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...emerged that may force the British Prime Minister to stand up and tell Bush, "No more." As Blair heads for Washington this week to address Congress, most of the British political establishment is pressuring him to protest the Pentagon's announcement that two Britons held in isolation at Camp Delta, the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, won't be returned to Britain for trial despite repeated requests. Instead, the two are expected to face U.S. military tribunals, whose due-process standards are criticized throughout Europe as shameful. The two men have spent months locked up but, like all the estimated...
...address a joint meeting of Congress, a rare honor for a foreign leader, the entire British political establishment - Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat - united last week to pressure the Prime Minister into doing exactly that. The reason: the Pentagon's announcement that two Britons held for months at Camp Delta, the U.S. military prison for suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, won't be returned to Britain for trial, despite repeated requests by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw. Instead, the two will soon face American military tribunals whose due-process standards are derided almost universally throughout Europe as shameful...
...from exiling the prisoners. But the men were still handed over to U.S. troops. After many months, postcards began to arrive from Guantánamo. Mustafa Idr's wife Sabiha Delic, a Bosnian, says U.S. embassy officials told her they would never reveal why they sent him to Camp Delta. "But, that is not fair," she says. "Show me that he is a terrorist, and I hate him more than anybody. I would not want such a husband or father for my kids. But you cannot prosecute him only on the basis of someone's will." Madeleine Rees, head...
...Rumsfeld era. The defense chief has set in motion a host of changes that will boost their budgets and swell their ranks in the next five years. And last week Rumsfeld took the extraordinary step of recommending a retired four-star general, Peter Schoomaker, an original member of Delta Force, to be the next Army Chief of Staff. This is the first time in U.S. history that a top commando has been tapped to lead the entire Army and is yet another indication of the Administration's growing reliance on America's secret soldiers. "God love him," said Air Force...
...secret combat teams zipped into Iraq aboard specially outfitted MC-130 Combat Talon planes that used highways as landing strips, surprising the enemy at its rear. On the road to Tikrit, they fingered Iraqi vehicles fleeing the capital for destruction by M1 tanks. And inside the capital, the elite Delta Force slipped into Baghdad's back alleys and into its sewers to eavesdrop on communications, cut fiber-optic cables, target regime leaders and build networks of informants...