Portal:Global War on Terror
The Global War on Terror (also known as the War on Terror or the War on Terrorism) is an ongoing international military campaign led by the United States of America and the United Kingdom with the support of other NATO and non-NATO countries. The campaign was launched in 2001 with the US/UK invasion of Afghanistan in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Speeches edit
- Discussion of Global War on Terror, September 2006 by George Walker Bush
- Remarks by the President on Osama bin Laden, May 1 2011 by Barack Obama
Congress edit
Bush-Era OLC Memoranda Relating to Interrogation, Detention, Rendition and/or Surveillance edit
The popular name for some of these memos is 'the Torture Memos'
- Yoo Memo of 2003 March 14, Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States
- Bybee Memo of 2002 August 1, Interrogation of al Qaeda Operative
- Bradbury Memo of 2005 May 10, #1, Application of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2340-2340A to Certain Techniques That May Be Used in the Interrogation of a High Value al Qaeda Detainee
- Bradbury Memo of 2005 May 10, #2, Application of 18 U.S.C. §§ 2340-2340A to the Combined Use of Certain Techniques in the Interrogation of High Value al Qaeda Detainees
- Bradbury Memo of 2005 May 30, Application of United States Obligations Under Article 16 of the Convention Against Torture
- Information derived from Mohammed Mansour Jabarah
- Listing based on:
- Propublica.org
- ACLU.org (PDF)
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Al-Qaeda edit
Al-Qaeda is the name informally given to a network of Islamist terrorists operating through the 1990s until the present.