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Many high-ranking Yemeni government officials help al-Qaeda and other militants, beginning in 1996, according to Abdulsalam Ali Abdulrahman, a Yemeni official who will be captured after 9/11 and sent to the US prison in Guanatanamo, Cuba. Abdulrahman is a section chief in Yemen's Political Security Organization (PSO), the Yemeni equivalent of the FBI, until his arrest in 2002 (see September 2002). His 2008 Guantanamo file will state: "Detainee stated that since 1996, numerous high-ranking employees in the Yemeni government and PSO were involved in aiding al-Qaeda and other extremists through the provision of false passports and by giving them safe haven out of the country under the guise of deportation. These PSO officials included detainee; Mohammed al-Surmi, deputy chief of the PSO; Ghalib al-Qamish, director of the PSO; Colonel Ahmad Dirham, commander of the Deportation Department in the PSO; and Abdallah al-Zirka, an officer in the Yemeni Passport Authority. According to detainee, the second highest ranking person in the Yemeni government, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, was aware of the involvement of al-Surmi and al-Qamish in these activities since at least 1999." An analyst notes in the file that Mohsen is the (half) brother of Yemeni President Saleh. [US Department of Defense, 9/24/2008] Note that this is based on Guantanamo files leaked to the public in 2011 by the non-profit whistleblower group WikiLeaks. There are many doubts about the reliability of the information in the files (see April 24, 2011). However, it should also be noted that other information corroborates the charges, including the involvement of some names mentioned by Abdulrahman (for instance, see Spring-Summer 1998, After July 1994, December 26, 1998, and April 27, 2005).
Entity Tags: Ghalib al-Qamish, Abdallah al-Zirka, Abdulsalam Ali Abdulrahman, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, Mohammed al-Surmi, Ahmad Dirham, Yemeni Political Security Organization
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline
Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani. [Source: US Defense Department]Future 9/11 hijacker Ahmed Alghamdi is allegedly arrested in Pakistan and then released. This is according to the Guantanamo file of Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani, who is arrested on September 10, 2002 (see September 10-11, 2002). Rabbani supposedly is running several al-Qaeda safe houses in Karachi, Pakistan, from early 2000 until his arrest. His file states that, according to an unnamed high-ranking al-Qaeda prisoner, Rabbani and Alghamdi are on the road either heading to or from Afghanistan and are arrested by Pakistani police. But Rabbani pays a small bribe and both of them are released. It is unknown if the police know anything about the backgrounds of the two men. [US Department of Defense, 6/9/2008] It is not mentioned when this incident happens, if it indeed happens, but presumably it would be some time between mid-2000 and early 2001, when Alghamdi likely spends time in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Note that this is based on Guantanamo files leaked to the public in 2011 by the non-profit whistleblower group WikiLeaks. There are many doubts about the reliability of the information in the files (see April 24, 2011).
Entity Tags: Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani, Ahmed Alghamdi
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
Mohamed al-Khatani. [Source: Defense Department]Saudi national Mohamed al-Khatani is captured at the Pakistani-Afghan border and transferred to US authorities. [Washington File, 6/23/2004] He tells his captors that he was in Afghanistan to pursue his love of falconry, an explanation no one takes seriously. [Time, 6/12/2005] His identity and nationality are at this time unknown. However, investigators will later come to believe he was an intended twentieth hijacker for the 9/11 plot (see July 2002).
Entity Tags: Mohamed al-Khatani
Timeline Tags: Torture of US Captives, Complete 911 Timeline, War in Afghanistan
An aerial shot of Camp X-Ray. [Source: Public domain]The US prison camp at Guantanamo receives its first 20 prisoners from the Afghan battlefield. [Reuters, 1/11/2002] The prisoners are flown on a C-141 Starlifter cargo plane, escorted during the final leg of the journey by a Navy assault helicopter and a naval patrol boat. The prisoners, hooded, shackled, wearing blackout goggles and orange jumpsuits, and possibly drugged, are escorted one by one off the plane by scores of Marines in full battle gear. They are interred in what reporter Charlie Savage will later call "kennel-like outdoor cages" in the makeshift containment facility dubbed Camp X-Ray. [Guardian, 1/11/2002; Savage, 2007, pp. 142-143] Leaked Photos of Transfer Cause International Outcry - Pictures of prisoners being transferred in conditions clearly in violation of international law are later leaked, prompting an outcry. But rather than investigating the inhumane transfer, the Pentagon will begin investigating how the pictures were leaked. [Associated Press, 11/9/2002] Guantanamo Chosen to Keep Prisoners out of US Jurisdiction - The prisoners are sent to this base—leased by Cuba to the US—because it is on foreign territory and therefore beyond the jurisdiction of US law (see December 28, 2001). [Globe and Mail, 9/5/2002] It was once a coaling station used by the US Navy, and in recent years had been used by Coast Guard helicopters searching for drug runners and refugees trying to make it across the Florida Straits to US soil. In 1998, the Clinton administration had briefly considered and then rejected a plan to bring some prisoners from Kosovo to Guantanamo. Guantanamo was chosen as an interim prison for Afghanis who survived the uprising at Mazar-e Sharif prison (see 11:25 a.m. November 25, 2001) by an interagency working group (see Shortly Before September 23, 2001), who considered and rejected facilities in Germany and other European countries. Group leader Pierre-Richard Prosper will later recall: "We looked at our military bases in Europe and ruled that out because (a), we'd have to get approval from a European government, and (b), we'd have to deal with the European Court of Human Rights and we didn't know how they'd react. We didn't want to lose control over it and have it become a European process because it was on European soil. And so we kept looking around and around, and basically someone said, 'What about Guantanamo?'" The base may well have not been the final choice of Prosper's group; it was still researching a Clinton-era attempt to house Haitian and Cuban refugees there that had been challenged in court when Rumsfeld unilaterally made the decision to begin transferring prisoners to the naval base. [Savage, 2007, pp. 143-144] No Geneva Convention Strictures Apply to 'Unlawful Combatants' - Rumsfeld, acting on the advice of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, publicly declares the detainees "unlawful combatants" and thereby not entitled to the rights of the Geneva Conventions. "Unlawful combatants do not have any rights under the Geneva Convention," Rumsfeld says. Though, according to Rumsfeld, the government will "for the most part treat them in a manner that is reasonably consistent with the Geneva Conventions, to the extent they are appropriate." [Reuters, 1/11/2002] There is no reason to feel sorry for these detainees, says Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He states, "These are people who would gnaw through hydraulic lines at the back of a C-17 to bring it down." [New York Times, 6/21/2004] British Officials: 'Scandalous' - Senior British officials privately call the treatment of prisoners "scandalous," and one calls the refusal to follow the Geneva Convention "not benchmarks of a civilized society." [Guardian, 6/13/2002]
Entity Tags: US Department of the Navy, United States, US Department of Defense, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Richard B. Myers, Clinton administration, Donald Rumsfeld, Charlie Savage, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Office of Legal Counsel (DOJ), Geneva Conventions
Timeline Tags: Torture of US Captives, Complete 911 Timeline, Civil Liberties
Hassan Ali bin Attash. [Source: US Defense Department]Pakistani forces raid a safe house in Karachi, Pakistan, and arrest 17 suspected al-Qaeda operatives. All 17 will eventually be sent to the US-run Guantanamo prison in Cuba. Abu Bara al-Taizi - One of them is Abu Bara al-Taizi (a.k.a. Zohair Mohammed Said), who attended the al-Qaeda summit in Malaysia in 2000 (see January 5-8, 2000) and was to be a hijacker for an Asian portion of the 9/11 attacks that never materialized. Al-Taizi will be handed to the US on February 27, and then transferred to Guantanamo a few months later. Abdu Ali Sharqawi - The safe house is run by Abdul Rahim al-Sharqawi, a Yemeni commonly known as Riyadh the Facilitator. He is arrested as well, but he will not be handed to the US and then sent to Guantanamo until September 2004. [US Department of Defense, 7/7/2008; US Department of Defense, 10/25/2008] Another Guantanamo prisoner, Hassan Ali bin Attash, will later say that he and al-Sharqawi were held in a Jordanian prison for over a year. That would explain most of the time between al-Sharqawi's arrest and his transfer to Guantanamo. [US Department of Defense, 6/25/2008] The New York Times will later identify al-Sharqawi as one of the four most important al-Qaeda leaders captured in the first year after 9/11. [New York Times, 9/10/2002] Al-Sharqawi's Al-Qaeda Activity - According to al-Sharqawi's Guantanamo file, he joined al-Qaeda after fighting in Bosnia in 1995 and was closely linked to many al-Qaeda leaders. For a time, he even took part in weekly planning meetings with Osama bin Laden and others. In the summer of 2001, he began running the safe house in Karachi. His file says that he photo-identifies 11 of the 9/11 hijackers and provides varying amounts of information on each of them. He estimates that he helped over 100 al-Qaeda operatives leave Pakistan in the post-9/11 crackdown before his safe house was shut down. 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and hijacker associate Ramzi bin al-Shibh passed through his safe house in January 2002, a few weeks before the safe house is raided. As of late 2008, al-Sharqawi, al-Taizi, and nine others captured in the raid remain imprisoned in Guantanamo, while six others have been transferred out. [US Department of Defense, 7/7/2008; US Department of Defense, 10/25/2008] Most of the above is based on Guantanamo files leaked to the public in 2011 by the non-profit whistleblower group WikiLeaks. There are many doubts about the reliability of the information in the files (see April 24, 2011). Neighbor's Tip Led to Raid - The safe house was discovered because the Pakistani Army asked the public for leads on the movements of suspicious foreigners. Apparently one or more neighbors pointed out the safe house (see Late 2001).
