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• Iraq calmer but copycat kidnappings spread
By 2007 it had jumped to more than 1,500, and it is on track to rise even higher this year, according to Thomas Brown, director of the office that analyzes information about prisoners of war and those missing in action. His office does not count in ...
• McCain's 'fellow prisoners' ?
ALLENTOWN, Penn. -- After not attacking Obama in last night's debate as forcefully as his campaign had in previous days, McCain was back on the offensive today at a rally at Lehigh University with his running mate Sarah Palin. As seen at recent ...
• Afghan officials: Taliban jailbreak thwarted
The thwarted attack on the Policharki prison on the outskirts of the capital, Kabul, was meant to free Taliban and criminal prisoners, the Afghan intelligence service said in a statement. The attack would have mirrored a massive assault in June on a ...
• Documents say detainee pushed near insanity
While the treatment of prisoners at detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan and Iraq have long been the subject of human rights complaints and court scrutiny, the documents shed new light on how two American citizens and a ...
• Judge orders Chinese Muslims at Guantanamo freed
Attorneys for the prisoners said the landmark ruling was the first time a federal court had ever ordered the release into the United States of any Guantanamo prisoners. The Uighurs had been living in a camp in Afghanistan during the U.S.-led bombing ...