Posted by: zanshin, 2007-02-26 02:05

Statement
Note: If you want to develop this Statement into an Argumentation, you have to fill in the Title box of this Statement.
Date: 2007-01-11 (Thursday)
Amnesty International USA Executive Director Larry Cox condemned Guantanamo as "a symbol around the world for human rights abuse and for wrongheaded policies enacted in the name of the war on terror."






Comments


No comments yet.

Please login to post your comment.












All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Stories, Arguments and Comments are owned by the Poster.
The Rest copyright © 2007 Argumentations.com. All rights reserved. Argumentations.com provides material for research or educational purposes only. We do not warrant the correctness of its contents. The risk from using it lies entirely with the user. While using this site, you agree to have read and accepted our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Argumentations.com is far from perfect so if you have any critiques, questions, comments or problems about this site please tell us. Click here to send your feedback. And if you like Argumentations.com please link to this site. It will really help a lot.
   

Related stories

Date 
2007-01-12Guantanamo stirs protests

Related arguments

No results

View other suggested statements

Date 
2006-09-28 The US Senate passes the Military Commissions Act of 2006T...
2001-09-21 Amnesty International faxed a letter to President George W. Bush.
2002-01-11 Guantanamo Bay began receiving terror suspects ...
2007-01-11 The fifth anniversary of the first detainees arriving at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, ...
2006-12-31 114 detainees transferred out of Guantanamo Bay for the year (including the three who died of app...
2006-12-13 Judge Robertson dismisses Hamdan habeas corpus case citing lack of jurisdiction due to MCA legisl...
2006-12-07 First detainees are transferred to the newly-constructed Camp Six at Guantanamo Bay.
...
2006-11-17 U.S. military announces a plan to build a new compound on Guantanamo Bay to hold the military com...
2006-11-17 Final three detainees ruled to be No Longer Enemy Combatants are released from Guantanamo Bay to ...
2006-10-17 President Bush Signs Military Commissions Act of 2006
2007-06-10 "Guantanamo has become a major, major problem ... in the way the world perceives America and...
2001-12 Sami al-Haj, an al-Jazeera journalist, tried to re-enter Afghanistan with his colleagues, he was ...
2002-01 Sami al-Haj, an al-Jazeera journalist, was imprisoned, handed over to the US authorities, taken ...
2002-11 Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil el-Banna, two British residents, were arrested in Gambia.

They were...
2002-10-11 Diane Beaver writes legal memo, “Legal Review of Aggressive Interrogation Techniques”
2004-09 British resident Binyam Mohamed, 30, is taken to Guantánamo Bay.