Entity Tags: Osama bin Laden, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Al-Qaeda, Abu Bara al-Taizi, Abdul Rahim al-Sharqawi, Hassan Ali bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, War in Afghanistan
Labed Ahmed (a.k.a. Ahmed Taleb). [Source: US Defense Department]Alleged al-Qaeda Hamburg cell member Labed Ahmed (a.k.a. Ahmed Taleb) is arrested in Faisalabad, Pakistan, as part of a series of raids that also results in the arrest of al-Qaeda leader Abu Zubaida and other suspected al-Qaeda operatives (see March 28, 2002). Apparently, he is in the same house as Zubaida when both of them are arrested. Ahmed is transferred to US custody two months later, and then sent to the US-run prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, on August 5, 2002. History of Robbery and Drug Dealing - Ahmed is an Algerian in his late 40s. In the early 1980s, he served in the Algerian army for four years. He was found guilty several times of robbery. In the early 1990s, he lived in Italy and was found guilty several times of drug dealing and robbery. From 1994 onwards he lived in Hamburg, Germany, and spent a total of two years in prison for a variety of crimes, including robbery and credit card fraud. He continued to deal illegal drugs. Eventually, he became a radical Islamist and associated with members of the al-Qaeda cell in Hamburg, although when and how this happened is unclear. (Note that in 1995, Hamburg cell member and future 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta was investigated for petty drug crimes (see 1995).) [US Department of Defense, 9/16/2005] Plane Flight with Hamburg Cell Members - On September 3, 2001, Ahmed flew to Pakistan with cell member Said Bahaji, another older Algerian named Ismail Bin Murabit (a.k.a. Ismail Ben Mrabete), and others suspected of links to the Hamburg cell. They stayed in the same hotel when they arrived in Karachi, Pakistan. Information on Ahmed's travel was uncovered by German investigators (see September 3-5, 2001). Training and Fighting in Afghanistan, Hiding in Pakistan - According to Ahmed's 2008 Guantanamo file, Ahmed confesses that he, Bin Murabit, and Bahaji traveled together to the al-Faruq training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan. There, they met Zakariya Essabar, another Hamburg cell member who had just left Germany (see Late August 2001). Ahmed and Bin Murabit stayed together and trained at a variety of locations in Afghanistan. Later in 2001, they fought against US forces near Bagram, Afghanistan. Ahmed then snuck across the Pakistan border with the help of the Lashkar-e-Toiba militant group, and lived in the same safe house as Zubaida and other militants for about a month before they are all captured. Apparently, Ahmed split up from Bin Murabit at some point, because Bin Murabit is not captured, and it is unclear what happens to him. [US Department of Defense, 4/23/2008] (Note that the contents of these Guantanamo files are often based on dubious sources, and sometimes on torture (see April 24, 2011).) Despite Ahmed's links to the Hamburg cell and Zubaida, he will be transferred to Algeria on November 10, 2008. It is unknown if he is set free or imprisoned by the Algerian government. [New York Times, 4/25/2011]
Entity Tags: Said Bahaji, Labed Ahmed, Ismail Bin Murabit, Al-Qaeda, Zakariya Essabar, Abu Zubaida, Lashkar-e-Toiba
Ramzi bin al-Shibh. [Source: FBI]It is originally reported that Al Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda interviews 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) and 9/11 associate Ramzi Bin al-Shibh at a secret location in Karachi, Pakistan, in either June [London Times, 9/8/2002] or August. [Guardian, 9/9/2002] Details and audio footage of the interview come out between September 8 and 12, 2002. The video footage of the interview al-Qaeda promised to hand over is never given to Al Jazeera. [Associated Press, 9/8/2002] Both figures claim the 9/11 attacks were originally going to target nuclear reactors, but "decided against it for fear it would go out of control." Interviewer Fouda is struck that KSM and bin al-Shibh remember only the hijackers' code names, and have trouble remembering their real names. [Australian, 9/9/2002] KSM, who calls himself the head of al-Qaeda's military committee and refers to bin al-Shibh as the coordinator of the "Holy Tuesday" operation, reportedly acknowledges "[a]nd, yes, we did it." [Fouda and Fielding, 2003, pp. 38] These interviews "are the first full admission by senior figures from bin Laden's network that they carried out the September 11 attacks." [London Times, 9/8/2002] Some, however, call Fouda's claims into doubt. For example, the Financial Times states: "Analysts cited the crude editing of [Fouda's interview] tapes and the timing of the broadcasts as reasons to be suspicious about their authenticity. Dia Rashwan, an expert on Islamist movements at the Al-Ahram Centre for Strategic Studies in Cairo, said: 'I have very serious doubts [about the authenticity of this tape]. It could have been a script written by the FBI.'" [Financial Times, 9/11/2002] KSM is later variously reported to be arrested in June 2002, killed or arrested in September 2002, and then arrested in March 2003. After this last arrest report, for the first time Fouda claims this interview took place in April, placing it safely before the first reports of KSM's capture. [Guardian, 3/4/2003; CTV Television, 3/6/2003] Bin al-Shibh also gets captured several days after Fouda's interview is broadcast, and some reports say he is captured because this interview allows his voice to be identified. [Observer, 9/15/2002; CBS News, 10/9/2002] As a result, Fouda has been accused of betraying al-Qaeda, and now fears for his life. [Independent, 9/17/2002] As the Washington Post states, "Now Al Jazeera is also subject to rumors of a conspiracy." [Washington Post, 9/15/2002] Yet after being so reviled by al-Qaeda supporters, Fouda is later given a cassette said to be a bin Laden speech. [MSNBC, 11/18/2002] US officials believe the voice on that cassette is "almost certainly" bin Laden, but one of the world's leading voice-recognition institutes said it is 95 percent certain the tape is a forgery. [BBC, 11/18/2002; BBC, 11/29/2002] It will later be revealed that details of the interview were told to the CIA in mid-June 2002, which directly resulted in bin al-Shibh's arrest a few months later (see June 14, 2002 and Shortly After).
