UK Indymedia

No End to the “War on Terror,” No End to Guantánamo

14-05-2011 19:28

With the death of Osama bin Laden, there is a perfect opportunity for the Obama administration to bring to an end the decade-long “War on Terror” by withdrawing from Afghanistan and closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

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Nobel Peace Winner: Obama ......

28-04-2011 16:53

Nobel Peace Winner Obama's Shameful Libyan Warmongering ...... With respect to Libya President Barack Obama has lost his bearings and should return

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAwQRsaD6KI the Nobel Peace Prize to Oslo. The president should do it before the Nobel Selection committee issues a recall. President Obama has now authorized the deployment of armed U.S. predator drones for NATO's combat operations in Libya. This weaponry has been used to target and assassinate hostile combatants in Afghanistan--it has also killed hundreds of innocent civilians including people attending weddings. In Libya the obvious target for Western assassination would be Muammar al-Quathafi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rVjXRYdB7U . Obama has ignored the African Union's peace proposal--snubbing the entire African continent in favor of former Imperial powers France's and Britiain's militarism.

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Wikileaks: The Guantánamo Files

28-04-2011 07:42

The LGC's response to the publication of the Guantánamo Files earlier this week... + join us at our monthly demonstration "Shut Down Guantánamo!" outside the US Embassy at 12-1pm on Friday 6 May and then 1.15-2.15p outside Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park

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Giant crime against Libya is fact !

08-04-2011 12:05

Hidden behind propaganda a giant crime against Libya is fact .......... What is done to Libya is a giant crime containing: waging a war of aggression to rob out a nation, a campaign of horrific murders and psychological warfare to deceive the Libyan people and the people of the world. Let’s have a closer look what did the propaganda tell the world and what really happened in Libya. Here is part I of a timeline containing some relevant events in relation to the war against Libya, showing that the actions against Libya are based on nothing else than lies.

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Nato’s fascist war

30-03-2011 13:39

You didn’t have to be clairvoyant to foresee what I wrote with great detail in three Reflection Articles I published on the CubaDebate website between February 21 and March 3: “The NATO Plan Is to Occupy Libya,” “The Cynical Danse Macabre,” and “NATO’s Inevitable War.” Not even the fascist leaders of Germany and Italy were so blatantly shameless regarding the Spanish Civil War unleashed in 1936, an event that maybe a lot of people have been recalling over these past days. Almost 75 years to the day have passed since then, but nothing that has happened over the last 75 centuries, or even 75 millenniums of human life on our planet can compare.

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William Blum: The Anti-Empire Report

28-03-2011 22:04

Libya and The Holy Triumvirate ......... The words they find it very difficult to say — "civil war". Libya is engaged in a civil war. The United States and the European Union and NATO — The Holy Triumvirate — are intervening, bloodily, in a civil war. To overthrow Moammar Gaddafi. First The Holy Triumvirate spoke only of imposing a no-fly zone. After getting support from international bodies on that understanding they immediately began to wage war against Libyan military forces, and whoever was nearby, on a daily basis. In the world of commerce this is called "bait and switch". Gaddafi's crime? He was never respectful enough of The Holy Triumvirate, which recognizes no higher power, and maneuvers the United Nations for its own purposes, depending on China and Russia to be as spineless and hypocritical as Barack Obama. The man the Triumvirate allows to replace Gaddafi will be more respectful. So who are the good guys? The Libyan rebels, we're told. The ones who go around murdering and raping African blacks on the supposition that they're all mercenaries for Gaddafi.

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Guantánamo / Abu Ghraib interrogation firms and the UK Census

25-03-2011 11:30

Campaigners decry involvement of Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib interrogation firms in UK Census

Friday, 25 March 2011

The London Guantánamo Campaign [1] is concerned about the involvement in the upcoming UK-wide Census of two private companies that were contracted to carry out coercive prisoner interrogations at the notorious US military detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, Iraq. [2]

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Shut Guantánamo / Free Shaker / Free Bradley Manning demo

24-03-2011 15:48

"Shut Down Guantánamo!" / Free Shaker Aamer / Free Bradley Manning demonstration

Friday 1 April, 12-1pm and 1.15-2.15pm:

12-1pm: US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London, W1A 1AE (nearest tube: Bond Street/Marble Arch)

1.15-2.15pm: Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park, W1 (nearest tube: Marble Arch)

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Foreign Office Responds to Letter on Guantánamo Bay

08-03-2011 20:07

To mark the ninth anniversary of Guantánamo Bay on 11 January 2011, we delivered a letter to the Prime Minister calling on the British government to take more action to see Guantánamo close. We have now received a reply...

