Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region Author: Preeti Bhattacharji, Research Associate Updated: July 6, 2009 ...
The biggest book of the summer is about the end of the world. It's also a sign of our troubled tim...
Guantanamo detainees were tortured, medical exams show Last Updated: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | 5:31 AM ET Comments109...
Moussaoui lashes out at defence lawyers Last Updated Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:06:31 EDT CBC News Confessed al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui verbally attacked his lawyers Thursday as he testified in his death-penalty trial for his role in planning the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States. INDEPTH: ...
Olmert declares victory in Israeli election, vows compromise Last Updated Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:55:21 EST CBC News Acting Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert said he's willing to make painful concessions and give up land to Palestinians as he claimed victory in the election Tuesday. His centrist Kadima party has captured the largest share of votes in Isra...
Peace falls off agenda in Israeli vote Last Updated Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:08:01 EST CBC News With the centrist Kadima Party seemingly headed for a narrow win in Israel's general elections Tuesday, few of the 31 parties in the race have made peace a priority because of the recent Hamas electoral victory. INDEPTH: ...
Israeli troops, Jewish settlers clash JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press AMONA, West Bank - Thousands of club-wielding troops in riot gear and on horseback clashed with stone-throwing Jewish protesters Wednesday as they began dismantling homes in this illegal West Bank settlement, officials said. Dozens of people were wounded. It was the first forced evacuation of Jewish settlers since last summer's pullout from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, a...
Row builds over Jerusalem voting by Wednesday 21 December 2005 8:53 AM GMT Shaath said without voting in Jerusalem there would be no election The Palestinian Authority says will cancel 25 January parliamentary elections if Israel goes ahead with plans to bar Jerusalem Palestinians from voting. "If the Israelis insist on not allowing us to conduct the elections in Jerusalem, then there will be no elections at all," Nabil Shaath, the Pales...
Elections may be cancelled if Israel bars Palestinian in Jerusalem from vote 06:52:14 EST Dec 21, 2005 AMY TEIBEL JERUSALEM (AP) - The Palestinian Authority will cancel Jan. 25 parliamentary elections if Israel goes ahead with its plan to bar Palestinians from voting in disputed Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said Wednesday. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has been under growing pressure from his Fatah Party to postpone the vote, amid concer...
Israeli court upholds guerrilla's right to claim compensation for torture 11:44:49 EST Dec 20, 2005 JERUSALEM (AP) - An Israeli court on Tuesday upheld a Lebanese guerrilla leader's right to demand compensation for torture he says he underwent in an Israeli prison. Israel abducted Mustafa Dirani in 1994, hoping to use him as a bargaining chip for information on Ron Arad, an Israeli airman whose jet was downed over Lebanon in 1986. Israel claims Dirani's Amal ...
Spain issues warrant for U.S. soldiers Last Updated Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:53:45 EDT CBC News A judge in Spain has issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers in the shelling of a hotel in Baghdad that killed a Spanish journalist. High court Judge Santiago Pedraz issued the warrant on Wednesday for Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt.-Col. Philip de Camp, then of the U.S. 3rd Infantry. Jose Couso, of the Spanis...
Britain's alliance with U.S. puts it at risk of terrorism, think tank says 12:17 PM EDT Jul 18 ED JOHNSON LONDON (AP) - Britain's close alliance with the United States has put it at particular risk of terrorist attack, two leading think tanks said Monday, but a government minister said the nation would not have been safer by staying out of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The continuing debate about the wisdom of Britain's military commitments has intensi...
Geneva Convention not for al-Qaeda, U.S. court says Last Updated Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:06:21 EDT CBC News An appeal court in Washington has ruled that the 1949 Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners does not apply to members of al-Qaeda. The decision clears the way for a military commission consisting of three U.S. colonels to judge Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, who was Osama Bin Laden's driver in Afghanistan. Prisoner...
Guantanamo inmate forced to wear bra, act like a dog: report Last Updated Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:21:06 EDT CBC News A suspected terrorist was forced to wear a bra, dance with another man and behave like a dog during his interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military investigators said Wednesday. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo Bay The investigators called for Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller to be reprimanded because he did not oversee the interro...
