Year into indefinite detention people are willing to confess to anything in order to get there case moved into the court system. You see people get to court and want to repudiate their confession. Of course, what does the court turned around and do . You cant repudiate. Repudiate. I think that it is true that we didnt we do tend to assume that people detained are guilty. If you look at the number, in fact, it is not actually true. There is an earlier stage in which they accept the case. They used to give us those numbers in the annual report they have stopped doing it for whatever reason, but in the old days about half of those initially investigated never ended up with an indictment. What i assume is lot of those people end up getting an administrative punishment because it is determined they have not really committed a major offense. What we dont know is how many of those people get off because they are determined to be not guilty. But i think you are absolutely right. When it hits t
Hi would guess that we were the tweet Baltic States that were not Member States you wouldnt have little green men. Creating mischief in those countries. You also have russian boot on the ground. Let me stop on that one point that you raised. I would network to get aaron says, when we took seven to countries in november of 2002, the russians were very unhappy but we had lots of conversations with president putin and his staff and we created the Russia Councils subsequent to that and we began to work with russia, the ambassador at brussels and we tried to work with him on big security issues. We did not try to exclude russia. We tried to bring them in. I want to ask another question. You mentioned it. Do you think president putin may intend to confront nato in the Baltic States . You mentioned the theoretical possibility. Would he try to would he try any initiative that would weaken natos article 5 commitment in the next year or two . Is it possible . It would depend on his calculation,
Comparison was to compare enough in iraq, there was a huge stabilization of the situation. Refugees came back from turkey. Lets imagine now that the u. S. Did not intervene in 91, what would have happened to this refugee camp in turkey . Trust me. You have the same scenario inside turkey would have been an extremely bad civil war. It shows entered sbr at the right moment, in syria, the idea was not to send troops. The idea it was going against the strategy of beshar in a very efficient way. Thats one thing. The second thing is and this is crucial. This is the most difficult. There is no clear thought on what im going to say. But the tradeoff between shortterm and longterm, lets take two examples. The drones in yemen and the drones in afghanistan. In both cases the drones are in a way useful because theyre killing enemies. From time to time, they are not enemies, they are mistakes but basically you can say that its useful. But at the same time, you know that drones are very, very, very
Not widely heard in the white communities. But the b or flip side would be heard even less. What we discovered quickly is how many of the bside songs were directly related to the civil rights movement. Since theres very few data bases and none of them are complete on all gospel music, didnt know that. We didnt know the sheer number of songs that had very overt songs like there aint no segregation in heaven type songs, at a time when possessing one of those songs, much less singing it was a very dangerous thing in the deep south. You could get killed for a lot of things in the deep south, but singing that sort of song outloud, well, thats a risk. The texas ranger hall of fame, it was set up in 1976 for the 175th anniversary of the rangers. And honors at this point 30 rangers who made major contributions to the service or gave their lives under heroic circumstances. We have paintings or portraits of all of those rangers. They really begin with steven f. Austin. Austin was very successful
Beijing (AFP) Jan 23, 2024 - Xi Jinping s crackdown on official corruption has ripped through a secretive missile force, the Communist Party elite, the national football team, and now risks hammering a finance industry already grappling with an economic slowdown.