Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with al_queda www.salem-news.com 2010 In the land of the free, it is curious that we are now locked into our own country for the first time in history. Immigration paranoia has led the Bush administration to placing passport requirements on the entry of Canada and Mexico. How free do you feel? I lived on the Mexican border for two years while working as a photojournalist/reporter for the Yuma, Arizona NBC station. We visited Mexico constantly then and learned amazing things about our neighbors to the south. I earned awards from the Associated Press for stories I shot in Mexico, but today that would not be possible if I did not have passport. http://salem-news.com/articles/july042008/national_prisoners_7-4-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/july042008/national_prisoners_7-4-08.php Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:46:00 PDT The Defense Department announced today that charges against five of the six detainees who are alleged to be responsible for the planning and execution of the attacks upon the United States of America on September 11, 2001 have been referred to trial by military commission. Those attacks resulted in the death of 2,973 people, including 8 children. http://salem-news.com/articles/may132008/gitmo_trials_5-13-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/may132008/gitmo_trials_5-13-08.php Tue, 13 May 2008 13:29:00 PDT Human Rights Watch says CIA Director Michael Hayden’s admission that the CIA used waterboarding should prompt an immediate criminal investigation by the Department of Justice. Although use of waterboarding has been widely reported in the press, this is the first time that the CIA has openly acknowledged employing the practice. "General Hayden’s acknowledgment that the CIA subjected three detainees to waterboarding is an explicit admission of criminal activity," said Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director at Human Rights Watch. http://salem-news.com/articles/february052008/waterboarding_2-5-08.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052008/waterboarding_2-5-08.php Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:03:00 PST