In focus: Enemy Combatant ...WHEN: November 11, 2004, 9:54 P.M. WHERE: Birmingham, England LATE AT NIGHT on January 31, 2002, the CIA CIA: see Central Intelligence Agency. (1) (Confidentiality Integrity Authentication) The three important concerns with regards to information security. Encryption is used to provide confidentiality (privacy, secrecy). abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point British Muslim Moazzam Begg from his then home in Islamabad, Pakistan. Begg had fled to Pakistan from Afghanistan where he, along with his wife and three children, had moved to do aid work just months before 9/11 sparked the U.S.-led attack on the Taliban. Branded an "enemy combatant Captured fighter in a war who is not entitled to prisoner of war status because he or she does not meet the definition of a lawful combatant as established by the geneva convention; a saboteur. The U.S. " by U.S. military officials, for three years he was imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- without being charged in criminal court. His jail stint included two years spent mostly in solitary confinement solitary confinement n. the placement of a prisoner in a Federal or state prison in a cell away from other prisoners, usually as a form of internal penal discipline, but occasionally to protect the convict from other prisoners or to prevent the prisoner from causing as a detainee de·tain·ee n. A person held in custody or confinement: a political detainee. Noun 1. detainee - some held in custody political detainee in the U.S. Navy's infamous post-9/11 detention camp in Guantanamo, Cuba. Begg says he endured hundreds of interrogations, death threats and physical and psychological torture that included witnessing killings of other detainees. In January 2005, the British government successfully won the release of Begg and three other British citizens. A year later, Begg co-authored a memoir called Enemy Combatant: a British Muslim's Journey to Guantanamo and Back. Just before the book's release, Begg told the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper: "I've learned that the information war--giving first-hand accounts, exposing ... the hypocrisies and lies--is more important than being involved in a ground war." If the Supreme Court agrees to hear the third court case in as many years challenging the Bush Administration's policy of holding detainees without charge, justices could deliver a decision by late June. Nearly 400 detainees remain in Guantanamo. Photographer: Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion