ABC News' interview with Lakhdar Boumediene and our current policies

Salon by Glenn Greenwald | Jun. 8, 2009 (News Report)

Lakhdar Boumediene is an Algerian (and Bosnian citizen) who, while living in Bosnia and working for the International Red Crescent, was arrested by the Bosnian government (at the behest of the Bush administration) shortly after 9/11 on charges of plotting to blow up a U.S. and British embassy, but was then quickly cleared by Bosnian courts of any wrongdoing and ordered released. But as he was about to be released -- in January, 2002 -- he was abducted by ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics
Topics: Human Rights, Torture, Bush Administration, Foreign Policy, Law, U.S. Supreme Court
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jun 9, 2009 - 4:38 AM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Jun 9, 2009 - 4:38 AM PDT

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 by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 9, 2009

The story includes the ABC video interview on the subject. Greenwald shows how the story destroys the right wing (and Obama) myth about "detainees" being the worst of the worst, and so cannot be given any human rights or legal rights. Well written.

If this episode doesn’t demonstrate the extreme dishonesty of that premise — of assuming that people who have had no trials are Terrorists simply because the ... More »

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