Entity Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Osama bin Laden, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Al-Qaeda, Yosri Fouda, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani. [Source: Qatar embassy]Al Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda recently interviewed 9/11 figures Ramzi bin al-Shibh and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM), though there are conflicting accounts about whether the interview took place before or after KSM was publicly identified as the 9/11 mastermind (see April, June, or August 2002). Author Ron Suskind will later claim in the book The One Percent Doctrine that on June 14, 2002, Fouda went to his superiors at Al Jazeera's headquarters in Qatar and told them about the interview. He speaks to Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani, the chairman of Al Jazeera and the cousin of the emir of Qatar, and a few others. At this time, the US is intensely pressuring the Qatari government to get Al Jazeera to tone down what the US perceives as anti-American news coverage. In fact, it is widely believed in Qatar that the US deliberately bombed the Al Jazeera office in Kabul, Afghanistan, in November 2001 to send a message. Perhaps as a result of this pressure, a few days after Fouda reveals his interview, the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, tells the CIA all about it. Fouda described some of al-Qaeda's operational plans and even had a good idea where the apartment was in Karachi, Pakistan, where the interview took place, and what floor he had been on. Suskind claims that "No one, not even Al Jazeera management, knew the emir was making the call" to the CIA. US intelligence begins an intense surveillance of Karachi in an attempt to find KSM and bin al-Shibh (see Before September 11, 2002). Mostly because of this lead, bin al-Shibh will be arrested in Karachi in September 2002, around the time when Fouda's interview is finally aired in public (see September 11, 2002). [Suskind, 2006, pp. 134-140] Interestingly, in early September 2002, it will be reported that KSM was arrested in an apartment in Karachi on June 16, 2002, which would be right about when the CIA was given this information (see June 16, 2002).
Entity Tags: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Yosri Fouda, Al Jazeera, Central Intelligence Agency, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani, Ramzi bin al-Shibh
The interrogation and abuse of suspect Mohamed al-Khatani (sometimes spelled "al-Qahtani"—see February 11, 2008) at Guantanamo Bay begins. He is alleged to have tried to enter the US to participate in the 9/11 plot as the twentieth hijacker. He is classified as "Detainee 063." He is subjected to 160 days of isolation in a pen flooded 24 hours a day with bright artificial light, that treatment starting well before harsher interrogation tactics begin six weeks later (see November 23, 2002). The tactics include: He is interrogated for 48 of 54 days, for 18 to 20 hours at a stretch. He is stripped naked and straddled by taunting female guards, in an exercise called "invasion of space by a female." He is forced to wear women's underwear on his head and to put on a bra. He is threatened by dogs, placed on a leash, and told that his mother was a whore. He is stripped naked, shaved, and forced to bark like a dog. He is forced to listen to American pop music at ear-splitting volume. He is subjected to a phony kidnapping (see Mid-2003). He is forced to live in a cell deprived of heat He is given large quantities of intravenous liquids and denied access to a toilet He is deprived of sleep for days on end. He is forcibly given enemas, and is hospitalized multiple time for hypothermia. Impact - Towards the end of the extended interrogation session, Al-Khatani's heart rate drops so precipitously (to 35 beats a minute) that he is placed under cardiac monitoring. Interrogators meticulously note his reactions to his treatment, and make the following notes at various times: "Detainee began to cry. Visibly shaken. Very emotional. Detainee cried. Disturbed. Detainee began to cry. Detainee bit the IV tube completely in two. Started moaning. Uncomfortable. Moaning. Began crying hard spontaneously. Crying and praying. Very agitated. Yelled. Agitated and violent. Detainee spat. Detainee proclaimed his innocence. Whining. Dizzy. Forgetting things. Angry. Upset. Yelled for Allah. Urinated on himself. Began to cry. Asked God for forgiveness. Cried. Cried. Became violent. Began to cry. Broke down and cried. Began to pray and openly cried. Cried out to Allah several times. Trembled uncontrollably." In November 2002, an FBI agent describes al-Khatani's condition, writing that he "was talking to non-existent people, reporting hearing voices, [and] crouching in a corner of the cell covered with a sheet for hours on end." Al-Khatani confesses to an array of terrorist activities and then recants them; he begs his interrogators to be allowed to commit suicide. The last days of al-Khatani's interrogation session is particularly intense, since interrogators know that their authorization to use harsh techniques may be rescinded at any time. They get no useful information from him. By the end of the last interrogation, an Army investigator observes that al-Khatani has "black coals for eyes." [New Yorker, 2/27/2006; Vanity Fair, 5/2008] Reaching the Threshold - In the summer of 2007, Dr. Abigail Seltzer, a psychiatrist who specializes in trauma victims, reviews the logs of al-Khatani's interrogations. Seltzer notes that while torture is not a medical concept: "[O]ver the period of 54 days there is enough evidence of distress to indicate that it would be very surprising indeed if it had not reached the threshold of severe mental pain…. If you put 12 clinicians in a room and asked them about this interrogation log, you might get different views about the effect and long-term consequences of these interrogation techniques. But I doubt that any one of them would claim that this individual had not suffered severe mental distress at the time of his interrogation, and possibly also severe physical distress." Everything that is done to al-Khatani is part of the repertoire of interrogation techniques approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (see December 2, 2002). Fundamental Violation of Human Rights - In 2008, law professor Phillippe Sands will write: "Whatever he may have done, Mohammed al-Khatani was entitled to the protections afforded by international law, including Geneva and the torture convention. His interrogation violated those conventions. There can be no doubt that he was treated cruelly and degraded, that the standards of Common Article 3 were violated, and that his treatment amounts to a war crime. If he suffered the degree of severe mental distress prohibited by the torture convention, then his treatment crosses the line into outright torture. These acts resulted from a policy decision made right at the top, not simply from ground-level requests in Guantanamo, and they were supported by legal advice from the president's own circle." [Vanity Fair, 5/2008]
Entity Tags: Geneva Conventions, Mohamed al-Khatani, Donald Rumsfeld, Abigail Seltzer, Phillippe Sands
Timeline Tags: Torture of US Captives
Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani. [Source: US Defense Department]A suspected al-Qaeda operative named Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani is arrested in a safe house in Karachi, Pakistan, on September 10, 2002. He is a Saudi who later became a Pakistani citizen. Starting in 2000, he began running an al-Qaeda safe house in Karachi. He will be held in Pakistani custody until he is transferred to a US prison in Afghanistan in May 2004. He will be sent to the US-run Guantanamo prison in Cuba in September 2004. His driver, Muhammad Madni, is arrested too, and Madni reportedly quickly reveals the location of other safe houses in Karachi. [US Department of Defense, 5/26/2008] Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani, Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani's brother, is arrested at one of the safe houses this same day. According to Abdul Rahim's 2008 Guantanamo file, he is an important al-Qaeda figure because he began running up to six Karachi safe houses, on behalf of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM), from early 2000 until his capture. According to his file, many important al-Qaeda leaders stayed at his safe houses and interacted with him or his brother while they were passing through Karachi, including: Saif al-Adel, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Khallad bin Attash, Saad bin Laden, KSM, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Musaad Aruchi, and Hassan Ghul (who is said to be his brother-in-law). Furthermore, 17 of the 19 9/11 hijackers stayed at his safe houses while coming or going through Pakistan, including Mohamed Atta, Marwan Alshehhi, Hani Hanjour, and Ahmed Alghamdi (the others are not mentioned in his Guantanamo file by name). Abdul Rahim does not admit knowing their mission, but says he picked them up at airports, kept them at safe houses, and transported some of them to their next destinations. He apparently is working on a plot to bomb Karachi hotels used by Westerners, but it is scuttled by the arrests. He is held by Pakistan for two months, then he will be handed to US forces and held in various prisons in Afghanistan until September 2004, when he is transferred to Guantanamo. [US Department of Defense, 6/9/2008] The next day, these other safe houses are raided by the ISI (Pakistan's intelligence agency). 9/11 hijacker associate Ramzi bin al-Shibh is arrested at one of the safe houses (see September 11, 2002). However, in contrast to the claim that the arrest of Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani led to the arrest of bin al-Shibh and others, there is a claim that an Al Jazeera reporter, Yosri Fouda, interviewed bin al-Shibh and KSM in a Karachi safe house in the middle of 2002 (see April, June, or August 2002), then told the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, where the interview took place, and the emir told the CIA. The CIA then began intensely monitoring Karachi for safe houses, which finally led to these raids (see June 14, 2002 and Shortly After). Hassan Ali bin Attash, brother of al-Qaeda leader Khallad bin Attash, is arrested at the same safe house as bin al-Shibh. Hassan will later be named by many other Guantanamo prisoners as an al-Qaeda operative, but not nearly as important a one as his brother. He will later say that he was held by the Pakistani government for a few days, then taken to Kabul, Afghanistan, by US forces for a few days, and then sent to Jordan and kept in Jordanian custody for over a year. He will be transferred to Guantanamo in January 2004, and where he subsequently remains. [US Department of Defense, 6/25/2008] One other suspected al-Qaeda operative is arrested at the safe house with bin al-Shibh and bin Attash (located on Tariq Road). The three of them allegedly hold knives to their throats and threaten to kill themselves rather than be captured. But they are overwhelmed after a four-hour stand-off. [US Department of Defense, 12/8/2006] At another safe house, there is a gun battle when it is raided. Two suspected al-Qaeda operatives are killed. One of those killed, Hamza al-Zubayr, is considered an al-Qaeda leader and the leader of the group in the house. The remaining six are arrested. All six will later be transferred to Guantanamo. [US Department of Defense, 6/25/2008] All of the above is based on Guantanamo files leaked to the public in 2011 by the non-profit whistleblower group WikiLeaks. There are many doubts about the reliability of the information in the files (see April 24, 2011).
