Articles by Akbar Shahid Ahmed
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Stunning US State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza ‘De-Escalation’ Talk
Akbar Shahid Ahmed | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – As Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, in messages circulated today US State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm,” according to internal emails viewed by HuffPost.
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More Than a Quarter of the World’s Countries Helped the CIA Run Its Torture Program
Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Ryan Grim and Lauren Weber – Huffington Post,
10 Jun 2019
These countries made the CIA program possible in two ways: by enabling rendition, which involved transferring U.S. detainees abroad without due legal process, and by providing facilities far beyond the reach of U.S. law where those detainees were subjected to torture.
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Ryan Grim and Lauren Weber – Huffington Post,
15 Dec 2014
These countries made the CIA program possible in two ways: by enabling rendition, which involved transferring U.S. detainees abroad without due legal process, and by providing facilities far beyond the reach of U.S. law where those detainees were subjected to torture.
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