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CIA 'turned school into prison for terrorism suspects'

Friday November 20 2009

A former riding school in Lithuania was used as a secret CIA prison to hold and interrogate al-Qa'ida terrorist suspects, it is claimed.

Self-confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed after his capture during a raid in Pakistan early in 2003

US gears up for retribution with trial of 9/11 suspect

Friday November 20 2009

It will be hard to find jurors who can hear the case with open minds

Where's my bailout? How to break chains of negative equity

Sunday November 15 2009

THE next time you're walking down any footpath in Ireland with more than 10 people walking along it, I'd like you to conduct this simple exercise; visualise one of the people you see walking towards you with Guantanamo Bay-style orange jump suits, with hands, feet and neck chained together. That is roughly the share of people in this country suffering from negative equity at the moment. Actually, for those it affects, the financial coercion of negative equity has the same effect as chains -- the head hung low, feet shuffling forward in despair and that facial expression of permanent defeat.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the 2001 al-Qa'ida attack on New York's Twin Towers

9/11 accused facing trial next door to Ground Zero

Saturday November 14 2009

MORE THAN EIGHT years after two hijacked planes smashed into the Twin Towers killing thousands and sparking foreign wars, five men accused of helping to plot the carnage are to face trial just a few blocks from Ground Zero.

Forget the critics, he really is more steak than sizzle

Saturday November 07 2009

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton trip over themselves to praise each other these days. Not so long ago, it was a very different story.

Clooney's knockabout star-spangled satire fails to get its goat

Sunday November 01 2009

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Please, someone make it stop

Ian O'Doherty Monday October 26 2009

The employment of aural torture is a long and trusted tactic by the American military.

According to a Gallup poll Barack Obama's approval rating is only 53pc, having dropped from 78pc when the president first took office. Photo: Getty Images

Obama reeling after worst poll drop for leader in over 50 years

Friday October 23 2009

BARACK OBAMA has been hit by the worst poll rating drop for a new US president since records began more than 50 years ago.