U.S. delays Miranda rights for captured Al Qaeda operative
Abu Anas al Liby is in military custody, but nothing he tells U.S. interrogators can be used against him because he has not been read his rights.
By Ken Dilanian
WASHINGTON — The Al Qaeda terrorist suspect known as Abu Anas al Liby has the right to remain silent under U.S. law, but none of his American interrogators have told him that yet, U.S. officials say.
The 49-year-old Libyan was grabbed by U.S. special forces Saturday outside his home in Tripoli, and faces federal charges stemming from the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. He is being questioned aboard the San Antonio, an amphibious dock transport, in the Mediterranean Sea.
Under an arrangement developed by the Obama administration, he is being grilled for a short period by the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group, a special task force made up of personnel from thePentagon, the FBI, the CIA and other agencies. Their job is to pump Al Liby — an alias meaning "the Libyan" — for what he knows about terrorist networks, including his suspected contacts with Al Qaeda chief Ayman Zawahiri.
Spain warned austerity programme breaches human rights
Cuts in social, health and education have led to growth in family poverty, says Council of Europe report
Spain’s ongoing austerity programme has deepened the country’s poverty problem and is breaching the human rights of vulnerable groups such as children and those with disabilities, according to a Council of Europe report.
“Cuts in social, health and educational budgets have led to a worrying growth of family poverty in Spain,” reads the study, which was published yesterday.
It was drawn up by Nils Muiznieks, Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, who visited Spain in June, meeting with ministers, other officials and representatives of civil organisations in Madrid and Seville.
SYRIA
Assad an 'international partner' again, expert says
Experts say destruction of Syria's chemical weapons is proceeding according to plan. But apart from this success, the work could have meaningful political side-effects, says a political scientist at a Zurich think tank.
DW: United Nations inspectors and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have apparently been making progress for 10 days on destroying Syria's chemical weapons arsenal. What could have moved Bashar al-Assad to agree to cooperate with the inspectors?
Oliver Thränert: I think the Syrian leadership under Assad has made a landmark decision. It's certainly better for them to give up their chemical weapons within the framework of an international agreement, than it is to risk a possible American military strike.
Nobel hopes grow in Malala's home town
October 10, 2013
Emmanuel Duparcq
In Malala Yousufzai's home town in Pakistan, school friends hope to see her win the Nobel peace prize this week.
But they dream in secret, under pressure from a society deeply ambivalent about the teenage activist.
Malala, who survived being shot by the Taliban on October 9 last year, has become a global ambassador for education, feted by celebrities and politicians around the world. But in north-west Pakistan's Swat valley, a deeply conservative area fearful of foreign influence, many regard her with suspicion and even contempt.
Media blackout for Tanzania minister, director
Media organisations will not publish anything from Tanzania's information department in protest of three local newspapers being banned.
Media owners, publishers and journalist bodies in Tanzania have agreed not to cover any news event, publish statements or pictures of the minister of information, culture and sports or that of the country's director of information.
The stakeholders agreed in a meeting in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday that no private newspaper, radio or television station will carry anything involving Minister of Information, Culture and Sports Fenella Mkangala and director of information Assah Mwambene, indefinitely.
It follows the decision by the government to ban MwanaHalisi, a weekly investigative newspaper which was banned indefinitely 15 months ago, while Mwananchi and Mtanzania was banned for three months and two weeks, 10 days ago.
North Korea confirms it replaced hard-line military chief with little-known army general
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has replaced its hard-line military chief only a few months after his appointment, state media confirmed Thursday, the latest in an ongoing reshuffle of top personnel that analysts say is meant to solidify ruler Kim Jong Un’s grip on power.
The replacement was believed to have been made in August when North Korea was pushing to ease animosity and resume lucrative cooperation projects with South Korea after threatening nuclear war throughout the spring.
The name of new military chief, Ri Yong Gil, came in a Korean Central News Agency dispatch listing top officials who accompanied Kim to a Pyongyang mausoleum on Thursday. Ri replaced Kim Kyok Sik, who is the former commander of battalions believed responsible for attacks on South Korea in 2010 that killed 50 people. State media dispatches first identified Kim as the military’s general staff chief in May.
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