Archivo categoría «Terrorismo»
By John Campbell, a senior fellow for Africa policy studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria. He is the author of Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 26/01/12):
Boko Haram’s bloody weekend attacks in Nigeria’s most important Islamic city, Kano, following unrelated countrywide protests over the end of a decades-old fuel subsidy underscore the fact that business as usual is no longer good enough. Only genuine reform of Nigeria’s political economy can pull it back from the brink.
By partly reinstating the fuel subsidy, coupled with alleged payoffs to … Seguir leyendo
By Chika Unigwe, an Afro-Belgian writer of Nigerian origin (THE GUARDIAN, 22/01/12):
This week, still reeling from Friday’s bloody bombings on the northern city of Kano, Nigeria braces itself for more violence ahead. The bulk of the casualties in the attacks on churches belonged to the Igbo people, and this has already led to retaliatory attacks in parts of south-eastern Nigeria. An Igbo group, Ogbunigwe Ndigbo, gave all northern Muslims in the region two weeks to leave or face their wrath. In Lokpanta, where my mother is from, the Muslim Hausa community – which settled there … Seguir leyendo
By Kal Raustiala, professor of law and director of the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 18/01/12):
Of all the hangovers from the George W. Bush years, the thorniest may be what to do about the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There are still 171 detainees at Guantanamo and little consensus on what to do with them. Last spring, President Obama announced the resumption of military trials for some of those charged with participating in the 9/11 attacks. These trials, known as military commissions, have been stalled for years by legal challenges. … Seguir leyendo
By Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Hoover Institution’s Task Force on National Security and Law. He is the author of Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor After Guantanamo and a co-founder of the blog Lawfare (THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/01/12):
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the hand-wringing is in high gear. There have been op-eds by former detainees, a statement by retired military personnel, denunciations of President Obama for his failure to close the … Seguir leyendo
By Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University and the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/01/12):
Ten years after its opening, mention Guantanamo, and a thousand images emerge. Men in orange jumpsuits wearing goggles, hoods and handcuffs, hunched over in the relentless Caribbean sun; zoo-like cages, exposed to the elements, with nothing but buckets as toilets; secret areas of the prison compound where “enhanced interrogation techniques” were tested; a detainee deprived of sleep, and injected forcibly with fluids to cause swelling, until he broke; men … Seguir leyendo
By Joseph Margulies, an attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center and a law professor at Northwestern University and the author of Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power. He is counsel for Abu Zubaydah, a prisoner at the base (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 11/01/12):
“I have here in my hand a list of … names.”
When Sen. Joseph McCarthy told the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club of Wheeling, W.Va., on Feb. 9, 1950, that he held a list of 205 communists employed by the State Department, he ignited a firestorm and launched a career.
We now know there was … Seguir leyendo
By Jonathan M. Hansen, a lecturer in social studies at Harvard and the author of Guantánamo: An American History (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 11/01/12):
In the 10 years since the Guantánamo detention camp opened, the anguished debate over whether to shutter the facility — or make it permanent — has obscured a deeper failure that dates back more than a century and implicates all Americans: namely, our continued occupation of Guantánamo itself. It is past time to return this imperialist enclave to Cuba.
From the moment the United States government forced Cuba to lease the Guantánamo Bay naval base … Seguir leyendo
By Lakhdar Boumediene, the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush. He was in military custody at Guantánamo Bay from 2002 to 2009. This essay was translated by Felice Bezri from the Arabic (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/01/12):
On Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charge. During that time my daughters grew up without me. They were toddlers when I was imprisoned, and were never allowed to visit or speak to me by phone. Most of their letters were returned as … Seguir leyendo
By Murat Kurnaz, the author of Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantánamo. He was detained from 2001 to 2006 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/01/12):
I left Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier — shackled hand-to-waist, waist-to-ankles, and ankles to a bolt on the airplane floor. My ears and eyes were goggled, my head hooded, and even though I was the only detainee on the flight this time, I was drugged and guarded by at least 10 soldiers. This time though, my jumpsuit was American denim rather than Guantánamo orange. … Seguir leyendo
By Owoye Andrew Azazi, national security adviser to Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 04/01/12):
Terrorists from Nigeria have again turned the joyful celebrations of Christmas into a D-Day for premeditated mass murder. This year, extremists slaughtered worshippers in a church during Christmas services near the Nigerian capital and elsewhere in the country.
America is at risk for this type of violence. Two Christmases ago, a militant from my country – the infamous Underwear Bomber – tried to blow up an American jetliner over Detroit.
Nigeria welcomes the White House’s rapid Christmas Day declaration of support against the … Seguir leyendo
Por Juan Gabriel Tokatlian, profesor de Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad Di Tella, Argentina (EL PAÍS, 02/01/12):
Una de las tantas paradojas actuales es que mientras en la periferia muchas sociedades y Gobiernos intentan ampliar los derechos ciudadanos, en varios países centrales se pretende desvertebrar el Estado de derecho. En América Latina y, en tiempos recientes, en Oriente Próximo y el norte de África con la llamada primavera árabe, se observan impulsos y logros importantes en el reclamo y la extensión de derechos y garantías de diverso tipo. Inversamente, en países clave de Occidente, y desde el 11 de … Seguir leyendo
By Janice Kephart, a former 9/11 Commission counsel and an expert witness in Havlish v. Iran (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 30/12/11):
On July 23, 2001, a former senior Iranian intelligence officer,Abolghasem Mr. Mesbahi,learned that Iran’s plan to strike the United States had been activated. Mr. Mesbahi knew it was important and real because he had worked on this plan previously, when he had helped set up Iran’s intelligence service, the MOIS, as far back as the mid-1980s. Mr. Mesbahi – known outside Iran as one of a core of “Assassins”- told German intelligence, which had given … Seguir leyendo
By Mitchell D. Silber, the author of The al Qaeda Factor: Plots Against the West (University of Pennsylvania, 2011) and director of intelligence analysis for the New York Police Department (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 30/12/11):
Ten years ago last month, the now-infamous “shoe bomber,” Richard Reid, boarded an American Airlines flight bound for Miami from Paris, intending to kill himself and all of the other passengers by detonating an explosive device he had concealed in his shoes. What was unknown at the time is that Reid was not supposed to act alone. Saajid Badat – like Reid a British … Seguir leyendo
By Philip Mudd, who served as deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center from 2003 to 2005 and as senior intelligence adviser to the FBI from 2009 to 2010. He is senior global adviser at Oxford Analytica, a global analysis and consulting firm (THE WASHINGTON POST, 30/12/11):
President Obama backed down from his threat to veto the 2012 defense authorization bill that Congress passed this month. But the legislation takes a position on detainees that is misguided. It should prompt the president to fully exercise the discretion the legislation gives him.
For the first few years after the Sept. … Seguir leyendo
Por Fernando Reinares, investigador principal de Terrorismo Internacional en el Real Instituto Elcano y catedrático en la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (REAL INSTITUTO ELCANO, 16/12/11):
Tema: En 2011 el número de civiles afganos muertos a consecuencia atentados perpetrados por los talibán y sus aliados será unas cuatro veces superior al de militares de la coalición internacional abatidos por la violencia de esos mismos insurgentes.
Resumen: En Afganistán se perpetran actualmente, cada mes, aproximadamente el 10% de los atentados terroristas ocurridos en todo el mundo. Entre julio y octubre de 2011, la … Seguir leyendo