Category: Politics
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Revealed: Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture centres
Mona Mahmood, Maggie O’Kane, Chavala Madlena and Teresa Smith http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/06/pentagon-iraqi-torture-centres-link Link to the original Video on the Guardian Site: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/mar/06/james-steele-america-iraq-video The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture centres to get information from insurgents. These…
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Ecuador asks UK to back non-extradition deal for Assange
By Ben Quinn, The Guardian Friday, March 29, 2013 22:13 EDT Diplomat brings up subject of WikiLeaks founder taking refuge in embassy at meeting with shadow foreign secretary Ecuadorean diplomats have raised the case of Julian Assange with the Labour party as part of attempts to lay the groundwork for a resolution of the diplomatic…