Sam Manuel
"The London raids were the start of a week of concerted police sweeps throughout Europe. Cops in Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, as well as Turkey, launched similar 'antiterror' raids, arresting a total of 63 people, most of them Turks. The pretext was 'minimizing a terror threat ahead of June’s NATO summit in Istanbul, Turkey' and 'increased international security cooperation before the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece,' according to an April 2 Associated Press dispatch. Police claimed those arrested had 'ties' to a banned Turkish organization, the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army/Front." [more]
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(Reuters, Dec 18)
"Federal prison officers in Brooklyn physically and verbally abused immigrants detained after the Sept. 11 attacks, slamming them against the wall and painfully twisting their arms and hands, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said on Thursday." [more]
(STAFF, DEBKAfile, Dec 14)
"Saddam was seized, possibly with the connivance of his own men, and held in that hole in Adwar for three weeks or more, which would have accounted for his appearance and condition. Meanwhile, his captors bargained for the $25m prize the Americans promised for information leading to his capture alive or dead." [more]
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