A Turkish citizen born and raised in Germany, Murat Kurnaz was only 19 when he was arrested without explanation in Pakistan in October 2001. Handed over to the US, he spent the next 1,600 days enduring the brutal life of a prisoner at Guantanamo and various forms of torture, before being released without explanation or [...]
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American diplomatic staff in London have run up a debt of $3million in fines through the refusal by their embassy to accept congestion charges for the use of the city’s roads.
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Denied pens and paper, Guantanamo prisoners, scratched some of the poems in verses onto foam cups with pebbles. Other poems were translated into English by linguists with security clearances but no literary credentials.
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While we’re on the subject of film it seems a good time to mention Joe Dante’s Homecoming, a made-for-tv zombie movie that draws parallels with Bush’s government and foreign policy. Remember Joe Dante? He’s the director who served up such gems as Piranha and Gremlins. So you wouldn’t expect anything special, would you? But think [...]
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