war on terror

Bush sanctions CIA torture program
The prisoner at Abu Ghraib concentration camp is being subjected to sleep deprivation, threatened with execution if he falls off box

By Jerry White
WSWS
23 July 2007

President Bush signed an executive order Friday clearing the way for the Central Intelligence Agency to resume the use of “enhanced interrogation measures” against alleged terror suspects held in US facilities around the world.

Reporting on life behind the wire: The Sudanese journalist held in Guantanamo Bay

Sami al-Haj

Sami al-Haj is a Sudanese journalist who was captured on his first assignment for Al Jazeera and has been detained without charge in Guantanamo Bay since June 2002. But, remarkably, imprisonment hasn't stopped him reporting on life behind the wire. Andrew Buncombe tells his story and talks to those he left behind

Independent News
09 June 2007

Sami al-Haj spends his days alone, thinking of his wife and the son he barely knows.