DN!: Secret FBI Unit Detained War Protesters in 2002//FBI, CIA Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:16:21 -0400 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST April 5, 2007 = = = = = = = = = * Read Amy Goodman's latest column * Hang Up on War http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hang_up_on_war/ Note that this news site, Truthdig, allows readers to post comments. Consider posting your own. Also, consider writing your local newspaper and asking for them to carry the column, distributed by King Features. Many papers across the US have done so already. If you see the column in your paper, please mail us a copy of the full page, to Democracy Now! 87 Lafayette St New York, NY 10013 Thank you! = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now! Benefit with Howard Zinn & Amy Goodman Boston, Mon., April 16th see details at http://tour.democracynow.org/2007/04/boston_ma.html = = = = = = = = =   * DN! is hiring * Immediate Opening: Part-Time TV Director http://www.democracynow.org/jobs.shtml TV News Producer/Editor http://www.democracynow.org/jobs.shtml = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * Secret FBI Unit Detained War Protesters In 2002 * Recently unearthed police logs reveal a secret FBI intelligence unit helped detain a group of war protesters in a downtown Washington parking garage in April 2002 and interrogated some of them on videotape about their political and religious beliefs. The protesters were targeted largely because they were wearing the color black and perceived by police to be anarchists. We speak with one of the protesters and an attorney filing suit against the FBI and DC police. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/141252 * 'Outsourced Guantanamo' - FBI & CIA Interrogating Detainees in Secret Ethiopian Jails, U.S. Citizen Among Those Held * The CIA and FBI agents have been interrogating hundreds of detainees at secret prisons in Ethiopia. Many of the prisoners were recently transferred there secretly and illegally from Kenya and Somalia. They are being held without charge or access to counsel. One of those held is 24 year-old U.S. citizen, Amir Mohamed Meshal. We speak with an attorney working on Meshal's case, Human Rights Watch and a reporter in Nairobi who covered the story. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/141256 * War Photographer Chris Hondros Witnesses U.S. Shooting of Iraqi Parents in Car With Six Children * We speak with Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist Chris Hondros. He is best known for graphic photographs he took in the northwestern Iraqi city of Tal Afar in 2005 when U.S. troops opened fire on a family of eight approaching a checkpoint in a car. Both parents were killed while the six children in the backseat looked on. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/142201 * Headlines for April 5, 2007 * - Freed British Sailors and Marines Return Home - Four UK Soldiers Killed in Iraq; U.S. Helicopter Shot Down - Wal-Mart Accused of Infiltrating Anti-Wal-Mart Group; Spied on Critics - Britain Introduces Surveillance Cameras Equipped With Loudspeakers - Bush Appoints Swift Boat Donor To Ambassadorship - Report: Census Bureau Helped Track Japanese-Americans During WWII - 10 Anti-War Protesters in Vermont Arrested At Sen. 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