Yemen to Host Gitmo "Rehab Center"
Reuters reports:
Yemen will begin building an $11 million rehabilitation centre for returning Guantanamo detainees in three months when it expects to receive funding from the United States, a government official said on Wednesday.
There are 91 Yemeni detainees left in the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Washington suspended transfers to Yemen this month because [...]
Death to the Dictator
The Iranian people are once again in what, at least to the outside world, seems just short of full-scale revolt. Some dramatic video out of Iran today, none more so than this violent four-minute clip showing a crowd of people cutting down three men that are being hanged in the street by some kind of [...]
Time To Man Up, Barry
The Iranian mullahs continue their crackdown on those who demonstrated against their fraudulent election. Today they announced that Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American scholar and an American citizen, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison:
Iran ignored appeals by Hillary Rodham Clinton and even rock star Sting and sentenced an Iranian-American academic to 12 years [...]
Iran vs. Honduras
Our Secretary of State gives a lengthy interview to the Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler that includes some remarkable exchanges. The bizarre contradiction in this administration’s approach to authoritarian Iran on the one hand and democratic Honduras on the other is offered by Clinton without any evidence that she herself is aware of inexplicable double standard. [...]
Obama Is For Democracy, Except When He’s Not
From Obama’s presser today with Uribe:
Over the last several years, I think both Republicans and Democrats in the United States have recognized that we always want to stand with democracy, even if the results don’t always mean that the leaders of those countries are favorable to the United States — and that is a tradition [...]
Barack Obama strikes out as Tehran tightens its ‘iron fist’ - Times Online
President Obama condemned Iran?s ?iron fist? last night after the regime flooded Tehran with armed security to quash street demonstrations. In his strongest language yet on the post-election crackdown, Mr Obama said that America had been …
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