Entity Tags: Mohamed Atta, Muhammad Madni, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Yosri Fouda, Saif al-Adel, Marwan Alshehhi, Saad bin Laden, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Khallad bin Attash, Hassan Ali bin Attash, Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani, Ahmed Alghamdi, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani, Al-Qaeda, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Hassan Ghul, Hamza al-Zubayr, Hani Hanjour
Ramzi bin al-Shibh arrested in Pakistan. [Source: Associated Press]Would-be hijacker Ramzi bin al-Shibh is arrested after a huge gunfight in Karachi, Pakistan, involving thousands of police. [Observer, 9/15/2002] He is considered "a high-ranking operative for al-Qaeda and one of the few people still alive who know the inside details of the 9/11 plot." [New York Times, 9/13/2002] Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) called bin al-Shibh "the coordinator of the Holy Tuesday [9/11] operation" in an interview aired days before. Captured with him in safe house raids on the same day or the day before are approximately nine associates (see September 10-11, 2002), as well as numerous computers, phones, and other evidence. [New York Times, 9/13/2002; Time, 9/15/2002] There are conflicting claims that either Mohammed is killed in the raid [Asia Times, 10/30/2002; Daily Telegraph, 3/4/2003; Asia Times, 3/6/2003] ; shot while escaping [Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 3/2/2003] ; someone who looks like him is killed, leading to initial misidentification [Time, 1/20/2003] ; someone matching his general appearance is captured [Associated Press, 9/16/2002] ; or that he narrowly escapes capture but his young children are captured. [Los Angeles Times, 12/22/2002]
Entity Tags: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Ramzi bin al-Shibh
Timeline Tags: Torture of US Captives, Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
CBS reports that in the days after the arrest of Ramzi bin al-Shibh (see September 11, 2002) and four other al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan on September 11, 2002 (see September 10-11, 2002), "a search of the home of the five al-Qaeda suspects turned up passports belonging to members of the family of Osama bin Laden." No more details, such as which family members, or why bin al-Shibh's group had these passports, is given. [CBS News, 9/17/2002]
Entity Tags: Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden Family
The CIA's Office of the Inspector General reviews videotapes of the interrogation and custody of militant training camp facilitator Abu Zubaida. The tapes, made in 2002 (see Spring-Late 2002), show 83 applications of the waterboarding technique, most of which last for less than 10 seconds. However, 11 of the interrogation videos turn out to be blank, two others are blank except for one or two minutes, and two more are broken and cannot be reviewed. The Inspector General then compares the tapes to logs and cables about the interrogations and identifies a 21-hour period, including two waterboarding sessions, that is not captured on the tapes. [Central Intelligence Agency, 5/7/2004, pp. 36-37 ]
Entity Tags: Abu Zubaida, Office of the Inspector General (CIA), Central Intelligence Agency
Timeline Tags: Torture of US Captives, Complete 911 Timeline
Gouled Hassan Dourad. [Source: US Defense Department]Alleged "high value" al-Qaeda leader Gouled Hassan Dourad is captured. Dourad is captured by Djibouti government forces in his house in Djibouti. He is turned over to US custody at an unknown date and held as a ghost prisoner in the CIA's secret prison system. On September 4, 2006, he will be transferred to the US-run prison in Guantanamo, Cuba, and will be officially declared a "high value" prisoner (see September 2-3, 2006). Who Is Dourad? - Very little is publicly known about Dourad or why he is deemed an important militant leader. Virtually nothing has appeared about him in the media either before or after his capture. But his 2008 Guantanamo file will detail his history. According to that file, Dourad is a Somali who is an admitted member of both al-Qaeda's East Africa branch and Al-Ittihad al-Islamiya (AIAI), an Islamist militant group based in Somalia that was blacklisted by the US shortly after 9/11. In 1993, he was granted asylum in Sweden, and lived there for nearly three years. In 1996, he trained in al-Qaeda linked training camps in Afghanistan. Returning to East Africa, he fought against Ethiopian forces for several years. Dourad grew more involved with al-Qaeda and took part in various plots. When he is caught, he allegedly is in the final stages of planning an operation against US military bases and various embassies in Djibouti. He does not seem to have been in frequent contact with many top al-Qaeda leaders, but it is claimed he worked closely with Abu Talha al-Sudani, a leader of al-Qaeda operations in East Africa. [US Department of Defense, 9/19/2008] Note that the Guantanamo files of prisoners often contain dubious information, and in some cases information that was extracted by torture (see April 24, 2011).
