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Experts weigh in on significance of 9/11 and its aftermath

By | 09.08.11 | 5:36 pm

In the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, a panel of foreign policy experts hosted by the New America Foundation shared thoughts on the mistakes made by the military and Bush administration in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

So Maybe Gay Dutch Soldiers Didn’t Cause the Srebrenica Massacre After All

By | 03.31.10 | 9:48 am

Retired Marine Gen. Jack Sheehan embarrassed himself earlier this month by testifying, in the form of a 36-point-font comic sans email forward, that the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims occurred because of the poor order and discipline of the Dutch peacekeepers guarding them, a consequence of the Dutch More…

Lakhdar Boumediene Says He Was Tortured at Gitmo

By | 06.08.09 | 11:04 am

In an exclusive interview with Jake Tapper of ABC News, Lakhdar Boumediene said he was “tortured” while wrongly imprisoned for seven and a half years at Guantanamo Bay without charge or trial, deprived of sleep for 16 days at a time and physically abused. He eventually went More…

Judge Orders 5 Gitmo Detainees Freed, But Govt May Appeal

By | 11.20.08 | 2:54 pm

A federal judge this morning ordered five detainees freed from Guantanamo Bay, according to the New York Times.