Top Israeli official says barrier meant to ensure Jewish majority in Jerusalem 02:06 PM EDT Jul 11 KARIN LAUB JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's separation barrier in and around Jerusalem is meant to ensure a Jewish majority in the disputed city, a cabinet minister acknowledged Monday, contradicting government claims that the divider is solely a temporary security measure. Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved final details of the 65-kilometre Jerusalem barrier, ...
EU envoy says Jerusalem barrier raises humanitarian concerns 12:09 PM EDT Jul 11 KARIN LAUB JERUSALEM (AP) - The separation barrier Israel is building in Jerusalem raises humanitarian problems for Palestinians and could complicate future negotiations on a final peace deal, the visiting European Foreign policy chief said Monday, after meeting with Israeli leaders. Israel's Cabinet on Sunday approved final details of the Jerusalem barrier, which will cut...
Torture at Guantanamo Bay: UN investigators Last Updated Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:48:10 EDT CBC News There are reliable reports of prisoners being tortured at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, United Nations human rights investigators said Thursday. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo They say many of the allegations come from declassified United States government documents. The investigators also accused the U.S. of stalling on the...
The US war with Iran has already begun by Scott Ritter Sunday 19 June 2005 12:06 PM GMT Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the March 2003 invasion and occupation of that country by US forces), but also about the very process that led to war. On 16 October 2002, President Bu...
No plans to close Guantanamo Bay, Cheney says Last Updated Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:27:29 EDT CBC News U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney says there are no immediate plans to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, which holds hundreds of people accused of links to terrorists. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo Bay "The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people," he said in an interview to be aired Mond...
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/06/03/quran050603.html?print U.S. admits abuses to Qur'an in Guantanamo Last Updated Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:59:17 EDT CBC News The U.S. Pentagon confirmed Friday a list of abuses involving the Qur'an, Islam's holy book, by American personnel at Guantanamo Bay, but said the incidents were relatively minor. * INDEPTH: Afghanistan A story published in Newsweek last ...
JERUSALEM (AP) - The Jerusalem municipality will push ahead with plans to demolish 88 homes in an Arab neighbourhood in the disputed city to make room for a national park, the city engineer overseeing the project told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The plan has infuriated the Palestinians. It comes at a time of growing Israeli-Palestinian tension over the fate of Jerusalem, a city claimed by both as a capital. The demolition campaign, if approved, would be one of the largest i...
This is quite alarming if the RCMP (Police) in Canada could even manipulate and coerce, vulnerable, addicts who became Muslims. A lot of rhetoric calls for "Muslims to speak out against terror and stop it". How can we stop it when the police are the ones behind it and possibly other governments and intelligence agencies? In fact if we look at most cases of terror no one is ever held responsible for organizing or creating the terror. Sufficient investigation i...
We thought we'd cite a common example, that there are many things in common with those who hate Islam and Muslims and spread hate and propaganda.It is clear that many of these people are simply uneducated racists, while others may be a combination of racists, who are also motivated by extreme religious views to destroy Islam.Many are also on an apparent mission to amend the laws of whatever countries Muslims inhabit in order to fight Islam, unfortunately.It is...
My response to a viewpoint comment on the Jim Reed article - The revaluing of a society http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_reed/20050727.html I have to say Mr. Reed's article was well researched and well thought out and is a nice balance compared to American biased media that attempts to paint today's conflicts as a black and white, west versus east or Islam versus the world picture which could not be further from the truth. I also agree with Mr. Zarnett an...
Mennochio Alex McKnight I apologize if this seems rude. But I’m not here to say anything poor about Islam. In fact, I am quiet fascinated by the teachings in the Quran and Prophet Mohammad. But Abrihams article “The Fools they are” caught my eye. He mentioned the 16th century Miller, Mennochio who was eventually killed by order of Pope Clement the 8th. It’s actually a very interesting story, and I would like to contribute by telling your audience about the incident. It was ...
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