Entity Tags: Al-Ittihad al-Islamiya, Gouled Hassan Dourad, Al-Qaeda, Abu Talha al-Sudani
Susan Crawford. [Source: Susan Crawford / Washington Post]The senior Bush administration official in charge of bringing Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial rules that the US military tortured a detainee, and therefore the US cannot try him. Susan Crawford, the convening authority of military commissions, says that the US tortured Mohamed al-Khatani, a Saudi national accused of planning to participate in the September 11 attacks (see August 4, 2001). Crawford says al-Khatani was interrogated with techniques that included sustained isolation, sleep deprivation, nudity and prolonged exposure to cold, and which cumulatively left him in a "life-threatening condition." Crawford says: "We tortured [al-]Khatani. His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that's why I did not refer the case" for prosecution. Crawford is a retired judge who served as the Army's general counsel during the Reagan administration and the Pentagon's inspector general during the first Bush administration. She is the first senior official of the current Bush administration to publicly state that a detainee was tortured while in US custody. Cumulative Effect Equals Torture - None of the individual techniques used against al-Khatani were torturous in and of themselves, Crawford says, but the cumulative effect—particularly their duration and the deleterious effect on al-Khatani's health—combined to constitute torture. "The techniques they used were all authorized, but the manner in which they applied them was overly aggressive and too persistent," she says. "You think of torture, you think of some horrendous physical act done to an individual. This was not any one particular act; this was just a combination of things that had a medical impact on him, that hurt his health. It was abusive and uncalled for. And coercive. Clearly coercive. It was that medical impact that pushed me over the edge" to call it torture. Al-Khatani has been in US custody since December 2001 (see December 2001), and was interrogated from November 2002 through January 2003 (reports of the exact dates vary—see August 8, 2002-January 15, 2003 and October 11, 2002). He was held in isolation until April 2003. "For 160 days his only contact was with the interrogators," Crawford says. "Forty-eight of 54 consecutive days of 18-to-20-hour interrogations. Standing naked in front of a female agent. Subject to strip searches. And insults to his mother and sister." He was threatened with a military dog named Zeus. He "was forced to wear a woman's bra and had a thong placed on his head during the course of his interrogation," Crawford says, and "was told that his mother and sister were whores." With a leash tied to his chains, he was led around the room "and forced to perform a series of dog tricks," according to reports from his interrogations. He was twice hospitalized with bradycardia, a potentially lethal condition where the heartbeat drops to abnormally low levels. Ruling Halts Future Prosecution against al-Khatani - Crawford dismissed war crimes charges against al-Khatani in May 2008 (see May 13, 2008). In November, military prosecutors said they would refile charges against al-Khatani, based on subsequent interrogations that did not employ harsh techniques (see November 18, 2008). But Crawford says that she would not let any such prosecutions go forward. However, Crawford is not unaware of the potential danger posed by letting him go free. "There's no doubt in my mind he would've been on one of those planes had he gained access to the country in August 2001," Crawford says. "He's a muscle hijacker.… He's a very dangerous man. What do you do with him now if you don't charge him and try him? I would be hesitant to say, 'Let him go.'" Al-Khatani's civilian lawyer, Gitanjali Gutierrez, says, "There is no doubt he was tortured." Gutierrez says: "He has loss of concentration and memory loss, and he suffers from paranoia.… He wants just to get back to Saudi Arabia, get married and have a family." Al-Khatani "adamantly denies he planned to join the 9/11 attack," she adds. "He has no connections to extremists." Gutierrez says she thinks Saudi Arabia has an effective rehabilitation program and Khatani ought to be returned there. [Washington Post, 1/14/2009; New York Times, 1/14/2009] His lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights describe him as a broken, suicidal man who can never be prosecuted because of his treatment at the hands of his captors. [New York Times, 1/14/2009] Sympathetic but Unbending - Crawford, a lifelong Republican, says she sympathizes with the situation faced by the Bush administration and the CIA after the 9/11 attacks. "I sympathize with the intelligence gatherers in those days after 9/11, not knowing what was coming next and trying to gain information to keep us safe," she acknowledges. "But there still has to be a line that we should not cross. And unfortunately what this has done, I think, has tainted everything going forward." Noting that the 2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case (see June 30, 2006) disallowed torture but allowed for "coercive interrogation techniques," Crawford says even those techniques should not be allowed: "You don't allow it in a regular court." Crawford says she is not yet sure if any of the other five detainees accused of participating in the 9/11 plot, including their leader, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were tortured, but she believes they may have been. "I assume torture," she says, and notes that CIA Director Michael Hayden has publicly confirmed that Mohammed was one of three detainees subjected to waterboarding, a technique classified by law as torture. Crawford has not blocked prosecution of the other five detainees. Ultimately, she says, the responsibility for the farrago of illegal detentions and torture rests with President Bush. He was right to create a system to try suspected terrorists, she says, but the implementation was fatally flawed. "I think he hurt his own effort.… I think someone should acknowledge that mistakes were made and that they hurt the effort and take responsibility for it.… We learn as children it's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is for permission. I think the buck stops in the Oval Office." [Washington Post, 1/14/2009] Rules Change - Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell says that the Hamdan case changed the rules, and thus retroactively classified al-Khatani's treatment as torture. "The [Defense] Department has always taken allegations of abuse seriously," he says. "We have conducted more than a dozen investigations and reviews of our detention operations, including specifically the interrogation of Mohamed al-Khatani, the alleged 20th hijacker. They concluded the interrogation methods used at [Guantanamo], including the special techniques used on Khatani in 2002, were lawful. However, subsequent to those reviews, the Department adopted new and more restrictive policies and procedures for interrogation and detention operations. Some of the aggressive questioning techniques used on al-Khatani, although permissible at the time, are no longer allowed in the updated Army field manual." [Washington Post, 1/14/2009] Prosecutors Unprepared - When Crawford came to Guantanamo as convening authority in 2007, she says "the prosecution was unprepared" to bring cases to trial. Even after four years of working possible cases, "they were lacking in experience and judgment and leadership." She continues: "A prosecutor has an ethical obligation to review all the evidence before making a charging decision. And they didn't have access to all the evidence, including medical records, interrogation logs, and they were making charging decisions without looking at everything." It took over a year, and the intervention of Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, for prosecutors to turn over possibly exculpatory evidence to defense lawyers, even though the law requires that such evidence be turned over immediately. The entire system at Guantanamo is a blot on the reputation of the US and its military judicial system, she says: "There's an assumption out there that everybody was tortured. And everybody wasn't tortured. But unfortunately perception is reality." The system she oversees cannot function now, she believes. "Certainly in the public's mind, or politically speaking, and certainly in the international community" it may be forever tainted. "It may be too late." [Washington Post, 1/14/2009]
Entity Tags: Susan Crawford, Gordon England, Gitanjali Gutierrez, George W. Bush, Geoff Morrell, Central Intelligence Agency, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Bush administration (43), Center for Constitutional Rights, Mohamed al-Khatani, US Department of Defense, Michael Hayden
WikiLeaks, a non-profit whistleblower group, releases some files on about 750 prisoners held at the US-run prison in Guantanamo, Cuba. This covers all but about 15 of the prisoners who have passed through the prison since it opened in early 2002 (see January 11, 2002). Nearly all of the prisoners were accused of belonging to al-Qaeda or the Taliban, or associated Islamist militant groups. The files were written by US military intelligence officials between the prison's opening and January 2009. They contain assessments on whether each prisoner should remain in US custody, be imprisoned by another country, or be set free. Most of the prisoners have been released over the years, and no new prisoners have been sent to Guantanamo since 2007, but 172 prisoners remain at Guantanamo in April 2011. Seven news organizations—the New York Times, The Guardian, McClatchy Newspapers, the Washington Post, El Pais, Der Spiegel, and NPR (National Public Radio)—were given early access to the files by WikiLeaks in order to vet and analyze them. Their publication was sped up when the New York Times prepared to publish them after claiming to get copies of them from another unnamed source. The Obama administration immediately condemns the publication of the classified information in the files. [New York Times, 4/24/2011; New Yorker, 4/25/2011] Files Often Contain Dubious Evidence - Journalists who analyze the files question the accuracy of their prisoner assessments. The New York Times comments that the files "show that the United States has imprisoned hundreds of men for years without trial based on a difficult and strikingly subjective evaluation of who they were, what they had done in the past, and what they might do in the future." Furthermore, the files "reveal that the analysts sometimes ignored serious flaws in the evidence—for example, that the information came from other detainees whose mental illness made them unreliable. Some assessments quote witnesses who say they saw a detainee at a camp run by al-Qaeda but omit the witnesses' record of falsehood or misidentification. They include detainees' admissions without acknowledging other government documents that show the statements were later withdrawn, often attributed to abusive treatment or torture." [New York Times, 4/24/2011] The Guardian comments that Guantanamo has been "a place that portrayed itself as the ultimate expression of a forensic and