Mohamed is accused of c...
2002-04 / 2004-09 British resident Binyam Mohamed, 30, was later secretly rendered to Morocco, where he claimed tha...
2007-08 In Britain, the foreign secretary, David Miliband, formally asked the Bush administration to rele...
2008-05 It was revealed that Mohamed had written to Gordon Brown, pleading with the prime minister to use...
2008-07-29 Dropping the term, "war on terror" is more than a mere matter of semantics
The United States should avoid the use of the term, "war on terror", and replace it wit...
Nearly every U.S. ally, including the United Kingdom and Australia, has stopped using "war o...
There is no battlefield solution to terrorism.
2001-10 In the USA, five people were killed and 12 injured when a series of anthrax-laced letters were se...
2006-09-06 In the USA, President Bush in his speech confirmed and defended the Central Intelligence Agency’s...
2008-06 Iran "has a history of terror in this hemisphere [Latin America], and its linkages to the bo...
Venezuela is a base for anti-U.S. militant groups and spy services, including Hezbollah...
2008-06 The U.S. Treasury Department designated two Venezuelan citizens as Hezbollah supporters and froze...
2008-04 Venezuelan border officials at the Caracas airport often neglected to enter the arriving passenge...
2005 Hezbollah has long operated in the Lebanese communities of Latin America. In addition to receivin...
2008-09-03 Raid by American Special Operations forces into Pakistan’s tribal areas, attacking a compound in ...
2001-12 William J. (Jim) Haynes II told the CentCom admiral in charge of detainees in Afghanistan “to ‘ta...
“Four years into the ‘war on terror,’ the Bush administration began promoting a new formulation: ...
2002-02-07 President Bush signed a memorandum that turned Guantánamo into a Geneva-free zone
2006 Major General Michael E. Dunlavey, the military commander at Guantánamo, was “an aggressive ...
2002-10-11 From Guantánamo Bay, Dunlavey sent his request for approval of new interrogation techniques,...
Torture by USA-govt has been practiced and exposed as routine at Guantanamo, at Abu Ghraib Prison...
2002-03 Michael Dunlavey took charge of Joint Task Force 170, which oversaw military interrogations at Gu...
2002-08-08 Detainee 063, Mohammed al-Qahtani was placed in an isolation facility at Guantánamo Bay to s...
2002-03-22 Abu Zubaydah, a senior al-Qaeda member, captured in Pakistan
The War On Terror is not a war on terrorism at all but a justification for the USA to consolidate...
2005-10-25 "Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fas...
2005-10-25 "Over the years these extremists have used a litany of excuses for violence -- the Israeli p...
2008-06-18 In the USA, Physicians for Human Rights released a report that found that U.S. personnel tortured...
The NCRI and its armed wing, the People's Mujahideen, is listed by the US State Department as ter...
2002 In the USA, a CIA analyst warned the Bush Administration that up to a third of the detainees at G...
The final goal of stated American policy in the long struggle known as the war on terror is nothi...
2002-10-11 The Phifer Memo with list of 18 new interrogation techniques
2002-10-25 General James T. Hill (Tom Hill), the commander of U.S. Southern Command (SouthCom) forwarded Dun...
2002-11-04 Dunlavey was replaced as commander at Guantánamo Bay by Major General Geoffrey Miller....
2002-11-12 In the USA, a detailed interrogation plan was approved for al-Qahtani, based on the new interroga...
2006-06-29 in the USA, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, holding that Guantánamo d...
The USA has tortured Mohammed al-Qahtani (aka Detainee 063)
President Bush’s own circle was complicit in the torture of Mohammed al-Qahtani
The USA Torture Policy was initiated from ground-level requests in Guantánamo Bay for broade...
The next USA administration, will pronounce the war on terror over....
The War On Terror has tended to isolate the United States
The War On Terror has tended to polarize the world
The War On Terror has tended to inflate the enemy
The War On Terror has tended to conflate diverse movements
The War On Terror has tended to limit scope for dialogue
The War On Terror has been framed as an indefinite war that will last for decades
The way the War On Terror has been framed has impoverished the West's ability to understand
The West is not talking to its enemies (in the War on Terror)
By not talking with its enemies the West has tended to give the upper hand to extremists on the o...
Moderates within the enemy side of the War On Terror lose ground if they cannot show tangible res...
EU and the United States lists Hamas as a terrorist organization.
...
2008-07-29 Current U.S. strategy against the terrorist group Al-Qaeda has not been successful ...
2008-08-05 There’s going to be an i-9/11 event. Which doesn’t necessarily mean an Al Qaeda attack, it means ...
1996-08-23 “These youths love death as you love life. They pass the traits of dignity, pride, courage, gener...
1996-08-23 “Terrorizing you, while you carry arms in our land, is a legitimate and morally demanded duty.…Th...
2001-09-12 On or about September 12, 2001, former terrorism advisor Richard Clarke personally informed Presi...
2001-09-20 "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until ev...
An attack on Iran would increase terrorism globally...
2003-03-14 In a sweeping legal brief, a detailed 81-page opinion written by John C. Yoo, who at the time was...
2002-08-01 The Yoo-Bybee Memo 'redefnes' torture
2007 In the United States, Jack Goldsmith, who as head of the Office of Legal Counsel made the decisio...
2007 In the United States, Jack Goldsmith, who as head of the Office of Legal Counsel made the decisio...
2003-03-14 “The victim must experience intense pain or suffering of the kind that is equivalent to the pain ...
2003-12 The memo of John C. Yoo, second-ranking official at the Office of Legal Counsel at the United Sta...
US Air Force’s Eagle Eyes program encourages USAF military staff to gather evidence on USA citizen
2001-12-13 The Pentagon releases a video it claims shows Bin Laden discussing the September 11 attacks with ...
2001-12-26 Looking gaunt, tired and as if he has aged a decade in the past two months, Osama Bin Laden appea...
2002-09-09 A voice attributed to Osama Bin Laden praises the 9/11 hijackers as "great men who deepened ...
2001-06-19 A video is released by Al-Qaeda showing Osama bin Laden and his supporters training at their al-...
2003-04-08 The Associated Press news agency receives an audio tape calling for Muslims to rise up in Pakista...
2006-06 In the United States, a federal judge ordered the government to provide a “legitimate and bona fi...
2007-09 In the United States, the Bush-administration said Tariq Ramadan’s visa was rejected because he o...
2007-06 A Saudi man became the fourth prisoner to take his own life at Guantanamo Bay...
2006-06 Two Saudis and a Yemeni prisoner were found hanged in an apparent suicide at Guantanamo Bay....
2001-10 Mr Sami al-Haj, 38, was sent on assignment by al-Jazeera television station to cover the war in A...
2001-12 "Hamas has obtained much of the money that it pays for murder abroad right here in the Unite...
2004 In the United States, a federal grand jury indicted Holy Land Foundation and its leaders in 2004 ...
2007-07-24 top Pakistani militant commander Abdullah Mehsud blew himself up to avoid arrest when he was corn...
1999-02 "This is my message to the American people: to look for a serious government that looks out ...
2002-01 The United States uncovered rudimentary diagrams of nuclear weapons in a suspected al Qaeda house...
1992 U.S. troops arrived on Basilan island to train Filipino soldiers battling Abu Sayyaf.

