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Report Reveals CIA Conducted Mock Executions

A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock executions as part of the agency's post-9/11 program to detain and question terror suspects, NEWSWEEK has learned.

According to two sources—one who has read a draft of the paper and one who was briefed on it—the report describes how one detainee, suspected USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was threatened with a gun and a power drill during the course of CIA interrogation.

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Guantanamo's 'more evil twin'?

It is a US-run prison built from scratch on an US military base to hold "enemy combatants" captured in the so-called "war on terror".

Those imprisoned there have never been charged with a crime, nor do they have any meaningful way of challenging their detention. The inmates allege abuse at the hands of their captors, ranging from sleep deprivation to brutal beatings. And no, it is not Guantanamo Bay.

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Roger Waters narrates UN film on West Bank separation fence

Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, an outspoken critic of Israel's policy in the West Bank, is now the voice behind a United Nations film documenting Palestinian life behind Israel's controversial separation fence, the AFP reported on Wednesday.

The UN premiered its 15-minute documentary "Walled Horizons" this week, to mark five years since the International Court of Justice ruled that the route of the fence through Palestinian land was illegal.

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Historian Frederick Töben imprisoned for "thought crimes" in Australia

Fredrick Toben is a historian and free speech activist in Australia who runs an organization called the  Adelaide Institute, which has been accused of promoting holocaust denial and anti-semitism. In 1999  Töben  was convicted of  "offending the memory of the dead" in Germany and was imprisoned for nine months. In 2008 he was detained in London's Heathrow Airport, while flying from the Unites State to Dubai, under an attempt by German authorities to extradite him for material on his website.

Töben  rejects the label "holocaust denier". He believes that mass murders did accour, however he questions the numbers and other aspects.

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Canada court says its officials knew U.S. abused detainee

Canada must seek the immediate return of Toronto-born Guantanamo captive Omar Khadr rather than await the outcome of his U.S. military trial because American troops mistreated the alleged teen terrorist and Canadian officials knew about it, Canada's appeals court ruled Friday

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Gaza white flag deaths probe call

Israel must investigate the "unlawful" killing of 11 civilians carrying white flags during its Gaza operation earlier in 2009, Human Rights Watch has said.

Five women and four children were among those killed in seven incidents detailed by the US-based rights group.Researchers said the soldiers at best failed to protect civilians, and at worst deliberately shot at them.Researchers said the soldiers at best failed to protect civilians, and at worst deliberately shot at them.

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A Window Into C.I.A.’s Embrace of Secret Jails

In March 2003, two C.I.A. officials surprised Kyle D. Foggo, then the chief of the agency’s main European supply base, with an unusual request. They wanted his help building secret prisons to hold some of the world’s most threatening terrorists.

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