rational war run by the most sophisticated power on the planet, with the best intelligence available. The reality was an almost random collection of [prisoners who were] the bad, the accidental, and the irrelevant." [Guardian, 4/25/2011] McClatchy Newspapers comments: "The world may have thought the US was detaining a band of international terrorists whose questioning would help the hunt for Osama Bin Laden or foil the next 9/11. But [the files] not meant to surface for another 20 years shows that the military's efforts at Guantanamo often were much less effective than the government has acknowledged. Viewed as a whole, the secret intelligence summaries help explain why in May 2009 President Barack Obama, after ordering his own review of wartime intelligence, called America's experiment at Guantanamo 'quite simply a mess.'" Files Dependant on Dubious Informants - McClatchy further claims that the files were "tremendously dependant on informants—both prison camp snitches repeating what they'd heard from fellow captives and self-described, at times self-aggrandizing, alleged al-Qaeda insiders turned government witnesses who Pentagon records show have since been released." The information in the files is based on other sources, including intelligence documents and some confessions. [McClatchy Newspapers, 4/24/2011] The New York Times similarly comments that "Guantanamo emerges from the documents as a nest of informants, a closed world where detainees were the main source of allegations against one another and sudden recollections of having spotted a fellow prisoner at an al-Qaeda training camp could curry favor with interrogators." [New York Times, 4/24/2011] Files Also Based on Torture and Legally Questionable Methods - The files rarely mention the abuse and torture scandals concerning treatment of US prisoners in Guantanamo, in secret CIA prisons, in other overseas US-run prisons, and in prisons run by some US allies where the use of torture was more widespread. However, there are hints. For instance, one file on an Australian man sent to Guantanamo in 2002 mentions that he confessed while "under extreme duress" and "in the custody of the Egyptian government" to training six of the 9/11 hijackers in martial arts. But despite the apparent seriousness of this accusation, he was released in early 2005. Additionally, important prisoners such as Abu Zubaida held in secret CIA prisons were shown photos of Guantanamo prisoners and asked about them around the time they were subjected to waterboarding and other torture methods. The interrogations of Zubaida, who was waterboarded many times (see May 2003), are cited in over 100 prisoner files. However, his accusations against others have been systematically removed from government filings in court cases in recent years, which would indicate that officials are increasingly doubtful about his reliability and/or the legality of his tortured confessions. Also, many foreign officials were allowed to interrogate some prisoners in Guantanamo, including officials from China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, Kuwait, Algeria, and Tajikistan. Information in some files comes from these legally questionable interrogation sessions. [McClatchy Newspapers, 4/24/2011; New York Times, 4/24/2011] One well-known case of torture involved Mohamed al-Khatani, the alleged 20th 9/11 hijacker (see December 2001). While being held in Guantanamo, he was interrogated for months with techniques that the senior Bush administration official in charge of bringing Guantanamo prisoners to trial later said legally met the definition of torture (see August 8, 2002-January 15, 2003 and January 14, 2009). His file says, "Although publicly released records allege detainee was subject to harsh interrogation techniques in the early stages of detention," his confessions "appear to be true and are corroborated in reporting from other sources." Claims al-Khatani made regarding 16 other Guantanamo prisoners are mentioned in their files without any caveats about the interrogation methods used on him. [New York Times, 4/24/2011] Some Prisoners Unjustly Held - Some prisoners appear to be clearly innocent, and yet they often were held for years before being released. Some prisoners are still being held even though their files indicate that their interrogators are not even sure of their identities. In some cases, prisoners were held for years not because they were suspected of any crime, but because it was thought they knew useful information. For instance, files show one prisoner was sent to Guantanamo because of what he knew about the secret service of Uzbekistan. [McClatchy Newspapers, 4/24/2011; New York Times, 4/24/2011] In a cruel twist of fate, one man, Jamal al-Harith, appears to have been imprisoned mainly because he had been imprisoned by the Taliban. His file states, "He was expected to have knowledge of Taliban treatment of prisoners and interrogation tactics." [Guardian, 4/25/2011] Prisoner Releases Based More on Luck than Evidence - The New York Times claims the determination of which prisoners were released has mostly been a "lottery" that was largely based on which country the prisoner came from. "Most European inmates were sent home, despite grave qualms on the analysts' part. Saudis went home, even some of the most militant, to enter the rehabilitation program; some would graduate and then join al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Yemenis have generally stayed put, even those cleared for release, because of the chaos in their country. Even in clearly mistaken arrests, release could be slow." [New York Times, 4/24/2011] In 2009, the new Obama administration put together a task force that re-evaluated the 240 prisoners remaining at Guantanamo. However, these more recent assessments remain secret. [New York Times, 4/24/2011]
Entity Tags: WikiLeaks, Jamal al-Harith, US Military, Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Mohamed al-Khatani, Barack Obama, Abu Zubaida
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Do you know that fans of Sherlock still send fan mails to the fictional (of course) address of the King of Fictional Sleuths at Baker street of London as if he's alive? From Fletch:
'The new Sherlock Holmes movie opened Christmas day and has made over $93 million US. A small part of the reason why Holmes is still so popular is that he is in the public domain and new and varied stories are created about him daily according to a story at TechDirt.
'Yes, he has always been a widely loved fictional character but there are a great many characters with fan bases. Holmes has stretched his by being used in almost all genres and having been written by some of the most popular authors even today. People like Stephen King and Neil Gaiman have written Holmes short stories and will continue to because of his public domain status.
'Even TV shows have gotten into the act with House M.D. which is a thinly veiled Holmes knock off. I find it odd that the same companies who decry the public domain are more than happy to use it when it suits them."' –Business Opportunities
I haven't seen the movie yet so pardon me if I can't add my review of it (I've said that I'm an urban hermit in one of my posts).

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Uniqueness of Equilibrium in Directed Search Models
31 Pages Posted: 23 Dec 2014
Date Written: November 24, 2013
We study a decentralized trading model as in Peters (1984), where a finite number of heterogeneous capacity-constrained sellers compete for a finite number of homogeneous buyers, by posting prices. This "directed search" model is known to admit symmetric equilibria; yet, uniqueness has proved elusive. This study makes two contributions: a substantive contribution is to establish uniqueness of symmetric equilibrium; a methodological contribution is to develop a tool based on directional derivatives to characterize equilibrium.
Keywords: Nash equilibrium, matching, price distribution, search
JEL Classification: C70, D390, D490, E390
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IAVA Commends Navy SEAL Edward Byers, Recipient of Medal of Honor
Heroic action of Senior Chief makes him first sailor in a decade to receive the Medal of Honor
NEW YORK (February 26, 2016) – Earlier this month the White House announced President Obama will award the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award, to Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Edward Byers for his courageous actions while serving in Afghanistan in 2012. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) joins a grateful nation in commending Senior Chief Byers bravery and heroism and for this highest military honor. He will be the first living Navy SEAL to receive the medal for actions in Afghanistan and the third sailor to earn the distinction since Sept. 11, 2001.
"On behalf of our 425,000 members, we congratulate Senior Chief Byers on this incredible honor," said IAVA CEO and Founder Paul Rieckhoff. "Byers' commitment to ensuring that no American is left behind exemplifies the leadership and selfless service our nation's heroes have to serving our country. Our community is inspired by Byers' actions and continued dedication to wearing the military uniform. We encourage every American to stand with us in saluting Senior Chief Byers and all service members who protect our freedoms everyday."
Senior Chief Byers will receive the honor for his actions while serving as part of a team that rescued an American civilian being held hostage in Afghanistan from December 8 through 9, 2012.
President Obama will award Senior Chief Byers the honor on February 29.
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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) is the premier veterans advocacy and support organization on the planet. Founded by an Iraq veteran in 2004, IAVA is the non-partisan leader in advocacy, public awareness, and 1-on-1 case management support. Our mission is to connect, unite, and empower over 425,000 veterans and allies nationwide. We have connected more than 1.2 million veterans with resources and community, and provided thousands of veterans of all generations with life-saving and life-changing personalized support from our Masters-level social service professionals.
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SINGAPORE'S Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Wednesday introduced Taxi-Taxi@SG, a new taxi location app that allows commuters who wish to hail a taxi on the street to see if there are available taxis nearby.
"With this information, commuters can better decide whether to continue waiting for a taxi on the street, walk to a location with more available taxis, book a taxi instead, or make alternative transport arrangements," said LTA.
Unlike third-party taxi booking apps - such as UberTAXI, GrabTaxi, Easy Taxi and Hailo - which only show the locations of taxis which have signed up with them, LTA's new app shows the locations of all available taxis from the 28,000 taxis registered in Singapore.
Taxi-Taxi@SG also enables street-hail commuters to broadcast their current locations, letting taxi drivers know where there is a high demand for taxis.
The app is available for download on Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store from Wednesday.


