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Binyam Mohamed Torture Claims To Be Investigated By UK

The Metropolitan Police are to investigate claims that British agents colluded in torture, Scotland Yard said today.

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First Reported 07/11/2009 - Updated 07/12/2009 - 6 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is considering whether to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's interrogation practices involving the CIA, and is expected to make a decision in a few weeks, a Justice ... [Reuters: Politics - 07/12/2009]

Entities: Torture, United States, Eric Holder, Interrogation, Attorney General

First Reported 07/16/2009 - Updated 07/16/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

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First Reported 07/13/2009 - Updated 07/13/2009 - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Nancy Pelosi

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Six months into Barack Obama's presidency, his Democratic allies are pushing for twin investigations into Bush-era torture and anti-terrorism policies.Two senators, including Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the head of the Intelligence Committee, suggested ... [San Francisco Chronicle - 07/13/2009]

Entities: Torture, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, John Cornyn, Dianne Feinstein

First Reported 07/15/2009 - Updated 07/15/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)

How the UK will meet its 2020 low carbon plan

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Entities: Carbon, United Kingdom, Low-carbon

First Reported 07/15/2009 - Updated 07/15/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

UK watchdog bans Israeli tourism ad

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Entities: United Kingdom, Advertising Standards Authority, Golan Heights

First Reported 07/03/2009 - Updated 07/03/2009 - 12 Documents

UK ‘very concerned’ by Iran trial threat

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First Reported 07/03/2009 - Updated 07/03/2009 - 4 Documents (in Internet & IT)

UK services sector recovery slows

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First Reported 07/06/2009 - Updated 07/06/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

5th flu victim dies in UK

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First Reported 07/07/2009 - Updated 07/07/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

ACLU: Military Commissions Can’t Be Fixed

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First Reported 07/08/2009 - Updated 07/08/2009 - 1 Documents (in Energy)

UK faces 'energy crunch'

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Entities: North Sea, United Kingdom, Malcolm Webb, Tullow Oil PLC

First Reported 07/11/2009 - Updated 07/11/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

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First Reported 07/13/2009 - Updated 07/13/2009 - 1 Documents

Less wind, more nuclear for UK energy future -CBI

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Blogs

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Zero tolerance for torture [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 07/07/2009] I don't much care if British officials are prosecuted for torture, I just want politicians to do all they can to stop it happening againOver the past two days, Ian ...
Is Britain trying to cover up torture? [FP Passport - 07/07/2009] The British government may have tried to preempt charges that it has engaged in torture, the BBC reports today: Rangzieb Ahmed, from Rochdale, said he was offered ...
From The Memory Hole: Bush WH Statement Condemn... [Crooks and Liars - 07/13/2009] Since Attorney General Eric Holder is considering appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush/Cheney torture regime, I thought it might be helpful to post ...
NPR's "Torture" Policy [The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - 07/09/2009] The ombudsman explains: when other countries do it, it's torture; when the US does it, because we're not doing it for political repression, it isn't torture. Even ...
Torture: Barbarism and Britannia [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 07/08/2009] It sounds too monstrous to be true, and conceivably it is not - but it cannot be ignored. The charge is that the mistreatment of Rangzieb Ahmed in Pakistan was effectively ...

Audio/Video

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