Over th...
2004-07 In Washington, Congress's commission to investigate September 11, published its final report

T...
2006-08-03 International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) is placed on the American Treasury Department's ...
2004-05 In one of his longer memos, often referred to as "snowflakes", Donald Rumsfeld consider...
2006-09 United States named retired General Joseph Ralston, the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander in E...
1996-08 Osama bin Laden published a "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of ...
2001-09-12 In response of the 9/11 attack, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared a national day of m...
2007-09-10 "We assess Lebanese Hezbollah, which has conducted anti-US attacks outside the United States...
PKK is listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union....
2004 Zalmay Khalilzad began warning senior administration USA officials that Pakistan had become the n...
1995 The United States designated Hamas a terrorist group and outlawed any support to the group, inclu...
2003-07 United States troops in northern Iraq detained four Turkish officers and, like terrorists, took t...
2003 "...the issue of terrorist financing in the United States is a fundamental example of the sh...
2002 "Much of what it prescribes for homeland security... conforms to Clausewitz's definition of ...
2003-10-10 "We must do everything in our power to keep terrorists from ever acquiring weapons of mass d...
2004-07-22 To carry out a catastrophic act of terror like 9/11, an organization requires "time, space, ...
2007-11-01 In the struggle against the terrorists and extremists, I hope I made my strategy clear today -- t...
2004 "Consensus in the national security community (is that a) dirty bomb (attack is) inevitable,...
2004-04-15 A purported Osama Bin Laden tape is broadcast on al-Arabiya. The speaker offers a truce to Europe...
Turkish raids on PKK rebels in Northern Iraq are approved and supported by the United States...
2007-12-21 / 2007-12-22 In Belgium, 14 Islamic extremists are detained who planned to use explosives to free Nizar Trabel...