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Federal Judge: Evidence Against Detainee Is ‘Surprisingly Bare’

By | 09.25.09 | 2:16 pm

Last week, a federal judge ruled that the government had failed to justify the detention for the last seven years of a 50-year-old Kuwaiti engineer who worked for Kuwait Airlines and had gone to Afghanistan to do charitable work. He was seized by the Northern Alliance, turned over to U.S. More…

Documents Suggest DOD Failed to Probe Alleged War Crimes

By | 09.25.09 | 6:00 am

New documents obtained by TWI related to the case of Mohammed Jawad, an adolescent tortured by Afghan police and then abused again by U.S. interrogators, suggest that not only certain CIA interrogations, but interrogations by the Department of Defense demand a broader investigation as well.

Last month, Attorney More…