Taliban kills 7 police, hangs three 'spies' in Afghanistan 01 Apr 2007 Afghanistan's Taliban said it hanged on Sunday three men in a small southern town it has occupied for two months as a police chief said the rebels killed seven of his men. The Taliban said it hanged the men in the town of Musa Qala after a Taliban "court" found them guilty of spying for foreign forces. One body was strung up in the centre of the small town in the southern province of Helmand and the other two at its entrances, a local merchant said over telephone. (Why is the word court in quotation marks --but the US kangaroo "court" at Guantanamo Bay is never cited in quotation marks?)
Detainee says he confessed to stop torture 31 Mar 2007 A detainee accused of being Al Qaeda's Persian Gulf operations chief said in court that his U.S. captors tortured him for years and forced him to falsely confess to the bombing of the U.S. destroyer Cole and to many other terrorist plots, according to a Pentagon transcript released Friday. Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, a Saudi of Yemeni descent, told a military board at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that he had nothing to do with the bombing of the warship in Yemen in 2000 — or with any other terrorist activity.
Hicks faces lifelong shackles 02 Apr 2007 "Confessed" (There's that word again - I added the quotation marks.) 'al-Qaida' foot soldier David Hicks might be electronically shackled after he walks out of an Australian jail on New Year's Eve. Foreign Affairs Minister (terrorist) Alexander Downer (a danger himself) said yesterday he still considered Hicks a danger. US miliary prosecutors also said Hicks remained a threat, describing him as a trained al-Qaida "tool for terrorism". Federal police could seek a control order, under which Hicks could be electronically tagged. (People need to remove any electronic tags.)
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