
By Louisa Taylor
It was the moment he and three friends had driven almost 1,000 kilometres to see.
Ahmed, a young Canadian born in Somalia and raised in Ottawa, watched intently as Barack Hussein Obama raised his …
PRESS RELEASE
London, January 20 2010
After more than five years of waiting, the American State Department has decided, in a document signed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to lift the ban that prohibited …
By Dr. Ingrid Mattson
Plainfield, IN – January 14, 2010
It has been reported that a prominent Christian leader, Pat Robertson, has said that Haiti has been “cursed” by a “pact with the devil.”
Fortunately, this is not …
By Charles Lewis
Twenty imams have issued a “fatwa” against any Muslim who would attempt to commit an act of terrorism in Canada or the United States.
Syed Soharwardy, an imam at the Al-Madinah Calgary Islamic …
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 …
By Wesley Wark
Canada’s front-line national security agencies have been subjected to enormous and unprecedented stresses and strains in the past eight years. The fault lines are starting to show.
Remember that scene in John le Carré’s …
By RACHEL DONADIO
MILAN — In a landmark ruling, an Italian judge on Wednesday convicted a base chief for the Central Intelligence Agency and 22 other Americans, almost all C.I.A. operatives, of kidnapping a Muslim cleric …
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 …
