Kenya Muslims say U.S. backed torture and detention
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Kenyan Muslims marched on police headquarters in Nairobi on Thursday in protest against what they called the illegal detention and torture of fellow Muslims in an anti-terrorist drive urged on by the United States.
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A Saudi-American held in U.S. solitary confinement for nearly three years after being captured on an Afghan battlefield was quoted by a Saudi newspaper Saturday as saying he went to Afghanistan to do charity work, not aid the Taliban.
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Authorities believed the suspects provided support to the three Islamic militants who were arrested yesterday, an official said.
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Four Britons who claim they were tortured while being detained in Saudi Arabia on trumped up terrorist charges are backing a campaign to allow UK citizens who have been abused abroad to seek compensation in the British courts.
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NAIROBI, Feb. 12 -- Kenya's new government awarded a $34 million contract to a foreign firm for a new passport and visa system to prevent attacks such as the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. But in what became known as the "Anglo-Leasing scandal," top members of the president's office were accused last year of pocketing the money.
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Somali Islamists are under the growing control of an al Qaeda cell in East Africa, a U.S. diplomat said on Thursday, as Washington condemned their threat to attack Ethiopian troops backing Somalia's interim government.
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An Islamist group said today that it had beheaded the second of two Americans and a Briton it seized last week, according to a Web site that has proven reliable in such matters.
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A group of Americans on trial for allegedly detaining and torturing Afghans in a secret prison showed videotapes Monday designed to show they were acting with the knowledge and approval of some Afghan and foreign authorities and that the Afghans they detained at their Kabul base were terrorists.
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The Bush administration on Wednesday   said all detainees of the U.S. military would be ensured humane   treatment, but some such as al Qaeda members would have fewer   protections than other war prisoners.
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An Egyptian cleric allegedly kidnapped off the streets of Italy by CIA agents in 2003 claimed Sunday that the Americans who abducted him "savagely" tortured him while deporting him to Egypt for interrogation.
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Stung by setbacks to its latest strategy in Somalia, the United States for the first time reached out to hardline Islamists, its erstwhile enemies, to help catch &amp;quot;terrorists&amp;quot; allegedly hiding in the shattered African nation.
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The US has said it will fully back any action that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf takes to capture Osama bin Laden. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said this at his daily press briefing on
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A British detainee was reportedly tortured at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba for reciting the Koran when talking was banned.
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A federal prosecutor made a comment suggesting that a Virginia man held in a Saudi Arabian prison had been tortured.
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A US-based human rights group has challenged Americaâs treatment of 11 al-Qaeda suspects, saying some have âdisappearedâ in US custody while others may have been tortured.
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The U.S. military has found nearly 20 houses where intelligence officers believe hostages were tortured or killed in this city, including the house with the cage that held a British contractor who was beheaded last month.
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The transfer of 14 foreign terrorism   suspects from CIA prisons abroad to the U.S. military prison at   Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, resolved a two-year debate in the Bush   administration over its detention policy, The Washington Post   reported on Thursday.