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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 08:51 AM
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Interpol chief: terror laws abused
CNN reports:

BENIDORM, Spain (Reuters) -- The black American who heads Interpol says he is concerned about the over- zealous use of anti-terrorism laws and that he has himself been singled out because of his looks.

Ronald K. Noble, secretary general of the 181-nation police organization, told Reuters in an exclusive interview Thursday that people subjected to abuse often had no chance of redress from anonymous officials.

"I know that I've been searched because I look like a person who could be Arabic, if I'm travelling from an Arab country, or I could be a drug-trafficker if I'm coming from a drug-trafficking country," Noble, 47, said.

He acknowledged: "There has been an overuse of terrorism laws to the disadvantage of ordinary citizens and travellers." Noble said he knew from experience, as a "person of color" who could be taken for an Arab, an African or a Hispanic, that ordinary citizens were facing abuses in the name of the war on terror.

more: http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/europe/10/02/interpol.terror.reut/index.html

So now you know, you heard it from the man!

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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 07:09 PM
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1. Interpol chief slams abuses in war on terror - IOL Reuters
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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 07:46 PM
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2. The war on terror is nothing but a sham
Humanitarian intervention wasn't quit cutting it after the world got a look at the destruction it caused so now we've swtiched to the war on terror...

Created a nifty little group called Al-Quaeda that we can convieniently say is just about anywhere we want to go destabilize and intervene. :bounce: This war on nouns brought to you by PNAC and JINSA. :bounce:

1 2 3

What are we fighting for

Don't as me I don't give a damn

Next stop is - uh, who's next on the PNAC list?

And it's 5 6 7

Open up them pearly gates
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