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...Three moderate GOP Senators have split with them and the White House over how to treat detainees at Guantanamo Bay and around the world. At the lunch, Senators John Warner, John McCain and Lindsey Graham were scheduled to present their case for a detainee bill that conforms to the Geneva Conventions. The White House and Senate leaders are pushing one that would allow interrogations using methods that strain - or break, depending on whom you ask - the Conventions' rules against abuse...
...memo repeatedly insists that the interrogation methods are thoroughly reviewed for legal and Geneva Convention compliance, and that top officials, and currently the CIA director himself, "must approve - prior to use - each and every one of the lawful interrogation procedures to be used." It also says questioning sessions are constantly monitored "by non-participants" who are authorized to end a session instantly over the slightest variation from the rulebook. It says the CIA requires that its interrogators, whose average age is 43, receive "more than 250 hours of specialized training before they are allowed to come face-to-face with...
...p.k.k.'s real enemy, says Aydar, is Turkey. And Turkey, he says, is spoiling for a fight: "Their statements smell of blood and bullets." As for the resort bombings, Aydar says the p.k.k. "absolutely" condemns them. "Our approach is only to use violence ... within the boundaries of the Geneva Convention." But he also acknowledges that the p.k.k. will likely suffer a backlash from the attacks, whether they ordered them or not. The p.k.k. and t.a.k., he says, do have one thing in common: a desire to improve rights of ordinary Kurds. "I cannot speak on [t.a.k.'s] behalf," he says...
...Western country is threatened. The present war in the Middle East is actually a war against international terrorism and the Iranian regime, which is a threat to all of the West. One day the world will recognize the importance of that fight and Israel's essential contribution. Aurelie Simonet Geneva...
...threatened. The present war in the Middle East is actually a war against international terrorism and the Iranian regime, which is a threat to all of the West. One day the world will recognize the importance of that fight and Israel's essential contribution. Aurélie Simonet Geneva, Switzerland The College Gender Gap Barbara Ehrenreich's essay about boys goofing off at college while girls are overachieving was nothing more than the flip side of the stories during the 1950s and '60s that claimed women went to college only to find husbands [July 31]. I didn't care...