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Terrorism Documents of International and Local Control: Volume 85 Issued January 2008 (Hardcover)
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Terrorism Documents of International and Local Control: Volume 85 Issued January 2008 (Hardcover)
Series: Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents
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Terrorism: Documents of International and Local Control is a
hardbound series that provides primary-source documents on the
worldwide counter-terrorism effort. Chief among the documents
collected are transcripts of Congressional testimony, reports by
such federal government bodies as the Congressional Research
Service and the Government Accountability Office, and case law
covering issues related to terrorism. Most volumes carry a single
theme, and inside each volume the documents appear within
topic-based categories. The series also includes a subject index
and other indexes that guide the user through this complex area of
the law. Volume 85 coverage focuses on the U.S. government's
surveillance, interrogation, and detention of suspected terrorists.
Highlights of this volume involve the U.S. government's
increasingly common practice of seeking intelligence through
torture (or the threat thereof). Maher Arar is a Canadian engineer
arrested by U.S. officials as he passed through a New York airport
en route from Europe to Montreal. Those officials arranged for Arar
to be placed ultimately in the hands of Syrian officials who
tortured him despite the complete lack of evidence against him.
Volume 85 includes Arar's own account of his travels, as presented
to Congress in October 2007. This volume also includes the two
Higazy case opinions which center on an Egyptian student at a U.S.
college. This student was wrongfully detained by U.S. officials in
the wake of the 9/11 attacks. An FBI official threatened to have
his family in Egypt tortured by authoritities there if he did not
confess to aiding the attacks. After new evidence revealed Higazy's
innocence, he sued the officials involved and lost, but won on
appeal. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals included an account of the
FBI's threats in its October 2007 opinion and posted the opinion to
its public website but then removed that version the next day and
posted a redacted version with those embarassing paragraphs
removed. Volume 85 features both opinions for comparison purposes.
Although several blogs have also posted the original opinion,
Volume 85 provides what may be the only print version avaliable to
the general public.
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