Khalid Sheik Mohammed The Ultimate Torture

During his first days in detention, senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed was stripped of his clothes, beaten, given a forced enema and shackled with his arms chained above his head, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. It was then, a Red Cross report says, that his American captors told him to prepare for "a hard time."

Over the next 25 days, beginning on March 6, 2003, Mohammed was put through a routine in which he was deprived of sleep, doused with cold water and had his head repeatedly slammed into a plywood wall, according to the report. The interrogation also included days of extensive waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/25/AR2009042503122.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Mohammed, according to the memo, resisted giving any answers to questions about future attacks, saying, "Soon you will know."

The memo, while saying it discussed only a fraction of the important intelligence gleaned from Abu Zubaida and Mohammed, cited three specific successes: the identification of alleged "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla; the discovery of a "Second Wave" attack targeting Los Angeles; and the break-up of the Indonesian Jemaah Islamiya cell, an al-Qaeda ally led by Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali.

"The dates just don't add up," wrote Ali Soufan, a former FBI special agent, in an opinion piece in the New York Times last week. Soufan, who questioned Abu Zubaida between his capture in March 2002 and early June of that year, said the detainee gave up Padilla without any physical or psychological duress. He also said Abu Zubaida identified Mohammed as the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks "under traditional interrogation methods."

A number of officials have questioned the viability of the plot in the wake of the changes in airport security after Sept. 11. And President George W. Bush, in a speech in 2007, said the plot was broken up in 2002, before Mohammed's capture in Pakistan on March 1, 2003.

It is absolutely crazy with all the security at the airports after 9/11 that there were any plot to hijack any airplane and crash it on a Los Angeles building.
This is a fabrication nonsense and if any admitted that any torture that was a fabrication so to placate the torture interrogators than a reality.
In the mean time under such barbaric horrendous torture what are the names of the potential hijackers of such Los Angeles plot. Any more details than that? Any one was arrested of these potential imaginary hijackers?
How they were be able to pass the security gates at the airports? with knife cutters? guns? This is absolutely crazy! Why the FBI , the CIA or George W Bush feed the American people such lies and nonsense?

President Barack Obama and the Armenians Remembrance Day

Barack Obama Statements

"Just as the terrible events of 1915 remind us of the dark prospect of man’s inhumanity to man, reckoning with the past holds out the powerful promise of reconciliation," Obama said in a statement issued by the White House on Friday afternoon. "I have consistently stated my own view of what occurred in 1915, and my view of that history has not changed. My interest remains the achievement of a full, frank and just acknowledgment of the facts."

"I strongly support efforts by the Turkish and Armenian people to work through this painful history in a way that is honest, open and constructive," Obama said. "To that end, there has been courageous and important dialogue among Armenians and Turks, and within Turkey itself."

Obama said he stood with the diaspora "and with Armenians everywhere with a sense of friendship, solidarity and deep respect."

Before the statement had even been issued, Turkish President Abdullah Gul hinted that he knew Obama would avoid the contentious term, telling reporters Friday that Obama had left his early-April Turkey visit "now better informed."

Obama had promised early in his presidential campaign that he would call the mass killings genocide if elected. "The facts are undeniable," Obama said in a Jan. 19, 2008, statement. "An official policy that calls on diplomats to distort the historical facts is an untenable policy. As a senator, I strongly support passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106 and S.Res.106), and as president I will recognize the Armenian Genocide."

It should not be forgotten that that the Ottoman empire at that time was in the danger of disappearance from the world map. Greece would have carved big chunk in the western part, so Bulgaria will absorb part and of course Russia. The Armenians joined the Russian armies in the east to wage war against what is now Turkey.
No one should pretend to be innocent.

Suicide Blasts Kill 79 at Baghdad Shiite Shrine

This suicide bombers are absolutely crazy. Why this cowardly of the shiite worshipers at th their mosques. Totally disgusting.
BAGHDAD -- Two female suicide bombers hiding explosives in their purses struck worshippers streaming into Baghdad's most important Shiite shrine for Friday prayers, killing at least 66 people a day after Iraq's most deadly violence in more than three months..
There were no immediate indications that the bombings in Baghdad and nearby Diyala province were coordinated. But they vividly demonstrated that militant groups are still capable of staging attacks that cause mass casualties, as they did in the darkest days of the country's 2006-07 sectarian violence.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042401485.html
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2009/April/middleeast_April419.xml§ion=middleeast
http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/world/2009/04/24/D97OS8S84_ml_iraq_attacks_glance/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-fg-iraq-bombings24-2009apr24,0,540535.story

ANC celebrates Zuma's win in South Africa Presidential Vote

Uyghur Detainees in Guantanamo Prison Seeking Settlement in the US

It is shame none in the Muslim world would accept these prosecuted Uighur detainees. Shame.
The United States government has held twenty-two Uyghurs in Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. Eighteen of the detainees were present at Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) conducted by the U.S. military to review their cases.

Uyghurs are an ethnic group from Central Asia and Xinjiang province in western China.[1]

The Uyghurs call their homeland East Turkestan.

The Washington Post reported on August 24, 2005 that fifteen Uyghurs had been determined to be "No longer enemy combatants" (NLEC) after all.[2] The Post reported that detainees who had been classified as NLEC were, not only still being incarcerated, but were still being shackled to the floor. Five of these Uyghurs, who had filed for writs of habeas corpus, were transported to Albania on May 5, 2006 just prior to a scheduled judicial review of their petitions. As of June 22, 2008, seventeen Uyghur men remain incarcerated at Guantanamo. Two years ago, an Administrative Review Board declared all but one to be "approved for release." The Pentagon had previously determined, reportedly as early as 2003, that the Uyghurs should be released. They continue to be incarcerated.
None of the Uyghurs wanted to be returned to China. The United States declined to grant the Uyghurs political asylum, or to allow them parole, or even freedom on the Naval Base.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uighur_detainees_in_Guantanamo
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4894921
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/currentawareness/uighurs.php
http://www.uyghurcongress.org/En/news.asp?ItemID=343112032&rcid=803688565&pcid=1110134820&cid=803688565
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/18/holder-says-some-uighur-detainees-could-go-to-us/

Turkey and New Constitutional Cmendments

Turkey is making preparations for Constitutional amendments.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=40506

Saudi Arabia Announces the Recognition of the Republic of Kosovo April-20 2009

Riyadh, April 20, SPA -- In line with the existing religious and cultural bonds with the people Kosovo, and in respect to the will of the people Kosovo to obtain independence, the Kingdom (of Saudi Arabia) announces its recognition of the Republic of Kosovo, and hopes that this development will positively contribute to enhancing the pillars of security and stability in Kosovo and its neighboring countries, said an official source at the Foreign Ministry here today.
http://www.unpo.org/content/view/9508/122/
http://www.worldbulletin.net/index.php