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from the page: "..High court judges in London recently upheld a ban on British forces transferring prisoners to the National Directorate of Security in Kabul because of "a real risk" they would be "subjected to torture or serious mistreatment". Yesterday Defence Minister Wayne Mapp confirmed that prisoners arrested by Afghanistan's Crisis Response Unit, which the SAS works with, are transferred to the interrogation centre referred to in the British judgement.. The Star-Times understands the SAS has taken part in arrests more than two dozen times since it began working with the CRU last year.. Dozens of detainees – some arrested arbitrarily and detained without access to lawyers, families, or courts – have been subjected to torture and other ill treatment," Holmes [Amnesty International] said. The British court was told that at least one prisoner handed to the directorate had died, while others suffered torture, including amputations, electric shocks, sleep, food and water deprivation..

from the page: "..New Zealand also has about 80 elite Special Air Service (SAS) troops in Afghanistan... According to comments by Norway’s defence chief last year, the New Zealand SAS was taking over from Norwegian troops who had been involved in arresting insurgent leaders allegedly responsible for suicide attacks in the Kabul region... On August 4, all the parliamentary parties lined up with the National government to mark O’Donnell’s death [the first New Zealand soldier to die in Afghan war] and in doing so to indicate their support for New Zealand’s participation in the Afghan war. Facing widespread opposition to the war, the Labour Party, Greens and the Maori Party have all called for the SAS to be withdrawn from Afghanistan, but supported the continued presence of the PRT troops. A nationwide poll conducted by Research New Zealand in May found that an overwhelming majority of respondents—77 percent—favoured some form of withdrawal of New Zealand troops from Afghanistan...

prístinas y la sombra de miles de cocoteros. Las Maldivas es

Gletscher gibt es auch in der Nähe des Äquators - allerdings nicht mehr lange, wie Forscher befürchten. Wissenschaftler sammeln Bohrkerne von den letzten Eisfeldern Ozeaniens und der Südsee. Es ist ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.

from the page: "..Before being allowed into Schofield [where U. S. Army left depleted uranium by spent shells], all [activists] were asked to sign a waiver of responsibility acknowledging... "I fully understand and by my signature acknowledge that I understand, West Range at Schofield Barracks is currently constructing the Battle Area Complex (BAX) which includes clean up of unexploded ordnance (UXO) including potential chemical warfare munitions (CWM) and depleted uranium (DU)...," the waiver read, in part. "I understand that the ENTIRE RESERVATION IS DANGEROUS AND UNSAFE due to the presence of surface and subsurface UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE and DEPLETED URANIUM; that there may be hazardous conditions and ordnance on or under the surface of the Reservation; and that unexploded ordnance may explode nearby causing serious bodily harm, injury and death and that depleted uranium particles can be ingested from the soil or inhaled by airborne dust that may cause adverse health effects."...