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Rule of law
Obama's drone war kills 'others,' not just al Qaida leaders
McClatchy 09/04/2013 - Contrary to assurances it has deployed U.S. drones only against known senior leaders of al Qaida and allied groups, the Obama administration has targeted and killed hundreds of suspected lower-level Afghan,  Pakistani and unidentified "other" militants in scores of strikes in Pakistan's rugged tribal area, classified U.S. intelligence reports show. The administration has said that strikes by the CIA's missile-firing Predator and Reaper drones are authorized only against "specific senior operational leaders of al Qaida and associated forces" involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks who are plotting "imminent" violent attacks on Americans. Copies of the top-secret U.S. intelligence reports reviewed by McClatchy, however, show that drone strikes in Pakistan over a four-year period didn't adhere to those standards.
Read moreCBC news 05/04/2013 - When a U.S. federal appeals court ruled last month that the CIA could no longer stay quiet about whether it has information on U.S. drone strikes, the decision made headlines around the world. But for Jameel Jaffer, the Canadian-born lawyer who argued the case for the American Civil Liberties Union  (ACLU), it was the end of a three-year saga and the culmination of hundreds of hours of work for the small legal team that took on the suit. "We thought that the CIA's position was completely indefensible from the beginning, and it's gratifying finally to have an appeals court agree with us," Jaffer said by phone from New York City, where he lives. "But it's also a limited step towards transparency." Since the first reported drone strike against al-Qaeda in 2002, which killed six people in Yemen including an American, the CIA has avoided officially acknowledging the program. Read moreTargeted killing comes to define war on terrorOrigins of CIA's not-so-secret drone war in PakistanThree key lessons from the Obama administration's drone liesAnonymous murder from a safe distanceActivists take protest to the heart of the 'drone zone'NYT Editorial: The trouble with dronesDrone use remains cloaked despite Obama's pledge for more transparencyOpinion: Drone policy hurts the U.S.'s image in YemenU.S. drone strikes in Pakistan linked to rise in depression, anxiety, mental health issuesUS "Liberals": partisan or principled?The remote control warReining in fully autonomous 'killer robots' |
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Access to information
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Border security
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Criminalization of dissent
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Iraq: 10 years later
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Militarism
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Omar Khadr
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State secrecy
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Surveillance and privacy
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Terrorism
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War on terror
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About us
The ICLMG is a national coalition of thirty-nine Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. You will find in this News Digest news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, civil liberties and other issues related to the mandate and concerns of ICLMG and its member organizations. Unless stated otherwise, the content of this News Digest does not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG. 
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Books
The Way of the Knife: NYT's Mark Mazzetti on the CIA's move from spying to assassinations
In his new book, "The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth," Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti tracks the transformation of the CIA and U.S. special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American way of war. The book's revelations include disclosing that the Pakistani government agreed to allow the drone attacks in return for the CIA's assassination of Pakistani militant Nek Muhammad, who was not even a target of the United States.
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Event
Criminalization of dissent: a panel discussion in solidarity with political prisoners around the globe
Wednesday April 17, 2013 at 6:30pm
OISE - Room 5-250
252 Bloor Street West, Toronto
Co-organizers: Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Coalition for Tamil Rights (CTR), Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network (LACSN) and the Philippine Solidarity Network - Toronto (PSNT)
Speakers: Issam Alyamani, Francine "Flower" Doxtator,
Jaroslava Avila,
Krisna Saravanamuttu, Perry Sorio, and a special guest speaker on the issue of Security Certificates in Canada. Join us to hear these stories,
identify common strategies and discuss effective community responses.
For further information: justice5@sympatico.ca |
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Take action
Why are you proud to protect refugees?
Following recent changes to Canada's refugee determination system, it may be tougher to protect refugees in Canada.  Join the Canadian Council for Refugees in showing Canadians and the world why we are still proud to protect refugees and refugee rights.
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Take action
Deportation is not entertainment! Cancel the reality show Border Security
Dozens of people were interrogated, arrested, and detained by the Canadian Border Services Agency. One of them was my  husband. Shockingly, some of these traumatic experiences were filmed for a reality TV show "Border Security" which airs on National Geographic Channel. Sign the petition to urge National Geographic Channel and Force Four Entertainment, to cancel the show "Border Security" immediately.
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Take action
Donate to the legal fund for Mohamed Mahjoub
The security certificate process was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada in the 2007 Charkaoui ruling. A new certificate was issued against Mr. Mahjoub in February 2008 under  this new process and he was forced to begin the process all over again. The Federal Court has not yet ruled on the 'reasonability' of the new certificate against him. In the context of these new security certificate proceedings, Mr. Mahjoub was subject to an unprecedented violation of his rights. The present fund-raising initiative is aimed at obtaining a permanent stay of the unfair proceedings against him in light of this unprecedented violation. |
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Take action
"Hundred for Hassan" Campaign
Hassan will be put in prison if he does not pay his "creditor" - in this case, the Canadian government - $2,000 per month for the cost of his own surveillance. We invite you to be one of  100 people who care about due process and the presumption of innocence and oppose abusive extradition proceedings, by pledging $20 per month or more to share the cost of Dr. Diab's oppressive burden. This is our way of taking a public stand and saying, "This is just wrong." |
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According to the Associated Press, last week the prison began to notify attorneys representing those prisoners who have been violently and coercively fed. Mukbel, one of 56 Yemeni prisoners being held at the prison despite being cleared for release, described the feeding process as painful. "His lawyer, Cori Crider, said Mukbel told her that he had refused to be force-fed on one occasion in March and was taken by guards to the detainee hospital and handcuffed to a bed for 24 hours to undergo the procedure," AP reports. "Some people have gone through this a lot but he said he had never felt anything like it in his life," she added.
