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Canada Blocks Torture Case Against Bush
By Elizabeth Whitman
NEW YORK - Beaten. Chained to walls. Exposed to extreme temperatures. Deprived of food, water and sleep. Hassan bin Attash, Sami el- Hajj, Muhammed Khan Tumani and Murat Kurnaz suffered years of inhumane and illegal treatment while in U.S. custody either at Guantánamo Bay or in military bases in Afghanistan.
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U.S.
Al Qaeda's Project for Ending the American Century Largely Succeeded
Analysis by Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - A decade after its spectacular Sep. 11, 2001 attacks on New York City's twin World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon and despite the killing earlier this year of its charismatic leader, Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda appears to have largely succeeded in its hopes of accelerating the decline of U.S. global power, if not bringing it to the brink of collapse.
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Post-9/11 Rebuffs Set U.S.-Iran Relations on Downward Spiral
Analysis by Barbara Slavin
WASHINGTON - Of all the mistakes and missed opportunities that have characterised U.S. foreign policy since Sep. 11, 2001, few may have been as consequential as the failure to improve relations with Iran.
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Torture Charges Go Forward Against Bush-Era Defence Secretary
By Kanya D'Almeida
WASHINGTON - On Apr. 16, 2006, for reasons still unknown to them, two U.S. contractors in Iraq's Red Zone were handcuffed, blindfolded and transported to Camp Cropper, a U.S. military facility located a few miles from Baghdad International Airport.
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Calls Mount to Investigate Bush Era Officials for Torture
By Naseema Noor
WASHINGTON - Senior officials under the former George W. Bush administration knowingly authorised the torture of terrorism suspects held under United States custody, a Human Right Watch (HRW) report released here Tuesday revealed.
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U.S. Civil Rights Advocates Still Fighting "Race War"
By Pam Johnson
WASHINGTON - Exactly 40 years after former United States President Richard Nixon labelled his administration’s drug policy a "war" in 1971, a huge coalition of civil rights leaders, advocates and educators converged in Washington D.C. to expose an on-going conflict that they believe is less ‘a war on drugs’ and more an assault on the rights of African Americans in the 21st century.
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Neoconservatives Losing Hold Over Republican Foreign Policy
Analysis by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Nearly ten years after seizing control of Republican foreign policy, neo- conservatives and other hawks appear to be losing it.
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Afghan Forces 'Not Ready' for Handover
By Correspondents *
DOHA - Almost a decade of neglect has raised serious concerns about the readiness of Afghan security forces to take over from foreign forces by the end of 2014, a new report claims.
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U.S. Refusal of 2001 Taliban Offer Gave bin Laden a Free Pass
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - When George W. Bush rejected a Taliban offer to have Osama bin Laden tried by a moderate group of Islamic states in mid- October 2001, he gave up the only opportunity the United States would have to end bin Laden's terrorist career for the next nine years.
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Osama Bin Laden Killed in Pakistan
By Correspondents *
DOHA - Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, is dead. U.S. president Barack Obama said bin Laden, the most-wanted fugitive on the U.S. list, had been killed on Sunday in a U.S. operation in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, about 150km north of Islamabad.
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No More Immunity for George W. Bush – Abroad, at Least
By Kanya D'Almeida
UNITED NATIONS - Former U.S. President George W. Bush may have mostly vanished from the headlines since January 2009, but the alleged crimes committed by his administration are not forgotten.
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India Gathers Military Might
Analysis by Peter Custers
LEIDEN, the Netherlands - Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev signed a large number of contracts with India during a two-day visit to New Delhi in December. These deals were part of a series of agreements that have placed India in progressively more advantageous positions in global arms markets.
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Leaked Cables Cast Light on Bungled CIA Kidnapping
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Wikileaks' spectacular paper dump of U.S. diplomatic cables may not yet have produced any blockbusters, but many of the restricted or secret documents released to the world on Sunday have served to peel back the scabs of serious injuries inflicted by the administration of George W. Bush.
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Former U.S. President George W. Bush’s second term was not characterised by substantial policy change. From Iraq to climate change, it remained business as usual in Washington.

President Barack Obama ran a successful campaign and was elected the 44th President of the U.S. on a platform of ‘change’.