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A fantasy love story between a deceased pirate captain and the queen of the underworld. Short, Sweet and Simple. This stop-motion film from Denmark and French is a visually exquisite. Telling a simple story through amazing stop motion, beautiful music and a sense of whimsy. I particularly love the use of the painterly backgrounds and [...]Read More


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Risks of Mishandled Electronic WasteFebruary, 22 2018
Information storage has made a major shift over the last decade and while paper records are still prevalent, many businesses have made the switch to digital archiving and record keeping. There are many benefits, including saved storage space, ability to access records anywhere, and less paper waste. However, most businesses don't consider what to do. . . [Full Article]
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Do you know the average cost of a data breach in 2018? If your business manages any type of proprietary information, whether paper or digital, you should. Every year the Ponemon Institute releases their "Cost of a Data Breach Study" where they analyze the lasting cost and impact of information security breaches. According to the. . . [Full Article]


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Collen Construction in €48m deal
3/08/2008 | The Sunday Business PostCollen Construction has won a €48.8 million contract from the National Association of Building Co-Operatives (Nabco) to build a new residential development in Tyrellstown, West Dublin.
The new development will consist of 232 residential units in a mix of two- and three-storey homes. Collen was the lowest of nine bidders for the project, according to Nabco, the parent body for Irish local building co-operatives.
Collen has also been contracted to construct a number of community buildings to accompany the development.
These will include a 350 square metre creche, a 134 square metre estate management office, a 66 square metre housing association office, as well as a local shop and cafe.
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117th Annual Meeting Recap
The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests gathered for their 117th Annual Meeting at Southern New Hampshire University on September 29, 2018. President/Forester Jane Difley updated the membership on the past year of conservation successes and reflected on the organization's 100-year history of work in the Granite State. From the passage of the Weeks Act that led to the creation of the White Mountain National Forest to the campaign to bury Northern Pass, the Forest Society has time and again stood with the people of New Hampshire to protect places of special beauty.
Looking ahead, Difley described recent efforts to focus attention on one of the most threatened watersheds in the country, the Merrimack River. These efforts include a partnership with Manchester Water Works to protect the forested landscapes around Tower Hill Pond and a documentary film project with videographer Jerry Monkman to tell the story of the Merrimack's past, present, and future. In an excerpt from her speech, Difley highlighted the importance of engaging people in this work:
"Our drive to fullfill our mission, to perpetuate forests even as society rushes to blanket them in pavement, is like a river. Just as a million raindrops gather to make a stream, so thousands of people come together in favor of conservation. Just as the water of the White Hills will reach the salty shores of our ocean at a pace that alternately rushes and eddys, tumbles and swirls, our work rises and falls. With enough of our greatest asset, people, we will be as unstoppable as the Merrimack."
As part of the Annual Meeting, the Forest Society held afternoon field trips highlighting conservation efforts and environmental programs in the Merrimack Valley. Sixteen people joined a hike around Tower Hill Pond in Auburn, where a proposed 1,870-acre conservation easement would help protect drinking water supplies for Manchester Water Works. Despite being located only a few miles from downtown Manchester, the tract contains miles of undeveloped shoreline, dozens of vernal pools, hundreds of acres of prime wetlands, and habitat for rare or threatened plants and animal species.
The evening business meeting recognized retiring trustees, Margo Connors, Rebecca Oreskes, and Merle Schotanus, and elected a slate of nominees to the Board of Trustees. New to the Board of Trustees are Nancy Martland of Sugar Hill and Janet Zeller of Concord. Continuing with a second term are John Brighton of Andover and Amy McLaughlin of Exeter.
Another former Chair of the Forest Society Board of Trustees, Jamey French, set the stage for the evening's conclusion by introducing Andrew Bowman, President of the Land Trust Alliance. French, President of Northland Forest Products in Kingston, has been a Forest Society member since he was 12 and is now the Chair of the Land Trust Alliance.
In his keynote address, Bowman shared insights and trends across a national network of more than 1,200 conservation organizations. Bowman congratulated the Forest Society on many conservation successes, including our participation in their rigorous accreditation program. In July 2013, the Forest Society was awarded accreditation by the Land Trust Allliance Accreditation Commission and submitted its application for renewal in 2018. Bowman shared that although there are just over 400 accredited land trusts in the U.S., 80% of existing conserved land is held by accredited land trusts like the Forest Society. Continue scrolling to see more photos of the evening program, below.


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DEAD TRIGGER 2 Apk – is a Zombie Survival Shooter FPS Game for android Devices.
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This is the latest in a string of high-profile galleries closing their doors. Perrotin deals with locally based such as Hernan Bas and Daniel Arsham, but mainly represents internationally renowned artists such as Takashi Murakami, Aya Takano, and Duane Hanson, and recently presented a special exhibit by Kaws that was curated by Pharrell Williams. This SpongeBob-inspired piece might as well sum up our feeling about the news.
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The Green Deal is a new Government initiative to help homeowners, landlords, occupiers make their homes more energy efficient but with NO up-front costs.
We can now provide you with Green Deal Assessment Reports (GDAR). This is the first step to take to making your home more energy efficient. The report will show what measures are suitable for your property and if they can be funded through Green Deal finance.
Follow this link to get your Green Deal Assessment.
The important thing to remember is that the repayments you make will be equal to or less than the energy savings you will make. So you will not pay any more for your energy bills. But as energy prices rise you will make more in savings.
We're working with Action Surrey and Green Deal Consulting to help make your home more energy efficient.
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Air conditioning inspections are now a legal requirement for ALL buildings, both commercial and domestic, with a total cooling capacity of 12kW or more. So if your building has three or more split system outdoor units, you will need an inspection now to avoid a fine.
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Relief for Urinary Tract Infections at Southcoast Health Urgent Care
Urinary tract infections affect the bladder, ureters and kidneys. They are common gynecological infections, and most respond quickly to treatment.
Find your nearest Southcoast Health Urgent Care to receive expert treatment for a UTI in Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Fall River, Lakeville, Seekonk or Wareham, MA as well as Middletown, RI. Our clinics are open seven days a week, including evenings and weekends, and take both appointments and walk-ins.
Care for UTI Symptoms in Southeastern MA & RI
Signs and symptoms of a urinary tract infection include:
- Frequent urge to urinate
- Burning or pain with urination
- Fever
- Pressure in the lower belly
- Feeling tired or sick
- Cloudy, reddish or foul-smelling urine
To get relief for your symptoms, visit a Southcoast Health Urgent Care location. Save your spot in line, and we'll text you when it's time to come to our clinic.
What Causes a UTI?
UTIs happen when germs get into the urinary tract. A UTI could be caused by sex, changes in the vaginal environment, using a diaphragm for birth control, not emptying your bladder completely, having a catheter or wiping back to front.
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When you come to Southcoast Health Urgent Care for UTI treatment, your doctor will take a sample of your urine to confirm the presence of bacteria and which antibiotic will be the most effective. Your doctor may prescribe oral antibiotics and medicine to help you feel more comfortable while you're healing.
If you have three or more urinary tract infections in a year, your doctor may prescribe additional antibiotics to help prevent future UTIs.
If necessary, your urgent care provider can refer you to a qualified gynecologist nearby. Southcoast Health is a comprehensive network that can fully address your gynecological needs.
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Combustion and flame Worksheet-5
Multiple Choice Questions:
A. Carbon B. CO
C. CO2 D. None of these
A. Outermost B. Middle
C. Innermost D. Middle & Innermost
A. Incomplete B. Complete
C. Half D. None of these
A. Calcium B. White Phosphorous
C. Lithium D. Copper
A. Wood B. Coal
C. Petroleum D. All of these
A. CO2 B. SO2 C. NO2 D. Oxygen
A. Sulphur B. Nitrogen
C. Phosphorous D. Carbon
A. Sulphur, Nitrogen B. Sulphur, Carbon
C. Carbon, Nitrogen D. Phosphorous, Carbon
A. Chemical reactions B. Nuclear reactions
C. Ionic reactions D. None of these
A. They undergo complete combustion producing carbon dioxide and water
B. They do not vapourise during burning so do not produce flames.
C. They undergo incomplete combustion hence do not produce flame
D. None of these
A. Converts into white phosphorous
B. Reacts with potassium chlorate
C. Ignite antimony trisulphide
D. None of these
A. Water B. SO2 C. CO2 D. CO
A. High pressure B. Low pressure
C. High temperature D. Low temperature
A. Sodium bicarbonate B. Calcium sulphate
C. Sodium sulphate D. Sulphuric acid
A. Oil B. Petrol
C. Oil & Petrol D. None of these
Explanation: Outermost part of the flame is hottest due to complete combustion of fuel.