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Sign our Open Letter to President Obama: Release Shaker Aamer

01-03-2011 12:06

Shaker Aamer, a Saudi national who lived in the UK for many years, and has a British family, has been held illegally without charge or trial for over 9 years at Guantánamo Bay. The British government has made various efforts over the past 4 years for his release but he remains, for reasons unknown, in American custody. Please sign our letter and let the US administration know that the UK would like him back

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Egypt police kill 10 in Sinai

12-02-2011 21:42

Reporter: Egypt police kill 10 in Sinai jailbreak ........ EL-ARISH, Egypt - Clashes late Friday in the Egyptian Sinai left 10 people dead and injured 50 others, a Ma'an reporter said. The clashes broke out after Egyptian civilians descended on a police station in the town of El-Arish to free prisoners held by the regime. Twelve police officers surrendered to the crowd, which was able to secure the release of their friends and relatives.

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Bombing of al-Qiddissin Church in Alexandria

08-02-2011 23:46

Ex-minister suspected behind Alex church bombing ...... Egypt`s general prosecutor on Monday opened probe on former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly`s reported role in the New Year`s Eve bombing of al-Qiddissin Church in Alexandria in which 24 people were killed, an Egyptian lawyer told Al Arabiya. Laywer Ramzi Mamdouh said he had presented a proclamation to Egyptian prosecutor Abd al-Majid Mahmud to investigate news media reports suggesting that the former interior ministry had masterminded the deadly church attack with the intent to blame it on Islamists, escalate government crackdown on them, and gain increased western support for the regime.

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Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo

08-02-2011 00:36

Suleiman, a friend to the US and reported torturer, has long been touted as a presidential successor. On January 29, Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s top spy chief, was anointed vice president by tottering dictator, Hosni Mubarak. By appointing Suleiman, part of a shake-up of the cabinet in an attempt to appease the masses of protesters and retain his own grip on the presidency, Mubarak has once again shown his knack for devilish shrewdness. Suleiman has long been favoured by the US government for his ardent anti-Islamism, his willingness to talk and act tough on Iran - and he has long been the CIA’s main man in Cairo.

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Vigil for Shaker Aamer(last British resident in Gitmo): Saturday 5 Feb

07-02-2011 18:47

The Save Shaker Aamer Campaign (SSAC) held a vigil outside Downing Street on Saturday 5 February at midday to mark nine years of Shaker Aamer’s illegal detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo Bay. Around 40 people attended and were joined by Jean Lambert (Green MEP for London) and Kate Hudson (Campaign against Nuclear Disarmament – CND).

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We Are All Egypt!

05-02-2011 10:54

Rightly proud of their history, Egyptians like to announce, especially to other Arabs, that Egypt is the world’s mother. The Arabic version is far more tender and poetic 'Misr Um el Dounia'! Light-hearted banter will often ensue between Egyptian and non-Egyptian friends when that statement is brought into the conversation. Today, I think every Arab will concede that, indeed, Misr Um el Dounia!

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Khaled El-Masri: ""Extraordinary Rendition" has a human face, and it is mine"

04-02-2011 09:35

From Egypt, where the new vice-president has been overseeing torture for the CIA for over 15 years, to Europe (Germany, Macedonia, everywhere else), countries of this world are implicated in a dense spider's web of torture and deceit...and their victims?

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Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship

30-01-2011 12:22

The Egyptian tanks, the delirious protesters sitting atop them, the flags, the 40,000 protesters weeping and crying and cheering in Freedom Square and praying around them, the Muslim Brotherhood official sitting amid the tank passengers. Should this be compared to the liberation of Bucharest? Climbing on to an American-made battle tank myself, I could only remember those wonderful films of the liberation of Paris. A few hundred metres away, Hosni Mubarak's black-uniformed security police were still firing at demonstrators near the interior ministry. It was a wild, historical victory celebration, Mubarak's own tanks freeing his capital from his own dictatorship.

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Police Turn Egypt into War Zone

29-01-2011 22:37

NEW YORK - Egypt's DICTATOR Hosni Mubarak is facing the most serious threat to his 30-year-old TERROR-regime. ......... Video:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7295023n

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REVOLUTION: Can Egyptians revolt?

28-01-2011 23:45

Inspired by the Tunisian example, Egyptians take to the streets in their own protest. But can it last? ... The traditional wisdom has always been that Egyptians don't revolt simply because they are an agricultural society. Farmers require stability and patience to tend their land. Farmers also need a strong central government to protect them against natural disasters, such as floods and droughts. Egypt is no longer an agricultural society.

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11 Day Fast to in D.C. to Close Guantanamo Ends with Blockade of Dept.of Justice

24-01-2011 05:49

Flickr Slideshow and Video of Blockade of Department of Justice in Washington D.C.
at conclusion of 11 day Fast to Close Guantanamo (11/1/11-22/1/11) on

http://www.witnesstorture.org/