Posts Tagged ‘war on terror’
Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, October 13, 2011 20:02 - 0 Comments
Blog | Moazzam Begg: how Canada closed its doors to me
Author and campaigner Moazzam Begg became the first Guantanamo prisoner to step onto North American as a free man. However, as he explains in a new article, the Canadian authorities had other ideas.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, November 3, 2010 0:00 - 6 Comments
North African Dispatches The “War on Terror”’s new frontier?
In this week's 'North African Dispatches' Imad Mesdoua looks at the emergence, and remarkably-swift growth, of 'Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb' (AQIM), highlighting the context surrounding the phenomenon, including US attempts to extend its 'war on terror' to the region. The months to come, he argues, might herald some crucial developments.
Columns, Sabir on Security - Friday, September 3, 2010 20:58 - 2 Comments
The imminent, and overdue, death of ‘Prevent’
Of all the ill-fated initiatives and programmes introduced by the previous government in its attempt to "fight terrorism", nothing has been as disastrously counter-productive as the 'Prevent' strategy.
As Rizwaan Sabir argues, this is a programme that was designed, and implemented, as a direct attack on the Muslim community as a whole. Its demise cannot come too soon.
Arts & Culture - Thursday, May 29, 2008 15:52 - 0 Comments
Review – Road to Guantanamo
Review – Road to Guantanamo (dir. Michael Winterbottom) by Alistair Nixon In Ian McEwan’s Saturday, Henry Perowne speaks of September 11th 2001 as his eighteen year old son’s induction into international affairs; “his initiation, in front of the TV, before the dissolving towers was intense, but he adapted quickly.” It is a statement that is [...]
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