Explanation: Carbon dioxide extinguishes fire by forming a blanket over fire thus cutting off the supply of oxygen. Carbon dioxide sprayed from the extinguisher is very cold hence it reduces the temperature of fuel also.


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Familia garnering consideration as top reliever
Jeurys Familia finished more games (65) than any pitcher in Major League Baseball during the regular season, and he has finished eight of the Mets' nine games so far this postseason.
Looking ahead to Game 2 of the 111th World Series, there is a possibility that Familia could finish that night by throwing the last pitch as well. But consider this: Will he also start those festivities with an appearance?
The Trevor Hoffman National League Reliever of the Year Award and the Mariano Rivera American League Reliever of the Year Award presented by The Hartford will be handed out on Wednesday before Game 2 in a Major League Baseball pregame press event.
While there are no official "nominees" for these awards, likely candidates could include the Mets' breakout closer, along with Aroldis Chapman of the Reds, Mark Melancon of the Pirates and Trevor Rosenthal of the Cardinals in the NL, and Cody Allen of the Indians, Zach Britton of the Orioles, Andrew Miller of the Yankees and Wade Davis of the Royals in the AL.
The awards are voted on by a nine-member panel comprised of Hoffman and Rivera, as well as fellow legendary closers Dennis Eckersley, Rollie Fingers, Goose Gossage, Bruce Sutter, Lee Smith, John Franco and Billy Wagner. The group represents the four living relief pitchers in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and is inclusive of the top six all-time saves leaders.
As part of the balloting process, all nine voters will pick three relievers from each league based solely on regular-season performance; selections are not restricted to closers. From there, a 5-3-1 weighted point system is used to determine the winners.
Only the illustrious blue-ribbon panel knows how this internal award debate will go down, but if any of them sneak a peek at postseason numbers, Familia's stock only would soar further. But just consider his regular-season stats:
• Pitched 78 innings for the Mets this season, first among NL closers and second among all NL relievers only to Justin De Fratus of the Phillies (80).
• Finished third in the Majors with 43 saves (Melancon had 51 and Rosenthal 48), tying the club's single-season saves record set by Armando Benitez in 2001.
• Had the ninth-lowest ERA (1.85) in the Majors, and the fourth-lowest ERA in team history (both based on minimum 60 innings).
• Opponents hit .207 off him, the 13th-lowest mark in the NL (minimum 60 innings). Right-handers hit .201 (32-159) and lefties 27-126 (.214).
• Boston's Brock Holt, who was one of those whiffed by Chapman's heat at the All-Star Game in Cincinnati, said after seeing Familia in August: "Nastiest pitcher in the world."
Familia was one of five NL candidates in the 2015 Esurance MLB All-Star Game Final Vote. Although Cardinals pitcher Carlos Martinez won that vote to decide a last roster spot for the All-Star Game presented by T-Mobile, but Familia's contributions became considerably more known among fans around the game as a result of that campaign.
"They trust me," Familia said after his huge six-out save in the Game 5 NL Division Series clincher against the Dodgers. "That's why my confidence has grown. My coaches, teammates trust me."
Jenrry Mejia was envisioned as Mets closer in 2015, but his disciplinary action for PED use opened the door for Familia. The rest is history -- another homegrown Mets talent done good.
"Every time I go out there, it doesn't matter the score, I go to enjoy it," Familia said after finishing off Mookie Betts and the Red Sox on Aug. 30. "For me, it's the same. I'm just trying to go out there and make my pitches and get hitters out."
The Hartford awards were instituted last year as a replacement for MLB's "Delivery Man of the Year Award," which was presented to one winner in all of MLB from 2005-13, and it continues a longstanding baseball tradition of honoring the game's top relief pitchers. Craig Kimbrel won the first one in the NL and Greg Holland won it in the AL.


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It's no secret by now: pickup buyers love luxury trim levels. Ram knows this, largely because 40 percent of Ram HD buyers are opting for the top-tier models. Nonetheless, the brand is rolling out a new Tungsten Edition version of both Ram and Ram HD to satisfy buyer's never-ending appetite for luxury trucks.
Named after the element that's harder than steel, the Tungsten Edition is based on Ram Limited, but positioned above the Laramie and Longhorn models. The Tungsten name is just hyperbole, Ram has given the grille on this truck a "tungsten finish" for a more luxurious appearance when paired with the blackened headlights pulled from the Ram Sport. A sportier hood on the 1500 model and blacked out exterior trim round out the exterior visuals.
Inside, Tungsten models gain unique, two-tone leather upholstery and unique carpeting. Real wood trim is also in tow, while this particular Ram is the first pickup on the market to feature a suede headliner.
The hidden agenda on Ram's part is to help drive up transaction prices on the Ram, so it likely comes as no surprise that the Ram 1500 Tungsten Edition will start at $55,120; about a $3,000 increase of the Limited. In the grand scheme of luxury pickups, $55,000 honestly isn't much these days.
The Tungsten Edition is not just limited to Ram 1500, HD buyers can also add it to the 2500 and 3500 models as well. It's also optional on Crew Cab and Mega Cab models across the range.


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Assigning Containers
Shipment Container numbers can be assigned to your purchase document lines to track landed costs more effectively.
On the purchase line find the LC Container number field to add a container number.
You can also add new containers and assign these from the Landed Cost Container List, find this using the search tool.
Highlight a specific container and click on Process > Container Detail to view further details on where this container number has been used.
When the invoice arrives this can then be used to filter the landed cost assignment on the invoice to the same shipment container.
Click on Process and Container Detail to view further information on the selected Container and on which documents this container number has been assigned.
The function on the Process button to assign container can then be used to update any existing documents.
Highlight line(s) on the details tab and click on Process > Assign Containers and a confirmation message will show to update the LC container on the selected lines:
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I watched the redevelopment of St Pancras and its hotel first, when I was a regular traveller through the Eurostar station, and then later, when I was walking past the building site on my way to writing sessions in the British Library, I would pause to read the anecdotal history printed on the hoardings, and peer at the photos of the transformation under way.
Ever since they removed the barriers and scaffolding, and swept away the construction detritus, I've wanted to see the interior, to see the over the top Victorian gothic arches and painted walls and ceilings for myself. Could they be as lavish and as unashamedly grandiose as they said?
I've never had the confidence to simply walk inside the lobby to have a look. I need to have a real reason before I can do it with any confidence. Without a genuine 'cover story' I'd have to imagine, in a ridiculous 'method' sort of a way, a background sufficient to convince myself that I had a reason for being there. And really, that would be a little bit excessive, to create a whole alter ego, with a more active social life and and better hair and shoes, simply to have a look inside a hotel, wouldn't it?
So instead, I've waited for an opportunity to go there with friends.
A birthday celebration presented the perfect chance; we met in the Gilbert Scott bar, and dined in the restaurant.
It satisfied on all counts. The interior is a riot of decoration, of shining limestone pillars, gothic arches and rose windows, of highly patterned and satisfyingly echoing hallways, of high painted ceilings and lightshades fashioned like brass bells.
It's all priced on the steep side, but the food was delicious and the service genuinely charming and well informed (with a (very helpful) tiny hint of going off script with a telling pause that would have satisfied even the most die hard Pinter fan, when asked for a pudding recommendation), and our waitress had the most fascinatingly perfect eyes and eye lashes any of us had ever seen.