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Harry Potter and the Prisoners of GuantÁnamo: What Gitmo Detainees Are Reading

Friday, 20 August 2010 17:56
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By KAYLA WEBLEY



There's not a lot to look forward to if you're one of the 176 prisoners held in the U.S. detention facility at GuantÁnamo Bay - no visits from loved ones; no parole or release date; and for many, no prospect even of a day in court to answer charges. Still, at least there's Harry Potter. He may not come riding in on the back of a hippogriff to free his favorite captives from their own version of Azkaban, but he shows up once a week on a cart of books from the prison...


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Kenya accused of illegally transferring 4 suspects

Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:20
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By TOM ODULA, Associated Press Writer

NAIROBI, Kenya – Kenya secretly sent four Terrorism suspects to Uganda after the World Cup bomb blasts in violation of Kenyan law, and FBI agents interrogated three of them in a manner that broke Ugandan law, human rights officials say.

The officials said that Kenya circumvented its own extradition laws to send the four suspects to Uganda, where they can be interrogated for a lengthy period without scrutiny.

"The fact that they are extralegally being...


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Obama: 'No regrets' about NY mosque defense

Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:20
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AFP) – US President Barack Obama said Wednesday he had "no regrets" about defending the right of Muslims to build a mosque near the New York site of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

"The answer is: No regrets," the president told NBC television on the sidelines of a visit to a middle-class family aimed at highlighting his efforts to revive the sputtering US economy ahead of November congressional elections.

Obama upset some of his Democratic allies late last...


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Sept 11 anniversary set for Muslim center marches

Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:20
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Opponents and supporters of a planned Muslim cultural center and mosque near the site of New York's World Trade Center will mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks with dueling events.

A national debate has erupted over whether the Muslim center should be constructed two blocks from the site of the 2001 attacks by al Qaeda which destroyed the World Trade Center towers and killed close to 3,000 people.

The group Stop Islamization of America will hold an...


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Lebanon militants: Leader slain en route to Iraq

Thursday, 19 August 2010 13:19
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BEIRUT – An al-Qaida-inspired group says its leader and a top commander were heading to Iraq to join insurgents there when Lebanese security troops killed them over the weekend, according to a U.S. terror-monitoring firm.

The Washington-based SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks militant postings on the Internet, said Wednesday that a statement on jihadist forums from the Fatah Islam group confirmed the deaths of the two.

The statement, posted Tuesday, said the two were en route to...


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