But Sanford Seymour, the technical director of the US Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina, also said he spoke with Padilla on occasion and let him out to play basketball frequently. [Sensory deprivation or basketball?]
A federal judge in terrorism suspect Jose Padilla's competency hearing refused to admit into evidence a purported Al Qaeda training manual that prosecutors said advised captured terrorists to refuse to cooperate with attorneys and to allege they
While held incommunicado for more than 2 years by the US and Pakistan, an accused jihadist claims he was beaten, burned with an iron, held naked for a month and chained to the wall of his cell so tightly he could not stand up.
Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media.
Some in Congress are questioning the switch. They wonder if the Army is cutting corners in preparing soldiers for combat, since they are forgoing training in a desert setting that was designed specially to prepare them for Iraq.
Military personnel with brain injuries are pressured to return quickly to duty. The VA was shocked to hear that soldiers exposed to the concussive force of numerous blasts from roadside bombs were routinely returned to duty.
It is continually proclaimed that an American withdrawal from Iraq would carry grim consequences. President Bush calls it a “nightmare scenario,” and Frederick Kagan predicts “catastrophe.” Few Democrats disagree: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer wa
Where are Iraq's superbombs coming from, really? The Pentagon is claiming—again—the the Iranian government supplied the deadly "explosively formed penetrators." But the more you study these devices the more likely they seem to be home-
U.S. officials won't hold direct talks with Iran or Syria at a Baghdad conference next month despite the Bush administration's complaints that those countries are allowing weapons into Iraq, White House spokesman Tony Snow said.
U.S. House of Representatives Democrats will more than fully fund President George W. Bush's request for money to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year, but are still debating conditions that could be attached, senior lawmakers said on Thu
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=14484 for the 'conspiracy story' - "US Military Attempt Arrest of Vice President Cheney, 3 Reported Dead" (copy and Paste link)
Pakistan is supposed to be an ally in the war on terrorism. The US should not have to plead with an ally to go after, nor put up with constant excuses for why the man responsible for ordering the Sept. 11 attacks remains at large.
"We are ready for the next war," a reserve soldier told a TV reporter this week. What war? Against whom? About what? This was not stated, and not even asked. The soldier saw it as self-evident that war will break out soon,
John McCain, facing criticism from Democrats, on Thursday said he regretted using the word "wasted" to describe the more than 3,100 U.S. lives lost in the Iraq war.
This evidence will be taken to the authorities and the media but in light of how these institutions have ignored, marginalized, and demonized questions about 9/11 in the past; we have chosen to simultaneously release it to the public.
The House of Representatives has scheduled a vote as early as today on the a bill that strips 140 million US workers of the right to decide in private whether to unionize. Natually, it's called the Employee Free Choice Act.
House Democratic leaders offered a full-throated defense last night of their plans to link Iraq war spending with rigorous standards for resting, training and equipping combat troops, saying that they would hold President Bush accountable for failing
Your low-tech stapler is about to get a huge makeover if Swingline has its way. They're looking to embed tags onto staples so that when an important(stapled) document goes missing, it'll be able to radio its location. (yeah, right)
Here at Crave, we stay paranoid so you don't have to. Where else, for example, can you find cautionary notes about an eavesdropping table lamp and a spy-cam clock in one place?
Research materials on how the Fed was created. Also, included videos produced by the Mises Institute, and speeches by Ron Paul and C. Edward Griffin, author of "Creature from Jekyll Island".
Here's a list of the top 101 contributors to the Republicrats. Why do they contribute so much money to these campaigns? Well, if you gave $1 in return for thousands of dollars of benefits, well, DUH!!!!
On his last day in CIA custody, Marwan Jabour, and accused al-Qaeda paymaster, was stripped naked, seated in a chair and videotaped by agency officers. Afterward, he was shackled and blindfolded, headphones were put over his ears,
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces new domestic criticism from both reformists and conservatives after he called Iran's nuclear program a train that "has no brakes and no reverse gear" in a speech Sunday.
The US will refuse any Italian extradition request for CIA agents indicted in the alleged abduction of an Egyptian cleric in Milan, a senior US official said Wednesday. "We've not got an extradition request from Italy. If we got an extradi
After a hard rain the day before, they a noticed glittering substance and a pinkish-colored powder substance on the roof of their house. They then noticed the glittering substance on many surfaces, even the dashboard of the family car. Both substance
Re: Requests for Correction per Section 515 of Public Law 106-554 (Bottom Line: Official records regarding the collapse of WTC7 to be corrected so that they represent what really happened)
Mr McCain, 70, made the announcement during a pre-recorded interview for CBS's Late Show with David Letterman, broadcast late on Wednesday. "I am announcing that I will be a candidate for president of the United States," he said.
The Department of Homeland Security is testing a data-mining program that would attempt to spot terrorists by combing vast amounts of information about average Americans, such as flight and hotel reservations. Similar to a Pentagon program
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today announced the availability of its 690 chipset, the company's first integrated chipset for AMD processors that includes the ATI Radeon X1250 graphics processor.